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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-

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.…”

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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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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German week in Amsterdam = Deutsche woche in Amsterdam.

The scientific revolution revisited by Teich, Mikuláš

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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.…”

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

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Drawings by old masters; portraits of the English and continental schools.

Joseph Boggs Beale's American pictorial history, from his famous paintings.

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

Frida Kahlo by Kahlo, Frida

Jackson Pollock : new approaches

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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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The place of many moods : Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century by Khera, Dipti

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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Nuits américaines : l'art du nocturne aux États-Unis, 1890-1917 by Valance, Hélène