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History of Art

Hammershoi and Europe

Monrad Kasper

ISBN: PB: 9783791353609, Prestel Publishing, May 2014
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 192 colour illus.

Now available in a paperback edition, this comprehensive volume on the great Danish painter Hammershoi places him within the context of his European contemporaries. This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in rela...

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Design

History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000

Kirkham Pat, Weber Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196146, Yale University Press, October 2013
704 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 760 colour and black&white illus.

Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from...

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Hokusai Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: PB: 9783791346144, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
96 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Now available again, this delightful selection of prints depicting nineteenth century Japan's natural beauty is a colorful introduction to the country's most beloved artist. The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and...

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House Paints, 1900-1960 History and Use

Standeven Harriet A. L.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060674, Getty Publications, May 2011
176 pp., 27.9x20.1 cm, 11 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This title provides an extensive and comprehensive examination of the history and use of modern house paints. The versatility of modern commercial house paints has ensured their use in a broad range of applications, including the protection and decor...

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Art Flexi-Series

Hiroshige Prints and Drawings

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791345406, Prestel Publishing, April 2011
256 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This highly regarded survey of the works of a master of Japanese printmaking is now available in a convenient and attractively priced flexi edition. Utagawa Hiroshige holds an assured place in the history of art as one of the greatest and best-loved...

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Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781857095104, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
80 pp., 19.6x18.4 cm, 11 black&white illus., 34 colour illus.

Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still abso...

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How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin

Butler Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300164503, Yale University Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.

Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin – The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives a...

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Hogarth to Turner British Painting

Govier Louise

ISBN: PB: 9781857094879, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
72 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour illus.

Innovation is at the heart of the National Gallery's British collection. William Hogarth developed a fascinating new form of satirical narrative painting; George Stubbs turned horse painting into an epic art form; and, Joseph Wright captured the dram...

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Heyer Schapiro Abroad Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks

Esterman Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780892368938, Getty Publications, January 2009
280 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 8 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This is an intimate and illuminating collection of personal letters and notebook pages from one of the 20th century's leading art historians. Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was one of the 20th century's leading art historians. This volume brings together...

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