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History of Art

Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Serres Karen, Wright Barnaby

ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...

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Contemporary Art

Seeing Slowly

Findlay Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...

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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha

Childs Elizabeth C.

ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.

Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...

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Seurat's Circus Sideshow

Thomson Richard, Stein Susan Alyson, Hale Charlotte, Centeno Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396150, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2017
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

The mystery, color, and magic of the circus was a subject of fascination for European artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The French Post-Impressionist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) explored this theme in a number of drawin...

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Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf, Le Brun Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...

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Silk, Porcelain and Lacquer China and Japan and Their Trade with Western Europe and the World, 1500-1644

Canepa Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9781911300014, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
440 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures of late Ming China and Momoyama/Early Edo Japan o...

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Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Schwitters Miro Arp

Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355924, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
192 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 145 colour illus.

Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others' artistic pursuits. It examines the artists'...

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Splendor, Myth, and Vision Nudes from the Prado

Loughman Thomas J., Morris Kathleen M., Yeager-Crasselt Lara

ISBN: HB: 9780300218749, Yale University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 75 colour illus.

Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Many of the featured artists were court painters under sovereigns whose tastes influenced th...

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Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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