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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.…”

Gustave Courbet

Table of Contents: “…Courbet, our contemporary: foreword and acknowledgments / Sam Keller and Ulf Küster -- Gustave Courbet, avant-garde artist: regarding the exhibition / Ulf Küster -- Bonjour Monsieur Courbet -- The Courbet-Bruyas solution: an artist and a patron join forces to promote modern art / Michel Hilaire -- Landscapes -- Courbet's materialism and postive metaphysics / James H. …”

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.…”

Propos de peintre; de David à Degas. Première série: Ingres, David, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Whistler, Fantin-Latour, Ricard, Conder, Beardsley, etc. by Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 1861-1942

Table of Contents: “…De Cézanne à Renoir.--Notes sur la peinture moderne.…”

Abstract Pissarro : planting the seeds of abstract art by Saul, Ann

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.…”

La Pologne immortelle ...

Table of Contents: “…--Les influences artistiques français in Pologne, par C. de Danilowicz.p--Quelques notes sur l'école moderne de peinture et de sculpture en Pologne, par J. …”

Paul Rand, a designer's art by Rand, Paul, 1914-1996

Table of Contents: “…Art for art's sake -- The beautiful and the useful -- The designer's problem -- The symbol in visual communication -- Versatility of the symbol -- The trademark -- Seeing stripes -- Imagination and the image -- Integrating form and content -- Ideas about ideas -- The meaning of repetition -- The role of humor -- The rebus and the visual pun -- Collage and montage -- Yesterday and today -- Typographic form and expression -- Legibility and modernity -- The good old "neue typografie" -- Design and the play instinct -- Black black black -- The art of the package: tomorrow and yesterday -- The third dimension -- The complexity of color -- Word pictures -- The lesson of Cézanne -- Politics of design -- Integrity and invention.…”
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Archéologie, arts d'Orient, Extrême-Orient.

Table of Contents: “…Extrême-Orient: céramiques, laques et pierres dures, ivoires et netsuke, bronzes et émaux cloisonnés, sculptures, textiles, mobilier -- Art d'Orient: peinture moderne et orientaliste, documentation, pages de Coran et calligraphies, manuscrits, laques et miniatures orientales, bijoux, argenterie, armes, métaux et varia, céramique, steles, objets d'art et textiles, collection de Mr. …”

Shifting ground : transformed views of the American landscape by Howard, Rhonda Lane, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The retreat to nature / Leroy Searle -- Middle ground : reconciling technology and nature. Technology : modernism's muse / Julie R. Johnson -- Framing the landscape : the picture window, TVs, planes, and automobiles. …”

Property from the estate of His Royal Highness the Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG.,KT.,KP.

Table of Contents: “…Silver , Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester's christening, 17th May, 1900; wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, 6th November, 1935; Prince William of Gloucester's christening 22 February 1942; Queen Mary's presents to Prince William of Gloucester; William IV and Queen Adelaide's soup tureen -- Sporting pictures, furniture and works of art, Oriental art, ceramics, glass and fans, children's books -- Sporting library, illuminated manuscripts, early sporting books, 18th century sporting books, 19th century sporting books, modern sporting books.…”

Art crossing borders : the internationalisation of the art market in the age of nation states, 1750-1914

Table of Contents: “…Towards an international history of the nineteenth-century art trade / Jan Dirk Baetens and Dries Lyna -- The education of the art market : national schools and international trade in the long nineteenth century / Jan Dirk Baetens and Dries Lyna -- 'Directions to know a good picture' : marketing national school categories to the British public in the long eighteenth century / Benedicte Miyamoto -- Creating cultural and commercial value in late nineteenth-century New York art catalogues / Leanne Zalewski -- (Inter)national art : the London old masters market and modern British painting (1900-14) / Barbara Pezzini -- The artistic trade and networks of the Italian community in London around 1800 / Camilla Murgia -- Berlin-Paris : transnational aspects of French art auctions in the middle of the nineteenth century / Lukas Fuchsgruber -- Appropriation as a form of nationalism : collecting French furniture in the nineteenth century / Adriana Turpin -- The modern Italian sculptor as international entrepreneur : the case of Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) / Sharon Hecker -- Art reproduction and the nation : national perspectives in an international art market / Robert Verhoogt -- Epilogue. …”
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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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Kimono : fashioning culture by Dalby, Liza Crihfield

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett : selected writings

Table of Contents: “…Reporting Fawcett: The Women of Modern Fiction Lectures, 1874 -- 10. Janet Doncaster, An Excerpt, 1875 -- 11. …”
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Monet & architecture by Thomson, Richard, 1953-

Picasso, Léger, Masson : Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler et ses peintres

The photobook : a history by Parr, Martin, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Mirrors and windows : the American photobook since the 1970s ; Common market : the European photobook since the 1980s ; Other territories : the worldwide photobook ; Appropriating photography : the artist's photobook ; Point of sale : the company photobook ; Looking at photographs : the picture editor as author ; The camera as witness : the 'concerned' photobook since World War II ; The Düsseldorf tendency : the new objective photobook ; Home and away : modern life and the photobook.…”
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The figure : painting, drawing, and sculpture : contemporary perspectives

Table of Contents: “…The once and future sculpted figure / Judy Fox -- A brief history of traditional painting pedagogy / Thomas Germano -- A brief history of traditional painting techniques: fresco, tempera, and oil painting / Lisa Bartolozzi -- Outsourcing technique: mimesis, method, and metaphor in figure sculpture / Robert Simon -- Toward an allegorization of method / Vincent Desiderio -- The invention of clumsiness: photography and modernism / Alexi Worth -- Refiguring history painting: representation meets modern techniques / Margaret McCann -- Freud and the eternal feminine in modernist painting / Donald Kuspit -- Representational art and kitsch / Kurt Kauper -- Twentieth-century figurative sculpture / Robert Taplin -- Representing avant-garde representation: from painterly figuration to matter-of-fact realism 1950-70 / Irving Sandler -- Monsters rule: the grotesque in contemporary painting and sculpture / David Ebony -- Looking back at the male gaze / Julie Heffernan -- The echo in the picture: the social potential of representational painting / Laurie Hogin -- Scale, materials, and self-perception in contemporary figurative sculpture / Mark Mennin -- Painting and digital technology: from film to Photoshop / Jean-Pierre Roy -- Pictorial space enters virtual reality: from perspective to 3-D modeling / John Jacobsmeyer -- Perspective, representation, and democracy / Nicola Verlato.…”