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Eighteenth-Century Art
All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.
Ausoni, Alberto.
Music in Art.
Trans. Stephen Sartarelli.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369652)
Baetjer, Katharine.
British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875.
Exh. cat.
New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
145 color ills.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780300155099)
Baetjer, Katherine, ed.
Watteau, Music, and Theater.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
176 pp.; 75 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300155075)
Bann, Stephen, Linda Whiteley, John Guy, Christopher Riopelle, and Anne Robbins.
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey.
Exh. cat.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2010.
180 pp.; 140 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9781857094794)
Barber, Peter, and Tom Harper.
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art.
London:
The British Library,
2010.
100 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780712350921 )
Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Lori Zabar.
American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2010.
328 pp.; 298 color ills.; 364 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300148954)
Baxter, Denise Amy, and Meredith Martin, eds.
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe : Constructing Identities and Interiors.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2010.
51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$114.95
(9780754666509)
Benhamou, Reed.
Regulating the Académie: art, rules and power in 'ancien régime' France.
Oxford:
Voltaire Foundation,
2009.
308 pp.
Paper
$103.00
(9780729409728)
Bignamini, Ilaria, and Clare Hornsby.
Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome.
2 vols.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
50 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780300160437)
Bjorkman, Gorel-Cavalli, and Janna Herder, eds.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings III.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings, vol. 3.
Stolkholm:
Nationalmuseum,
2010.
175 color ills.
Cloth
$130.00
(9789171008220)
Blake, Erin C., and Stuart Sillars.
Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration.
Exh. cat.
Washington, D.C.:
Folger Shakespeare Library,
2010.
32 pp.; 28 color ills.
Paper
$14.95
(9780295990231)
Brettell, Richard R., and C.D. Dickerson III.
From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern.
Exh. cat.
Fort Worth, TX:
Kimbell Art Museum,
2010.
456 pp.; 296 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300144949)
Brooks, Julian.
Master Drawings Close-Up.
Los Angeles:
Getty Publications,
2010.
90 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9781606060193)
Calza, Gian Carlo.
Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World.
New York:
Phaidon Press Limited,
2010.
350 color ills.
Cloth
$49.00
(9780714849966)
Carr, Dawson W.
El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2009.
72 pp.; 80 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9781857094602)
Clavilier, Catherine.
Cérès et le laboureur: La construction d’un mythe historique de l’agriculture au XVIIIe siècle.
Paris:
Éditions du Patrimoine Centre des monuments nationaux,
2010.
160 pp.; 100 ills.
Paper
€39.00
(9782757700228)
Coltman, Viccy.
Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760.
New York:
Oxford University Press,
2009.
360 pp.; 117 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.00
(9780199551262)
Conisbee, Philip.
French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century.
Washington, DC:
National Gallery of Art,
2010.
552 pp.; 118 color ills.; 214 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.00
(9780691145358)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
2009.
168 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780300151039)
Dabbs, Julia K.
Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800: An Anthology.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
504 pp.; 19 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754654315)
de Pascale, Enrico.
Death and Resurrection in Art.
Trans. Anthony Shugaar.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369478)
Dunne, Tom, and William L. Pressly, eds.
James Barry, 1741–1806: History Painter.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
300 pp.; 11 color ills.; 55 b/w ills.
Cloth
$114.95
(9780754666349)
Fox, Celina.
The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment.
London and New Haven:
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
352 pp.; 60 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780300160420)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
404 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665397)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
312 pp.; 54 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754665380)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and Things, 1750–1950: Gendered Material Strategies.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
396 pp.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665502)
Goodman, Dena, and Kathryn Norberg, eds.
Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past.
New York:
Routledge,
2007.
272 pp.; 15 color ills.; 86 b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(9780415949538)
Govier, Louise.
Hogarth to Turner: British Painting.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
80 color ills.
Cloth
$15.00
(9781857094879)
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan.
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800.
Exh. cat.
Washington, DC:
National Gallery of Art,
2010.
320 pp.; 260 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781848220430)
Griener, Pascal.
La République de l’œil.
Paris:
Odile Jacob,
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Cloth
€29.00
(9782738124432)
Guité, Ann.
Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia.
Intro. Andrew Wilton.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Richard L. Feigen & Co.,
2010.
93 pp.; 34 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
Halliday, Tony.
The Temperamental Nude: Class, Medicine and Representation in Eighteenth-Century France.
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Jonathan Mallinson.
Oxford:
Voltaire Foundation,
2010.
272 pp.; 47 ills.
Paper
£55.00
(9780729409940)
Hamadeh, Shirine.
The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2009.
368 pp.; 8 color ills.; 97 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295986678)
Hamann-Mac Lean, Richard, and Ise Schüssler.
Die Kathedrale von Reims: Die Skulpturen.
Vol. 4. Kunstgeschichte. Ed. Martina Sünder-Gass.
Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner Verlag,
2010.
302 pp.
Cloth
€54.00
(9783515068376)
Hargraves, Matthew.
Varieties of Romantic Experience: British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art,
2010.
344 pp.; 210 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300152920)
Higonnet, Anne.
A Museum of One's Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift.
Pittsburgh:
Periscope Publishing,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9781934772928)
Hohenegger, Beatrice, ed.
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea.
Los Angeles:
Fowler Museum at UCLA,
2010.
240 pp.; 372 color ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9780977834419)
Kelly, Jason M.
The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
43 color ills.; 125 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300152197)
Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle, and Jeffrey Munger.
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
228 color ills.; 29 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780300155204)
Koeppe, Wolfram.
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
120 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300155181)
Kopp, Édouard.
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
96 pp.; 45 color ills.
Cloth
$19.95
(9780892369959)
Laird, Mark, and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts.
Mrs. Delany & Her Circle.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
416 pp.; 300 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300142792)
Langmuir, Erika.
The National Gallery Companion Guide.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2008.
352 pp.; 234 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9781857093995)
Lord, Peter.
The Meaning of Pictures: Images of Personal, Social and Political Identity.
Cardiff, UK:
University of Wales Press,
2010.
256 pp.; 70 color ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780708322215)
Loys, Delteil.
Théodore Géricault: The Graphic Work - L'Oeuvre Gravé - Catalogue Raisonné.
San Francisco:
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts,
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$150.00
(1556600941)
Machet, Laurence.
Les Wedgwood: De la poterie à l'industrie des arts de la table.
Paris:
CTHS,
2009.
360 pp.; 31 color ills.
Cloth
€40.00
(9782735506705)
Mérot, Alain.
Du paysage en peinture dans l'Occident moderne.
Series: Bibliothèque illustrée des histoires.
Paris:
Gallimard,
2010.
443 pp.; 92 color ills.
Cloth
€39.00
(9782070781089)
Minor, Heather Hyde.
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2010.
312 pp.; 36 color ills.; 112 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780271035642)
Nielson, Marjatta, and Annette Rathje, eds.
Johannes Wiedewelt: A Danish Artist in Search of the Past; Shaping the Future.
Vol. 11. Acta Hyperborea. Ed. Annette Rathje.
Copenhagen:
Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen,
2010.
372 pp.; 81 color ills.; 66 b/w ills.
Paper
$65.00
(9788763507875)
Pavanello, Giuseppe, ed.
Rosalba Carriera 1673–1757: Atti del convegno 26–28 aprile 2007, Fondazione Cini, Venezia.
Verona:
Scripta,
2010.
396 pp.; 44 color ills.; 270 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9788896162088)
Pietsch, Ulrich, and Theresa Witting, eds.
Fascination of Fragility: Masterpieces for European Porcelain.
Leipzig:
E. A. Seemann,
2010.
368 pp.; 430 color ills.
Cloth
€49.90
(9783865022479)
Pietsch, Ulrich, and Claudia Banz, eds.
Triumph of the Blue Swords: Meissen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie, 1710-1815.
Leipzig:
E. A. Seemann,
2010.
400 pp.; 800 color ills.
Cloth
€49.90
(9783865022486)
Recht, Roland, Catheline Pèrier-D'Ieteren, and Pascal Griener, eds.
The Great Workshop: Pathways of Art in Europe, 5th–18th Centuries.
Brussels:
Mercatorfonds,
2010.
336 pp.; 250 color ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(9780801447105)
Riggs, Timothy.
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam Since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection.
Exh. cat.
Chapel Hill:
Ackland Art Museum,
2009.
52 pp.; 36 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9780807859803)
Snodin, Michael, ed.
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
356 pp.; 300 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780300125740)
Soulier-Détis, Elisabeth.
Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code.
Cambridge, UK:
The Lutterworth Press,
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Paper
$72.50
(9780718892159)
Stewart, Rachel.
The Town House in Georgian London.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
192 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300152777)
Sturgis, Alexander.
Faces.
A Closer Look. Edited by Felicity Luard and Nicola Coldstream.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2010.
96 pp.; 100 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9781857094640)
Thurber, T. Barton.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH:
Hood Museum of Art and University Press of New England,
2010.
232 pp.; 190 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9781584657248)
Wittman, Richard.
Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France.
New York:
Routledge,
2007.
304 pp.
Cloth
$165.00
(9780415774635)
Yeldham, Charlotte.
Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820): Artist and Evangelical.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
230 pp.; 73 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754669913)
Zuffi, Stefano.
Love and the Erotic in Art`.
Trans. Stephen Sartarelli.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2010.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9781606060094)