| ISBN |
9780300137224 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Author |
Clifton, James 1958- |
| Title |
The plains of Mars : European war prints, 1500-1825, from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation / [by] James Clifton and Leslie M. Scattone ; with Emine Fetvaci, Ira D. Gruber, and Larry Silver |
| Publisher |
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009 |
| Physical desc. |
ix, [1], 253 p. ; ill., facsims., map ; 31 cm. |
| Note |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The plains of Mars: European war prints, 1500-1825, from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, and held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 7-May 10, 2009" -- t.p. verso. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Introduction / Leslie M. Scattone. -- Wars and warfare: Europe, 1494-1815 / Ira D. Gruber. -- The Landsknecht: summer soldier and sunshine patriot / Larry Silver. -- The grand and the terrible: European visions of the Ottomans / Emine Fetvaci. -- Mediated war / James Clifton. -- Catalogue of the exhibition. |
| Corporate name |
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation -- Art collections -- Exhibitions |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
War in art -- Exhibitions |
| Peace in art -- Exhibitions |
| Soldiers in art -- Exhibitions |
| Prints, European -- Exhibitions |
| Prints -- Private Collections -- Texas -- Houston -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Scattone, Leslie M. |
| Fetvacı, Emine |
| Gruber, Ira D. |
| Silver, Larry 1947- |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
