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Renegade Edo and Paris
Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic...
ISBN: 9780932216076
more detailsFrisson
The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection
Seattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collaboratively built their collection, filling their home with singular works...
ISBN: 9780932216793
more detailsMonet at Étretat
One understudied aspect of the life and works of Oscar-Claude Monet (1840–1926) is the artist’s engagement with the town of Étretat on the Normandy coast of France during the mid-1880s. Monet traveled there twice for...
ISBN: 9780932216779
more detailsChristian Krohg's Naturalism
The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852–1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for serving as a mentor to Edvard...
ISBN: 9780295749198
more detailsRené Lalique
Art Deco Gems from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection
René Lalique: Selections from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection introduces the artistic innovations and legacy of renowned French Art Deco artist René Lalique. Born outside of Paris in 1860, Lalique was recognized as one...
ISBN: 9780972664974
more detailsDressed with Distinction
Garments from Ottoman Syria
For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers...
ISBN: 9780990762690
more detailsJohn Russell
Australia's French Impressionist
Australian artist John Russell (1858–1930), an active and influential member of the French nineteenth-century avant garde, was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist color theory to Henri Matisse, and...
ISBN: 9781741741384
more detailsSacred to the Touch
Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the Touch examines the...
ISBN: 9780295742434
more detailsVictorian Watercolours
This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne‐Jones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket...
ISBN: 9781741741315
more detailsPrints and Drawings
Europe 1500-1900
Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this book reproduces 90 works by over 70 artists that represent a broad panorama of the development of the graphic arts in Europe...
ISBN: 9781741741087
more detailsThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
Vincent van Gogh’s letters are frequently admired for their exceptional literary quality, but there is no extended critique of this aspect of his writing. Addressing key constellations of metaphors and ideas, The Letters of Vincent...
ISBN: 9781927356746
more detailsMunch's Ibsen
A Painter's Visions of a Playwright
Drawing on printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the connection between the two great Norwegian modernists. Situating the interlocking careers of Edvard Munch and Henrik...
ISBN: 9780295987767
more detailsThe Body in Time
Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Class, gender, power,...
ISBN: 9780295987934
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