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History of Art

Braun Emily, Cowling Elizabeth, Le Thomas Claire, Mustalish Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9781588396761, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2022
250 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

The age-old artistic tradition of illusionistic realism known as trompe l'oeil ("deceive the eye") beguiles us with visual tricks and confounds our perception of reality and fiction. Presenting a radically new take on Cubism, this book shows how Pabl...

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History of Art

Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art

Saunders Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300250909, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 560 colour illus.

Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It re...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States

Read Richard, Haltman Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...

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History of Art

Cezanne The Rock and Quarry Paintings

Elderfield John

ISBN: HB: 9780300250480, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) created 27 canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. This is the first publication to focus exclusively on these extraordinary works. It illustrates all...

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Classical Body in Romantic Britain

Gilroy-Ware Cora

ISBN: HB: 9781913107062, Yale University Press, April 2020
312 pp., 28.5x17 cm, 109 colour and black&white illus.

For many, the term "neoclassicism" has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victo...

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History of Art

Caspar David Friedrich Nature and the Self

Amstutz Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300246162, Yale University Press, February 2020
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 82 colour illus., 36 black&white illus.

Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organ...

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Contemporary Art

Cao Jun Hymns to Nature

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9781892850300, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2019
125 pp., 35.6x30.5 cm, 64 colour plates, 8 halftones

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Col...

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History of Art

Caravaggio and Bernini Early Baroque in Rome

Scholten Frits, Swoboda Gudrun, Weppelmann Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9783791359212, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 265 colour and black&white illus.

This book examines in depth the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Other painters and sculptors gathered around these two geniuses in Rome in the first decades of the 17th century....

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Claude Monet The Truth of Nature

Daneo Angelica, Heinrich Christoph, Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791358703, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
280 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Capturing fleeting natural impressions played a central role in the art of Claude Monet. He deeply engaged with the landscape and light of different places, from the metropolis of Paris to the Seine villages of Argenteuil and Giverny. This lavishly i...

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