From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture
Paper, 251 pp., more than 60 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 1-928917-01-1
Catalogue of the exhibition, organized by Eric R. Varner, presented at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta (September 16, 2000–January 7, 2001) and the Yale University Art Gallery (January 31–March 25, 2001), with essays by Varner, Penelope J. E. Davies, Diana E. E. Kleiner, Harriet I. Flower, Susan B. Matheson, and Garth Tissol.

This exhibition tackled a fascinating topic never before addressed by a museum: the reworking of imperial portrait sculptures in the wake of an emperor’s fall from grace. Essays delve into the ideals of Roman culture that underpinned this practice, focusing on architecture, representations of women, and analogous transformed images in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. A lengthy bibliography is included.

Item# 12231
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Organized by three graduate students of Thompson, Professor of African Art History at Yale, this novel exhibition investigates how specific patterns and forms have migrated within the African continent. Artifacts ranging from postcards, carved ivory, masks, textiles, and medicinal figures known as minkisi are presented and discussed in the context of the braided traditions from which they emerged.

Item# 12916
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Combining art history and ethnology, this booklet offers a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of clothing as an emblem of cultural identity. Examples include a shirt from Guatemala, a shawl from Kashmir, Chinese shoes, and a ceremonial cloth from Borneo.

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The Schaefers’ splendid collection ranges from a twelfth-century Catalan statue of St. Peter to a diabolical oil by George Grosz dated 1926, with particular emphasis on seventeenth-century Dutch painting, including sumptuous still-lifes and Egbert Lievensz van der Poel’s dramatic Explosion of the Powder Magazine at Delft, 1654. This book provides in-depth information about the artists and unusually thorough data on the provenance, exhibition history, and condition of the works.

Item# 10821
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The New York Silver Society Newsletter hailed this massive reference as a “masterful accomplishment … and a source book that will well serve the next generations of gold, silver, and jewelry historians.” Published in 1998, it presents biographies of 296 silversmiths and jewelers who worked in Massachusetts before the American Revolution, along with 93 craftsmen in allied trades. Kane’s preface chronicles the ninety-two years of research and scholarship that went into the book, while her essay focuses on the creative ferment in Boston. Barbara McLean Ward’s essay describes the tools of the trade. Gerald W. R. Ward discusses the differences between metropolitan and rural silversmiths.

Item# 10822
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Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France
Paperback, 200 pp., 152 color and 66 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 978-0-89468-309-1
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (January 29–May 4, 2008), with essays by Ivan E. Phillips, Kristel Smentek, and Judith C. Walsh.

During the eighteenth century in France, newly invented engraving and etching methods were joined with novel ways of printing a single image from multiple plates. Within just a few decades, thousands of images were produced including some of the most complex and beautiful color prints ever made. Authors examine the history, marketing, and collection of these prints as well as the tools, techniques, and papers used in making them.

Item# 117
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This booklet presents documentary photographs showing the American West, from the time it was first settled by Europeans and continuing through fine-art photographs by Robert Dawson, Frank Gohlke, and others. Phillips’s essay deals with the “mythology of frontier individualism,” with sections devoted to the railroad, mining, “the open land,” agriculture and lumber, the cities, and the suburbs.

Item# 190
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This catalogue explores nineteenth-century taste by focusing on one aspect of Classical Revival furniture—the S-curved legs of the sella curulis style—discovering how the style was transmitted and tracing the meanings attributed to it over the centuries and in various contexts. The disparate array of objects includes coins, drawings, furniture, and furniture design books, all adding up to a compelling, never-before-told story.

Item# 12907
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