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Reconsidering Gerome

Allan Scott, Morton Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781606060384, Getty Publications, November 2010
168 pp., 24.3x15.4 cm, 8 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale. Despite G...

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Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780226772196, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and "America's Next Top Model" to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In thi...

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Rembrandt in Southern California

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892369935, Getty Publications, March 2010
64 pp., 16.2x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 1 map

This title offers is a concise yet informative, stunningly illustrated virtual tour of the works of Rembrandt held in Southern California. This superbly illustrated volume takes readers on a visual tour of fourteen stunning Rembrandt paintings held i...

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Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Paintings

Noon Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300134216, Yale University Press, December 2008
360 pp., 28x24 cm, 450 illus.

Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. By birth he was Anglo-French, and he epitomized the new spirit...

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Reconstructing the Renaissance "Saint James Freeing Hermogenes" by Fra Angelico

Kanter Laurence B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121360, Yale University Press, September 2008
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 55 colour images, 3 black&white illus.

Saint James Freeing Hermogenes, an important painting by one of the world's most beloved Renaissance artists, was privately owned and rarely seen until two decades ago, when it was acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Now an eminent authority reviews...

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Reclaimed Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Sutton Peter C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137293, Yale University Press, May 2008
224 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 200 illus.

Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), a Jewish Dutch art dealer, took over his father's gallery in 1919 and quickly made his presence felt. Introducing a more international thrust to the gallery and demonstrating a keen business acumen, Goudstikker became...

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Railway Art in the Age of Steam

Kennedy Ian, Treuherz Julian, Beaumont Matthew, Freeman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300138788, Yale University Press, April 2008
288 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on n...

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Repeating Image Multiples in French Art from David to Matisse

Nesbitt Judith, Shiff Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300126693, Yale University Press, September 2007
200 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 115 coclour images, 45 black&white illus.

Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. Inthis innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its e...

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Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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Rethinking Boucher

Hyde Melissa, Ledebury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892368259, Getty Publications, October 2006
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 67 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

Francois Boucher (1703-1770) has suffered a curious fate: to have been so identified with the French Rococo as to have lost his visibility as an artist in his own right. "Rethinking Boucher" reclaims the artist's individuality, revealing not only the...

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