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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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Daring to be different Missouri's remarkable Owen sisters / by Mueller, Doris Land, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Joseph : the place and its people -- The early years -- Mary Alicia leads the way -- Luella : geologist, explorer, painter, family historian -- "Miss Juliette" : ornithologist, botanist, and artist -- The twilight years -- The legacy of the Owen sisters -- Epilogue.…”
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Daring to be different Missouri's remarkable Owen sisters / by Mueller, Doris Land, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Joseph : the place and its people -- The early years -- Mary Alicia leads the way -- Luella : geologist, explorer, painter, family historian -- "Miss Juliette" : ornithologist, botanist, and artist -- The twilight years -- The legacy of the Owen sisters -- Epilogue.…”
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Jasmine and stars reading more than Lolita in Tehran / by Keshavarz, Fatemeh, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- The jasmine, the stars, and the grasshoppers -- The eternal Forough: the voice of our earthly rebellion -- My uncle the painter -- Women without men: fireworks of the imagination -- The good, the missing, and the faceless: what is wrong with reading Lolita in Tehran -- Tea with my father and the saints -- Index.…”
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Jasmine and stars reading more than Lolita in Tehran / by Keshavarz, Fatemeh, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- The jasmine, the stars, and the grasshoppers -- The eternal Forough: the voice of our earthly rebellion -- My uncle the painter -- Women without men: fireworks of the imagination -- The good, the missing, and the faceless: what is wrong with reading Lolita in Tehran -- Tea with my father and the saints -- Index.…”
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On the battlefield of memory the First World War and American remembrance, 1919-1941 / by Trout, Steven, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : memory, history, and America's First World War -- Custodians of memory : the American legion and interwar culture -- Soldiers well-known and unknown : monuments to the American doughboy, 1920-1941 -- Painters of memory : Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry -- Memory's end? …”
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On the battlefield of memory the First World War and American remembrance, 1919-1941 / by Trout, Steven, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : memory, history, and America's First World War -- Custodians of memory : the American legion and interwar culture -- Soldiers well-known and unknown : monuments to the American doughboy, 1920-1941 -- Painters of memory : Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry -- Memory's end? …”
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A journey into Michelangelo's Rome by Nickerson, Angela K., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Michelangelo: a man of his time -- Florence: Michelangelo and the House of Medici -- Rome: marvels in marble -- San Pietro in Vincoli: the tragedy of the tomb -- Sistine Chapel: the Pope and the painter -- Quirinal Hill: a faithful servant -- Capitoline Hill: a humanist city -- Vatican and beyond: churches of Rome -- Macel de'Corvi: "Death often tugs me."…”
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A journey into Michelangelo's Rome by Nickerson, Angela K., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Michelangelo: a man of his time -- Florence: Michelangelo and the House of Medici -- Rome: marvels in marble -- San Pietro in Vincoli: the tragedy of the tomb -- Sistine Chapel: the Pope and the painter -- Quirinal Hill: a faithful servant -- Capitoline Hill: a humanist city -- Vatican and beyond: churches of Rome -- Macel de'Corvi: "Death often tugs me."…”
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Crescent moon over the rational philosophical interpretations of Paul Klee / by Watson, Stephen H., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Interpreting Klee: fusing the architectonic and the poetic -- On the withdrawal of the beautiful: Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's readings of Klee -- Gadamer, Benjamin, aesthetic modernism, and the rehabilitation of allegory: the relevance of Klee -- Of Sartre, Klee, surrealism, and philosophy: toward a nonprosaic conception of consciousness -- Heidegger, Klee's turn, and the origin of the work of art -- Fiscourse/digure: of nomadism, the specter of Oedipus, and the remnants of the sublime -- The rapture of sensuousness: color possesses me-- I am a painter.…”
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Crescent moon over the rational philosophical interpretations of Paul Klee / by Watson, Stephen H., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Interpreting Klee: fusing the architectonic and the poetic -- On the withdrawal of the beautiful: Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's readings of Klee -- Gadamer, Benjamin, aesthetic modernism, and the rehabilitation of allegory: the relevance of Klee -- Of Sartre, Klee, surrealism, and philosophy: toward a nonprosaic conception of consciousness -- Heidegger, Klee's turn, and the origin of the work of art -- Fiscourse/digure: of nomadism, the specter of Oedipus, and the remnants of the sublime -- The rapture of sensuousness: color possesses me-- I am a painter.…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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Paris and the Art of Transposition : Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters / by Chau, Angie

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Paris and the Art of Transposition : Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters / by Chau, Angie

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Cultural contact and the making of European art since the age of exploration

Table of Contents: “…Johns -- The dislocations of Jean-Etienne Liotard, called the Turkish painter / Mary D. Sheriff -- Images of uncertainty : Delacroix and the art of nineteenth-century expansionism / Elisabeth A. …”
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Cultural contact and the making of European art since the age of exploration

Table of Contents: “…Johns -- The dislocations of Jean-Etienne Liotard, called the Turkish painter / Mary D. Sheriff -- Images of uncertainty : Delacroix and the art of nineteenth-century expansionism / Elisabeth A. …”
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American painting of the nineteenth century realism, idealism, and the American experience / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Lane : a paradigm of luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light -- William Sidney Mount : monumental genre -- George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism -- Winslow Homer : concept and percept -- Thomas Eakins : science and sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought -- William Harnett : every object rightly seen -- The painterly mode in America -- Epilogue : the twentieth century.…”
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American painting of the nineteenth century realism, idealism, and the American experience / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Lane : a paradigm of luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light -- William Sidney Mount : monumental genre -- George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism -- Winslow Homer : concept and percept -- Thomas Eakins : science and sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought -- William Harnett : every object rightly seen -- The painterly mode in America -- Epilogue : the twentieth century.…”
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