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History of Art

Mirror of Reality 19th-Century Painting in the Netherlands

Reynaerts Jenny

ISBN: HB: 9780300250442, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, February 2020
384 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 500 colour illus.

This comprehensive overview is the first book in more than 60 years on the underexplored history of painting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. Jenny Reynaerts, an acclaimed specialist in 19th-century Dutch art, takes a close look at works from...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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History of Art

Michelangelo's Painting Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482262, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 124 colour plates, 122 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemp...

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History of Art

Matisse Printmaker

ISBN: HB: 9788417769147, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, November 2019
144 pp., 22x16.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Henri Matisse is universally known for his painting, but he also worked regularly as an engraver between 1900 and his death in 1954. His engraving work encompasses more than eight hundred pieces that comprise a gigantic visual library, offering a com...

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History of Art

Making Marvels Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe

Koeppe Wolfram

ISBN: HB: 9781588396778, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2019
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus.

At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inven...

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Contemporary Art

Marcel Duchamp The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection

Hankins Evelyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9783791358734, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
220 pp., 25.5x22 cm, 225 colour and black&white illus.

This book documents Barbara and Aaron Levine's extraordinary collection of Duchamp's work, one of the most significant private collections of the artist in the world, which has been promised to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Collected ove...

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History of Art

Michelangelo Mind of the Master

Peters Emily J., Brooks Julian, Adam Edina, Scharloo Marjan, van Tuyll Carel

ISBN: HB: 9780300246865, Yale University Press, October 2019
232 pp., 30.2x27.3 cm, 144 colour images

The works of Michelangelo (1475-1564) remain an enduring source of awe and fascination more than 500 years after his death. "Michelangelo: Mind of the Master" offers a new context for understanding the drawings of one of art's greatest visionaries. T...

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History of Art

Millet and Modern Art From Van Gogh to Dali

Kelly Simon, van Dijk Maite, Bakker Nienke, Yoder Abigail

ISBN: HB: 9780300248661, Yale University Press, October 2019
208 pp., 27.9x21.9 cm, 192 colour and black&white illus.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School. Through his publicly exhibited works and their critical reception, Millet was of crucial significance to modernist painters. Millet's modernity is evident...

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Architecture

History of Art

Montage and the Metropolis Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space

Stierli Martino

ISBN: PB: 9780300248340, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Hollein Max

ISBN: PB: 9781588397003, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
456 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 600 colour illus.

More than a simple souvenir book, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide" provides a comprehensive view of art history spanning five millennia and the entire globe, beginning with the ancient world and ending in contemporary times. It includes media a...

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