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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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One of the most successful and internationally celebrated artists of the eighteenth century, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) established her reputation with sensitive portraits as well as ambitious history paintings. This major new study explores the artist's ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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This book is the first to explore English family portraiture in the eighteenth century, a varied category ranging from small-scale conversation pieces to grandiose, full-length images. Kate Retford probes this much loved genre to trace ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading and contemplation, but at the Italian courts of the fifteenth century, it had become a space of luxury, as much devoted to displaying ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) produced a wide range of line-based abstract work, including drawings, prints, and wire sculptures. Focusing on a rare series of monotypes from the early 1950s, various drawings and prints, and ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1794, Paul Sandby (1725-1809) exhibited his newly painted "A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills". Sandby, one of the founding members of the ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet, the portraits he painted more than a century ago captivate us today, and he is ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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This is the first in-depth examination of the fascinating subject of the armour and weapons of Tibet, a country that throughout the centuries was the scene of dramatic artistic, cultural, and political developments involving Tibetan, ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not meant simply to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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This comprehensive overview of London's buildings encompasses the entire history of the city's architecture, from the time of the Romans to the twenty-first century. The book traces the many factors that have influenced the work ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed "Artist's ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by artists ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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Raqqa, in Syria, had its first Islamic flowering in the late 8th century, when it was the residence of the legendary Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. It experienced a resurgence during the late 12th and early ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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A perennial favourite of museum visitors, the works of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) embody the quintessential characteristics of American Impressionism: outdoor landscapes, a colourful palette, and an energetic brush stroke. He was also a portrait ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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In 1760, an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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The years around 1700 were marked by transformations in European and colonial capital cities. This era saw the creation not only of palatial complexes and urban spaces appropriate to autocratic power, but also of essential ...
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvellous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America ...