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True stories of the century's greatest artists accompany 273 illustrations of their life and work, featuring Picasso, Duchamp, Lucie-Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and many others. BOMC. (view table of contents)
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9780500237397 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: True stories of the century's greatest artists accompany illustrations of their life and work

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Examining the role of women of art, the authors ask difficult questions about male domination and female exclusion in the arts, using the images of female and male painters, artists, and photographers to make her point.
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9780823058525 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, September 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents commentaries on women artists and images of women in art from warrior women to goddesses, focusing mainly on contemporary works.

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Product Description: A survey of one of the most controversial epochs art history, the Modern Movement, this text combines a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends. It reflects the changes that have swept across the art world since 1960, challenging the old assumptions and certainties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780714832012 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, September 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This text is an illustrated survey of movements in world art since 1960.

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9780714838885 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, September 16, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A survey of one of the most controversial epochs art history, the Modern Movement, this text combines a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends.

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Presents a history of the male in art of every medium, including the heroic nude of ancient Rome, the feminized male nude of the French rococo, and the exaggerated male characteristics of the Baroque (view table of contents)
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9780847821259 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the male in art of every medium, including the heroic nude of ancient Rome, the feminized male nude of the French rococo, and the exaggerated male characteristics of the Baroque

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Gathers paintings that feature animals, both real and mythological, and discusses the background of each work (view table of contents)
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9780823059812 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gathers paintings that feature animals, both real and mythological, and discusses the background of each work

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9780756760137 | Diane Pub Co, August 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This volume is a gorgeous menagerie of animals in art.

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9781874044086 | Boxed edition (Art Books Intl Ltd, December 1, 1997), cover price $180.00

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9781874044048 | Art Books Intl Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $122.50

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9780953175918 | Art Books Intl Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: This supreme social and artistic history of the erotic illuminates the perception of sexuality through time. Voluptuous scenes by great masters of art, such as Fragonard and Picasso, combine with selected poetry and prose to express with finesse what most find difficult to verbalize...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780847820603 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This supreme social and artistic history of the erotic illuminates the perception of sexuality through time.

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9781873362679 | Art Books Intl Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $31.95

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9781873362662 | Art Books Intl Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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9781857999358 | Phoenix, February 1, 1997, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: In this lucid and coherent history of the century of modernism, renowned art writer Edward Lucie-Smith approaches his material in a novel way. Rather than presenting 20th-century visual arts as merely a succession of various styles, he goes beyond to examine the historical, social, and intellectual contexts that have surrounded and supported individual creativity...read more
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9780810939349 | Harry N Abrams Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Presents an overview of art and culture of the 20th century covering topics such as photography, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture
9780131833616 | Prentice Hall Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $65.00
9789990076332 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1997, cover price $0.02

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9780134944364 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1997, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: In this lucid and coherent history of the century of modernism, renowned art writer Edward Lucie-Smith approaches his material in a novel way.

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9781873362563 | Art Books Intl Ltd, November 1, 1996, cover price $31.95

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9781873362556 | Art Books Intl Ltd, November 1, 1996, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The Art Deco style was all pervasive during the 1920s and 1930s affecting the decorative arts, fine arts and fashion. This text specifically examines Art Deco painting and defines it as a genre. The author analyzes the characteristics of the style, period and history of the movement, explaining its relationship to Classicism, the Symbolists, the Precisionists, photography and Cubism...read more
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9780517580004 | Clarkson Potter, October 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Art Deco was one of the liveliest and most comprehensive of 20th century trends, embracing decorative arts, fine arts and fashion.

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9780714835761 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, August 29, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Art Deco style was all pervasive during the 1920s and 1930s affecting the decorative arts, fine arts and fashion.

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Product Description: Written with his co-operation and access to his studio, this is a survey of the achievements of the American metal artist and sculptor, Albert Paley. It provides insights into his working methods and a detailed record of his career...read more
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9780810937482 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Written with his co-operation and access to his studio, this is a survey of the achievements of the American metal artist and sculptor, Albert Paley.

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9780904286533 | Cassell, May 1, 1996, cover price $9.99

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9781874044062 | Art Books Intl Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $25.00

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9780946708222 | Art Books Intl Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $40.00

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Looks at postwar paintings and sculpture, discusses abstract expressionism, pop art, happenings, op art, kinetic art, and super realism, and considers artists from Picasso to David Hockney (view table of contents)
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9780500202821 | Thames & Hudson, August 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Looks at postwar paintings and sculpture, discusses abstract expressionism, pop art, happenings, op art, kinetic art, and super realism, and considers artists from Picasso to David Hockney

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Product Description: Elisabeth Frink died in April 1993. She was 62, the foremost British sculptor of her generation, and renowned for her haunting and majestic representations of birds, animals and men. Her work is in numerous galleries and public places aound Britain and the world...read more
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9780747515722 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Elisabeth Frink died in April 1993.

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9781851586257 | Mainstream Pub Co Ltd, June 1, 1995, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images...read more
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9780714832326 | Reprint edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, August 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history.

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9780714827612 | Reissue edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, January 1, 1994), cover price $11.95
9780823053940 | Reprint edition (Watson-Guptill Pubns, November 1, 1989), cover price $19.95

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A comprehensive and enlightening survey of works of art by artists once considered outside the mainstream--including African Americans, feminists, Hispanic Americans, and homosexuals--traces how these groups have come to prominence and revolutionized the art world.
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9780810937673 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Discusses the works of a number of minority artists in terms of their social status, their personal viewpoint, and the aesthetics and expectations of the majority

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This fascinating, lavishly illustrated study analyzes the nineteenth-century image of woman as depicted in the works of the French Impressionists, who portrayed women not as mythical objects, but as real creatures of flesh and blood.
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9780896600393 | Reprint edition (Artabras, September 1, 1993), cover price $19.98 | About this edition: Examines how women were portrayed in the paintings of the Impressionists, and includes brief profiles of each major artist

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Product Description: This collection of stories of widely varying character containing stories, commentary and reportage about artists and their art from classical times to the 20th century. Most of them are revealing, informative, scandalous, amusing or in some way significant...read more
By Edward Lucie-Smith (editor)
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9780571143825 | Faber & Faber, August 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories of widely varying character containing stories, commentary and reportage about artists and their art from classical times to the 20th century.

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