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Product Description: Rich in symbolism and metaphor, and blessed with its own varied and dramatic palette, the garden has proved to be an extremely fertile source of artistic inspiration. In The Garden in Art, acclaimed art historian Debra N. Mancoff reveals the many different ways in which artists from all periods of history – from ancient Egypt to the present day – have employed the motif of the garden...read more
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9781858945224 | Merrell, October 4, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Rich in symbolism and metaphor, and blessed with its own varied and dramatic palette, the garden has proved to be an extremely fertile source of artistic inspiration.

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Product Description: Accessible and informative, this book is a gorgeous introduction to great American artists. While the history of American art is as varied as the fifty states the country is comprised of, it tells a story of a uniquely American aesthetic: bold, innovative, and uncompromising...read more
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9783791344119 | Prestel Pub, April 1, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Accessible and informative, this book is a gorgeous introduction to great American artists.

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Product Description: What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished...read more
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9780313338212 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 22, 2009, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: What gives beauty such fascinating power?

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Product Description: Love Revealed is the first major study devoted to the dramatic career of Simean Solomon (1840-1905), a leading painter of the Pre-Raphaelite group that formed around Dante Gabriel Rossetu in the mid-nineteenth century. Reproducing paintings and drawings rarely seen since their first showing, it explores Solomon's work in the contexts of Aestheticism, Judaism and modern-day studies of masculinity...read more
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9781858943114 | Merrell, October 15, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Love Revealed is the first major study devoted to the dramatic career of Simean Solomon (1840-1905), a leading painter of the Pre-Raphaelite group that formed around Dante Gabriel Rossetu in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Exploring the vision of beauty he brought into being, this text seeks to show how Monet's endeavours as a gardener were an essential part of his identity as a painter and how his artistic vision drew strength from his passion for his garden.
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9780670893843 | Viking Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Presents reproductions of Monet's garden at Giverny painted by Monet and his associates, including 'Lilacs' by Frieseke, 'Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood' by Sargent, and Monet's own 'Water Lilies'.

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9780711223714 | New edition (Frances Lincoln Ltd, May 1, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Exploring the vision of beauty he brought into being, this text seeks to show how Monet's endeavours as a gardener were an essential part of his identity as a painter and how his artistic vision drew strength from his passion for his garden.

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9780785382973 | Pubns Intl, December 31, 2003, cover price $16.98

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9783791328515 | Prestel Pub, May 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading figure in the Royal Academy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Debra N. Mancoff (editor)
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9780300091199 | Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, October 1, 2001, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading figure in the Royal Academy.

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Product Description: This illustrated book is a celebration of the image of the sunflower in art and literature: in the work of the Symbolists and the British aesthetic movement, and in Realist and Impressionist paintings. It offers an examination of the flower's significance from pre-Columbian times to the early 20th century, and the particular significance of the sunflower in Van Gogh's work is explored by Debra Mancoff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780500510537 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This illustrated book is a celebration of the image of the sunflower in art and literature: in the work of the Symbolists and the British aesthetic movement, and in Realist and Impressionist paintings.

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Product Description: At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of books on one of the world's greatest art museums.
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9780300116229 | Art Inst of Chicago, September 28, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of books on one of the world's greatest art museums.
9780865591820 | Hudson Hills Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of books on one of the world's greatest art museums.

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9780764913372 | Pomegranate, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00

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Presents reproductions of Van Gogh's popular and lesser-known paintings of trees, fields, bouquets, irises, and sunflowers, accompanied by selections of the artist's letters
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9780811825696 | Chronicle Books Llc, December 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents reproductions of Van Gogh's popular and lesser-known paintings of trees, fields, bouquets, irises, and sunflowers, accompanied by selections of the artist's letters

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Product Description: In 1838, British artist David Roberts (1796-1864) embarked on a journey that would shape Europe's perception of the Middle East. Nurtured on Bible stories and tales of the exotic Orient, Roberts had always dreamed of exploring the Holy Land, though travel there was an arduous, dangerous undertaking...read more
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9780764910296 | Pomegranate, September 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In 1838, British artist David Roberts (1796-1864) embarked on a journey that would shape Europe's perception of the Middle East.

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Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women (view table of contents)
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9780300077810 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

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9780865591691 | Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop, August 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

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A selection of the nineteenth-century painter's works reflects the solitary, social, public, and intimate worlds inhabited by the women she knew (view table of contents)
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9781556708527 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A selection of the nineteenth-century painter's works reflects the solitary, social, public, and intimate worlds inhabited by the women she knew

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Product Description: The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Debra N. Mancoff (editor)
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9780815325000 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return.

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9780764906152 | Pomegranate, March 1, 1998, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Debra N. Mancoff (editor) and D. J. Trela (editor)
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9780815319498 | Routledge, June 1, 1996, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them.

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9780810937826 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $35.00

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By Debra N. Mancoff (editor)
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9780815300601 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1993, cover price $10.00

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Product Description: The Arthurian revival was a Victorian phenomenon, built upon new, moralistic interpretations of medieval literature and a didactic reevaluation of chivalry. Mancoff interprets the visual representations of Arthurian imagery as an expression of national sentiment and idealism, exploring form, conte...read more
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9780824070403 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1990, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: The Arthurian revival was a Victorian phenomenon, built upon new, moralistic interpretations of medieval literature and a didactic reevaluation of chivalry.

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