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Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini מאת Peter Webb Talented, glamorous and ambitious, Leonor Fini was one of the most influential female artists of the 1930s. From her opulent, bohemian childhood in Italy to her debut in a group exhibition at the age of seventeen and her rise in the international art world, Fini was legendary for both he...

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Chanel and Her World מאת Edmonde Charles-Roux Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduc...

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Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America מאת Antony Shugaar Coast to Coast presents an extraordinary journey—via rail, steamboat, automobile, and even horseback— of a continent just beginning to discover itself. Traveling through the great cities, magnificent landscapes, and highways of a bygone America, the book is illustrated with ...

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Donald Sultan: Theater of the Object מאת Carter Ratcliff An immaculately produced volume, Donald Sultan is a detailed examination of the artist’s distinguished thirty-year career and captures the essence of an innovat...

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Country Color: Perfect Palettes for Every Room מאת Judith Miller   Whether cool and pale or bright and warm, country color plays a pivotal role in bringing a stylish, cozy, and comfortable mood to rooms that emphasize the charms of rural life. Showcasing both traditional and modern country houses, celebrated interiors expert Judith Miller demo...

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Paris: City of Art: Expanded Edition מאת Jean-Marie Perouse de Montclos “Weighing a hefty eleven pounds, this surpassingly rich visual and intellectual feast is the luxury book bargain of the season. . . . Pérouse de Montc...

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Frescoes of the Veneto: Venetian Palaces and Villas מאת Filippo Pedrocco Soon after Giorgione introduced the fresco to Venice in the early sixteenth-century, Venetian noble families began to commission the greatest masters of European painting to create grand fresco cycles for the interiors of their city palaces and their splendid villas on the mainland. This...

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Angels in Africa: Profiles of Seven Extraordinary Women מאת Kimberley Sevcik This arresting and important volume documents seven African women working to overcome devastating problems in their communities. Through dazzling photographs and first-person accounts, their stories reveal the strength of the human spirit: A Tutsi woman brings together Hutu and Tutsi widows of Rwand...

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Golden Age of Spain: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture מאת Joan Sureda A period of unparalleled wealth and prestige, Spain’s Golden Age (1492–1659) was one of conquest, Catholicism, and a spectacular cultural explosion that gave ri...

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In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century מאת Patricia G. Berman In Another Light is the first comprehensive volume in English on 19th-century Danish Art, a subject that is increasingly acknowledged as an essential subject of the history of art. The extraordinary outburst of artistic energy that occurred in Denmark between 1790 and 1910 has few rivals. Wit...