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Contemporary Art

Durozoi Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780226174129, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
816 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 232 colour plates, 777 halftones

From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozo...

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Angels and Demons in Art

Giorgi Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9780892368303, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imag...

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Juan Van Der Hamen Y Leon and the Court of Madrid

Jordan William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113181, Yale University Press, November 2005
432 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 125 colour images, 125 black&white illus.

The artistic life of the Spanish court in the 1620s, once depicted as a drab and featureless backdrop against which to depict the genius of Velazquez, was actually one of the most creative and dynamic periods of foment of the entire seventeenth centu...

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European Art of the Fifteenth Century

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780892368310, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, stil...

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History of Art

Sensation and Sensibility

Bermingham Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300110029, Yale University Press, October 2005
280 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Ofte...

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Artist and the Garden

Strong Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780300111163, Yale University Press, October 2005
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 220 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognise...

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History of Art

Early Netherlandish Paintings Rediscovery, Reception and Research

Ridderbos Bernhard, van Buren Anne, van Veen Henk

ISBN: HB: 9780892368167, Getty Publications, October 2005
481 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 118 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.

In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution....

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Origins of European Printmaking Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

Parshall Peter, Schoch Rainer, Field Richard S., Schmidt Peter, Areford David

ISBN: HB: 9780300113396, Yale University Press, September 2005
372 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated and beautifully illustrated book examines the evolution of early printmaking in late medieval Europe. Through their means of production and the evidence of their utility, prints are explored in a broad social and economic cont...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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After Sir Joshua, Volume 15 Essays on British Art and Cultural History

Wendorf Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107340, Yale University Press, July 2005
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analy...

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