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History of Art

Titian Remade Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art

Loh Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780892368730, Getty Publications, August 2007
216 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 26 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

This insightful volume explores the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters – the canonized master Titian (c. 1488-1576) and his artistic heir, the little known Padov...

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War Paint Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

Foss Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300108903, Yale University Press, July 2007
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 35 colour, 175 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on...

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Gates of Paradise Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Radke Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126150, Yale University Press, July 2007
184 pp., 30.5x19.7 cm, 269 colour illus.

In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each over 15 feet tall) were...

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Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Fair Susan W.

ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps

Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...

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Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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Joseph Cornell's Dreams

Cornell Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9781878972415, DAP, Exact Change, June 2007
160 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes – toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored i...

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Contemporary Art

50 Paintings You Should Know: Impressionism New Edition

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791338439, Prestel Publishing, May 2007
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 125 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van...

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Artist Grows Old The Aging of Art and Artists in Early Modern Italy

Sohm Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780300121230, Yale University Press, May 2007
224 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 25 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of a...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Euan Uglow The Complete Paintings

Lampert Catherine, Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300123494, Yale University Press, May 2007
320 pp., 29.5x24.5 cm, 310 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Never particularly keen on exhibiting his work, British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than other artists of his generation and kept many of his paintings out of the public view. Even so, his name is increasingly well known,...

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Viewing Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W., Richardson Carol M., Lymberopoulou Angeliki

ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...

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