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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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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.…”

Edward Hopper

Table of Contents: “…Comey -- "The sacredness of everyday fact": Hopper's pictures of the city / Carol Troyen -- Painting the modern cape: Hopper in Truro / Ellen E. …”
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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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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.…”

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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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.…”

Monet & architecture by Thomson, Richard, 1953-

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.…”

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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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.…”

Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop by Fineman, Mia

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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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.…”

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

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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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