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The Lives of the Artists » Read Now
by Giorgio Vasari. 598 pgs.

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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through...
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated.
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day » Read Now
by Bernard S. Myers. 514 pgs.

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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects » Read Now
by E. H. Blashfield, E. W. Blashfield, A. A. Hopkins, Giorgio Vasari. 454 pgs.

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Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century European Painters » Read Now
by Adelheid M. Gealt. 778 pgs.

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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish...
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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and Spanish--are here given biographical coverage based on an extensive bibliography of contemporaneous, later, and recent scholarship. Attention is focused on training, travel, commissions, stylistic influences and legacy, and pupils. For each artist, the oeuvre is analyzed with reference to major works, and a detailed list of additional works with museum holdings is appended. References are keyed to the backmatter bibliography, and museum citations refer to a list of 183 collections around the world. An appendix groups the featured artists by nationality, and an index completes the volume.
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Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas » Read Now
by Phoebe Farris. 502 pgs.

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Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguised artists achieved success, what makes their work important--both to the art world and to their specific communities--and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The artists are representative...
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Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguised artists achieved success, what makes their work important--both to the art world and to their specific communities--and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The artists are representative of four ethnic groups: African American, Asian Pacific American, Latin American, and Native American. Parallels drawn explore the similarities and differences among the artists. The early feminist art movement of the 1970s concentrated on gender with less consideration given to race or class, yet to many artists of color, ethnicity factors significantly into the shaping of their identities and to the content of their art. Women artists of color have expanded the scope of protest art, fusing the past and current history with gender and race and deconstructing stereotypical mainstream representations of their gender and ethnic identities. This presentation of artists balances older and deceased artists with the younger, emerging artists. The artistic mediums span the gamut from traditional painting and sculpture to newer forms such as video, conceptual, and performance art.
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Singular Women: Writing the Artist » Read Now
by Kristen Frederickson, Sarah E. Webb. 266 pgs.

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"An interesting and original collection. A must for all those interested in women artists and the women who have written about them."--Linda Nochlin, author of "Representing Women
"Kristen Frederickson and Sarah Webb have provided us with a missing link, a truly feminist art history that connects...
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"An interesting and original collection. A must for all those interested in women artists and the women who have written about them."--Linda Nochlin, author of "Representing Women
"Kristen Frederickson and Sarah Webb have provided us with a missing link, a truly feminist art history that connects with the work done in the 1970s and thankfully ignores the 'post-feminist' hiatus. "Singular Women is a model for future scholarship on women's art. If only the books it inspires are as rigorous, vigorous, varied, and readable as this one."--Lucy Lippard, author of "The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
"The most provocative, challenging, and intimate writing to appear in feminist art history since Linda Nochlin launched the field with her essay 'Why Are There No Great Women Artists?' Thirty years later there are both great women artists and great women writers. This book assembles some of the best and boldest among them. Not afraid to address the boring, the failed, the neglected, or the masterpiece, "Singular Women sets the standard for feminist art history of the twenty-first century."--Peggy Phelan, author of the survey essay in" Art and Feminism, ed. Helena Reckitt
"This important volume addresses the vexed question whether the traditional monograph, rightly under suspicion in recent years, can be reinvented to serve feminist art history well. Its excellent--and varied--essays answer with a confident and convincing affirmative, demonstrating how we can talk about women's art practice without abandoning the biographical and social stories that enable and illuminate it."--Janet Wolff, author of "Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism
"Contributes newunderstandings to the now familiar problems of writing biographies of artists and, in particular, writing about a woman artist. It re-inscribes the woman artist in the discourse while probing--through a variety of approaches--the possibi
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Contemporary American Women Sculptors » Read Now
by Virginia Watson-Jones. 672 pgs.

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Six Greek Sculptors (1910) » Read Now
by Ernest A. Gardner. 260 pgs.

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...in later times, though the artists were much more free to give...characteristics from various famous statues--the form of head...times, dependent upon the artists own...
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The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties » Read Now
by Irving Sandler. 366 pgs.

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New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century » Read Now
by John I. H. Baur. 283 pgs.

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A Century of British Painters » Read Now
by Richard Redgrave, Samuel Redgrave. 612 pgs.

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The Italian Painters of the Renaissance » Read Now
by Bernard Berenson. 488 pgs.

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45 Contemporary Mexican Artists: A Twentieth-Century Renaissance » Read Now
by Virginia Stewart. 174 pgs.

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Canadian Painters, from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven » Read Now
by Donald W. Buchanan. 118 pgs.

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Soviet Emigre Artists: Life and Work in the USSR and the United States » Read Now
by Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Igor Golomshtok, Janet Kennedy. 174 pgs.

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...Science Academy of Novosibirsk where were held some very famous exhibits: Filonov, Lissitzky, Falk. . . . Duration of Mikhail...marking the thirtieth anniversary of the...