Glorious Lessons
John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300259704,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment.
John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand – he served as ai...
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20.00 GBP
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Written in Water
The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300215489,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
528 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
528 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day.
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore an...
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Book of Marvels
A Medieval Guide to the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9781606069035,
Getty Publications,
July 2024
152 pp., 25,4x25,4 cm, 99 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
152 pp., 25,4x25,4 cm, 99 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world.
From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as "...
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35.00 GBP
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Discover Degas and Miss La La
ISBN: PB: 9781857097146,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
June 2024
120 pp., 21,6x25,1 cm, 71 colour illus.
120 pp., 21,6x25,1 cm, 71 colour illus.
The extraordinary story behind Degas's groundbreaking painting of the biracial circus performer Miss La La.
Edgar Degas's "Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando" (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La L...
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Guillaume Lethiere
ISBN: HB: 9780300275780,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.
400 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.
A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethiere and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career.
Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethiere (1760-1832) was a key figure in the...
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Money in the Air
Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930
ISBN: PB: 9781606068915,
Getty Publications,
June 2024
384 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 88 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 17 tables
384 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 88 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 17 tables
This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
"There was money in the air, ever so much money", wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American...
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Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds
ISBN: HB: 9781851246250,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
June 2024
240 pp., 33,0x22,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
240 pp., 33,0x22,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
A richly illustrated volume, which reproduces one of the finest collections of eighteenth-century ornithological art in its entirety.
In 1786, Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer traveled to Italy and the Levant. The watercolors he creat...
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
ISBN: HB: 9783791377346,
Prestel Publishing,
June 2024
208 pp., 28,5x23,5 cm, 120 colour illus.
208 pp., 28,5x23,5 cm, 120 colour illus.
A pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity.
Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker bol...
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Charles J. Connick
America's Visionary Stained Glass Artist
ISBN: HB: 9780300272321,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
376 pp., 28,5x24,5 cm, 297 colour and black&white illus.
376 pp., 28,5x24,5 cm, 297 colour and black&white illus.
The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America's most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century.
When Charles J. Connick (1875-1945) began his stained glass career in Pittsbur...
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60.00 GBP
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Munch and Kirchner
Anxiety and Expression
ISBN: PB: 9780300275858,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
192 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 98 colour illus.
192 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 98 colour illus.
A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) are consider...
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