The Magazine Antiques

The Magazine Antiques
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques
ISBN:

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Country Pursuits

Country Pursuits
Author: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Including biographies of the artists found in the Mellon collections and an index, Country Pursuits is a truly handsome collection for the sporting art enthusiast.

Animal & Sporting Artists in America

Animal & Sporting Artists in America
Author: F. Turner Reuter
Publisher: Nat'l Sporting Lib (Acc)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Animal painters
ISBN: 9780979244117

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A comprehensive, scholarly reference work devoted solely to American animal and sporting painters and sculptors.

British Vision

British Vision
Author: Robert Hoozee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2007
Genre: Art, British
ISBN: 9789061537489

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From the landscapes of Constable to the imagery of Blake and Bacon, this book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, is a lavish survey of British art from 1750 to 1950. Spanning two hundred years, British Vision presents some of the most iconic works in British art history from major public and private collections in Europe and the USA.William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs,William Blake, John Constable, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland, Henry Fuseli, Richard Dadd, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud are mong the many outstanding artists whose work appears on the books pages. Essays by a raft of distinguished art historians focus on the two defining characteristics of British art: observation and imagination. This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a sumptuous record of the most comprehensive exhibition of British art to be staged under one roof in recent years, and represents a unique opportunity to discover the creative forces that shaped British art over two centuries.

Biography Index

Biography Index
Author: Bea Joseph
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1304
Release: 1949
Genre: Biography
ISBN:

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A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781555953614

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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

The Annotated Mona Lisa

The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol Strickland
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780740768729

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Brought to Bed

Brought to Bed
Author: Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190264136

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Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Judith Walzer Leavitt's classic study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. Leavitt narrates the shifting power of childbearing women and their physicians, as well as changes in infant and maternal mortality. She also discusses how women have attempted to retrieve some of the traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface that reviews the burgeoning writing on the history of childbirth since its publication.

Noble Brutes

Noble Brutes
Author: Donna Landry
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801890284

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This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.