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Snapshot
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Elizabeth Wynne Easton |
"The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure, and many began experimenting with the camera as a m… |
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In wonderland
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Ilene Susan Fort |
"Filled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement. The surrea… |
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Van Gogh
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Cornelia Homburg |
"This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view.… |
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Renoir
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Colin B. Bailey |
"Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s--the decade of Impressionism--his vertic… |
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Becoming van Gogh
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Timothy J. Standring,Vincent van Gogh,Louis van Tilborgh |
"The career path of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), one of the world's most recognizable artists, was anything but typical. Focusing on the early stages of van Gogh's artistic development, Becoming van… |
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What are you looking at?
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Will Gompertz |
"We all know what Modern Art looks like. We've seen Monet's water lilies, we've admired Picasso's nudes, and we've gawked at Damien's shark, as well as the price tag. But what does it all mean? What … |
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The history of graphic design
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Julius Wiedemann,Jens Müller |
"This book offers a comprehensive history of graphic design from the end of the 19th century to the remains of World War II. It traces the evolution of this creative field from its beginning as poste… |
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The long march of pop
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Thomas E. Crow |
"Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor… |
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Gustave Caillebotte
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Mary G. Morton,George T. M. Shackelford |
"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the Nat… |
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Arts & crafts stained glass
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Peter Cormack |
"Beautifully illustrated and based on more than three decades of research, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthet… |
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Getting the picture
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Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jason Hill |
"Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis,… |
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