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

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; Houston : In association with The Museum of Fine Arts ; Greenwich : Bruce Museum, [2006]
©2006

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  704.9 Q BEST    Check Shelf
Description xii, 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Note Published 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.
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.
Subject Dogs in art -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Bowron, Edgar Peters.
Bruce Museum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
ISBN 0300115881 hardcover alkaline paper
0890901430 paperback
Standard No. 9780300115888
9780890901434
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