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	The Impossible Collection: The 100 Most Coveted Artworks of the Modern Era A valuable work of art is today s new intellectual currency. Modern art draws attention from a new jet set: for media moguls, hedge-fund managers, and Hollywood darlings, collecting is the entree into an exclusive global community. Internationally vaunted art dealers Philippe Segalot and Franck Giraud build and break collections every day for high-profile art collectors. In The Impossible Collection, Segalot and Giraud curate the ideal modern collection a collection in which money is no object a...
	Exposed: The Victorian Nude The epitome of high culture or an assault on public morality? The nude figure was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. It was also one of the most conspicuous categories for the visual image at every level, from elite paintings for the Royal Academy to mass-produced photographs and magazine illustrations. Exposed: The Victorian Nude provides a fascinating overview of the nude figure-both male and female-and the intriguing role it played in Victorian art. While it concentrates ...
	Thinking About Exhibitions Exhibitions have become the medium through which most art becomes known and assessed. But the art exhibition is an increasingly critical and unstable category. Constantly reshaped by artists and curators, the exhibition has become both a prominent and diverse part of contemporary culture. Thinking About Exhibitions presents a multi-disciplinary anthology of writings on exhibition practice by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians from North America, Europe and Australia. Texts...
	Childe Hassam, American Impressionist (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) Childe Hassam (1859--1935) created an immense body of work in the Impressionist style, comprising oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and prints. His distinctive and enchanting images, with their focus on effects of color and light, are widely admired and are included in the collections of every major museum in the United States. In this handsomely illustrated book, the authors, all experts in the field, take a fresh look at Hassam's responses to his vibrant and complicated era. Their texts st...
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	A Year in Art: A Masterpiece a Day (Year in Art) (Year in Art) (Year in Art) Imagine 365 masterpieces of art from around the world at yourfingertips. That s what readers will find as they turn the pagesday after day to discover a full-page exquisitely reproducedpainting, artifact, photograph, drawing, print, or sculpturefrom every culture and epoch imaginable. Further enhancingthese pages are suitable quotations to ponder, surprise, anddelight. Opposite the color illustrations, this generouslyproportioned volume offers plenty of space to recordbirthdays, anniversaries, a...
	Lynching Photographs (Defining Moments in American Photography) Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of anal...
	Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism In this magnificently illustrated and comprehensive book, readers will take one of the most beautiful journeys our world has to offer: an exploration of the greatest are and architecture of Western civilization. Art of the Western World -- the companion volume to the nine-part PBS television series -- traces the history of Western art from its classical roots in ancient Greece up to the present day and the international Post-Modernism of artists as diverse as Christo, Hockney, and Kiefer. Alon...
	Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics co...