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Fragile Modernism Whistler and His Impressionist Followers
ISBN: HB: 9780300135459, Yale University Press, December 2007
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 90 black&white illus.
Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book is the first critical study of Whistler and his Impression...
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£45,00
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Again Selected Interviews and Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates
Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...
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£11,50
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Marsden Hartley and the West The Search for an American Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300121490, Yale University Press, November 2007
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 47 colour images, 88 black&white illus.
Considered the greatest of the early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) travelled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of...
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Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780300126792, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 27x22 cm, 140 colour images, 140 black&white illus.
From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain during the century from 1750 to 1850. This highly original book investigates the rich...
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£40,00
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Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...
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£60,00
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David After David Essays on the Later Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300121513, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.
With essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon L...
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£40,00
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Pollock Matters
ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates
Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...
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£41,50
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Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226021041, ISBN: HB: 9780226021034, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
314 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 84 halftones
The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In "Anarchist Modernism" – the first in-depth exploration of t...
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£42,00
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£58,00
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Art for Art's Sake Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
ISBN: HB: 9780300135497, Yale University Press, October 2007
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 85 black&white illus.
This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, this artist...
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£50,00
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Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...
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£35,00
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