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  Princeton University Art Museum  

Outside In
Chinese x American x Contemporary Art



Focusing on works by 6 artists, this original book presents a much-expanded definition of what constitutes contemporary Chinese art and reexamines the factors that shaped Chinese art in America.

NEW 2009   304 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300122084
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Princeton University Art Museum
Handbook of the Collections



The first detailed look at the museum’s extensive and remarkable holdings––which span ancient to contemporary art––and its fascinating history.

2007   384 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300122107
$35.00 / $28.00


Pop Art
Contemporary Perspectives



This handsomely illustrated book focuses on 40 understudied and rarely seen late paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by these influential artists in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Pop Art offers fresh insights into the ways in which artists radically transformed the mediums of painting and sculpture. For example, Lichtenstein is repositioned as a clas...

Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series
2007   160 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300122121
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Recarving China’s Past
Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines"



The burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong Province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty. This book presents scholarship that prompts reexamination of the site’s implications, including its attribution to the Wu family. The catalogue reinterprets the cemetery structures based on the discovery of additional structures and archaeo...

2005   512 pp.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300107975
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The Centaur’s Smile
The Human Animal in Early Greek Art



What do creatures that combine human and animal elements—centaurs, satyrs, sphinxes, sirens, Gorgons and others—tell us about the Greek imagination? This landmark book is the first to investigate representations of composite beings in early Greek art, including over 100 diverse examples ranging from sculptures and reliefs to jewelry, sealstones, and vases.

2003   424 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 9780300101638
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Rethinking Recarving
Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China



This valuable book presents essays by archaeologists, art and architectural historians, curators, and historians that offer new perspectives on the pictorial carvings from the "Wu Family Shrines" of Han dynasty China.

2008   384 pp.   -   PB-with Flaps ISBN: 9780300137040
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Frank Gehry
On Line



This book examines Frank Gehry’s architectural drawings––including his idiosyncratic style and artistic inspiration––and their importance to both his practice and the art of architectural draftsmanship.

2008   108 pp.
Paperback with Slipcase ISBN: 9780300122145
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Félix Candela
Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist



This new appraisal of the life and career of Spanish master builder Félix Candela––renowned for his thin shell concrete roof structures in Mexico––discusses his legacy, innovations, and contributions.

2008   208 pp.   -   HC-Flexibound ISBN: 9780300122091
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More than One
Photographs in Sequence



This book examines sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium’s earliest years to the present, including works by Minor White and Ana Mendieta.

NEW 2009   96 pp.
PB-with Flaps ISBN: 9780300149302
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