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Eighteenth-Century Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.

Akker, Paul Van Den. Looking for Lines: Theories on the Essence of Art and the Problem of Mannerism. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 524 pp.; Many b/w ills. $65.00 (9789089641786)

Avcioğlu, Nebahat. Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728–1876. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 338 pp.; 17 color ills.; 86 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754664222)

Baetjer, Katherine, and Marjorie Shelley. Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 56 pp.; 75 color ills. Paper $14.95 (9780300169812)

Bailey, Colin B. Fragonard's Progress of Love at the Frick Collection. New York: Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, 2011. 192 pp.; 140 color ills. Cloth $44.95 (9781904832607)

Bajou, Valérie. Versailles. New York: Abrams, 2012. 480 pp.; 280 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9781419700675)

Bédard, Jean-François. Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672–1742). Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011. 286 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781611490084)

Beddington, Charles. Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery, London, 2011. 192 pp.; 130 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781857094183)

Bellion, Wendy. Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 388 pp.; 12 color ills.; 83 b/w ills.; 95 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807833889)

Bennett, Mary. Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 686 pp.; 458 color ills.; 522 b/w ills. Cloth $200.00 (9780300165913)

Brotchie, Alastair. Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 424 pp.; 156 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262016193)

Chastel-Rousseau, Charlotte. Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 234 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754655756)

Cooperman, Emily T., and Lea Carson Sherk. William Birch: Picturing the American Scene. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 376 pp.; 85 color ills.; 53 b/w ills.; 138 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780812242485)

Crowley, John E. Imperial Landscape: Britain's Global Visual Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 135 color ills.; 115 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300170504)

DeJean, Joan. The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. 304 pp. Paper $16.00 (9781608192304)

Egerton, Judy. Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode. London: National Gallery Company Limited, 2011. 80 pp.; 34 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth and DVD $25.00 (9781857095104)

Fisher, Celia. The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600–1800. London: British Library, 2011. 144 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780712358200)

Friedman, Terry. The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 800 pp.; 185 color ills.; 520 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300159080)

Gaehtgens, Thomas W., and Louis Marchesano. Display and Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. 104 pp.; 76 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9781606060926)

Garnier-Pelle, Nicole, Anne Forray-Carlier, and Marie Christine Anselm. The Monkeys of Christophe Huet: Singeries in French Decorative Arts. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 176 pp.; 360 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (978-1-60606-065-0)

Glendinning, Nigel, and Hilary Macartney, eds. Spanish Art: In Britain and Ireland, 1750–1920. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis, 2011. 307 pp.; 17 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9781855662230)

Hinton, Jack, Melissa Meighan, and Andrew Lins. Encountering Genius: Houdon's Portraits of Benjamin Franklin. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 92 pp.; 85 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780300141641)

Johnson, Dorothy. David Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology. Capel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 260 pp.; 12 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.; 112 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807834510)

Labreuche, Pascal. Paris, capitale de la toile à peindre: XVIIIe-XIXe siècle. L'art et l'essai. Paris: Les éditions du CTHS, 2011. 368 pp.; 13 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper €39.00 (9782735507450)

Llewellyn, T.D., ed. Owen McSwiny's letters: 1720–1744. Lettere artistiche del Settecento veneziano, vol. 4. Venice: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2011. 448 pp.; Many b/w ills. Paper €24.00 (9788896162040)

Mansfield, Elizabeth C. The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 320 pp.; 24 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780816675814)

McMurry, Sally, and Nancy Van Dolsen, eds. Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720–1920. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 120 ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780812242782)

Meyers, Amy R. W., ed. Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740–1840. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 432 pp.; 325 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300111040)

Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Sarah Medlam, eds. Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011. 192 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9781851776337)

Oleksijczuk, Denise Blake. The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 232 pp.; 3 color ills.; 73 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780816648610)

Perry, Gill, Joseph Roach, and Shearer West. The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Exh. cat. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011. 160 pp.; 120 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780472118274)

Phagan, Patricia, Vic Gatrell, and Amelia Rauser. Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England. Exh. cat. Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2011. 184 pp.; 127 color ills. Paper $59.95 (9781904832782)

Porterfield, Todd, ed. The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759–1838. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 240 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754665915)

Postle, Martin, ed. Johan Soffany RA: Society Observed. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011. 320 pp.; 225 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300176049)

Quilley, Geoff. Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768–1829. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 304 pp.; 40 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780300175684)

Renne, Elizaveta. Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century British Painting: State Hermitage Museum Catalogue. Exh. cat. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum, 2011. 464 pp.; 650 color ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780300170467)

Sonnabend, Martin, Jon Whiteley, and Christian Ruemelin. Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape. Exh. cat. Oxford, UK: Ashmolean Museum, 2011. 200 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $80.00 (9781848220928)

Tillerot, Isabelle. Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau. Passages/Passagen, vol. 37. Paris: Les Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2011. 516 pp.; 43 ills. Paper €48.00 (9782735112531)

Tinios, Ellis. Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700–1900. London and Burlington, VT: British Museum and Lund Humphries, 2010. 143 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781848220768)

Vermeulen, Ingrid R. Picturing Art History: The Rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 359 pp.; 150 b/w ills. Paper $69.50 (9789089640314)

Webster, Mary. Johan Zoffany: 1733–1810. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 720 pp.; 330 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300162783)

Westheider, Ortrud, and Michael Philipp, eds. Turner and the Elements. Exh. cat. Munich, Germany: Hirmer Publishers, 2012. 256 pp.; 150 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783777440019)

Whitehead, John. French Interiors of the Eighteenth Century. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2009. 256 pp.; 263 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781856690188)

Yonan, Michael. Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2011. 240 pp.; 52 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (9780271037226)