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History of Art

French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Morris Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300106893, Yale University Press, July 2005
384 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 160 illus.

Early in the nineteenth century French art was largely rejected by British artists, critics and patrons. This rejection reflected both constant political opposition to France over the preceding 130 years and the growth of cultural nationalism in Brit...

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Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914

Hargrove June, McWilliam Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300107555, Yale University Press, June 2005
336 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 17 colour images, 144 black&white illus.

Between its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, France experienced a tremendous rise in populist nationalism, the aftershocks of which can still be felt today. In examining the forces that shaped the arts of this period...

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Culture Studies

Spendour of Iran Three-Volume Set (slipcase)

Pourjavady Nasrollah

ISBN: HB: 9781861540119, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2005
1519 pp., 32.4x24.7 cm, full-colour illus.

"The Splendour of Iran" provides an unprecedented insight into the traditions and contemporary life of one of the world's most enduring civilisations. As the first comprehensive study on Persian culture since the 1930s, it is the result of a unique 5...

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Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Poulet Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676494, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
400 pp., 28.1x22.8 cm, 144 colour plates, 225 halftones

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whe...

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Art Forms from the Ocean The Radiolarian Prints of Ernst Haeckel

ISBN: PB: 9783791333274, Prestel Publishing, April 2005
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 45 colour illus.

At the nexus of art and science, this dazzling new edition of Ernst Haeckel's first work reintroduces the genius of an enigmatic scientist and passionate observer of the natural world. Although original editions of this book are extremely rare, it is...

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Art of Stained Glass

Rousseau Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781589660076, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
135 pp., 29.3x21.6 cm

Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...

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Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Zorach Rebecca, Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

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Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

Alphen Ernst van

ISBN: PB: 9780226015293, ISBN: HB: 9780226015286, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 halftones

Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...

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Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Contemporary Art

Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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