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A visually stunning and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition seen through ancient Greek eyes, with a particular focus on the human form.

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A global guide to the 500 works of permanently installed modern and contemporary art worth traveling to experience

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This is the second of three volumes in a groundbreaking series that chronologically showcases MoMA's unparalleled collection of drawings, and accompanies a major exhibition at the gallery from 29 March to 29 August 2005.

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A fascinating new appraisal of the maestro of the Northern Renaissance.

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A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western culture

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Botero has gained international fame, capturing the whimsy of life by painting corpulent and sometimes comical figures. This title presents the paintings realized in the last thirty years and created using his own unique language, which is a distinguishing feature of his work and a blend of Latin American tradition and European painting.

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Features over 200 magnificent colour illustrations and many rarely seen before, from royal figures standing in the shade to warriors. By juxtaposing images the author creates surprising comparisions, providing unprecedented insight into these works.

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Written in 292, this book includes poems that offers a code of ethics and etiquette addressed to the women of the imperial court, from empresses to concubines.

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The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspiredart throughout the last 2,500 years

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The ultimate guide to 25 years of contemporary art, as seen through the filter of the worlds leading contemporary art magazine

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The historical and artistic development of the Lausanne Biennials illustrated with more than a hundred works and views of rooms, most of them unpublished.

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Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. He is as well known for his figurative works as he is for his abstract paintings, often combining elements of both in ground-breaking ways

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The diverse oeuvre of Gustave Dorillustrations, paintings, sculpturecombines with biography and critical essays and attests to the artists enduring impact on contemporary culture.

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A comprehensive monograph on an important twentieth-century experimental visual artist.

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The first monograph on the work of Harvey Quaytman (19372002).

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A dazzling reprint of Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition and a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.

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The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian art

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Ever since they were first domesticated thousands of years ago, horses have played a vital role in human life and history. Using photography of the many horses to be found in the collections of the British Museum, this book explores the depiction of the horse through the ages and celebrates the relationship between horses and humans.

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Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings.

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During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art prompted by the Academie Francaise where assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed. This work presents a survey of the movement and features 60 reproductions of some of the renowned works.

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A comprehensive, accessible guide to impressionism the artistic movement that led to the radical renewal of Western art.

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A survey of Indonesian contemporary art. It presents the works by Indonesian artists, and discusses their distinguishing characteristics differentiated from other contemporary art in Asia and the Western world.

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