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Product Description: This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696â1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples.De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and coloring, heralded the rococo, and his later style was a precursor of Neo-Classicism...read more
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9781907804854 | D Giles Ltd, September 27, 2016, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696â1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples.
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9780486804958 | Dover Pubns, September 21, 2016, cover price $24.95
Product Description: The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career...read more
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9780520290693 | Univ of California Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s.
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9781848221918 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, July 1, 2016, cover price $74.99
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9780300220063 | Yale Univ Pr, June 28, 2016, cover price $45.00
Product Description: One of literature's most beloved authors is beautifully documented in this illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf. Featuring handwritten text paired with beguiling illustrations and a tactile cover with foil-stamped and debossed details, this giftable package reveals the formative events of Woolf's life: how she was supported—and challenged—in her craft, her struggles with mental illness, and how her great works came to be...read more
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9781452150222 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 15, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: One of literature's most beloved authors is beautifully documented in this illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf.
Product Description: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's lifeâher childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more...read more
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9781452150215 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 15, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen.
Product Description: Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovskyâs stunning paintings epitomize the charm of Old Russia. His early career blossomed in St. Petersburg in the 1870s, where he became the darling of the Tsarâs court...read more
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9781907804700 | D Giles Ltd, December 8, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovskyâs stunning paintings epitomize the charm of Old Russia.
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9780300214215 | Yale Univ Pr, November 24, 2015, cover price $45.00
Product Description: In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work.Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century...read more
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9781579129798, titled "Michelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters, and Art of the Great Master" | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, May 3, 2016, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work.
Product Description: This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734â1802) to his long-overdue position â with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough â as a master of 18th-century British portrait painting...read more
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9780300209693 | Slp edition (Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, September 11, 2015), cover price $350.00 | About this edition: This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734â1802) to his long-overdue position â with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough â as a master of 18th-century British portrait painting.
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9780226263557 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 22, 2015, cover price $60.00
Product Description: In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b. 1957, Qazvin) examines the nuances of power and identity in the Islamic world--particularly in her native country of Iran, where she lived until 1975. Shirin Neshat: Facing History is the companion volume to the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum exhibition of the same name...read more
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9781588345097 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, May 26, 2015, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b.
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9780520283961 | Univ of California Pr, November 28, 2014, cover price $39.95
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9783791354033 | Prestel Pub, November 11, 2014, cover price $60.00
Product Description: James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemeraÂadvertisements, periodicals, and packagingÂthat he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colors to create an elaborate and unmistakable representation of his world...read more
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9781907804625 | D Giles Ltd, October 7, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making.
Product Description: For nearly twenty years David Dawson was Lucian Freudâs assistant, companion, and model. Freud moved in rarefied, powerful circles and was tenacious about protecting his privacy. He also carefully avoided distraction. With few exceptions, he wanted only those he knew well, like the late Bruce Bernard, to photograph him...read more
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9780385354080 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 7, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For nearly twenty years David Dawson was Lucian Freudâs assistant, companion, and model.
Product Description: The work of two central figures associated with West Coast contemporary art, Robert Irwin and James Turrell, is the subject of this breathtaking book that explores collaboration, artistic evolution, and themes of light, space, and perception...read more
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9783791353982 | Prestel Pub, November 12, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The work of two central figures associated with West Coast contemporary art, Robert Irwin and James Turrell, is the subject of this breathtaking book that explores collaboration, artistic evolution, and themes of light, space, and perception.
Product Description: Nationally renowned Georgia artist and historian Wilbur G. Kurtz launched his career by founding the Pen and Brush Club of Atlanta in 1913. The transplanted Yankee quickly became a premier authority on Old South Atlanta--Margaret Mitchell personally selected Kurtz as technical advisor and artistic director for Gone with the Wind...read more
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9781626193024, titled "The Art & Life of Atlanta Artist Wilbur G. Kurtz: Inspired by Southern History" | History Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Nationally renowned Georgia artist and historian Wilbur G.
Product Description: The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a wellknown Native American artist. With close readings of Smith's work, Carolyn Kastner shows how Smith simultaneously contributes to and critiques American art and its history...read more
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9780826353894 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a wellknown Native American artist.
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9781609497866 | History Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $19.99
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9783791352411, titled "Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from 35 Years" | Prestel Pub, September 18, 2013, cover price $85.00
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9781935623151 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, November 18, 2014, cover price $49.95
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9781452112152 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 16, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780615670072 | Image Continuum Pr, May 7, 2013, cover price $65.00
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