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Surrealism 50 Works of Art You Should Know

Finger Brad

ISBN: PB: 9783791348438, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
144 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus.

The Surrealist movement that developed in Europe following the devastation of World War I swept energetically through all kinds of media as artists found expression in an imaginative pictorial language. This introduction to Surrealism shows 50 unique...

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Ancient World

Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome

Lyons Claire, Bennett Michael, Marconi Clemente

ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...

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Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

Banner Lisa A., Brown Jonathan, Lubar Robert, Rosenberg Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300149319, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 195 colour illus.

The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of Spanish drawings includes masterworks by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and Salvador Dali...

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S. J. Peploe

Strang Alice, Fowle Frances, Cumming Elizabeth, Peploe Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300189766, Yale University Press, November 2012
96 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 88 colour illus.

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as "The Scottish Colourists". Born in Edinburgh, he was drawn to France and returned to paint there frequently, moving in 1910 to Paris, where he moved in artistic avan...

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Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and "Life Line"

Foster Kathleen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185478, Yale University Press, October 2012
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"The Life Line", a thrilling scene of rescue on the high seas, firmly established Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as one of the leading American painters of his day, and one of the foremost maritime artists of all time. Combining a close analysis of Homer'...

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Silver Wind The Arts of Sakai Hoitsu, 1761-1828

McKelway Matthew P., Kobayashi Tadashi, Toshinobu

ISBN: PB: 9780300183139, Yale University Press, September 2012
192 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus.

Sakai Hoitsu was one of the most prominent painters of late 18th- and early 19th-century Japan, known for technical bravura, arresting compositions, and striking use of colour. After becoming a Buddhist monk, Hoitsu was able to dedicate himself to pa...

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Search for Immortality Tomb Treasures of Han China

Lin James C. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184341, Yale University Press, March 2012
384 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 350 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. From family values to the structure of the...

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Shapeshifting Transformations in Native American Art

Kramer Russell Karen, Berlo Janet Catherine, Bernstein Bruce, Horse Capture Joseph D., Horton Jessica L., Chaat Smith, Ash-Millby Kathleen E., English Karah, Jonaitis Aldona

ISBN: HB: 9780300177329, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 144 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture co...

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Contemporary Art

Salvador Dali The Reality of Dreams

Schiebler Ralf

ISBN: PB: 9783791346120, Prestel Publishing, October 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 62 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Now available again, this fascinating look at Dali explores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most inscrutable and misunderstood figures. Concise yet comprehensive, this elegant volume follows Dali's artistic...

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Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Bishop Janet, Debray Cecile, Rabinow Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300169416, Yale University Press, May 2011
464 pp., 29.6x25.9 cm, 220 black&white illus., 400 colour illus.

As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening sal...

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