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Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection

Cameron Ainsley, Mason Darielle

ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

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Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700

De Bievre Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.

Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...

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Decoding Magritte

Levy Silvano

ISBN: HB: 9781906593957, Casemate, Sansom & Co, October 2015
280 pp., 28x21 cm, 100 illus.

In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that aphasia, the injury-induced inability to produce and comprehend language, is the elusive key to an under...

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Disguise Masks and Global African Art

McClusky Pamela, Massaquoi Erika Dalya

ISBN: HB: 9780300208740, Yale University Press, July 2015
104 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

While masks are a major art form in many parts of Africa, their use has taken new turns in the 21st century. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" explores how themes related to masking and disguise in the past are now transitioning into new platf...

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Dutch Painting

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095791, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2014
96 pp., 21.5x21 cm, 43 colour illus.

The National Gallery, London is home to a world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings that includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Cuyp and Ruisdael, among many others. Still lifes painted with painstaking attention to detail, sublime lan...

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Display of Art in Roman Palace, 1550-1750

Feigenbaum Gail

ISBN: HB: 9781606062982, Getty Publications, August 2014
384 pp., 27.5x22.3 cm, 50 colour illus., 116 black&white illus.

This ambitious work lifts the veil on a pivotal chapter in the history of art and its social meaning. This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the p...

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Duchess's Shells Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages

Tobin Beth Fowkes

ISBN: HB: 9780300192230, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural...

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Delacroix and the Matter of Finish

Kahng Eik, Gotlieb Marc, Hannoosh Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300199444, Yale University Press, February 2014
168 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 130 colour illus.

This groundbreaking publication centres on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece "The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius", published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reasses...

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Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Distinguished Images Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth Century France

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300177275, Yale University Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engra...

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