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Alias Olympia, A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
• Eunice Lipton
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A fascinating glimpse into Victorian France through the lens of Manet's mysterious model.
(FRN220, $17.95)
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Art Book Van Gogh: A Profound and Tormented Genius - His Life in Paintings
• Anna Torterolo
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A colorful survey of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH51, $12.95)
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Artists and their Museums on the Riviera
• Alan Halpern
• Barbara F. Freed
• GUIDEBOOK
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This book covers 28 museums on the French Riviera, discussing the works of such greats as Picasso, Renoir, Matisse and Cocteau.
(FRN133, $19.95)
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Cezanne
• Mary Tompkins Lewis
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A well illustrated introduction to Cezanne's life and works in the stimulating Art and Ideas series by Phaidon, featuring 193 color and 13 black and white illustrations.
(FRN508, $19.95)
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Cezanne in Provence
• Evmarie Schmitt
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A compact overview of Cezanne with a focus on his images of Provence, featuring color reproductions of 50 oil and watercolor paintings.
(FRN507, $9.95)
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Cezanne, Father of 20th Century Art
• Michel Hoog
• Rosemary Stonehewer
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A pocket size-biography of Cezanne, discussing the painter's monumental influence on the development of 20th-century art, featuring color illustrations and excerpts from the artist's writings.
(FRN168, $12.95)
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The Chronicle of Impressionism
• Bernard Denvir
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The personal lives of artists such as Monet and Manet are captured within the historical context of the Impressionism movement in this illustrated history.
(FRN230, $29.95)
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Claude Monet
• William Seitz
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short survey of Monet's greatest works.
(FRN249, $24.95)
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Claude Monet, The Color of Time
• Virginia Spate
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A critically lauded analysis of Monet and his art.
(FRN311, $39.95)
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The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
• Vincent Van Gogh
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A handsome three volume set containing all the available letters written by Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH35, $100.00)
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Degas
• Keith Roberts
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A quick illustrated survey of Degas' work.
(ART26, $9.95)
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Degas and the Dance
• Jill Devonyar
• Richard Kendall
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A gorgeous exhibition catalog.
(ART27, $49.95)
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Degas, Impressions of a Great Master
• Gerhard Gruitrooy
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A portfolio of Degas' best works.
(ART25, $16.98)
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Eyewitness Art: Monet
• Jude Welton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A slim, oversize biography of the painter for middle schoolers featuring hundreds of drawings and color reproductions of his most famous work.
(GEN192, $15.99)
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Eyewitness: Impressionism
• Jude Welton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A visual survey of Impressionism for kids ages 9-12, including hundreds of images and ingeniously arranged facts.
(GEN194, $15.99)
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Renaissance and Modern Art
• Fred S. Kleiner
• Helen Gardner
• Horst De la Croix
• Richard G. Tansey
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic college text, now in its 10th edition.
(GEN214, $68.00)
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Gauguin
• Robert Goldwater
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A nice series of 116 reproductions of Gauguin's major works.
(FRN281, $19.95)
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Gauguin Tahiti
• Francoise Cachin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This illustrated catalog features gorgeous reproductions and authoritative essays on Gauguin and his time in Tahiti. With 260 color and 80 black-and-white illustrations of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and sculptures.
(PAC92, $65.00)
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Gauguin's Skirt
• Stephen F. Eisenman
• HISTORY
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A provocative analysis by an art historian of Gauguin and his work in Tahiti -- and its meaning for current politics in French Polynesia. With 110 reproductions (seven in color) of Gauguin's works and of photos circa 1900.
(PAC95, $24.95)
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Gauguin, The Quest for Paradise
• Francoise Colchin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Concise and beautifully illustrated, this overview of the artist, his work and life features a significant section on his time in Tahiti. The book includes many paintings as well as excerpts from his journals and other writings.
(PAC27, $12.95)
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The Hermitage, Masterpieces
• Scala Masterpieces
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This slim book, featuring color illustrations of hundreds of important works, is an excellent guide to European paintings at the Hermitage.
(RUS90, $29.95)
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Impressionism
• James Henry Rubin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An excellent illustrated survey of Impressionism in the "Art and Ideas" series.
(FRN223, $24.95)
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Impressionism, Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
• Robert L. Herbert
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A magnificently illustrated social history, this book shows the cafes, opera houses, dance halls and other places of entertainment and leisure that inspired the great Impressionist paintings.
(FRN117, $35.00)
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Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception
• Belinda Thomson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short, readable account of the French Impressionist movement and its most notable artists, illustrated with color reproductions. This book's thoughtful analyses of individual works are illuminated by solid historical and cultural background.
(FRN310, $16.95)
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Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Mark Roskill
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A collection of letters by Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH22, $14.00)
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Penguin Classics)
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Ronald De Leeuw
• Arnold Pomerans
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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There are many versions of Van Gogh's letters, but this one is as good as any, a thorough selection of writing that highlights the artist's love for his art and family.
(NTH52, $16.00)
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Letters on Cezanne
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Joel Agee
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• FAVORITE
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This brilliant meditation on Paris, art, and life takes the form of a series of short letters by the great poet Rilke to his wife Clara. The book chronicles Rilke's daily pilgrimage to a Cezanne exhibition at a Paris gallery.
(FRN300, $13.00)
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Lust for Life
• Irving Stone
• LITERATURE
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Emotionally charged, controversial and utterly readable, this well known, fictionalized biography probes the life of Van Gogh from his auspicious beginnings as a London art dealer to his death at 37.
(NTH18, $17.00)
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Mary Cassatt, Painter of Modern Women
• Griselda Pollock
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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According to this monograph, Cassatt was a full-fledged member of the French Impressionist group.
(FRN303, $18.95)
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The Masterpiece
• Emile Zola
• LITERATURE
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Zola's novel tells of the downfall of a painter in 19th-century Paris, based on his childhood friend Cezanne. This classic is evocative of the artistic life in turn-of-the-century France. It was also the novel that would end their friendship.
(FRN227, $12.95)
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Masterpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum: Paintings
• Getty Trust Publications
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The greatest paintings in the Getty.
(CAL24, $22.50)
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Monet, the Ultimate Impressionist
• Sylvie Patin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A colorful pocket-size reference to Monet's life, paintings and contemporaries, perfect for those visiting Giverny.
(FRN35, $12.95)
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Moon and Sixpence
• Somerset Maugham
• LITERATURE
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Maugham's well-regarded 1919 novel, inspired by the life of Gauguin; it's the powerful story of a man who relinquishes his family to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, eventually moving to the South Pacific.
(PAC16, $12.00)
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Noa Noa, The Tahiti Journal
• Paul Gauguin
• John Miller
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Gauguin's journals from Tahiti, originally published by the author in 1818. With gorgeous reproductions of watercolors and etchings alongside the artist's impressions of two years in French Polynesia.
(PAC13, $19.95)
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Paul Cezanne
• Meyer Schapiro
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short analysis of the Impressionist painter Cezanne and his work.
(FRN250, $24.95)
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Paul Gauguin ,1848-1903: The Primitive Sophisticate
• Ingo F. Walther
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this short, illustrated introduction to Gauguin and his paintings, color reproductions are paired with commentary on the works.
(FRN280, $9.99)
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Post-Impressionism
• Bernard Denvir
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This illustrated volume in the "World of Art" series looks at the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne and how it was a bridge between French Impressionism and art movements that followed.
(FRN279, $14.95)
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Renoir, My Father
• Jean Renoir
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of the artist by his son the filmmaker.
(ART10, $18.95)
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Sisley
• Alfred Sisley
• Richard Shone
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A survey of the life and work of Alfred Sisley, one of the principle advocates of Impressionism. The book examines some of Sisley's most cherished landscape paintings, from snow scenes in the Paris suburbs to regattas on the Thames.
(FRN243, $35.00)
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Van Gogh and Gauguin, Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams
• Bradley Collins
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An study of the relationship between Gauguin and Van Gogh.
(FRN283, $30.00)
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Van Gogh and Gauguin, The Search for Sacred Art
• Debora Silverman
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An analysis of the art of Van Gogh and Gauguin in relationship to religion.
(FRN274, $60.00)
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Van Gogh in Arles
• Alfred Nemeczek
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This short book is a very fine narrative account of Van Gogh's year in Arles and the work that he produced there, complemented by 66 color illustrations.
(FRN248, $9.95)
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Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye
• Pascal Bonafoux
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• FAVORITE
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From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs.
(FRN29, $12.95)
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The Yellow House, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
• Susan Goldman Rubin
• Joseph A. Smith
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An illustrated book depicting the two months Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin spent together in Provence. Intended for children, but appropriate for anyone with an interest in the painters and their friendship.
(FRN285, $18.95)
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