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Mary Cassatt - Painter of Modern Women by Griselda Pollock
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This groundbreaking study,the definitive introduction tothe work of artist MaryCassatt, places her work in thewider context of nineteenth-century feminism and arttheory and is now updatedwith color illustrations. This groundbreaking study redefines the status of the beloved American artist Mary Cassatt ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
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Kenneth Frampton's highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
Modern Painting: A Concise History by Simon Morley
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A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium. While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read's classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley pla ...Show more
Photomontage - World of Art by Dawn Ades
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Category: Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, and commercial art and helped visualize the "brave new world" of the future through surreal and fantastic images. Photomontage has been embraced by artists from the late nineteenth ...Show more
The Art of Contemporary China by Jiang Jiehong
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A redefinition ofcontemporary Chinese artfrom the last forty years in thecontext of unprecedentedcultural, political, and urbantransformation, written by anauthority on the subject. Contemporary Chinese art is a subject of sustained and growing significance in present-day culture across the globe. This ...Show more
The Impressionists at First Hand by Bernard Denvir (Editor)
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Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
A new edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews and reminiscences by Impressionist artists and their contemporaries. The Impressionists - Monet, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and others - are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. Their struggle to im ...Show more
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
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In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces ...Show more
Velazquez by Richard Verdi
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Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was treated as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X to a mortar and pestle. In this comprehe ...Show more
William Blake by Kathleen Raine
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Prophet, poet, painter, engraver - William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
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Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
Women in Design by Anne Massey
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Category: Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Women designers have created some of the most important objects in history. By revealing the untold stories of female design pioneers, this wide-ranging introduction celebrates their crucial role in the history of modern processes of making. Arranged chronologically, this guide considers the structural ...Show more