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Kimbell Art Museum Guide

ISBN: PB: 9780300196337, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 330 colour illus.

Completely updated, this comprehensive guide covers the Kimbell Art Museum's world-renowned collection of masterpieces. Its publication is timed to coincide with the highly anticipated opening of the museum's new building, designed by Renzo Piano. Th...

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Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Van Gogh Repetitions

Rathbone Eliza E., Robinson William H., Steele Elizabeth, Steele Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300190823, Yale University Press, November 2013
208 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist's method was more often controlled and deliberate. "Van Gogh Repetitions" is the first book to focus on t...

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Greek Vase Art of the Storyteller

Oakley John H.

ISBN: HB: 9781606061473, Getty Publications, November 2013
114 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating introduction to ancient Greek vases for the general reader. It presents vases not merely as beautiful vessels to hold water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning....

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Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

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Prehistoric Future Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars

Ubl Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780226823720, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 60 halftones

One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. In "Prehistoric Future", Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like no one else has,...

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Tell it with Pride The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial

Greenough Sarah, Anderson Nancy, Harris Lindsay R., Ater Renee, Powell Richard J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197730, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.

On July 18, 1863, six months after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment su...

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Painting under Pressure Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence

O'Malley Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300197976, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 25 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O'Malley analy...

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Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet

Kelly Simon, Watson April M., McWilliam Neil, Coughlin Maura

ISBN: PB: 9780300196955, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 359 colour illus.

Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competin...

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Music

Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque

Goldfarb Hilliard T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197921, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 35.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex...

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