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[2013]
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1 online resource
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The work of T.C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Gruelle, known collectively as the Hoosier Group, established plein air ("in the open air") painting as a major art form in Indiana. The vitality of this style is represented in this book, which includes 100 juried works by Indiana plein air artists, along with paintings by the Hoosier Group, all featuring notable Indiana landmarks. This book will delight both Hoosiers...
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[2019]
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1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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"Considers the development of the pastoral in sixteenth-century Venice as an urban phenomenon specific to the lagoon. Studies Venetian urban gardens as actual places, imaginary spaces, and fantasies of urban planning challenged by ecological concerns"--Provided by publisher.
"From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as...
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2018.
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1 online resource (144 pages) : color illustrations.
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The Oxford Art Book' showcases one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Inspired by Oxford's unique architecture and historic university, over 50 artists have produced a unique collection of contemporary images illustrating all aspects of the city and surrounding area. The city is shown in a new light through a range of media, from screen print and computer aided design to hand-cut collage.
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Joe and Betty Moore Texas art volume no. 19
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 134 pages) : color illustrations
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Richard Stout's legacy as an artist is broad, deep, and firmly moored to his Texas Gulf Coast origins. Born in Beaumont in 1934, he has been painting, sculpting, and teaching in Houston since 1969, in the process creating both an influential body of work and a committed national and international following among artists and collectors. Stout's oeuvre, encompassing figurative works, abstract expressionism, and a structuralism almost architectural in...
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2016.
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1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
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Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, this book re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR alongside the creation of new art forms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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©2011
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1 online resource (xv, 110 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces declining or altogether lost through changes in our economy,...
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University of Toronto romance volume no. 8
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (ix, 184 pages)
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[2023]
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1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
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"Traces the history of American genre painting from 1905 to 1945. Examines how artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, and Jacob Lawrence adapted to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art"--
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[2018]
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1 online resource.
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Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind?s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists? own words illuminate the painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings of these award-winning, supremely creative individuals, allowing readers a glimpse...
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[2016]
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1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages ): illustrations (some color.
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"Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
13) Entre empire et nation: les représentations de la ville de Québec et de ses environs, 1760-1833
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2005
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1 online resource.
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Brill's studies in intellectual history volume Volume 287
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource.
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This book presents the first sustained study of the stunning drawings of Roman ruins by Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574; in Rome, 1532-ca. 1537). In three parts, Arthur J. DiFuria describes Van Heemskerck's pre-Roman training, his time in Rome, and his use his ruinscapes for the art he made during his forty-year post-Roman phase. Building on the methods of his predecessors, Van Heemskerck mastered a dazzling array of methods to portray...
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2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour).
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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned...
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[2020]
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1 online resource : illustrations
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"When first-time author and artist Deborah Paris stepped into Lennox Woods, an old-growth southern hardwood forest in the Pineywoods of northeast Texas, she felt a disruption that was both spatial and temporal. Walking the remnants of an old wagon trail past ancient stands of pine, white oak, elm, hickory, sweetgum, maple, hornbeam, and red oak, she felt drawn into a reverie that took her back to "the beginning, both physically and metaphorically."...
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Spatial practices volume 29
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations
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In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city's foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city's diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully...
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[2018]
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1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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"Focuses on Eugène Delacroix's fascination with the idea of civilization and the ways this idea informed the artist's writing, murals, and paintings of North Africa and animals"--Provided by publisher.
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[2014]
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1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations.
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The essays collected here evaluate the broad range of contexts in which Spaniards were present in early modern Italy. They consider diplomacy, sanctity, art, politics and even popular verse. Each essay excavates how Italians who came into contact with the Spanish crown's power perceived and interacted with the wider range of identities brought amongst them by its servants and subjects. Together they demonstrate what influenced and what determined...





