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Millicent Garrett Fawcett : selected writings

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- Foreword -- Fiona Mactaggart (Chair, Fawcett Society) -- Introduction -- 1. Picturing Fawcett: Millicent Garrett Fawcett with Henry Fawcett, 1868 -- 2. …”
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Gustave Courbet

Table of Contents: “…Rubin -- Black water -- Grottoes -- From one picture to another: Les Trois baigneuses / Bruno Mottin -- L'Origine du monde -- Mons veneris / Stéphane Guégan -- The Origin of the world / Laurence Madeline -- Snow landscapes -- Sea pictures -- Chronology -- List of exhibited works.…”

Japanese costume and the makers of its elegant tradition by Minnich, Helen Benton

Table of Contents: “…Background for a picture -- The legendary period -- Asuka -- Nara -- Heian-Fujiwara -- Kamakura -- Ashikaga-Muromachi -- Azuchi-Momoyama -- Early Tokugawa -- Yuzen-Zome -- Genroku and Late Edo -- Meiji to modern -- Comparative chronology -- "Brocade" explained -- Color and design in the Edo Period -- A digest of costume details -- The evolution of the Obi.…”

Where art begins, by Nisbet, Hume, 1849-1921?

Table of Contents: “…--Art and its relationship to everyday life.--On picture lighting.--Ships: ancient and modern.--Illustrative art: past and present.…”

The material culture of tableware : Staffordshire pottery and American values by Zarucchi, Jeanne Morgan, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The 'Picture' in the Shop Window -- Chapter 1: Old World Style for the New World Chapter 2: Allies in War and Trade Chapter 3: American History (the British Version) -- Chapter 4: Commemoratives and Souvenirs -- Chapter 5: Prosperity and Nostalgia -- Chapter 6: Modern Style, New Traditions -- Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings -- References -- Index…”
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Seurat and the Bathers by Leighton, John, Thomson, Richard, 1953-, Bomford, David, Kirby, Jo, Roy, Ashok, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Seurat's Choices: The Bathers and its Contexts -- Adapting the Ideal -- Representing the Modern -- The 'Modern' Landscape -- 1884: Rejection and Response -- Characterising the Bathers -- The Echo of the Bathers -- Representing the Suburbs after 1884 -- The Continuity of the Classical.…”

Art and Swadeshi. by Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947

Table of Contents: “…Art and Swadeshi -- Swadeshi true and false -- Domestic handicraft and culture -- Chemistry and dyes -- The function of schools of art in India -- On the study of Indian art -- Facial expression in Indian sculpture -- On Mughal and Rajput painting -- Night effects in Indian pictures -- Song-words of a Panjabee singer -- Poems of Rabindranath Tagore -- The modern school of Indian painting -- Education in Ceylon.…”

Picasso and American art by FitzGerald, Michael C.

Table of Contents: “…(1905-13) Such mad pictures would never mean anything to America -- (1914-29) Heaven send New York a museum of modern art, so that folks may see what is going on in the world -- (1930-39) I feel Picasso running through my finger tips -- (1940-1957) This is 1950, this is when it's going to happen.…”
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Hans Hofmann by Seitz, William C. (William Chapin)

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Edward Hopper : the art and the artist by Levin, Gail, 1948-

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Partners in print : artistic collaboration and the ukiyo-e market by Davis, Julie Nelson, 1963-

See the light : photography, perception, cognition : the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection by Salvesen, Britt, Cronan, Todd, Damasio, Antonio R., Gilchrist, Alan L., Perona, Pietro, Stafford, Barbara Maria, 1941-, Welling, James

Table of Contents: “…Timeline: selected events, inventions, and publications relating to photography, science, and philosophy -- Photography, perception, cognition / Britt Salvesen : Descriptive naturalism ; Subjective naturalism ; Experimental modernism ; Romantic modernism -- Commentaries: On seeing things and the power of photography / Antonio Damasio -- Which pictures do we seek, and why? …”
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The house sale.

Table of Contents: “…Old master paintings -- Old master and 19th century drawings -- 19th century paintings -- British and Irish paintings -- Impressionist and modern pictures -- American art -- Contemporary art -- Latin American art -- Prints -- Silver and objects of virtue -- Glass and ceramics -- Russian works of art -- Chinese and Tibetan works of art -- Japanese and Korean works of art -- Rugs and carpets -- Furniture and decorative works of art.…”

American needlework; the history of decorative stitchery and embroidery from the late 16th to the 20th century. by Harbeson, Georgiana Brown, 1894-1980

Table of Contents: “…American Indian porcupine quill embroidery -- Indian bead needlework -- Indian applique, Alaskan fishskin needlework -- Early stump work, silk and wool needlepoint pictures -- Crewel embroidery in the colonies -- Early quilting, candlewicking and turkey work -- Early samplers -- Philadelphia type samplers, Quaker needlework and Pennsylvania Dutch embroidery -- Later samplers -- Embroidered wedding gowns and waistcoats -- Needle lacework : darning on net and tambour -- White work, costume embroideries and accessories -- Moravian work : memorial samplers and silk on satin embroideries -- Embroidered maps and needlework rugs -- Embroidered coats of arms, banners, flags and flag preservation -- Needlepoint pictures and upholstery -- Godey's, Leslie's, and Peterson's needlework patterns -- Fashionable Berlin wool-work -- Canvas lacework and raised wool-work -- Embroidery on paper : bookmarks and mottoes -- Braiding, velvet-work and chenille stitchery -- Applique arascene embroidery and ribbon-work -- Beadwork with wool combinations -- Sewing accessories -- Deerfield blue and white work revival, candlewicking and netting -- The transition period -- Religious needlework -- The return to silk embroideries -- New uses of the sampler -- Modern crewel embroidery -- Contemporary needlepoint embroidery : screens and covers -- Contemporary needlepoint embroidery (continued) : miscellaneous furnishings, accessories, petit-point pictures -- Needlework of the future -- Bibliography.…”

American needlework : the history of decorative stitchery and embroidery from the late 16th to the 20th century by Harbeson, Georgiana Brown, 1894-1980

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Imogen Cunningham : ideas without end : a life in photographs by Lorenz, Richard

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The scientific revolution revisited by Teich, Mikuláš

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Western Anatolia before Troy : proto-urbanisation in the 4th millennium BC? : proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria,...

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Prince Twins Seven-Seven : his art, his life in Nigeria, his exile in America by Glassie, Henry, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Prince's art: Yoruba art: Representation ; Presentation ; Composition ; Modern art ; Postmodern times : Dreams of the Abiku child -- Prince's exhibitions: a list by Harriet Schiffer.…”

Frida Kahlo by Kahlo, Frida