Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today
by Peter Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, William Secord
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"Best in Show is the most up-to-date, comprehensive survey of the dog as shown in painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography from the end of the sixteenth century to today. This book features more than sixty works by such artists as Jacopo Bassano, Titian, Frans Snyders, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Giacomo Balla, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Four essays by distinguished scholars discuss the dog in the context of show more the art of the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries; examine the development and changes of breed over the years; and outline the results of scientific inquiry over the centuries regarding the nature of dogs."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Edgar Peters Bowron is Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Robert Rosenblum is Professor of Modern European Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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