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Silent Rhetoric of the Body A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770

Craske Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300135411, Yale University Press, February 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

This illuminating and original book opens up a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art – the funeral monument. In the last forty years, studies of the satires of early and mid-eighteenth-century England have multiplied, whereas its funerary monume...

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Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century

Desai Vishakha N., Asher Frederick M., Chiu Melissa, Clark John, Shiming Gao, Lippit Yukio, Mathur Saloni, McGowan Kaja M., Mitter Rana, Munroe Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300125535, Yale University Press, February 2008
272 pp., 24.1x19.1 cm, 75 black&white illus.

Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics. "Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century" explores the field of Asian art and its historiography...

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Dada's Boys Masculinity After Duchamp

Hopkins David

ISBN: HB: 9780300108958, Yale University Press, February 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins offers an exciting new contribution to the discussion about "a crisis in masculinity", addressing the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current a...

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Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

MacLeod Catharine, Marciari Alexander Julia, Harris Tim, O'Connell Sheila, Roach Joseph, Sharpe Kevin, Shifrin Susan, Walkling Andrew, Weil Rachel, Zwicker Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300116564, Yale University Press, February 2008
214 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behaviour of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "...

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Fragonard's Allegories of Love

Molotiu Andrei

ISBN: HB: 9780892368976, Getty Publications, February 2008
128 pp., 26.7x21.5 cm, 53 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism, as well as a prolific output – he produced more than 550 paintings. One of his most striking pieces, "The Fountain...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Herculaneum Women And the Origins of Archaeology

Daehner Jens, Knoll Kordelia, Vorster Christiane, Woelk Moritz

ISBN: HB: 9780892368822, Getty Publications, February 2008
160 pp., 25.4x19 cm, colour illus.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, three life-sized marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This momentous discovery led to further exploration of the site, which was soon identified as the ancient city of Hercu...

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Taddeo and Federico Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome

Brooks Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780892369027, Getty Publications, February 2008
144 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 95 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

During the late sixteenth-century, successful Italian artist Federico Zuccaro (c. 1541-1609) created one of the period's most important series of drawings – twenty large sheets that depict the early life of his older brother Taddeo (1529-1566). Publi...

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Eskimo Drawings

Jones Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781885267054, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive...

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Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Ward Martha, Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780935573442, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2008
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 67 halftones

Different eras experience art in different ways – often dramatically so".Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France", the catalog to an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and re...

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Dress of the People Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-century England

Styles John

ISBN: HB: 9780300121193, Yale University Press, January 2008
288 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 50 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

Material things transformed the lives of ordinary English men and women between the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the Great Reform Act of 1832. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, transformed their diets. P...

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