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	Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization's extraordinary craft. Stunning photos....
	Hadrian's Wall (National Trust Guidebooks) ...
	Glory of Byzantium: Arts and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261 Covering the art of the Middle Byzantine period (843-1261 AD), this book demonstrates its wide diversity and influence through 17 scholarly essays. These are accompanied by descriptions and colour reproductions of over 400 objects, as well as pictures of architectural sites all over Eastern Europe....
	Kiki Smith: Her Memory The Joan Miro Foundation presents "Her Memory", an exhibition by Kiki Smith organised in collaboration with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, containing recent work by this US artist. It could in fact be called an exhibition in progress, since it has been amplified in each venue anterior to the exhibition presented in the Foundation, which is the last location of this tour. Kiki Smith was born in Nurnberg in 1954 to an artistic family: her mother an opera singer and ...
	Paintings in the Musee d'orsay The only work of this size and scope on the Musee D'Orsay's magnificent museum collection, this book of superb color reproductions by Degas, Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, and many others also includes a text that holds surprises and lasting pleasures for anyone who loves art. 827 full-color reproductions....
	The Face in the Lens: Anonymous Photographs Anonymous photography has a magic all its own. The intriguing images assembled here by collector and curator Robert Flynn Johnson are all mysterious, but their appeal is various. By turns poignant, humorous, erotic, and disturbing, their subject is the human condition. In ten stunning chapters every aspect of human experience--both public and private--is explored. Richly reproduced and with subtle tonalities marking their age, over 220 photographs showcase the work of photographers whose identit...
	A Fine Example of Art Alternatively exposing or addressing the larger, enduring myths of our culture through sketches of seemingly lost childhood reveries, this first compilation of ex-downtown indie art, film, and music god John Lurie’s paintings presents his would-be musings in a new, interpretive storytelling—haunting, poignant, or puerile as the outcome may ultimately be. The paintings are passages from the semiotics of his own mind: the enduring stories and images are seized upon then captured to communicate...
	Marsden Hartley: American Modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer, and pioneer of American modernism. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he lived a peripatetic life, working in Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico, New Mexico, Bermuda, and elsewhere before returning to Maine in 1934. This superbly illustrated book encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of Hartley's creative output. Some seventy-five of his works-landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and abstract paintings-demonstrate the visual power for which Hart...
	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...