Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Overview
Works: | 391 works in 851 publications in 1 language and 36,385 library holdings |
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Genres: | Biographies Catalogs Catalogues raisonnés History Art Criticism, interpretation, etc Exhibition catalogs |
Roles: | Other, isb, Editor, Publisher, 475, Publishing director, Compiler |
Classifications: | PR4146, 759.2 |
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Most widely held works about
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- John Cornforth : a passion for houses : material on the Georgian town house from the Cornforth Library Donation : 8 February - 27 May 2016 by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( Book )
- Newsletter by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( )
- The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art : a history, 1970-2010 by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( Book )
- Learning from Louis I. Kahn : a study of the Phillips Exeter Academy Library and the Mellon Center for British art at Yale by Carl Dommerich Shannon( )
- "The price of war" : recording, publishing and preserving art, 1939-1945 by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London)( Book )
- Check-list of reserve collection of paintings : Mellon Center for British Art by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( Book )
- The Kimbell Museum and the Yale Center for British Art and British Studies : two museums by Louis I. Kahn by Lisa Laughlin( Book )
- Paul Mellon Center for British Arts and British Studies specifications manual( Book )
- Collection of Mellon Family and Yale Center for British Art-related Publications by Yale Center for British Art( )
- Supporting the spectacle : the summer exhibition and its spin-offs : 29 May-21 September 2018 by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( Book )
- Annual report by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art( )
- [Mellon Center for British Art and Studies, Yale University] by Louis I Kahn( Visual )
- The Paul Mellon center for British art and British studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut by Louis I Kahn( Visual )
- Mellon Center for British Art and Studies, Yale University, Conn., USA by Louis I Kahn( Visual )
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Most widely held works by
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The stranger from paradise : a biography of William Blake by
G. E Bentley(
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6 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"William Blake's wife once said of him: "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise". This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blake's company, presenting, often in the words of his contemporaries, everything that is known of his life and times."--Jacket
6 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"William Blake's wife once said of him: "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise". This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blake's company, presenting, often in the words of his contemporaries, everything that is known of his life and times."--Jacket
The paintings of James McNeill Whistler by
Andrew McLaren Young(
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4 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 753 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 753 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The art of Thomas Gainsborough : "a little business for the eye" by
Michael Rosenthal(
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3 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Michael Rosenthal provides a lively account of Gainsborough's varied life and diverse artworks. Rosenthal also examines for the first time the artist's oeuvre as a whole and how the trajectory of his career reflected the problems, dilemmas and situations that were common to other painters of his time. This book sets Gainsborough's art within its social and cultural contexts, shedding new light on the art worlds of London and the English provinces and on the ways in which Gainsborough's painting would have been seen and understood by his contemporaries." "The book begins by charting the geography and professional tactics of a career that took Gainsbourgh from London to Suffolk, Bath and eventually back to London. Rosenthal looks at such wide-ranging topics as how artists manipulated the press, the issue of likeness in portraiture, how rivalries between painters were handled in public and private, and the pressures of the public exhibition. The second part of the book explores the manifestations of Gainsborugh's aesthetic in portraiture, landscape painting and paintings of sensibility. Rosenthal concludes with a discussion of the problem of defining a role and proper form for the fine arts at a time of rapid social change and innovation."--Jacket
3 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Michael Rosenthal provides a lively account of Gainsborough's varied life and diverse artworks. Rosenthal also examines for the first time the artist's oeuvre as a whole and how the trajectory of his career reflected the problems, dilemmas and situations that were common to other painters of his time. This book sets Gainsborough's art within its social and cultural contexts, shedding new light on the art worlds of London and the English provinces and on the ways in which Gainsborough's painting would have been seen and understood by his contemporaries." "The book begins by charting the geography and professional tactics of a career that took Gainsbourgh from London to Suffolk, Bath and eventually back to London. Rosenthal looks at such wide-ranging topics as how artists manipulated the press, the issue of likeness in portraiture, how rivalries between painters were handled in public and private, and the pressures of the public exhibition. The second part of the book explores the manifestations of Gainsborugh's aesthetic in portraiture, landscape painting and paintings of sensibility. Rosenthal concludes with a discussion of the problem of defining a role and proper form for the fine arts at a time of rapid social change and innovation."--Jacket
The new sculpture by
Susan Beattie(
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5 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 687 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 687 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seventeenth-century interior decoration in England, France, and Holland by
Peter Thornton(
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11 editions published between 1978 and 1990 in English and held by 683 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1978 and 1990 in English and held by 683 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The later paintings and drawings of John Constable by
Graham Reynolds(
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5 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 622 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Covers from about 1817 onwards
5 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 622 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Covers from about 1817 onwards
The paintings and drawings of William Blake by
Martin Butlin(
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7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Here in two beautifully produced volumes is the first complete catalogue of the paintings, watercolors, drawings, and color prints of one of the English-speaking world's greatest and most widely studied artists. Also included are works attributed to William's brother Robert and his wife Catherine. The culmination of over twenty years of research, these volumes are packed with new information and identifications. Martin Butlin has divided the catalogue into sections corresponding to phases in Blake's artistic career and has considered groups of related works together. For each entry there is full information on size, medium and techniques, date history, and other pertinent data. Where appropriate, there is also a discussion of the relationship of the work to Blake's thought and writings and an explanation of its symbolism and significance. Every traceable work is reproduced (with the exception of a few series that have been fully published elsewhere) and a large proportion of them are in colour. This monumental study will become a standard and indispensable work of reference for anyone interested in William Blake's art or poetry."--
7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Here in two beautifully produced volumes is the first complete catalogue of the paintings, watercolors, drawings, and color prints of one of the English-speaking world's greatest and most widely studied artists. Also included are works attributed to William's brother Robert and his wife Catherine. The culmination of over twenty years of research, these volumes are packed with new information and identifications. Martin Butlin has divided the catalogue into sections corresponding to phases in Blake's artistic career and has considered groups of related works together. For each entry there is full information on size, medium and techniques, date history, and other pertinent data. Where appropriate, there is also a discussion of the relationship of the work to Blake's thought and writings and an explanation of its symbolism and significance. Every traceable work is reproduced (with the exception of a few series that have been fully published elsewhere) and a large proportion of them are in colour. This monumental study will become a standard and indispensable work of reference for anyone interested in William Blake's art or poetry."--
Medieval London houses by
John Schofield(
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8 editions published between 1994 and 2003 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from about 1200 to the Great Fire in 1666. John Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops, and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from surviving buildings, archaeological excavations, documents, panoramas, drawn surveys and plans, contemporary descriptions, and later engravings and photographs
8 editions published between 1994 and 2003 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from about 1200 to the Great Fire in 1666. John Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops, and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from surviving buildings, archaeological excavations, documents, panoramas, drawn surveys and plans, contemporary descriptions, and later engravings and photographs
The Houses of Parliament by
M. H Port(
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3 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 599 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 599 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gwen John : with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and a selection of the drawings by
Cecily Langdale(
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5 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 599 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From London in the 1890s to Paris in the early twentieth century, Gwen John's career spanned some of the most exciting periods and places in cultural history. Demolishing the myth of Gwen John (1876-1939) as a recluse, this new survey explores the art world at the center of these cities and reveals the alliances and differences the artist had with her contemporaries. John's representation of the female nude, her paintings of interiors, and the effects of her Catholic faith on her work are all considered. The author also discusses the key relationship between John's position as a woman artist and her fascination with the portrayal of the female sitter. -- Provided by publisher
5 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 599 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From London in the 1890s to Paris in the early twentieth century, Gwen John's career spanned some of the most exciting periods and places in cultural history. Demolishing the myth of Gwen John (1876-1939) as a recluse, this new survey explores the art world at the center of these cities and reveals the alliances and differences the artist had with her contemporaries. John's representation of the female nude, her paintings of interiors, and the effects of her Catholic faith on her work are all considered. The author also discusses the key relationship between John's position as a woman artist and her fascination with the portrayal of the female sitter. -- Provided by publisher
The paintings of J.M.W. Turner by
Martin Butlin(
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9 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Richard Norman Shaw by
Andrew Saint(
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8 editions published between 1976 and 2010 in English and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned."--Publisher description
8 editions published between 1976 and 2010 in English and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned."--Publisher description
A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 by
John Ingamells(
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6 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and held by 540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
While the majority of travellers were young persons making the grand tour - discovering antiquity, the temptations of a brisk and irregular art market, the squalor and the riches of Italian life and travel - there were also many older visitors intent on some professional purpose, including prison reformer John Howard, agronomist Arthur Young and musicologist Charles Burney. Over three hundred artists, sculptors and architects made the trip. The dictionary includes British antiquaries who became guides or art dealers in Rome or Naples, among them Mark Parker, Thomas Jenkins and Colin Morison
6 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and held by 540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
While the majority of travellers were young persons making the grand tour - discovering antiquity, the temptations of a brisk and irregular art market, the squalor and the riches of Italian life and travel - there were also many older visitors intent on some professional purpose, including prison reformer John Howard, agronomist Arthur Young and musicologist Charles Burney. Over three hundred artists, sculptors and architects made the trip. The dictionary includes British antiquaries who became guides or art dealers in Rome or Naples, among them Mark Parker, Thomas Jenkins and Colin Morison
Science and the perception of nature : British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by
Charlotte Klonk(
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6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Charlotte Klonk's deeply researched accounts of the complex and often ambiguous interactions that took place between artists and scientists challenge simplistic accounts of developments in art as mere by-products of scientific progress as well as reductive socio-economic interpretations. For Klonk, the common thread running through the changes in both art and science is the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience around the turn of the century. Phenomenalism involved a commitment to the scrupulous observation of particular phenomena, without making prior assumptions about meaning or underlying causes, and this ideal was common to both artists and scientists. In this way, Klonk argues, the period represents a brief moment of balance before the concerns of science and art split apart into objectivity and subjectivity, respectively
6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Charlotte Klonk's deeply researched accounts of the complex and often ambiguous interactions that took place between artists and scientists challenge simplistic accounts of developments in art as mere by-products of scientific progress as well as reductive socio-economic interpretations. For Klonk, the common thread running through the changes in both art and science is the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience around the turn of the century. Phenomenalism involved a commitment to the scrupulous observation of particular phenomena, without making prior assumptions about meaning or underlying causes, and this ideal was common to both artists and scientists. In this way, Klonk argues, the period represents a brief moment of balance before the concerns of science and art split apart into objectivity and subjectivity, respectively
The paintings of J.M.W. Turner by
Martin Butlin(
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2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
William Holman Hunt and typological symbolism by
George P Landow(
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3 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Although Pre-Raphaelitism has attracted much critical and scholarly attention in the past decade, there still has been no major reconsideration of the work of William Holman Hunt. In this new study, Landow contends that Hunt's version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usualy suposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural typology--the method of finding anticipations of Christ in Hebrew history--could produce an ideal art that would solve the problems of Victorian paining. According to Hunt, this elaborate symbolism could simultaneously avoid the dangers of materialism inherent in a realistic style, the dead conventionalism of academic art, and the sentimentality of much contemporary painting"--Jacket
3 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Although Pre-Raphaelitism has attracted much critical and scholarly attention in the past decade, there still has been no major reconsideration of the work of William Holman Hunt. In this new study, Landow contends that Hunt's version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usualy suposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural typology--the method of finding anticipations of Christ in Hebrew history--could produce an ideal art that would solve the problems of Victorian paining. According to Hunt, this elaborate symbolism could simultaneously avoid the dangers of materialism inherent in a realistic style, the dead conventionalism of academic art, and the sentimentality of much contemporary painting"--Jacket
The art of Captain Cook's voyages by
Rüdiger Joppien(
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8 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alfred Gilbert by
Richard Dorment(
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4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
James McNeill Whistler by
Richard Dorment(
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3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and aphorisms, James McNeill Whistler had a tremendous influence on the art and aesthetics of his era. Born in Massachusetts in 1834, he settled in London when he was twenty-five years old and for the next four decades produced hundreds of highly acclaimed (and sometimes highly criticised) works. His prodigious output and proficiency, along with his eccentricities, polemics, and arguments with critics, won him wide recognition. This catalogue raisonne of Whistler's drawings, pastels and watercolours makes available many of his works that have never before been exhibited or published and vividly demonstrates the wide range of his art. His drawings reveal the everyday working out of his ideas and note the world as it passed by Whistler with vigour and humour. The pastels include sensitive portraits, vigorous studies of models in the studio, and detailed views of Venetian palaces. The watercolours, perhaps his finest works, catch the subtle colours of northern skies and ever-changing seascapes
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and aphorisms, James McNeill Whistler had a tremendous influence on the art and aesthetics of his era. Born in Massachusetts in 1834, he settled in London when he was twenty-five years old and for the next four decades produced hundreds of highly acclaimed (and sometimes highly criticised) works. His prodigious output and proficiency, along with his eccentricities, polemics, and arguments with critics, won him wide recognition. This catalogue raisonne of Whistler's drawings, pastels and watercolours makes available many of his works that have never before been exhibited or published and vividly demonstrates the wide range of his art. His drawings reveal the everyday working out of his ideas and note the world as it passed by Whistler with vigour and humour. The pastels include sensitive portraits, vigorous studies of models in the studio, and detailed views of Venetian palaces. The watercolours, perhaps his finest works, catch the subtle colours of northern skies and ever-changing seascapes
Modern art, Britain, and the Great War : witnessing, testimony, and remembrance by
Sue Malvern(
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6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 478 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The First World War had a great impact on British modernism and twentieth-century art. This book examines how the British state recruited some of its most controversial artists to produce official art as propaganda and how their work gave witnessed testimony to the trauma of a war that later generations would redeem in acts of remembrance."--Jacket
6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 478 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The First World War had a great impact on British modernism and twentieth-century art. This book examines how the British state recruited some of its most controversial artists to produce official art as propaganda and how their work gave witnessed testimony to the trauma of a war that later generations would redeem in acts of remembrance."--Jacket
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- Yale Center for British Art Other Publishing director Editor Publisher
- Blake, William 1757-1827 Other Artist
- Butlin, Martin Author Editor
- Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) 1775-1851 Other Artist
- Bentley, G. E. Jr (Gerald Eades) 1930-2017 Author
- Ormond, Richard Author
- Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903 Other Author
- MacDonald, Margaret F. Author
- Joll, Evelyn 1925- Editor
- Gainsborough, Thomas 1727-1788 Illustrator
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