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Fine Arts & Finery | Art Books To Note

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

Beautifully designed and clearly written, this book is for readers who want to gain new insights into the language of clothing.

Angelica Kauffman

With beautiful color plates, readable text, and a chronology of the artist’s life, this vis an excellent introduction to a remarkable and trailblazing but little-discussed woman painter.

Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design; The Robert Owen Lehman Collection

With beautiful images and accessible writing, this is recommended for readers interested in modern ballet of the early 20th century.

Sonia Delaunay: Living Art

While scholarly in tone with extensive footnotes, this beautifully designed book is readable and includes many handsome images. Recommended to readers who are interested in both the fine and decorative arts of the 20th century made by a remarkable artist.

Women Dressing Women: A Lineage of Female Fashion Design

With many beautiful images of clothes, including some three-sided views, this excellent book is recommended for readers interested in women fashion designers, particularly those who are not well-known today.

Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris

This excellent, well-researched book sheds new light on an artist whose work has not been included in the mainstream narrative of early 20th-century modernism.
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

This informative title is recommended for readers interested in the avant-garde art movements of the 20th century.

Fashioned by Sargent: Painting Fashion

With gorgeous images and accessible text, this exhibition catalogue is highly recommended for audiences interested in fine art in relation to fashion.
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