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Antonio Mancini
Nineteenth-Century Italian Master
One of Italy’s greatest modern painters, Antonio Mancini (1852–1930) is best known for his daring and innovative painting methods. This overview of his career—the first comprehensive study in English—follows upon the...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
The American experience—from its colonial beginnings to the modern age—has captured the imagination of all Americans, including its artists. This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American...
Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence
An exploration of ways of looking in Renaissance Florence, where works of art were part of a complex process of social exchange Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture...
Another City
Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic
An exploration of the beliefs, perceptions, and theories that shaped the architecture and organization of America’s earliest cities In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, burgeoning American cities...
Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
In this engaging and handsome book, Cammy Brothers takes an unusual approach to Michelangelo's architectural designs, arguing that they are best understood in terms of his experience as a painter and sculptor. Unlike...
Exhibiting Fashion
Before and After 1971
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The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852
This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was...
The Disappearance of Objects
New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City
In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered...
The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art
This beautifully illustrated book showcases 110 objects from the Dallas Museum of Art’s world-renowned African collection. In contrast to Western “art for art’s sake,” tradition-based African art served as an agent of...
Joshua
Joshua began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright’s death, Professor Boling, who also did the...