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This has been a year of exceptional and beautiful books on the fine and decorative arts. Featured here are some of the best, perfect for holiday giving.(On books)(Recommended readings)
Ever since the march of progress in art was dispensed into an eclectic, postmodern void a few decades ago, there has been a flourishing industry of rediscovery, dusting off beautiful or interesting nineteenth- and twentieth-century works that no longer have to be dismissed because they were sinfully "popular" or "commercial"; for example, illustration. Norman Rockwell's slices of smalltown American life, most of them magazine cover illustrations, have recently-earned him new respect, and now it is the turn of N. C. Wyeth, one of the greatest American book illustrators.
In N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Volumes One and Two (Scala Publishers), ...
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