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Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...

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Smart Collecting Acquisitions 1990-2004, Celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

Rorschach Kimerly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573411, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2004
224 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 128 colour plates

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with this lively and richly illustrated catalog of recent acquisitions by the museum. Published in conjunction with the museum's "Smart Collect...

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Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Zafran Eric M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300102031, Yale University Press, September 2003
160 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 30 black&white illus., 85 colour illus.

The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This volume showcases the museum's holdings and provides details about their acquisition. The famed Chick Austin, directo...

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Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream

Herder Johann Gottfried

ISBN: PB: 9780226327556, ISBN: HB: 9780226327532, University of Chicago Press, October 2002
141 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones

Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder c...

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Seeing Through Paintings Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies

Kirsh Andrea, Levenson Rustin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300094084, Yale University Press, May 2002
312 pp., 25.9x19.9 cm, 217 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present.

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Small Bronzes in the Renaissance

Pincus Debra

ISBN: HB: 9780300090420, Yale University Press, August 2001
282 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 305 illus.

This far-ranging book presents the most recent research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors to the volume – an international group of curators, art historians, and conservators – analyse the production and collecting...

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Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...

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Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family Volume 5: Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale

Willson Peale Charles, Miller Lillian B., Hart Sidney, Ward David C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300075472, Yale University Press, March 2000
552 pp., 24.5x16.5 cm, 83 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by d...

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Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics and Interpretation

Rossholm Lagerlof Margaretha

ISBN: HB: 9780300073911, Yale University Press, January 2000
212 pp., 21x15 cm, 51 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the fr...

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