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Eighteenth-Century Art

All titles added within the past twelve months.

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

de Brancion, Laurence Chatel. Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies: Cinema of Enlightenmen. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 144 pp.; 134 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780892369096)

Calza, Gian Carlo. Ukiyo-e. London: Phaidon Press, 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: Paul Holberton Publishing, Waddesdon Manor, The Alice Trust, and The National Trust, 2008. 200 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $50.00 (9781903470725)

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)

Chédeau, Catherine, and Sophie Jugie. Le Palais des Ducs et des États de Bourgogne. Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2008. 87 pp.; Many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper €7.00 (9782858229703)

Cohen, Sarah R. “Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) Study Day.” The Frick Collection, New York, NY. January 22, 2008. College Art Association, 2008.

Conrads, Margaret C., ed. American Paintings to 1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. 768 pp.; 408 color ills.; 115 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780942614374)

Cormack, Malcolm. Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond and Charlottesville: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and University of Virginia Press, 2007. 492 pp.; 185 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780813926018)

Craske, Matthew. The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008. 256 pp.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300135411)

Dixon, Susan M. Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-Century Rome. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. 160 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0874139376)

Dumas, Ann, ed. Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past. Exh. cat. Denver, Colo.: Denver Art Museum, 2007. 280 pp.; 217 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300131321)

Elliot, Virgil. Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2007. 224 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823030668)

Fahy, Everett, ed. The Wrightsman Pictures. Intro. Pierre Rosenberg. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. 452 pp.; 240 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300107197)

Fenton, James. School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 320 pp. Hardback $60.00 (9781903973202)

FitzGerald, Desmond, Knight of Glin, and James Peill. Irish Furniture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 352 pp.; 400 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300117158)

Frangenberg, Thomas, and Robert Williams, eds. The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. 244 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (0754606791)

Gerstein, Alexandra, ed. Display and Displacement: Sculpture and the Pedestal from Renaissance to Post-Modern. London: Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007. 160 pp.; 50 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781903470305)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon Press, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Gras, Catherine, and Géraldine Petit. Formes et transparences: Les plus belles pièces de la collection de verrerie du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Exh. cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 2008. 79 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €15.00 (2915128332)

Guest, Harriet. Empire, Barbarism, and Civilization: Captain Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific. New York and Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 270 pp.; 50 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9780521881944)

Hallett, Mark, and Christine Riding, eds. Hogarth: The Artist and the City. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 240 pp.; 160 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781854376961)

Hargraves, Matthew. Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. Exh. cat. New Haven and Richmond: Yale Center for British Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 232 pp.; 118 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300116588)

Hargraves, Matthew. Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain 1760–1791. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2006. 280 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300110043)

Hartop, Christopher. British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2007. 264 pp.; 8 color ills.; 750 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300117707)

Havard, Robert. The Spanish Eye: Painters and Poets of Spain. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis, 2007. 150 pp.; 8 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780855661431)

Hebron, Stephen. The Romantics and the British Landscape. London: The British Library, 2007. 192 pp.; 45 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780712306768)

Hedley, Jo. François Boucher: Seductive Visions. Exh. cat. London: The Wallace Collection, 2004. 224 pp.; 150 color ills. Paper £18.95 (0900785721)

Howard, Jeremy. East European Art: 1650–1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 272 pp.; 65 color ills.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $23.50 (9780192842244)

Impey, Oliver, and Christiaan Jörg. Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580–1850. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2007. 384 pp.; 600 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. $303.00 (907482272X)

Lacey, Barbara E. From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 220 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $69.50 (9780874139617)

Lamarre, Christine, and Sylvain Laveissière. Les Prix de Rome des États de Bourgogne: Lettres à François Desvosge, 1776–1792. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 2008. 303 pp.; 18 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper €42.00 (2915128014)

Langmuir, Erika. Masterpieces from the National Gallery. London: National Gallery, London, 2007. 88 pp.; 47 color ills. Paper $14.95 (9781857093735)

Little, Stephen, and Peter Ruthenberg, eds. Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Göttingen. Exh. cat. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2006. 655 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $150.00 (0937426717)

Lord, John, ed. Peter DeWint 1784–1849: 'For the common observer of life and nature.' Exh. cat. Aldershot, UK: Lund Humphries, 2007. 208 pp.; 131 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $110.00 (9780853319375)

Magee, Judith. The Art and Science of William Bartram. University Park and London: Natural History Museum, London, 2007. 276 pp.; many color ills. $45.00 (9780271029146 )

May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 256 pp.; 16 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Hardback $30.00 (9780300108729)

Medvedkova, Olga. Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond: Architecte 1679–1719; De Paris á Saint-Pétersbourg. Paris: Alain Baudry et Cie, 2007. 582 pp.; 108 b/w ills. Cloth €65.00 (2952861700)

Meslay, Olivier. Discoveries: Turner; Life and Landscape. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 160 pp. Paper $12.95 (9780810992078)

Michel, Christian. Le Célèbre Watteau. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2007. 288 pp. Paper $45.00 (9782600011761)

Middleton, Robin, and Marie-Noelle Baudouin-Matuszek. Jean Rondelet: The Architect as Technician. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 368 pp.; 100 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780300115673)

Molotiu, Andrei. Fragonard's Allegories of Love. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. 128 pp.; 53 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780892368976)

Morton, Mary, ed. Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. 166 pp.; 83 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780892368891)

Myrone, Martin, ed. Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 224 pp.; 140 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (9781854375827)

Newlands, Anne. Canadian Paintings, Prints, and Drawings. Buffalo and Ontario: Firefly Books, 2007. 368 pp.; 165 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9781554072903)

Olausson, Magnus, and Xavier Salmon. Alexander Roslin. Exh. cat. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2007. 287 pp.; 124 color ills. Cloth $135.00 (9789171007728 )

Padiyar, Satish. Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007. 240 pp.; few color ills.; few b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780271029634)

Perry, Gill. Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theater, 1768–1820. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008. 248 pp.; 50 color ills.; 85 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300135442)

Peters Bowron, Edgar, and Peter Björn Kerber. Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome. Exh. cat. New Haven and Houston: Yale University Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2008. 240 pp.; 152 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780890901588)

Pressly, William L. The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's "Fine Frenzy" in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Art. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 240 pp.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780874139853)

Ribeiro, Aileen. Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 352 pp. Hardback $65.00 (9780300109993)

Roy, Ashok, ed. National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 28. London: National Gallery Company, 2007. 96 pp.; 84 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (978185709372)

Safford, Frances Gruber. American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period; The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 464 pp.; 159 color ills.; 162 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9780300116472)

Salmon, Xavier. Pomp and Power: Drawings from Versailles. Exh. cat. Suffolk, UK: The Wallace Collection and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007. 128 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780900785993)

Schimmelman, Janice G. Books on Art in Early America. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 292 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9781584562146)

Shepard, Dorothy M. "Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797" Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 22, 2007. College Art Association, 2007.

Simon, Robin. Hogarth, France, and British Art. Suffolk, UK: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007. 400 pp.; 80 color ills.; 245 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9780955406300)

Smiles, Sam. The Turner Book. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 224 pp. Paper $29.95 (9781854375728)

Sohm, Philip. The Artist Grows Old: The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 224 pp.; 25 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300121230)

Soros, Susan Weber, ed. James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity. Exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 688 pp.; 500 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300117134)

Speel, Erika. Painted Enamels: An Illustrated Survey 1500–1920. Aldershot, U.K.: Lund Humphries, 2008. 256 pp.; 30 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth £85.00 (9780853319351)

Styles, John, and Amanda Vickery, eds. Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2007. 368 pp.; 58 color ills.; 26 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300116595)

Tromans, Nicholas, ed. The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 224 pp.; 161 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300138986)

Whitfield, Peter. London: A Life in Maps. London: The British Library, 2007. 208 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $23.50 (9780712349192)

Wilson, Gillian, Charissa Bremer-David, and Jeffrey Weaver. French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and the Régence; Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 464 pp.; 105 color ills.; 432 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780892368747)

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel. Oxford and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 274 pp.; 17 color ills.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780691127262)