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Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire

Brooklyn Museum; Edward Bleiberg

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Basquiat

Brooklyn Museum; Jean Michel Basquiat; Fred Hoffman; Marc Mayer; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children

Brooklyn Museum; Barbara Gallati; Richard Ormond; Erica E. Hirshler; John Singer Sargent; Portland Art Museum (Or.); Chrysler Museum

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Other editions: Softcover - 2004

Catalogue of the Egyptological Library

Brooklyn Museum; Charles E. Wilbour; William Burt Cook

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Brooklyn Museum of Art

Brooklyn Museum; The Museum

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Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt

Brooklyn Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum

Synopsis:
Dazzling treasures illuminate women's lives through 3,000 years of ancient Egypt.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1996

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The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Portfolio Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; The Brooklyn Museum

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This broad selection of superheated commentary covers the crucial period from 1989 to 1991, and includes the most important testimony to Senate and to House subcommittees, mass mailings by outraged fundamentalists, artists' testimony, correspondence, op-ed pieces, and much more...."Culture Wars" shows what has been at stake at each stage of the crisis, and what the dominant assumptions have been throughout about the nature of art and culture, and about the proper role of politics and government funding.

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In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting

Brooklyn Museum; Philip Conisbee; Peter Galassi; Sarah Faunce; Jeremy Strick; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Synopsis:
Prominent art historians Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, Jeremy Strick, Peter Galassi, and Vincent Pomarede discuss the cultural, theoretical, and art historical background of this school of outdoor painting. They examine the early history of open-air painting, its theory and practice, the sites of Rome and southern Italy that were painted, and the delicate balance that existed among realism, memory and imagination. A rich selection of representative paintings is discussed and reproduced. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1996

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The Native American Look Book: Art and Activities from the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; Missy Sullivan; Barbara Zaffran; Dawn Weiss; Deborah Schwartz

Synopsis:
The Native American Look Book encourages appreciation of both traditional and contemporary Native American art through a close examination of three objects. Each represents the artistic strength of the region from which it hails. Complete with do-it-yourself activities from weaving a basket to making a coil pot, the book also explores the ways contemporary practitioners continue traditional crafts today.

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Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America

Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum

Synopsis:
With the conquest of Mexico by Cortez in 1521 and of Peru by Pizarro in 1532, two great Native American civilizations were brought under the control of the Spanish crown. Converging Cultures documents this gradual fusion of very different cultures as evidenced in illustrated books, painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, and other artifacts of everyday life in Spanish America from the Precolumbian period to the 19th century. The expressive and beautiful works of art shown here testify to the strength and scope of Latin American creativity through several centuries of encounter and renewal.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996

Leon Polk Smith: American Painter

Brooklyn Museum; Brooke Kamin Rapaport; Leon Polk Smith

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The Peaceable Kingdom: Story by Ewa Zadrzynska ; Illustrations by Tomek Olbinski ; Painting from the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; Ewa Zadrzynska; Ewa Zadrynska; M&m Art Books Inc(Current Dist Trdnt)

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"The Peaceable Kingdom" is based on The Brooklyn Museum's version of the painting by Edward Hicks. This book tells the story of the adventures of the animals as they jump off the painting to roam around the Museum & Botanic Garden & of the children who protect them from skeptical adults. School Library Journal wrote: Ewa Zadrzynska's book "provides a novel way of introducing fine art to children...& encourages children to seek the original painting, thus enabling them to ponder artist's utopian vision themselves." Ewa Zadrzynska's book opens the world of fine art to children in the interesting & inventive way. It encourages children to visit museums & develops their imagination. The book is spectacularly illustrated by Tomek Olbinski & the style of his drawings resembles the character of the Edward Hicks' original.

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Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993

Brooklyn Museum; Louise Bourgeois; Charlotta Kotik; Terrie Sultan; Christian Leigh

Synopsis:
This volume, the catalogue of a 1994 show of Louise Bourgeois' sculpture and drawings, focuses on the artist's work of the past decade, a culmination of her creative pursuits of over 40 years. The book and show bring together the full range of mediums, techniques, and themes of the past decade and features individual pieces and installations alike. Essays by three prominent specialists and 11 appreciations by artists, critics, and scholars testify to the impact of Bourgeois' work on the art of our time.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994

Realms of Heroism: Indian Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; Amy G. Poster; Sheila R. Canby; Pramod Chandra

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994

French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; Sarah Faunce; Karyn Zieve; Linda Konheim Kramer

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The Play of the Unmentionable: An Installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum; Joseph Kosuth; David Freedberg

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At the height of the controversy over government funding for "obscene" works of art, internationally renowned conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created "The Brooklyn Museum Collection: The Play of the Unmentionable," an exhibit about censorship. His installation, one of the best-attended, most widely reviewed of the year, juxtaposed works of art from throughout history that had been deemed politically, religiously, or sexually objectionable, with statements about the role of art in society by writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This handsome book documents the exhibit with twenty-one pages of color and more than a hundred duotone photographs along with a major essay by art historian David Freedberg.

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Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer

Brooklyn Museum; Barbara Head Millstein; Sarah M. Lowe

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Sketches VI: Sargent

Brooklyn Museum

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