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Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904

Block Jane, Lee Ellen Wardwell

ISBN: HB: 9780300190847, Yale University Press, April 2014
260 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 105 colour images, 3 black&white illus.

Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement's use of dotted brushwork and colour theory also produced arresting port...

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The Italian List

Nymphs

Agamben Giorgio

ISBN: HB: 9780857420947, Seagull Books, September 2013
72 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure – shall I call her a servant girl, or r...

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New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville

Peterson Heyrman Joy, Delamaire Marie-Stephanie, Gordon Eric, Rockman Seth, Wierich Jochen

ISBN: PB: 9780300194500, Yale University Press, March 2013
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 129 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

During a tragically short career, Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) produced iconic works depicting mid-century America. Born in Baltimore and trained in Dusseldorf, Woodville painted 19th-century America in a new way. His paintings depict contempo...

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Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Lees Sarah, Rand Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300179651, Yale University Press, January 2013
1008 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 475 colour illus.

The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind". This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully-documented catalogue of European...

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Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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New Painting of the 1860s Between the Pre-raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

Staley Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300175677, Yale University Press, October 2011
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art – the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. This book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early...

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Nineteenth Century Irish Sculpture Native Genius Reaffirmed

Murphy Paula

ISBN: HB: 9780300159097, Yale University Press, May 2010
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 250 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of su...

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National Gallery Pocket Collection

Kharibian Leah

ISBN: HB: 9781857094473, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2009
240 pp., 12.1x10.8 cm, 200 colour illus.

The National Gallery, London, home to celebrated works by Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, Van Eyck, Van Gogh, and many others, contains paintings that rank among the finest in the history of Western European art. This attractive little pocket co...

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Northern European and Spanish Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago A Catalogue of the Collection

Wolff Martha, Jones Susan Frances, Mann Richard G., Berg Sobre Judith, Hecht Ilse, Klein Peter, Kuniej Berry Cynthia, Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300119442, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2008
480 pp., 28x21 cm, 233 duotone illus., 100 colour illus.

This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Over 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portr...

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