John Milner, Author Yale University Press $70 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-08407-8
The actual text of this study makes for a solid, secondary source-based account of the time of the Paris CommuneDthe war with Prussia and end of the Third Empire that preceded it, the months the Communards ruled the city in 1871, the siege of Paris...
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John Milner, Author Abbeville Press $65 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55859-400-5
Piet Mondrian, the painter of architectonic grids who seemed to reject nature, had early on steeped himself in the study of landscapes and flowers. His haunting pictures of farms, windmills and factories treat nature as a dynamic interplay of forces.
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John Milner, Author Yale University Press $75 (184p) ISBN 978-0-300-03990-0
For artists active in Paris between 1880 and 1914, surviving by one's art was exceedingly difficult, while financial success was denied to all but a few. This engaging study spotlights scores of unfamiliar as well as celebrated Parisian painters and
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John Milner, Author Yale University Press $40 (252p) ISBN 978-0-300-04749-3
An engaging study of artists active in Paris between 1880 and 1914, ``this wonderfully illustrated chronicle teems with paintings, drawings and period photographs of artists and their haunts,'' wrote PW . (Apr.)
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