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Collection David Weill by David-Weill, David, 1871-1952

Table of Contents: “…t. 1. Peintures (2 vols).--t. 2. Pastels, aquarelles, gouaches, tableaux modernes.…”

Catalogue of the summer exhibition : held at Arthur Tooth and Sons' Galleries ...

Table of Contents: “…Exhibition of modern Dutch pictures -- Exhibition of water-colours -- Exhibition of water-colour drawings -- Exhibition of French pictures.…”

Expressionism in art. by Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980

Table of Contents: “…Evolution, tradition and progress -- Art just before expressionism -- The main path of modernism: theory -- Why expressionism? -- Attempts to explain form -- Picture-building: the frame, the field, and the movement-path -- Picture-building: how movement is created -- Picture-building: volume, space and tension -- Picture-building: color and texture -- Picture-building: decoration "flat" -- Abstraction and mysticism -- Feeling and meaning -- The arts other than painting.…”

The troubled republic : visual culture and social debate in France, 1889-1900 by Thomson, Richard, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Public health and private desire : exploring modernity and the erotic -- Picturing and policing the crowd -- The religious debate : representing faith, defining modernity -- "Always think about it; never discuss it" : imagery and the idea of revanche -- Reading the 1890s.…”
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L'autre de l'art : art involontaire, art intentionnel en Europe, 1850-1974

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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A concise history of photography by Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-1995, Gernsheim, Alison

Table of Contents: “…The artistic achievements of photography. Pictures and their makers up to 1914 -- Pictures and their makers : the modern period.…”

Man Ray portraits

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Icons of modern life / Marina Warner -- Man Ray in print / Terence Pepper -- Plates -- Chronology / Helen Trompeteler -- Further reading -- Picture credits.…”

Mobilier et objets d'art des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, art nouveau, art déco, céramiques, fin XIXe et XXe siècles.

Table of Contents: “…Peinture -- Argenterie -- Céramiques: Art nouveau & divers, école de Sèvres, école de Saint Amand en Puisaye, ecole Parisienne, art déco, écoles estrangèrs, autour de 1950, école moderne et contemporaine -- Objets d'art -- Art déco, verrerie -- Bijoux -- Dessins & sculptures -- Mobilier & luminaires -- Mobilier ancien.…”

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.…”

In another light : Danish painting in the nineteenth century by Berman, Patricia G.

Table of Contents: “…The making of a Danish tradition -- The Royal Academy in the Golden Age -- Rome as an international academy -- Picturing Denmark in the Golden Age -- Skagen and the modern breakthrough -- The free exhibition and the psychological breakthrough -- Hammershi and urban places.…”
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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.…”

Charles Burchfield 1920 : the architecture of painting. by Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Cones, cubes, and brooding shacks : Charles Burchfield's house pictures, 1918-1920 / Michael D. Hall -- Charles Burchfield : modern American / Nannette V. …”

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.…”

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. …”

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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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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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. …”