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Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Foreword by J. Carter Brown

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Previously presented as a feature on the Corcoran Gallery of Art website from 2011 through September 2014, this scholarly apparatus contains in-depth research and documentation for each of the 102 paintings highlighted in the accompanying volume Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. These works are among the nearly 9,000 Corcoran works that have been accessioned by the National Gallery of Art. The apparatus provides provenance, exhibition history, published and unpublished references, technical notes, and data on related works, and is a significant resource for art historians, educators, and the general public. The extensive research on these paintings resulted in recovering more than 50 original titles, dates, and attributions, and filling in numerous provenance gaps. While this information was kept up to date through 2014, more recent research on each work can be found on the collection pages of the National Gallery of Art website. (When the Corcoran Gallery of Art closed in 2014 the National Gallery of Art accessioned much of its collection and became custodian of its publications. This and other out-of-print Corcoran volumes have been made freely available as PDFs in an effort to perpetuate the legacy of that institution.)

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Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector honors one of the founding benefactors of the National Gallery of Art and the Gallery’s foremost donor of prints and drawings. The Rosenwald Collection, encompassing works of graphic art from medieval times to the present, is the finest of its kind ever to be formed in the United States by a single individual. Rosenwald’s discrimination as a collector is acknowledged throughout the world, and his perceptiveness and generosity have placed the collection of works on paper at the Gallery among the most respected in the country. In this catalog, entries for works include minimal discussion on the works of art themselves; rather, they address the Rosenwald Collection’s formation and significance by discussing particular works within that context.

A Twentieth Century Indian Sufi Views Hinduism
The Case of Khawja Hassan Nizami
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A Twentieth Century Indian Sufi Views Hinduism
The Case of Khawja Hassan Nizami
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The Moors who had settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open, plate 3 of 'The Art of Bullfighting', pub. 1816 (etching)

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Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Lost in an art the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot.”Le ton beau de Marot” literally means ”The sweet tone of Marot”, but to a French ear it suggests ”Le tombeau de Marot”that is, ”The tomb of Marot”. That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book,

Wordpress All-In-One for Dummies
Lisa Sabin-Wilson
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The latest version of WordPress.org will be replaced in the fall of 2018 with WordPress 5.0. This will include a major change with the addition of new editor Gutenberg.

For over fifty years, Metin And championed Turkish theatre, traditional performing arts, festivities and the art of Ottoman miniature in dozens of articles and ten titles in Turkish and other languages. The list ends with Ottoman Figurative Arts I: Miniature, which attests to And’s fascination with the subject.

A fundamental “art of the book” as well as a courtly art form, miniature favoured a highly realistic depiction of daily life, human beings, the urban fabric and buildings  an aspect promoted widely in And’s work. Miniature’s main function was illustrating manuscripts. As Ottoman Figurative Arts I: Miniature ably demonstrates, the target audience was either the sultan, or high-ranking statesmen. Manuscripts so illustrated were prohibitively costly works of art, safeguarded in the Treasury, and any illustrated manuscript captured in battle would have delighted the victorious commander and sultan equally.

An indispensable reference book, the lavishly illustrated Ottoman Figurative Arts I: Miniature covers the stages in the development of the art in the Ottoman Empire, an overview of the studios, techniques and methods of this courtly art, and includes a splendid Album of portraits, lives of the sultans, the palace, festivals, literary works, religious topics, landscapes and townscapes, scientific and encyclopaedic subjects, the world of birds, animals and fantastic creatures as well as women and men