Best in show : the dog in art from the Renaissance to today / Edgar Peters Bowron [and others].

Other author Bowron, Edgar Peters.
Other author Bruce Museum.
Other author Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; Houston : In association with The Museum of Fine Arts ; Greenwich : Bruce Museum, ©2006.
Descriptionxii, 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
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Subjects

Contents An artist's best friend: the dog in Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture / Edgar Peters Bowron -- From the royal hunt to the taxidermist: a dog's history of modern art / Robert Rosenblum -- The purebred dog in art: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / William Secord -- Notes on the nature of dogs / Carolyn Rose Rebbert.
General notePublished in conjunction with the exhibition held in the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Conn. May 6-Aug. 27, 2006, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 1, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.
LCCN 2006009074
ISBN0300115881 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0890901430 (pbk.)
ISBN9780300115888
ISBN9780890901434

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Joyner General Stacks N7668.D6 B48 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold