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Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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Chinese Calligraphy

Wang Youfen, Ouyang Zhongshi, Fong Wen C., Cao Baolin, Cong Wenjun, Huang Dun, Wang Jingxian, Wang Shizheng, Wang Yuchi, Ye Peigui

ISBN: HB: 9780300121070, Yale University Press, October 2007
520 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 550 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calli...

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Catalogue Raisonne

George Stubbs, Painter

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125092, Yale University Press, October 2007
700 pp., 33x24.6 cm, 485 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

George Stubbs (1724-1806) is now rightly recognised as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century. His profound understanding of anatomy and his uncanny ability to translate the study of nature into remarkably balanced co...

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Manet to Picasso The National Gallery

Riopelle Christopher, Appleyard Charlotte, Herring Sarah, Ireson Nancy, Robbins Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781857093339, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2007
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 76 colour illus.

This beautiful book provides a brief introduction to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings made between 1860 and 1905––a highly innovative and exciting time in the history of art––through 38 masterpieces from the remarkable co...

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Repeating Image Multiples in French Art from David to Matisse

Nesbitt Judith, Shiff Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300126693, Yale University Press, September 2007
200 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 115 coclour images, 45 black&white illus.

Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. Inthis innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its e...

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Contemporary Art

John Sloan's New York

Schiller Joyce K., Campbell Coyle Heather, Hutton Molly S., Fillin-Yeh Susan, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Boylan Alexis L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126198, Yale University Press, August 2007
224 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 128 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he studied with Robert Henri. Following Henri to New York, Sloan joined a small circle of eight talented artists whose dissatisfaction with the dominating...

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Life and Work Art and Biography

Salas Charles G.

ISBN: HB: 9780892368235, Getty Publications, August 2007
200 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 31 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work – and that their work will reveal to us something about them – but the relationship between biography and art is rarely that simple. "The Life and th...

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Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas

Sullivan Edward J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111064, Yale University Press, August 2007
296 pp., 28x23 cm, 147 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging book, a distinguished scholar of Latin American art explores the meanings of created and depicted objects from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the New World. Edward Sullivan begins with objects exchanged during en...

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Gardens in Art

Impelluso Lucia

ISBN: PB: 9780892368853, Getty Publications, August 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An intriguing and richly illustrated analysis of the symbolic imagery found in gardens throughout history, this work features dedicated mailing to targeted art and gardening related media and organisations. This superbly illustrated volume presents r...

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Stuart Davis Volume 1, 2 & 3: Essays and References (Catalogue Entries 1-1323)

Boyajian Ani, Rutkoski Mark, Agee William C., Wilkin Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300109818, Yale University Press, August 2007
0 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, Volume 1: 160 illus., Volume 2: 1350 illus., Volume 3: 600 illus.

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpa...

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