Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Author: Avery Library
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1972

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Author: Graduate Theological Union. Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393410
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.

Author: John Rothenstein
Publisher: Salem House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: David Cox
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Born in Birmingham, England, in 1783, David Cox was destined to become a major figure in the linked worlds of landscape painting and watercolor painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. Remarkably, no significant study of the artist has been undertaken in more than a century. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses much-needed attention on Cox, filling in the details of his biography and illuminating his contributions to British landscape painting. Cox's widely-known Sun, Wind, and Rain, painted in 1845, is emblematic of his concern with the representation of light and atmosphere and weather. He was unparalleled in his ability to capture the effects of wind and weather. Scott Wilcox's chapter in this book investigates Cox's artistic identity and his legacy. Other chapters address such topics as Birmingham's cultural milieu; myths about Cox's life; the papers he chose; his painting in oils; and the fakes, forgeries, and misattributions that have challenged attempts to identify his oeuvre with certainty. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (October 16, 2008 - January 4, 2009) Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England (January 31 - May 3, 2009)

Author: Diane Waldman
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.