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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $22.00
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Jensen
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 1996-12-23
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "ideological dealer" and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "independent art" and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "true heirs" of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $96.72
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Rosenblum::Maryanne Stevens
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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
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Publication Date: 2000-05-01
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Reading Level: 445
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Description: At the turn of the last century, academic painters were producing formal works, often with strongly moral overtones, at the same time that a generation of younger artists like Picasso, Matisse, and Kandinsky were exploring revolutionary new methods and ideas. By presenting the range of styles vying for attention at a single point in time, the authors of 1900: Art at the Crossroads challenge the idea of art as a linear progression. The book is the lavish catalog of an exhibition organized by the Royal Academy of London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Its schizophrenic theme is suggested in the title of the first essay, "Art in 1900: Twilight or Dawn?" The material is organized into concepts established by the French Academy two centuries earlier--still life, the nude, landscapes, and history paintings--plus sections with more modern relevance such as cityscapes and bathers. Arranging works by theme rather than by artist or movement allows for some brilliant juxtapositions: a classical naked Danae by Carolus-Duran is paired with an abstracted Degas nude; a sentimental study of crippled boys by Bastida with a vicious Munch mother-and-child (both paintings titled Inheritance). The preoccupations of fin-de-siècle society emerge; several different treatments of Salome with the severed head of John the Baptist, for example, embody male fears of the femme fatale and her threat to bourgeois values. The book ends with a useful 70-page section of artist biographies. 1900 is a beautifully produced and stimulating study of a pivotal point in European art history. --John Stevenson
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Price: $55.95
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
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Publication Date: 2005-08-05
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.
- Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives
- Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history
- Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger
- Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar
- Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections
- Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Jones
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.033
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Publication Date: 1985-10-31
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: The eighteenth century was an age of careful balance between classicism and romanticism in the arts and one moulded by the tension between individualism and the rise of middle-class taste. Stephen Jones outlines the main artistic developments of this period, relating them at all points to the experience of daily life in the age and highlighting the important figures in the arts whose careers exemplify the general themes - from Madame de Pompadour to Gainsborough and Nash. This introduction does not assume a wide background knowledge. Themes are explained in context and technical terms made clear. The book introduces important elements which have often been given insufficient emphasis: the central place of the garden and landscaped park in the taste of patrons and builders and the influence of both French and Industrial revolutions on eighteenth-century art.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $21.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Reynolds
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
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Publication Date: 1985-09-13
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Ranging right across a period of baffling and complex social, political and cultural changes, this masterly introduction to the visual arts identifies the major concepts and stylistic characteristics of an age which encompassed movements as varied as Neoclassicism and Impressionism. The author begins with a consideration of both Neoclassical and Romantic currents. He looks at the roles of such eminent figures as Benjamin West and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and considers the work of the leading artists of both movements - David, Ingres and then Goya and Rodin (among others). He goes on to an examination of the effect of the romantic sensibility on English landscape painting with particular attention to the work of Turner and Constable. The book also covers the French Realist and Impressionist movements and the final chapter considers the Post-Impressionists, the pre-Raphaelites, Whistler and the exponents of the growing Arts and Crafts movement.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $5.49
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Madeleine Mainstone::Rowland Mainstone
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.032
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Publication Date: 1981-04-30
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Reading Level: 104
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $43.41
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Manufacturer: University of Delaware Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Delaware Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
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Publication Date: 2008-03-30
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Reading Level: 287
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Description: This book presents an interdisciplinary and inclusive view of nineteenth-century art, observed from the vantage point of the new twenty-first century. The areas of expertise represented by these twenty-eight essays span the full range of nineteenth-century studies, and include discussions of such artistic styles as romanticism, realism, impressionism, and art nouveau, as well as early twentieth-century movements that owe their formative influence to the nineteenth century. Topics span the historical gamut from eighteenth-century influences to the roots of twentieth-century modernism, considering along the way such themes as the depiction of women, Orientalism, art criticism, evolutionary theory, political propaganda, history painting, landscape, and national identity.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $3.92
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Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Young Mi Kim
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Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 747
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Publication Date: 1998-03
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Rooted in the graceful forms of antiquity, the dignified lines of neoclassical style offered a restrained alternative to the flowery opulence of rococo in the late 1700s, and its timelessness has made it a favorite again today. "Like fashion's little black dress," says this informative guide, "Neoclassicism is ever in style." The idea-filled text and lovely photographs of striking modern interpretations of neoclassical design serve as tremendous inspiration for evoking the style in your own home. Create an arched, columned room entryway; add a trompe l'oeil frieze in paint or wallpaper; swag a subtly striped fabric over a side table; stencil a Greek key design; install some dentil crown molding; or choose from among the vast array of attractive contemporary furnishings patterned after the classical style. Neoclassical offers a nice overview of the style's origins and a great deal of practical advice for re-creating the look, even on a classically restrained budget. --Amy Handy
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Price: $54.95
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Sale: $48.91
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Manufacturer: National Gallery of Canada/ABC Art Books Canada
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rene Villeneuve
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Publisher: National Gallery of Canada/ABC Art Books Canada
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.03407471384
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Publication Date: 2008-02-19
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: George Ramsay, Ninth Earl of Dalhousie, served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1816 1820), then as Governor-in-Chief of British North America (1820 1828). During his 12 years in Canada, Dalhousie both commissioned and collected a stunning variety of artworks. Featuring some 130 works from his collection, this publication underscores the patron's unique point of view and his influence on the development of art in Canada. Dalhousie's original eye and diverse interests are highlighted by the array of watercolours and wash drawings, engravings and lithographs, silhouettes, architectural drawings, models, and decorative pieces.
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Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vincent Pomarede::Gerard De Wallens
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Publisher: Harry N Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.4
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Publication Date: 1996-09
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Reading Level: 159
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Description: A study of Corot explores a collection of quiet, luminous canvases with miracles of flickering light and subtle color and the life of the French painter who painted them and changed the direction of landscape painting. Original.
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