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| Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures | 
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| Author: Robin Jaffe Frank
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 563378
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 376
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0300087241
Dewey Decimal Number: 757.709730747468
EAN: 9780300087246
ASIN: 0300087241
Publication Date: September 10, 2000
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Product Description
This volume reproduces and discusses some 100 American portrait and mourning miniatures. Robin Jaffee Frank examines the miniatures in detail, offering insights into their role in American art and social history. She uncovers the stories of those who sat for them, and those who treasured them.
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Mourning miniature art May 1, 2008
I liked this book. Nice photos, good value. I can't say that I will go back and read it again, but it had decent information on the first read and great art.
Wonderful Book May 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Informative and well written with beautiful color photos of the miniatures. A book we'll treasure.
great book about american miniatures August 2, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book on American miniatures and mourning portraits. Ostensibly a catalogue of the Yale collection, it also gives a great history of miniatures in their cultural context, a discussion of miniature painters and processes, and a synopsis of the tradition of mourning items. Very well researched and well written. Beautiful pictures of miniatures, most at actual size, and many enlarged to reveal tiny details. This book is accessible to both scholars and the interested public.
Worth the Wait April 16, 2001
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I began my interest in miniature paintings several years ago, but found that long searches on the internet rarely produced any new information on this topic. Owning about 4 "worthwhile" books in my collection on the subject, I anxiously awaited Robin Jaffee Frank's book (which I became aware was "in the works" about 6 months before publication). I hoped that this book would be the frosting on the cake of knowledge I possessed on miniatures. I was delighted to find it is the cake itself. Miniature itself in size, it contains a whopping 358 pages packed with information and insights, along with plenty of full-size illustrations. It's presented in a format that can be easily followed, with many paintings also shown magnfied to enhance the concept being presented. You will want to take your time in reading and relishing this book, there's alot of information here. Well worth the wait.
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