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“…Reflections on the origins and the legacy of three illuminators from Nijmegen…”
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Table of Contents: “…Collecting in sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice : originals, copies, and "Maniera di" /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Arcimboldo's composite heads : origins and invention /…”

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“…A Harvest/HBJ original…”

Table of Contents: “…Discovering an American original -- Who was Samuel McIntire? -- The art of carving -- McIntire's carved ornaments -- Patrons and the coordinated interior.…”

Table of Contents: “…Essays: Olympics then and now -- The origins of the games -- Running -- The pentathlon -- Combat events -- Equestrian events -- The training grounds -- The victors.…”

Table of Contents: “…Early Years -- The Artist as Writer -- Selected Writings -- Demuth in New York 1914-1920 -- Literary Illustrations 1914-1919 -- Origins of Precisionism 1916-1922 -- Poster Portraits 1923-1929 -- Late Works 1927-1935 -- Exhibition History.…”

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the Tibetan pile rug tradition: archaeological evidence -- Recorded history of rug making in Tibet -- Sources and uses of symbol and design -- Materils and techniques of rug weaving in Tibet -- Temple, household, horseback: functions of Tibetan tugs -- Catalog -- Notes -- Structural analysis.…”

Table of Contents: “…Image and Style in the Floating World: The Origins and Early Development of Ukiyo-e / Timothy Clark -- The Early Ukiyo-e Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Anne Nishimura Morse -- Catalogue / Timothy Clark, Allen Hockley and Anne Nishimura Morse / [and others].…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Spanish painting and New Spanish painting, 1550-1700 / Jonathan Brown -- At the crossroads: cultural confluence and daily life in Mexico, 1521-1821 / Donna Pierce -- Unique expressions: painting in New Spain / Rogelio Ruiz Gomar -- Originality and invention in the painting of New Spain / Clara Bargellini.…”

Table of Contents: “…Asian American: an evolving consciousness / Helen Zia -- Reframing Asian America / Margo Machida -- Origin myths: a short and incomplete history of Godzilla / Karin Higa -- A conversation on today's Asian America / Melissa Chiu -- The last Asian American exhibition in the whole entire world / Susette S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Negro Portraits -- Signifying Enslavement and Portraying People -- "On deathless glories fix thine ardent view": Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley, and the Mythic Origins of Anglo-African Portraiture in New England -- "Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles": Silhouettes and African American Identity in the Early Republic -- Portraits of a People.…”

Table of Contents: “…Ideological Exhibition Spaces and Surrealist Exhibitions -- The Origin of Surrealist Exhibition Space: The 1938 Paris Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme -- Surrealism Goes to the Fair: Projects for an American Surrealist Display at the 1939 New York World's Fair -- The New World: First Papers of Surrealism (1942) -- The Disembodiment of Surrealist Exhibition Space and Its Dissemination.…”

Table of Contents: “…The leaf book / Christopher de Hamel -- William Caxton's first edition of the Canterbury Tales and the origin of the leaves for the Caxton Club's 1905 leaf book / Daniel W. …”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Nicholas Westbrook -- Introduction / Carolyn Gilman -- The way to independence / Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider -- The Hidatsa word. Origins and settlements of the Hidatsa / W. Raymond Wood -- The Hidatsa religious experience / Gerard Baker -- The Hidatsa natural environment / Jeffery R. …”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword/Bruce Guenther -- Acknowledgments -- Jacob Lawrence's Expressive Cubism/Patricia Hills -- Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Origins: 1917-1940 -- Chapter 3-Early Maturity: 1940-1949 -- Chapter 4-Mid-Career in New York: 1949-1968 -- Chapter 5-At Home in the West: 1968-Present -- Chapter 6-Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronology -- Checklist of the Exhibition -- Exhibition History -- Work in Public and Corporate Collections -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits.…”

Table of Contents: “…A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins -- Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse -- The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Fieldwork : Stubbs and the humbler sort / Robin Blake -- 6. Stubbs and the origins of the thoroughbred / Malcolm Warner -- 7. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Origins and Renaissance of Color Etching / Marianne Grivel -- I. …”

Table of Contents: “…Bailey -- Women and the Visual Arts in the Age of Marie-Antoinette / Melissa Hyde -- The Painting Technique of Anne Vallayer-Coster: Searching for the Origins of Style / Claire Barry -- Color Plates of Works Exhibited -- Catalogue -- App. …”

Table of Contents: “…What it is / Jane Livingston -- Black American folk art : origins and early manifestations / Regenia A. Perry -- Spiritual epics : the voyage and the vision in black folk art / John Beardsley -- The artists. …”

Table of Contents: “…Edo society and culture: Ukiyo-e's setting / Kobayashi Tadashi -- The flowering of low and high arts in Edo Japan / Howard Hibbett -- The origins of Ukiyo-e / Naitō Masato -- Courtesans, geisha, and male prostitutes / Asano Shūgō -- With an eye to style, 1690-1765: early Ukiyo-e -- An air of innocence, 1765-1780: Suzuki Harunobu and his contemporaries -- Images of feminine allure, 1780-1805: Torii Kiyonaga and Kitagwawa Utamaro -- Establishing a lineage, 1780-1850: the Utagawa school -- "The man mad about painting," 1760-1849: Katsushika Hokusai -- Appendix: Mountings and painting techniques of Ukiyo-e hanging scrolls / Philip Meredith and Tanya Uyeda.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lubar -- Fumism and other aspects of Parisian modernism in Picasso's early drawings / Phillip Dennis Cate -- Gustave Coquiot and the critical origins of Picasso's "blue" and "rose" periods / Robert J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Hickman -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The beginnings of Ch'an Buddhism -- Chinese and Indian thought in Ch'an Buddhism -- The Northern and Southern Schools -- The earliest form of Ch'an art -- The consolidation and expansion of the Ch'an sect -- Juan-hsiu (832-912): the birth of Ch'an art -- Ch'an literature and koan -- Ch'an art during the Northern Sung Period (960-1126) -- Ch'an monks and literati -- The repertoire of Ch'an themes -- The Buddha and figures from the Buddhist pantheon -- Zenkiga -- The Ch'an Eccentrics in art -- Chinso: the portraits of Ch'an masters -- Landscapes, animals, and plants -- Ch'an monks and literati in the Southern Sung and Yuan Periods -- The end of Ch'an art in China -- Zen: its establishment in Japan -- Zen monks in China during Late Kamakura times -- Japanese Chinso -- Bokuseki: the calligraphy of Ch'an and Zen monks -- The Gozan monasteries and their literary school -- Zen Suiboku painting: origins and evolution -- Zen art in the Edo period -- Catalogue -- Glossary -- Index.…”

Table of Contents: “…. -- A background to Latin American art / by Edward Lucie-Smith. -- Map: Artists and origins. -- Art of the fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987 / by Holiday T. …”

Table of Contents: “…Harrist, Jr. Opposite Paths to Originality: Huang T'ing-chien and Mi Fu / Jay Xu. The Two Perfections: Reading Poetry and Calligraphy / Robert E. …”

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