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Buddhism

Awaken A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment

Rice John Henry, Durham Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300244656, Yale University Press, July 2019
252 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 230 colour and black&white illus.

Encouraging personal engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, this dynamic book presents spectacular Himalayan art and explores the philosophical tenets encoded in its imagery. Taking as its theme the universally accessible experience of Awakening, the book...

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Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948

Gribaudi Maria Cristina

ISBN: HB: 9783906915340, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, July 2019
240 pp., 29.2x26 cm, 118 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (c. 1904-1948) made his first mature works in New York City in the mid-1920s, by which point the traumatic history of the 20th century had already made him a genocide survivor and an e...

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Elizabethan Image An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603

Strong Roy

ISBN: HB: 9780300244298, Yale University Press, June 2019
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 230 colour illus.

This richly illustrated volume presents an engaging overview of an extraordinary period of English history, the reign of Elizabeth I. Beginning with the great portrait of the Queen in grand procession with her Garter Knights, we discover themes that...

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Gauguin Portraits

Homburg Cornelia, Riopelle Christopher, Childs Elizabeth, Gamboni Dario, Goddard Linda, Guitton Claire, Jumeau-Lafond Jean-David, Wright Alastair

ISBN: HB: 9780300242737, Yale University Press, June 2019
260 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phase...

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History of Art

Islamic Art Past, Present, Future

Bloom Jonathan M., Blair Sheila S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243475, Yale University Press, June 2019
360 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

"Islamic art" can be a challenging term in an ever-changing art world. Through the exploration of a wide array of media – from painting, sculpture, and photography to video and multimedia – an internationally renowned group of scholars, collectors, a...

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Masterpieces of Painting J. Paul Getty Museum

Allan Scott, Gasparotto Davide, Kerber Peter Bjorn, Woollet Anne

ISBN: HB: 9781606065792, Getty Publications, June 2019
160 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 139 colour illus.

"I am convinced that the true collector does not acquire objects of art for himself alone. His is no selfish drive or desire to have and hold a painting, a sculpture, or a fine example of antique furniture so that only he may see and enjoy it. Apprec...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Behind the Scream

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300250008, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 129 black&white illus., 22 colour illus., 3 maps

Who was the man behind "The Scream", the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' – and began a perver...

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Art Purposes Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts

Homann Joachim

ISBN: HB: 9783791358178, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitor...

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History of Art

Whistler in Watercolor Lovely Little Games

Glazer Lee, Jacobson Emily, McCarthy Blythe, Roeder Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300243628, Yale University Press, June 2019
286 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour illus.

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)....

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Women Studies

Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York

Weyl Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.

In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...

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