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Eighteenth-Century Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

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)

Albinson, Cassandra, Peter Funnell, and Lucy Peltz, eds. Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art, National Portrait Gallery, London, and Yale University Press, 2011. 280 pp.; 160 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780300167184)

Allard, Sébastien, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens. Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830. Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 432 pp.; 260 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781903973233)

Allard, Sébastien, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens. Portraits publics, portraits privés 1770–1830. Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2005. 383 pp.; 220 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper Euros 45.00 (2711850315)

Arnold, Dana, ed. The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities for London, c. 1750-1950. Blackwell, 1998. 176 pp.; 73 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0631216677)

Aronson, Julie, and Marjorie E. Wieseman. Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati: Yale University Press in association with Cincinnati Art Museum, 2005. 344 pp.; 180 ills. Cloth (0300115806)

Aslet, Clive. The American County House. Yale University Press, 2004. 320 pp.; 200 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0300047576)

Aston, Nigel. Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Europe. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. 320 pp.; 60 color ills.; 190 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781861893772)

Attenborough, David, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos. Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 224 pp.; 160 color ills. Cloth $37.50 (9780300125474)

Auricchio, Laura. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 144 pp.; 46 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780892369546)

Ausoni, Alberto. Music in Art. Trans. Stephen Sartarelli. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780892369652)

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)

Avillez, Martim, Leslie Camhi, and Anita Novinsky. The 23. Lusitania Press, 2000. 42 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (1882791088)

Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds. Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 304 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774920)

Baarsen, Reinier, Robert-Jan te Rijdt, and Frits Scholten, eds. Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum 1700–1800. Waanders in association with Rijksmuseum, 2005. 296 pp.; 190 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth € 0.00 (9040090181)

Baetens, Roland. Brepols: Drukkers en uitgevers 1796-1996. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 1995. 350 pp.; 8 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $46.65 (9056220098)

Baetjer, Katharine. British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010. 145 color ills.; 220 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780300155099)

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)

Baetjer, Katherine, ed. Watteau, Music, and Theater. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009. 176 pp.; 75 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300155075)

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)

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander, Pamela M. Jones, Franco Mormando, and Thomas W. Worcester, eds. Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500–1800. Exh. cat. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum, 2004. 272 pp.; 38 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. $39.95 (0936042052)

Bailey, Colin B. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress. Getty Trust Publications, 1999. 94 pp.; 40 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $17.50 (0892365641)

Bailey, Anthony. John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own. Chatto & Windus, 366 pp.; 15 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. $29.95 (0701178841)

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

Baker, Malcolm. Figured in Marble: The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999. 192 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0892366060)

Ballon, Hilary. Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s Collège, Colbert’s Revenge. Princeton University Press, 2001. 248 pp.; 109 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0691048959)

Bann, Stephen, Linda Whiteley, John Guy, Christopher Riopelle, and Anne Robbins. Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery Company, 2010. 180 pp.; 140 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781857094794)

Barber, Peter, and Tom Harper. Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. London: British Library, 2010. 100 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780712350921)

Barker, Elizabeth E., and Alex Kidson. Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Yale Center for British Art and Walker Gallery, 2008. 224 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300117455)

Barlow, Jeremy. The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007. 120 pp.; 60 color ills. Paper $20.00 (1851243003)

Barnes, Joanna R., and J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition: Selections from a Private Collection on Loan to the University Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Pennsylvania State University Press in association with American Federation of Arts, 1993. 191 pp.; 92 color ills.; 51 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0812232755)

Barquist, David L. Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York. Yale University Press, 2000. 336 pp.; 160 color ills.; 135 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300090579)

Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Lori Zabar. American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. 328 pp.; 298 color ills.; 364 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300148954)

Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Ellen G. Miles. Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 352 pp.; 110 color ills.; 176 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300104952)

Baxter, Denise Amy, and Meredith Martin, eds. Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010. 284 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9780754666509)

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)

Büttner, Frank. Peter Cornelius: Fresken und Freskenprojekte, Vol. 2. Weisbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. 618 pp.; 7 color ills.; 178 b/w ills. Cloth $118.00 (3515036121)

Büttner, Frank. Peter Cornelius: Fresken und Freskenprojekte, vol. 1. Weisbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1979. 374 pp.; 228 b/w ills. Cloth $318.00 (3515032584)

Beddington, Charles. Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746–1755. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2006. 220 pp.; 120 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0300119690)

Beddington, Charles. Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746–1755. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 220 pp.; 120 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300119695)

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)

Bendiner, Kenneth. Food in Painting: From the Renaissance to the Present. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. 240 pp.; 79 color ills.; 68 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781861892133 )

Benes, Mirka, and Dianne Harris, eds. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 448 pp.; 167 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0521782252)

Benhamou, Reed. Regulating the Académie: Art, Rules and Power in "ancien régime" France. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. 308 pp. Paper $100.00 (9780729409728)

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)

Bennett, Shelley M., and Carolyn Sargentson, eds. French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington. San Marino, Calif. and New Haven: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 560 pp.; 250 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300135947)

Bentley, Jr., G.E. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. Yale University Press, 2000. 532 pp.; 50 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0300089392)

Berger, Robert W., and Thomas F. Hedin. Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 184 pp.; 41 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780812241075)

Berger, Robert W. Public Access to Art in Paris: A Documentary History from the Middle Ages to 1800. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 311 pp.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (027101749x)

Bevilacqua, Mario. Roma nel secolo dei lumi: Architettura erudizione scienza nella Pianta di G.B. Nolli "celebre geometra." Naples: Mondadori Electa, 1997. 224 pp.; some color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (8843587544)

Bevilacqua, Mario, Heather Hyde Minor, and Fabio Barry, eds. The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G. B. Piranesi. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 280 pp.; 163 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780472115846)

Bignamini, Ilaria, and Clare Hornsby. Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 622 pp.; 50 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300160437)

Billington, James, Lidia Iovleva, and Robert Rosenblum. Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004. 426 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth

Bilski, Emily D., and Emily Braun. Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation. Exh. cat. The Jewish Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 280 pp.; 85 color ills.; 98 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300103859)

Bindman, David, Tim Ayers, and Chris Stephens. The History of British Art. Ed. David Bindman. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art in association with Tate Britain, 2008. 800 pp.; 458 color ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780300143041)

Bindman, David, ed. The History of British Art, Volume 2: 1600–1870. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Tate Britain, 2008. 248 pp.; 149 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300116717)

Bindman, David, ed. The Illuminated Books of William Blake. Tate Gallery/William Blake Trust in association with Princeton University Press, 1997. Cloth $165.00 (0691001790)

Bindman, David, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. The Image of the Black in Western Art: From The "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition: The Eighteenth Century. The Image of the Black in Western Art, vol. 3, part 3. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Havard University Press, 2012. 400 pp.; 254 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780674052635)

Bindman, David. William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books. Thames and Hudson in association with The William Blake Trust, 1999. 480 pp.; 393 color ills.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0500510148)

Bjorkman, Gorel-Cavalli, and Janna Herder, eds. Dutch and Flemish Paintings III. Dutch and Flemish Paintings, vol. 3. Stolkholm: Nationalmuseum, 2010. 175 color ills. Cloth $130.00 (9789171008220)

Blachowicz, James. From Slate to Marble: Gravestone Carving Traditions in Eastern Massachusetts 1770–1870. Evanston, Ill.: Graver Press, 2008. 440 pp. Cloth $59.95 (9780977203109)

Black, Eileen. Art in Belfast, 1760–1888: Art Lovers or Philistines? Irish Academic Press, 2005. 274 pp.; 30 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Paper (0716533626)

Black, Charlene Villaseñor. Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 272 pp.; 8 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $67.50 (9780691096315)

Blake, Erin C., and Stuart Sillars. Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. 32 pp.; 28 color ills. Paper $14.95 (9780295990231)

Blühm, Andreas, and Louise Lippincott. The Industrial Age 1750-1900. Art and Science, Technology and Society. Thames and Hudson, 2000. 272 pp.; 195 color ills.; 109 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0500510296)

Bocola, Sandro. The Art of Modernism: Art, Culture anf Society from Goya to the Present Day. Prestel, 1999. 624 pp.; 400 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (3791321463)

Boeckl, Christine M. Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 1999. 210 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (094354985X)

Boele, Vincent, Ekaterina Deryabina, Sergei Androsov, and Boris Asvarishch. Collectors in St. Petersburg. Exh. cat. Burlington, Vt. and Amsterdam: Lund Humphries in association with Hermitage Amsterdam, 2007. 128 pp.; 42 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780853319603)

Bonfait, Olivier. Les Tableaux et les pinceaux: La Naissance de l’Ecole Bolonaise (1680-1780). Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1999. 526 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Paper (2728305420)

Bordes, Philippe. Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. Exh. cat. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 400 pp.; 80 color ills.; 95 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300104472)

Borzello, Frances. A World of Our Own: Women as Artists Since the Renaissance. Watson-Guptill, 1999. 224 pp.; 100 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0823058743)

Boschloo, Anton W. A. The Limits of Artistic Freedom: Criticism of art in Italy from 1500 to 1800. Leiden: Primaver Pers, 2009. 400 pp.; 16 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Paper €34.50 (9789059970588)

Bowron, E., and Joseph Rychel, eds. Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: Merrell Holberton Publishers in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999. 624 pp.; 200 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Paper $70.00 (0876331363)

Bowron, Edgar Peters. Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 304 pp.; 140 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300091818)

Bowron, Edgar Peters, Peter C. Sutton, and Robert Rosenblum, eds. Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today. Exh. cat. Houston: Yale University Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005. 162 pp.; 118 color ills. $45.00 (0300115881)

Breazeale, William, Susan Anderson, Christine Giviskos, and Christiane Andersson. The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body. Exh. cat. Burlington, VT and Sacramento: Lund Humphries in association with Crocker Art Museum, 2008. 168 pp.; 56 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780853319887)

Bremer-David, Christina, Mimi Hellmann, Katie Scott, and Mary D. Sheriff. Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. 222 pp.; 115 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780892369638)

Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève, Guilhem Scherf, and James David Draper, eds. Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from the Renaissance to Revolution. Exh. cat. Paris: Somogy Éditions d’Art, 2009. 535 pp.; 536 ills. Cloth $69.00 (9782757201831)

Brettell, Richard R., and C.D. Dickerson III. From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern. Exh. cat. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 2010. 456 pp.; 296 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300144949)

Brombert, Beth Archer. Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 506 pp.; 68 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0226075443)

Brooks, Julian. Master Drawings Close-Up. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010. 90 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9781606060193)

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

Broughton, Michael, William Clarke, and Joanna Selborne. The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery. Exh. cat. San Marino, Calif.: Courtauld Gallery in association with The Huntington Library, 2004. 274 pp.; 111 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. (187078796x)

Brown, Steven C. Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century. University of Washington Press, 1997. (0295976586)

Brown, Jonathan, and John H. Elliott. A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 316 pp.; 75 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300101856)

Cahill, James. Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 280 pp.; 128 color ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520258570)

Calza, Gian Carlo. Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2010. 350 color ills. Cloth $49.00 (9780714849966)

Calza, Gian Carlo. Ukiyo-e. London: Phaidon, 2007. 520 pp.; 627 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $49.95 (9780714847948)

Carey, Juliet. Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Exh. cat. London: Waddesdon Manor, The Alice Trust, The National Trust, and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2008. 200 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $50.00 (9781903470725)

Carlyle, Leslie. The Artist’s Assistant: Oil Painting Instruction Manuals and Handbooks in Britain 1800–1900 With Reference to Selected Eighteenth-century Sources. London: Archetype Publications, 2001. 592 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $140.00 (1873132166)

Carr, Dawson W. El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting. London: National Gallery, London, 2009. 72 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094602)

Carrera, Magali M. Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. 216 pp.; 12 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (0292712456)

Cartwright, Derrick R. Benjamin West: Allegory and Allegiance. Exh. cat. San Diego: Timken Museum of Art, 2004. 56 pp.; 14 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (1879067080)

Casey, Edward S. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 392 pp.; 16 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (0816637156)

Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen, ed. Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 400 pp. Cloth $125.00 (9780300126815)

Cavalli-Bjorkman, Gorel. Face to Face: Portraits from Five Centuries. Exh. cat. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2000. 304 pp.; 400 color ills. (9171006427)

Cavanaugh, Alden, and Michael E. Yonan, eds. The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 244 pp.; 12 color ills.; 37 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754663867)

Cavina, Anna Ottani. Geometries of Silence: Three Approaches to Neoclassical Art. Columbia University Press, 2004. 288 pp.; 107 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0231132085)

Chard, Chloe. Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography 1600-1830. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. 278 pp. Cloth $69.95 (0719048044)