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Savage Tales The Writings of Paul Gauguin

Goddard Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780300240597, Yale University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 74 colour and black&white illus.

As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. This is the first book devoted to his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art c...

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Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Vilbar Sinead, Carr Kevin, Andrei Talia J., Chusid Miriam, Tomoji Iwai, Shigeki Iwata, Kazuki Morishima, Enishi Naomi, Kosei Taniguchi, Ken Shimizu, Ryusuke Yamaguchi

ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...

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Sculptural Seeing Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy

Lakey Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300232141, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical...

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Seen from Behind Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Rubin Patricia Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300236552, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This...

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Stones to Stains The Drawings of Victor Hugo

Burlingham Cynthia, Pesenti Allegra

ISBN: HB: 9783791357645, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 26.7x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.

Focusing on the little-known but remarkable drawings of Victor Hugo, this book sheds light on the novelist, poet, and playwright's artistic practice and creative brilliance. Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around 120 of th...

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Sistine Chapel Paradise in Rome

Pfisterer Ulrich, Dollenmayer David

ISBN: PB: 9781606065532, Getty Publications, August 2018
184 pp., 19.1x14 cm, 31 colour illus., 18 black&white illus., 8 line drawings

The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to...

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Second Buddha Master of Time

Pakhoutova Elena, Seligman Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9783791357539, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
200 pp., 29.5x25.5 cm, 90 colour illus.

This book explores the iconography of Padmasambhava, a famous and timeless figure in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist cultures. Padmasambhava, a legendary Buddhist master believed to be instrumental in bringing Buddhism to Tibet, is often known as "Th...

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Still Life Before Still Life

Ekserdjian David

ISBN: HB: 9780300190175, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 27x22.2 cm, 212 colour illus.

This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genre beginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Eks...

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Scale

Roberts Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates

Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...

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Sacred Landscapes Nature in Renaissance Lanscapes

Keene Bryan C., Kaczenski Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9781606065464, Getty Publications, October 2017
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many peopl...

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