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Product Description: It has been said that the history of modern art--especially as it is understood in the United States--is inextricably linked to that defining institution of the 20th century, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since its founding in 1929, the museum has been known for its unrivaled collection of artworks created over the last century...read more
By John Elderfield, Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author) and Museum of Modern Art (other contributor)
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9780870707001 | Museum of Modern Art, October 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: It has been said that the history of modern art--especially as it is understood in the United States--is inextricably linked to that defining institution of the 20th century, The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Product Description: Over the past 150 years, Japanese photographers have created an impressive body of work that ranges from dignified imperial photographs to sweeping urban panoramas, from early ethereal landscapes to modern urban mysteries. Despite the richness, significance and variety of this work, however, it has largely been neglected in Western histories of photography...read more
By Kotaro Iizawa (editor), Naoyuki Kinoshita (editor), Kokusai Koryu Kikin (corporate author), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author) and Anne Tucker (editor)
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9780300099256 | Yale Univ Pr, February 8, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Over the past 150 years, Japanese photographers have created an impressive body of work that ranges from dignified imperial photographs to sweeping urban panoramas, from early ethereal landscapes to modern urban mysteries.

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9780890901120 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, June 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Over the past 150 years, Japanese photographers have created an impressive body of work that ranges from dignified imperial photographs to sweeping urban panoramas, from early ethereal landscapes to modern urban mysteries.

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Product Description: Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and balanced red and blue forms set against a strongly contrasting green ground...read more
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9780934418621 | Museum of Contemporary Art San, March 1, 2003, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly.

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Product Description: This volume, the catalogue for a collaborative exhibition in the United States between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings together a selection of notable French paintings from the Pushkin Museum, one of the world's great art museums...read more
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9780300097368 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This volume, the catalogue for a collaborative exhibition in the United States between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings together a selection of notable French paintings from the Pushkin Museum, one of the world's great art museums.

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9780890901113 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, December 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This volume, the catalogue for a collaborative exhibition in the United States between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings together a selection of notable French paintings from the Pushkin Museum, one of the world's great art museums.

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The author paints a vivid portrait of the 'City of Light' during the
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9780810935426 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The author paints a vivid portrait of the 'City of Light' during the

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Product Description: This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums. A testimony to the remarkable history of collecting and patronage in Poland, it showcases Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent "Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)", but also includes important works by Hans Memling, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernardo Bellotto, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Marie-Louise Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and others...read more
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9780300097405 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums.

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9780944110959 | Milwaukee Art Museum, August 1, 2002, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums.

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Product Description: This book is an ambitious work that surveys the development of a major sculptural medium in Italy across four centuries. It is the first work of its kind to consider the varieties of fired clay sculpture, especially in the context of the sculptural process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300090802 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This book is an ambitious work that surveys the development of a major sculptural medium in Italy across four centuries.

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Product Description: Despite the vast number of Americans who claim German ancestry, there is neither a single major collection of 19th century German painting in the US nor have their been any exhibitions focusing on this subject in such detail. This volume redresses the balance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Helga Kessler Aurisch (contributor), Edgar Peters Bowron (editor), Karl-Heinz Mehnert (contributor), Museum Der Bildenden Kunste (other contributor), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author), Susanne Petri (contributor), Dietulf Sander (contributor) and Andreas Stolzenburg (contributor)
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9783791323800 | Prestel Pub, November 1, 2000, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Despite the vast number of Americans who claim German ancestry, there is neither a single major collection of 19th century German painting in the US nor have their been any exhibitions focusing on this subject in such detail.

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Product Description: This fascinating book provides the first assessment of the artists who have shaped the rich history of art in Texas, from its 19th-century origins to the diversity of the present scene. Published to accompany an exhibition of selected works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this lavishly illustrated volume reveals the complexity of America's most fabled state as seen through the eyes of its leading artists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810967069 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This fascinating book provides the first assessment of the artists who have shaped the rich history of art in Texas, from its 19th-century origins to the diversity of the present scene.

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Presents color reproductions of more than 500 works from the vast collection with captions. (view table of contents)
By Janet Landay and Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author)
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9781857592313 | Scala Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $35.00

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9780890900918 | Scala Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents color reproductions of more than 500 works from the vast collection with captions.

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Product Description: Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this lavishly illustrated catalogue--the first single volume dedicated to this extraordinary collection--features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691004600 | Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, February 14, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this lavishly illustrated catalogue--the first single volume dedicated to this extraordinary collection--features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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9780890900932 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this lavishly illustrated catalogue--the first single volume dedicated to this extraordinary collection--features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Offers a profile of the French photographer and gathers a selection of his works (view table of contents)
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9780810963801 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Offers a profile of the French photographer and gathers a selection of his works

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Product Description: The book consists of four sections: late Prehistoric China, the so-called Jade Age, which produced finely carved jade, stone, and pottery objects; the Early Bronze Age, which included cultures from both north and south, such as the Fuhao, Sanxingdui, and Xin'gan discoveries; the Chu Culture, a splendid period revealed through its silk, lacquer, jade, musical instruments, paintings, calligraphy, and ritual bronzes like those from the Zenghou Yi tomb; and Imperial China, represented by objects beginning with the first emperor and ending with the Five Dynasties, which include the Qin terra-cotta army, jade suits, Qingzhou Buddhist sculptures, and the Famensi gold and silver objects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (corporate author), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author), National Gallery of Art (other contributor) and Xiaoneng Yang (editor)
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9780300081329 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The book consists of four sections: late Prehistoric China, the so-called Jade Age, which produced finely carved jade, stone, and pottery objects; the Early Bronze Age, which included cultures from both north and south, such as the Fuhao, Sanxingdui, and Xin'gan discoveries; the Chu Culture, a splendid period revealed through its silk, lacquer, jade, musical instruments, paintings, calligraphy, and ritual bronzes like those from the Zenghou Yi tomb; and Imperial China, represented by objects beginning with the first emperor and ending with the Five Dynasties, which include the Qin terra-cotta army, jade suits, Qingzhou Buddhist sculptures, and the Famensi gold and silver objects.

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9780894682452 | Natl Gallery of Art, September 1, 1999, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: 584 pages

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Offers a profile of the French photographer and gathers a selection of his works
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9780890900864 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers a profile of the French photographer and gathers a selection of his works

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Product Description: In 1920, Ima Hogg began an extensive collection of art and antiques that would chronicle America's tastes, styles, and customs from colonial times to the Victorian era. The daughter of a Texas governor, Miss Hogg continued to acquire works for her magnificent Houston home, Bayou Bend, until her death in 1975 at the age of ninety-three...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691059624 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: In 1920, Ima Hogg began an extensive collection of art and antiques that would chronicle America's tastes, styles, and customs from colonial times to the Victorian era.

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Product Description: The extent to which photography influenced the work of Pablo Picasso is now considered by scholars to be of great importance in the understanding of the artist's entire oeuvre. Linked to a major exhibition, this beautifully illustrated books present a unique view into Picasso's relationship with the photographic arts...read more
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9782080136497 | Flammarion, March 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The extent to which photography influenced the work of Pablo Picasso is now considered by scholars to be of great importance in the understanding of the artist's entire oeuvre.

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Product Description: The extent to which photography influenced the work of Pablo Picasso is now considered by scholars to be of great importance in the understanding of the artist's entire oeuvre. Linked to a major exhibition, this beautifully illustrated books present a unique view into Picasso's relationship with the photographic arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9782080136466 | Flammarion, October 1, 1997, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The extent to which photography influenced the work of Pablo Picasso is now considered by scholars to be of great importance in the understanding of the artist's entire oeuvre.

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Product Description: This collection of photographs form part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series. They feature the beauty, mystery and abuse of the American desert with images as diverse as secret nuclear test sites, space shuttle landings, arts "happenings" and natural disasters.
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9780890900697 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, November 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This collection of photographs form part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series.

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9780810919563 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95
9780890900611 | Reprint edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1995), cover price $35.00

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9780890900642 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, December 1, 1994, cover price $35.00

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By Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (contributor), High Museum of Art (corporate author), Katherine S. Howe (editor), Metropolitan Museum of Art (other contributor) and Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author)
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9780810934269 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $65.00

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By Erika Billeter (editor) and Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author)
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9780295973289 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, January 1, 1994, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas...read more
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9780890900567 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, January 1, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas.

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9780890900550 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, January 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas.

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Product Description: Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.
By Jaroslav Andel (editor) and Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author)
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9780821217634 | Bulfinch Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.

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Product Description: Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.
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9780890900482 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, April 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.

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