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History of Art

Painter's Voice The Restoration of Two Master Paintings

Friedkin William

ISBN: PB: 9780892369133, Getty Publications, June 2008
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker William Friedkin examines the intersection of science and art as he follows the painstaking efforts of conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum to restore French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry's original vision of two of h...

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History of Art

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

MacLeod Catharine, Marciari Alexander Julia, Harris Tim, O'Connell Sheila, Roach Joseph, Sharpe Kevin, Shifrin Susan, Walkling Andrew, Weil Rachel, Zwicker Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300116564, Yale University Press, February 2008
214 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behaviour of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "...

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History of Art

Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850

Donald Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300126792, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 27x22 cm, 140 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain during the century from 1750 to 1850. This highly original book investigates the rich...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

Taplin Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...

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History of Art

Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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History of Art

Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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History of Art

Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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History of Art

Pieter de Hooch A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy

Francis Wayne

ISBN: PB: 9780892368440, Getty Publications, April 2007
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 34 colour illus.

This volume examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. "Pieter de Hooch" also looks at the subject matter of the piec...

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History of Art

Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange

Geronimus Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso and American Art

Fitzgerald Michael, Boddewyn Julia May

ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...

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