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  British Art  

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement


An original look at paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was most active and profitable.

2008   288 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300140620
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Unseemly Pictures
Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England



This engaging book—the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England—considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism, and debate.

 

 

NEW 2009   248 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300142549
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G. F. Watts


A beautifully illustrated book encompassing the entire 70-year career of George Frederic Watts—a prolific genius and one of the greatest painters of the Victorian age.

NEW 2009   310 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300142570
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John Talman
An Early-Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur



This handsome book is the first full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century England.

 

Studies in British Art
NEW 2009   330 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300123357
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Endless Forms
Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts



A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about nature and human history on nineteenth-century artists from Frederic Church to Claude Monet

NEW 2009   346 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300148268
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William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
Interlacings



Careful readings of Burne-Jones’ paintings and Morris’s designs reveal illuminating connections between the artistic projects of these two longstanding friends.

2008   260 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300140934
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Painting out of the Ordinary
Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England



This book analyzes the innovative generation of painters led by David Wilkie that took that London's art world by storm at the height of the Napoleonic Wars with their novel approach to depicting everyday life.

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
2008   288 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300140613
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Brilliant Women
18th-Century Bluestockings



This book explores the Bluestocking Salon, an intellectual center of debate established in 18th-century England by a group of women.

2008   160 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300141030
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Euan Uglow
The Complete Paintings



This volume presents every known painting—some 400— by Euan Uglow, now acknowledged to be one of Britain’s greatest postwar artists. Over 80 of the works are reproduced for the first time.

 

 

2007   352 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300123494
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The Lure of the East
British Orientalist Painting



Featuring paintings by artists including J. M. W. Turner and Joshua Reynolds, along with sketches and photographs, this volume is the first to examine the history of Orientalism in British art from the 17th to 20th centuries.

2008   224 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300138986
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Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris



Focusing on two of the most influential figures in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, this book explores new ways of considering art and literature together. Elizabeth Helsinger traces the unprecedented relationship between the poetry and poetics of two poet-artists and their contemporary practice of visual art and design. ...

2008   352 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300122732
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William Powell Frith
Painting in the Victorian Age



This wide-ranging book explores the life and work of William Powell Frith, whose remarkable panoramic paintings of nineteenth-century British life earned him unprecedented popularity and have since become the icons of their age.

2007   208 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300121902
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