Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
British Museum Press Living with Art The Alexander Walker collection
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the unique collection of modern and contemporary prints and drawings of film critic and author Alexander Walker (19302003).
£17.00
British Museum Press Look Here
Book SynopsisThe ultimate picture book â packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing and delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, and combinations of pictures, speak for themselves
£9.49
British Museum Press A Little Gay History Desire and Diversity across
Book SynopsisHow old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first lesbian? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? This title deals with these questions.
£9.89
British Museum Press Watches Paperback anglais
Book SynopsisThe British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and this brilliant book tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years.
£15.29
British Museum Press Hieroglyphs
Book SynopsisPraise for the exhibition ***** The Telegraph ***** The Times ***** Daily Telegraph **** The Evening Standard âœPlunge into the infinity pool of ancient Egyptian history with this dizzying array of artworksâ - Waldemar Januszczack, Sunday Times Culture magazine Today the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman Empire to the 19th century, the wonders of this ancient civilisation were frozen in time, locked in artefacts that could not be understood due to the loss of the ancient Egyptian language. In 1799 the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a slab inscribed in three scripts, hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek, changed the course of history, unlocking thousands of years of ancient culture and eventually becoming one of the worldâs most famous museum artefacts. The British Museumâs exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt and thisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The truth in translation: the journey to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs 2. The race to decipherment 3. Legacy and impact 4. The future of Egyptology Notes and select bibliography List of contributors Acknowledgements and credits Index
£32.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Lili ReynaudDewar
Book SynopsisThe first-ever monograph on Reynaud-Dewar, one of today’s most celebrated multimedia artists
£29.75
Phaidon Press Ltd Honar
Book SynopsisThe first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian artTrade Review"[a] handsome tome... The art is varied... Afkhami has clearly balanced his purchases of little-known or emerging artists with internationally renowned figures... The wider Iranian art context is explained in a hugely informative essay by Venetia Porter... [Afkhami] has certainly assisted Iranian artists in gaining a broader presence. These artists need long-term support amid a still fragile political landscape."—Art Quarterly"A wealth of vital pieces reflecting a vibrant country that is producing some of the world's most insightful, impacting and aesthetically considered pieces of work... The text is an unprecedented source of enrichment for readers - for those who have read widely on the topic or those looking to find out more about a country which has often been overshadowed by media-fuelled scrutiny."—AestheticaMagazine.com"Once largely hidden from Western view, the contemporary art scene is Iran is now flourishing as a powerful social and cultural force... Honar: The Afkhami Collection is a new book from Phaidon celebrating the best in modern and postmodern Iranian art. Showcasing a wide range of styles from new media to sculpture and calligraphy, it's a fascinating insight into a new generation of creative talents from the Middle East."—HungerTV.com"Charts a country's history from the 1950s to today through 250 artworks from the collection, alongside a glimpse into the Afkhamis' own family history, revealing that his great-grandmother, Effat al-Muluk Khwajeh Nouri, was the first female artist in Iran to set up a private painting school for girls."—Harper's Bazaar Arabia"A lavishly illustrated and informative book... Honar captures the finest works of Iranian artists from the 1950's to the present... An invaluable addition to any library and an important book in relation to modern Iranian Art."—Les Scott, BBC Radio Stoke"[A]n incredible journey through a foreign Middle East world that is, for many Americans, veiled in taboo, fear, and misunderstanding... Presents a contextual bridge to the complex Iranian political, social, cultural, foreign, unsettling, and confusing fringes. Readers are escorted along the way, from artwork to artwork, toward an understanding of the rich and humanely meaningful world of Iran."—New York Journal of Books"An unparalleled look at the finest contemporary art being made by artists working within Iran and in the West... Vibrant."—Mayfair Times Magazine"An important glimpse at [Iran's] burgeoning contemporary art scene."—House & Garden
£60.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Songs for Sabotage
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£36.00
James Clarke & Co Ltd The Shining Sands
Book SynopsisThis is the remarkable story of the colony of artists who were inspired by the people, landscape and light of West Cornwall. Now internationally celebrated, they are forever to be associated with the small fishing ports of Newlyn and St Ives. Arriving from the artists'' colonies of France, the Barbizon and Pont-Aven, and the painting schools of London and Paris, they set up their studios in the cottages and net lofts overlooking the sea. Here they painted; their subjects centred on the working life and conditions of the people they lived amongst, and the stark beauty of the rugged Cornish landscape. Challenging the accepted styles of the Victorian masters, their bold work, full of light and colour, often drew upon the working life of the fishermen and their families, recording the tragedies and simple pleasures of their lives.In The Shining Sands, Tom Cross records the life and work of these artists, from the earliest arrivals in the 1870s through to the decade preceding the Second WorTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Realism Chapter 2: Artists from the Midlands Chapter 3: 'A Breath of Fresh Air' Chapter 4: Friends from the Slade Chapter 5: An International Community Chapter 6: The Royal Academy and the New English Art Club Chapter 7: Changes in Newlyn Chapter 8: A Romantic Vision Chapter 9: The Lamorna Valley Chapter 10: Modernism Chapter 11: A Holiday Paradise Chapter 12: A Meeting in St Ives Index
£30.38
Arcadia Publishing Williamsport The Grit Photograph Collection
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£19.99
University Press of America Ethical Theories and Moral Narratives in Art A
Book SynopsisThis book is a practical study of the forest industrial complex composed in analogical narratives of prosaic discourse and poetic themes presented in a gallery tour through the corporate moral forest. Its focus is on the changing of management by objectives policies to management by ethics philosophies and managing moralities.Trade ReviewFr. Richard H. Guerrette founded EquiPax Gallery and Retreat Center in Newport, Vermont. This gallery is devoted to works that promote an environmental sensitivity in a corporate industrial economy. -- Marci Whitney-Schenck, Founder and Editor of Christianity and the ArtsRichard Guerrette seems to be on the real cutting edge of helping the scholarly community redefine and understand a number of important issues in the area of corporate ethics. -- Christopher Reaske, associate dean of Yale Divinity School and associate director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAesthetic Acknowledgements The Mission of the Equipax Art Gallery THE EQUIPAX GALLERY COLLECTION THE LOWER GALLERY THE UPPER GALLERY Academic Epilogue Appendix A: The God Who Planted Seeds Appendix B: The Woman Who Mourns For Trees and Ecological Immorality Appendix C: Archetypal Poetry and Architectural Literacy Appendix D: Sculptural Artistry and Mystical Poetry Conclusion: Sexuality and Eternal Ecstasies Personal Historical Epilogue: Liturgical Arts and Historical Memories Pastoral Historical Epilogue: An Artistic Model of the Paleontological Ministry Of References Gallery Artists’ Profiles Author and Artist Theme Index
£75.59
Running Press,U.S. The Vatican All The Paintings
Book SynopsisThe Vatican is one of the most visited sites in the world. It encompasses numerous museums and palaces, and houses one of the finest art collections known to man. Amassed by popes throughout the centuries, including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world, the Vatican is a perennial source of awe and fascination. From Michelangelo''s Sistine Chapel and his Pieta, to the Raphael frescoes, to the works of Giotto, Fra Angelica, Titian, and Caravaggio, The Vatican: All the Paintings is an unprecedented celebration of this great collection. The book is organized into 22 sections representing the museums and areas of the Vatican, including the Pinacotea, the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael Rooms, the Borgia Apartments, the Vatican Palaces, and St. Peter''s Basilica. Each one of the 976 works of art represented in this book -- including the 661 classical paintings on display in the permanent painting collection and 315 other masterpieces -- is annotated with the name of the painting and artists, the date of the work, the birth and death of the artist, the medium that was used, the size of the work, and the catalog number (if applicable). In addition, 180 of the most iconic paintings, sculptures, and other pieces of art are highlights with 300-word essays by art historian Anja Grebe and bestselling author Ross King. Here you will find information such as the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing it, the artist''s inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, and the artist''s impact on history.
£36.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd World Designs
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The World of Wade Ireland
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Classic Perfume Advertising 19201970
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Colorado Quilting
Book SynopsisThis book is the culmination of more than 125 years of tradition and countless Documentation Days, during which quilting council members record the block technique, age, batting, backing, and color of each quilt their fellow quilters trust them to preserve. Thirteen chapters explore important historical quilting moments, traditional and modern quilting themes, and the beginnings of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and the Quilter''s Newsletter magazine. Different council members researched, photographed, and recorded the most significant events, memories, quilters, and quilts that have influenced the progress of quilting in Colorado. Early Coloradans picked their own cotton, saved every scrap of used fabric, and made quilts from scratch to support their families and for therapy as they recovered from serious injuries and illnesses. Many of these sacred stitches are still works in progress and continue to illustrate what''s important to these dedicated craftspeople.
£25.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd 100 Plein Air Painters of the MidAtlantic
Book SynopsisThis is a sumptuous catalog of regional landscape paintings and the talented, living artists who create them, including Robert J. Barber, Denise Dumont, Michael Godfrey, Hai-Ou Hou, Abigail McBride, and Sam Robinson. It is packed with over 400 eye-catching color reproductions of work by some of today''s finest plein air artists, including spectacular beach scenes, pastorals, cityscapes, and harbor scenes. This informative volume also includes a concise history of landscape painting in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, showing examples of great art of the past by some outstanding Mid-Atlantic painters, including the Pennsylvania Impressionists, the New Jersey Manasquan Art Colony, the Egelis, and much more. This volume fills an empty niche in the rich history of American art. It is an ideal book for anyone, who loves plein air landscape painting, and a wonderful introduction to traditional art of the region. It will appeal to art historians, dealers, and collectors alike.
£36.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd ARTtitude Contemporary Graphic Art
Book SynopsisDrawing is not a crime!? The bold and brash ARTtitude is back with another look at some of the most iconic and unusual artists of the moment. Representing countries as far-reaching and distinct as Colombia, Germany, Canada, Italy, France, and the U.S. (to name a few), the 36 international artists featured in this collection reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary graphic arts. The artists again pay tribute to the muses of their creativity, with appreciative nods to their predecessors and track lists of the music that inspires their work. ARTtitude 2 highlights some of the unique and diverse artists working today: Amanda Mocci, Jim Phillips, Conrad Roset, Cricket Press, Robert Proch, Ron Guyatt, T-Bone & Ajax, The Arcade Company, and many more.
£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Hopi Gold Hopi Silver 12 Contemporary Jewelers
Book SynopsisNearly 200 photographs chronicle the evolution of Hopi jewelry over the last four decades and illustrate, through the Kópavi collection, the innovative and often stunning creations of twelve well-known Hopi artists. Included are Victor Coochwytewa, Phillip Honanie, and Michael Kabotie, as well as Ricky Coochwytewa, Sidney Sekakuku, Sharold Nutumya, Watson Honanie, Bradley Gashwazra, Norman Honie Sr., John Coochyumptewa, Beauford Dawahoya, and Jason Takala Sr. The artists incorporate gold, platinum, diamonds, and rare turquoise into a tradition previously identified predominantly with silver, while expanding the range of designs to include narrative and ceremonial representations. Some of the iconography speaks to the merging of two cultures: ancient Hopi and contemporary commodity. These objects have a historical voice and represent a major change not only in jewelry styles, but in Hopi culture.
£27.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists People and Places
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Behind the Easel
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£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Robin Woods Cores Recycled
Book SynopsisInitially, they were the waste product of wooden bowls turned in an ancient technique by Robin Wood of the United Kingdom, an expert pole-lathe turner and author. Known for his historical and functional objects made on a foot-powered lathe, Wood keeps the tradition of pole turning alive. The leg-powered process Wood uses results in thousands of solid, round chunks Cores that get broken out of the center of the bowl at the last moment. Wood donated 100 Cores, which ranged in size from 2 x 2 to 3 x 4 to The Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. The Center sent Cores to two-score artists who agreed to the challenge of reworking them into new pieces of art. These works, shown here in more than 240 color photos, formed the exhibition Robin Wood's CORES Recycled by The Center for Art in Wood.
£22.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Your Personal Hangups
Book SynopsisI am interested in your personal hang-ups: Not your lifetime neuroses but your (ideal) hat, coat and/or clothes tree or hanger, wall hooks, free standing pole, rack, stand or small wall system. With this invitation Gail M. Brown, an independent curator, challenged artists to create inventive forms for an exhibition at The Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. The resulting sculptures by 38 artists ranged from a straightforward coat rack to a four-foot apartment house riding on a fish, from a scepter-like paean to Joan Miro to a four eyes nun-backed chair, and from a bird house to a wall-mounted seat and desktop. The artists used a wide range of woods, from the ordinary to the exotic, as well as rubber, steel, and gold-plated brass. The works project grace, intelligence, whimsy, humor, and serious craft.
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists On Abstraction 3
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Art From Cape Cod Selections from the Cape Cod
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£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd From Storage to Studio
Book SynopsisWhat inspiration awaitswithin a museum?In this rare venture, a group of 14 Resident Artists from TheClay Studio worked with 7 curators to explore the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art's art storage vaults.This catalogand its accompanying exhibition at The Clay Studioreveals the thoughts, inspirations, and creative drive shared by the artists and curators. After researching and handling artifacts in an art museum's storage, each artist chose a museum object and went back to their studio to create a new work of art in response. The resulting artworks, beautifully photographed here, are accompanied by the artists' thoughtful reactions to the experience, along with candid views of theworks in progress in their studios. The curators, too, describe their aha moments in three luminous essays. For both artists and curators, this journey from storage to studio in Philadelphia has been revelatory and points the way to exciting future possibilities for artists, curators, museums, and gallery visitors eve
£23.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Icons Symbols of the Borderland
Book SynopsisWall or no wall? View the US-Mexico borderland saga through the eyes of artists who've lived it, including some of the children held in detention camps. More than 100 artworks represent a variety of mediums, from large paintings to mixed-media collage, neon, photography, and sculpture. Based on a traveling exhibit by members of the El Pasobased Juntos Art Association, the images explore the region's animal and plant ecosystems, food and religious culture, and history. The artists reflect deep roots both north and south of the border and the inherent mestizaje, a blend of indigenous, Mexican, and American heritage across the length of the bicultural, binational landscape. Their work makes vibrant personal and political statements that speak constructively about how to move forward in this fraught region. Combined with accompanying essays, this book shares a rare, close-up view of the US-Mexico crossroads at a critical point in US history.
£34.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Birds in the Barnes Foundation
Book SynopsisWinner of the MSA Buyer's Choice Award A playful room-by-room bird-watching guide to the Albert C. Barnes galleries. Rumor has it that Dr. Barnes put a bird in every room of his famed collection. But is this really true, and if so, why? The Barnes Foundation collection offers an astounding array of art, focusing on post-impressionist and early modern masters: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse.However, interspersed among these notable greats is a different kind of collection that incorporates folk art, pottery, furniture, and ironwork from cultures around the world. The instructional collection is built around a philosophy of individual interpretation, and following the birds from one room to another offers you an accessible starting point for uncovering the educational methods Dr. Barnes used to encourage students to look at art. This lighthearted tour weaves art, history, and lessons on the collection into a delightful search for birds hiding in the gallery.
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Birds in the Barnes 12 Folded Notecards
Book SynopsisThese high-quality boxed notecards feature reproductions of 6 of the most beloved works of artfrom the bookBirds in the Barnes Foundation. Includes 12 folded cards and 12 envelopes.
£15.71
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Birds in the Barnes 1000Piece Puzzle
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£18.46
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Loaded
Book SynopsisNo matter your opinions about guns, these fascinating works by top artists will make you think in new ways about what guns mean.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Shooting Gallery Playing with Fire Killer Portraits Disarmed Firearms Gunned Down Gun License The Armory Index of Artists
£20.99
Government of British Columbia Out of the Mist
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£19.76
John Wiley & Sons Obsession Sir William Van Hornes Japanese
Book SynopsisA revelatory study of a forgotten collection and the most remarkable collector in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.
£49.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Obsession
Book SynopsisUne étude révélatrice portant sur une collection tombée dans l’oubli et le plus remarquable collectionneur du Mille carré doré de Montréal.
£55.80
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Frank Lloyd Wright
Book SynopsisThis diminutive survey features all aspects of Wright''s art, from lowslung Prairie houses to the dramatic, seminal Fallingwater, to larger projects such as his two homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, culminating in that icon of modernism, New York''s Guggenheim Museum. This satisfying volume is complete with drawings and rarely seen works from Wright''s own Asian art collection.Trade Review"Based on sound scholarship ... set[s] forth Wright's ideas about buildings, people, nature and their interaction... Warm, radiant pictures of his famous interiors will especially appeal to decorators... All the pictures are of the highest quality." --Roanoke Times, 10/18/98Table of Contents7 | INTRODUCTION: AMERICA'S MASTER ARCHITECT 21 | FORMATIVE YEARS (1887-1899) 45 | PRAIRIE PERIOD (1900-1910) 99 | JAPAN AND CALIFORNIA (1911-1924) 139 | REGENERATION AND RENEWAL (1925-1936) 167 | USONIAN PERIOD (1937-1947) 219 | LATE WORKS (1948-1959) 257 | WRIGHT'S ART COLLECTION 274 | CHRONOLOGY 277 | SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE READING 281 | INDEX
£18.55
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Watercolor A History
Book Synopsis The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published. The term watercolour calls to mind atmosphere, luminosity, and immediacy - qualities that derive directly from the quick-drying, translucent nature of water-based pigments. In Watercolor: A History, Louvre curator Marie-Pierre Salé provides an authoritative and beautifully illustrated account of this versatile and widely beloved artistic medium. Salé''s incisive text traces the development of watercolour from the 13th to the 20th century in Europe and the United States, encompassing every type of work - from plein-air sketches to finished studio pieces - and a wide variety of artists. Here are Dürer''s detailed animal studies, Turner''s landscapes, Cézanne''s tireless explorations, Sargent''s light-dappled sketches, O''Keeffe''s pioneering abstractions. This handsome volume features more than 300 full-colour illustrations, specially printed onTrade Review"More than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor’s most remarkable quality, its translucency.” -- Booklist;
£93.50
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Uncorked A Corkscrew Collection
Book Synopsis A splendid (and giftable) visual guide to the beautifully convoluted world of corkscrews. Ever since the standardised wine bottle came into use in the 18th century, thirsty people have sought a convenient means of removing its cork stopper. At first they employed whatever was at hand - including the helical gun screws used to clean out firearms - but the patent corkscrew emerged by 1795 and soon multiplied into more permutations than the proverbial better mousetrap. In Uncorked, Marilynn Gelfman Karp uses her own collection of corkscrews - carefully chosen both for their inventiveness and for their decorative qualities - to trace the history and evolution of this curious tool. She establishes a taxonomy of the corkscrew, based on the fundamental characteristics of handle, shaft, and screw, and then presents more than 650 individual specimens by category. They range from the simplest ''basic T'' models to the most whimsical flights of fancy (a foTrade Review"Tap the history of an object, no matter how small or specialized, and it will open up the universe...The historian Marilynn Gelfman Karp ... is drawn to variations on ingenuity, patina, functionality and 'eccentricity of design'". -- The New York Times; "This catalog of her collection will surprise and amaze with the imaginative technology and artistry that have gone into the manufacture of so basic a device." -- Booklist; "...is a museum-like tour from clunky, cast steel bar top contraptions to ornate silver and ivory screw pulls to a four-part novelty corkscrew depicting the corpse of Prohibition... Uncorked is an irresistible page turner for any lover of the grape.” -- Foreword Reviews;
£19.00
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Wristwatch Annual 2021 The Catalog of Producers
Book SynopsisWith Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from today's most important watch producers, from Swiss mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe to the maverick independent brands springing up across Europe and the U.S. The book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and the movement, functions, case, band, price, and variations of each pictured watch are fully described. This year's edition, like its predecessors, will feature a variety of additional articles on independent watchmaking, key personalities in the watch world, and the technical aspects of horology. An illustrated glossary and a primer on watch care help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces.
£26.09
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Leo Lionni
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book reminds me that I was one of many whom Leo Lionni took by the hand, leading me into the world of writing and illustrating picture books. Micha Archer, author and illustrator of Wonder Walkers, Daniel Finds a Poem, and the forthcoming What''s New, Daniel?He had amazing breadth and depth, all on display in this volume.Paula Scher, graphic designer and partner, PentagramThroughout Leo Leonni's varied and eclectic work one can see his wit as well as his mid-century design sensibility; formal and geometric, but softened by his warmth and playfulness... Marc Rosenthal, New York Times bestselling illustratorThis first survey of Lionni's legacy comes out in conjunction with a retrospective of his work at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass Lionni had a rare ability to change shades and retain his sTrade Review"For those who came to know Leo Lionni through his children’s books as I did, this book is an introduction to Lionni as a fine artist and as an art director where he recruited and befriended such luminaries as Calder, DeKoonig, Ben Shahn, and Eric Carle, encouraging them to infuse the commercial design world with “capital A” art... This beautiful book reminds me that I was one of many whom Leo Lionni took by the hand, leading me into the world of writing and illustrating picture books." - Micha Archer"As a young working professional, I was inspired by Lionni’s Fortune magazine covers and his advertising design, and later genuinely surprised by his children’s stories and illustrations. He had amazing breadth and depth, all on display in this volume." - Paula Scher"Throughout Leo Leonni’s varied and eclectic work one can see his wit as well as his mid-century design sensibility; formal and geometric, but softened by his warmth and playfulness. The breadth of his career is wonderfully shown in the images and informed writing in this book." - Marc Rosenthal"This first survey of Lionni’s legacy comes out in conjunction with a retrospective of his work at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass… Suddenly, it becomes clear that, like the chameleons in “A Color of His Own,” Lionni had a rare ability to change shades — and retain his signature vibrancy — while moving, seemingly effortlessly, from one realm to another." - New York Times"The children’s book author who was also an artist: Leo Lionni’s wide-ranging practice was kaleidoscopic and rooted in a strong sense of justice." - Hyperallergic"How children’s book author Leo Lionni urged his readers to be change makers. The multidisciplinary artist wanted us to imagine how we can shape society and uplift our communities." - Smithsonian Magazine
£35.96
Rizzoli International Publications Bata Shoe Museum
Book SynopsisThe Bata Shoe Museum has an extraordinary collection of more than 14,000 artifacts, dating from as far back as 4,500 years to the present day. Founded by Sonja Bata, the museum is one of the largest shoe collections in the world and is a wonderful source of inspiration for designers across the globe, including Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Sophia Webtser, among others. The forty-four shoes featured in this volume are among the most important in the collection and display a fantastic array of styles.The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada, in a gem of a building designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Since its opening in 1995, the museum has welcomed more than two million visitors to more than forty exhibitions. It is also renowned for its ground-breaking research and is consistently celebrated as one of the top fashion museums in the world.
£7.98
Rizzoli International Publications The World at Your Feet
Book SynopsisThe Bata Shoe Museum has an extraordinary collection of more than 14,000 artifacts, dating from as far back as 4,500 years to the present day. Founded by Sonja Bata, the museum is one of the largest shoe collections in the world and is a wonderful source of inspiration for designers across the globe, including Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Sophia Webtser, among others.The one hundred shoes featured in this volume are among the most important in the collection and display a fantastic array of styles. Creative director and senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack uses these treasured examples to discuss society, culture, gender, fashion, and other facets of history that are revealed through the study of footwear. The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada, in a gem of a building designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Since its opening in 1995, the museum has welcomed more than two million visitors to more than forty exhibi
£20.82
Andrews McMeel Publishing National Gallery of Art 2026 Planner
£15.78
Andrews McMeel Publishing Great Works of the Louvre 2026 Wall Calendar
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£12.62
Cornell University Press Treasures from Olana
Book Synopsis"The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that...Trade Review"Church boasted, 'Almost an hour south of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it.' The word 'Olana' is one that Mr. and Mrs. Church found applied to a 'fortress or treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia.' According to Kevin J. Avery's description in his excellent and entertaining catalog text, it feels like a fortress from outside and is a musty treasury within, evoking 'nothing so much as a silent film set, minus a turbaned Douglas Fairbanks Sr. bounding down the stairs.'." -- John Updike, New York Review of Books, 23 March 2006"Next to visiting Olana in person, browsing through Treasures from Olana is as fine a visit to Frederic Edwin Church's home on the upper Hudson River that you might hope for. Full of facts and images, this little book is a treasure you will periodically want to dip into at your leisure." -- Raymond J. Steiner, Art Times, October 2005
£19.94
Stanford University Press Transformative Beauty
Book SynopsisThis book uses the histories of the city art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester to reveal, examine, and follow the consequences of the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement: the attempt to contain the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism through the experience of beauty.Trade Review"In this compelling book, Amy Woodson-Boulton tells several stories about cultural institutions in Victorian England's industrial cities . . . Woodson-Boulton asks pertinent questions and ferrets out archival information to integrate municipal identity and development, class stratification, art criticism, and changing tastes with museum development . . . Thanks to Woodson-Boulton's excellent book, scholars have a good cultural history foundation for these and other questions." -- Julie F. Codell * Journal of Victorian Culture *"This is a splendid study of museum building in the great provincial cites of England: Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool. It is striking how different each city was. Woodson-Boulton provides illuminating insights into the relationship of culture and power, set within intriguging stories. The author enters deeply into the minds of the Victorians, making clear how they operated in a different universe from that of the 21st century. Yet at the same time, she provides much illumination for the burgeoning field of museum studies." -- Peter Stansky * Stanford University *"Transformative Beauty lays bare the paradoxes and ambiguities that characterized the sociopolitical meaning of art in the Victorian age . . . In venturing to elucidate what art and museums came to represent, Transformative Beauty is informative and provides an interesting read. For students of the Victorian city there is much to gain. For historians the work helps bridge the gap between the genres of social history and visual cultural studies." -- Ian Morley * American Historical Review *"Art museums were among the most prominent and yet enigmatic new institutions of Victorian towns, and in this book Amy Woodson-Boulton manages to make them considerably less enigmatic, exploring and evaluating their logic, and showing how widely that logic was followed or resisted. Moreover, this is a book which takes both the institutions and their constituent art seriously, and manages the difficult task of synthesizing different types of analysis in order to understand what art museums actually did . . . The book is beautifully written in clean and accessible prose, with a wealth of detail and depth of research. It is nicely illustrated and an attractive volume altogether." -- Kate Hill * Museum & Society *"Few subjects seem more outdated, less 'modern', so distant from today's questions on museum studies, than the topic so masterfully examined in this book. At the same time, though, few books manage better than this work to highlight the great relevance of their subject for contemporary historians, estheticians, city planners, and museum-goers. In this robustly scholarly and committed study, Amy Woodson-Colton examines the role and place of art museums and more generally the museum movement in the three major 'regional' centers of late 19th-century industrial Britain." -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology *"The wealth of original archival research has created a reliable history of these museums, providing context for not only museological and social studies, but also indicating a further network of meanings for the reception of Pre-Raphaelite art and Victorian painting in general." -- Alisa Boyd * Journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Studies *"This book provides an important new view of the development of art galleries in three industrial cities: Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. Woodson-Boulton uses the nineteenth-century debates about the purposes of art to examine closely the reformers' belief that art museums could help counteract the moral and aesthetic problems of industrial society. This book will add significantly to the literature on museums, art, culture, and urban development." -- Anne Rodrick * Wofford College *"Woodson-Boulton's study deftly illuminates the national history of artistic theory and social reform within three distinctive local frameworks . . . [T]he study has much to offer to traditional political and economic historians of Britain in its demonstration of the deeper cultural ramifications of the intensified imperial and economic competition that defined Britain's place as a global power during the final decades of the nineteenth century. This study ought to find a welcome home on the bookshelves of scholars of Victorian art history, museums, and urban culture, as well as those of the social and political history of the late nineteenth-century Britain in general." -- Christopher Ferguson * Victorian Studies *"Rather than treat each civic history independently, Woodson-Boulton has organized the book into a series of comparative analyses of key moments and issues shared across all three institutions. The result is both a richly detailed account of each museum and an important larger argument about the Victorian understanding of art as an amelioration of the conditions of industrial capitalism, particularly the alienating effects of wage labor and urbanization . . . Her careful attention to local politics, personalities, and histories is a major strength of the work, and she moves fluidly between descriptions of local nuances and discussions of larger patterns . . . Woodson-Boulton's book is an important contribution to the fields of history, museum studies, and art history. It advances current scholarly conversations about the exhibition culture of Britain more broadly, offering a long overdue look at provincial institutions to counterbalance the priority given to London in many such studies." -- Pamela Fletcher * Journal of British Studies (post-1800) *
£55.80
Tuttle Publishing New Expressions in Origami Art
Book SynopsisThe stunning photos and brilliant essays in this book demonstrate why origami is now an international art movementlargely through the efforts and artistic genius of a few contemporary masters. The trailblazing efforts of Japanese artist Akira Yoshizawa elevated paper folding by showing how subtle shapes and figures could be created from a single sheet of paper through a variety of non-traditional folding techniques. Artists in other parts of the worldincluding the United States, France, England, China and Scandinaviatook Yoshizawa's cue and pushed these techniques further and further. The result has been the emergence of many new and surprising sculptural forms created through techniques such as wet folding, curved creasing, tessellating and the application of alternative materials besides paper. This book features the work of 25 contemporary master folders who are among the most innovative origami artists working today. They are pushing the boundaries of origami style, scale, mateTrade Review"The Japanese have long enjoyed creating within limited boundaries of size and materials, from bonsai to netsuke, allowing narrowly defined restrictions to fuel their creativity. Meher McArthur provides a new survey of how artists and scientists worldwide have amplified spectacularly the one tiny world of origami." -- Hollis Goodall, Curator of Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)"…what if we told you the Asian technique associated with mundane paper cranes and childish cootie catchers can also transform a single sheet of paper into a lifelike relief portrait or an M.C. Escher-esque form? Or twist pages of religious texts into an artful political statement? These are just some of the implausible projects featured in Meher McArthur's New Expressions in Origami Art." -- The Wall Street Journal"This beautiful book truly shows that origami is more than just folding paper and will surely serve as inspiration to all paperfolders." -- OrigamiUSA
£9.89
Northwestern University Press A Force for Change African American Art and the
Book SynopsisShows The Julius Rosenwald Fund's initiative to address issues relating to the unequal treatment of blacks in American life. This book also constitutes a who's who of African American artists and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsForeword - Rhoda Rosen; Acknowledgments - Stacl Boris, Rhoda Rosen, Daniel Schulman; Introduction - Daniel Schulman; Julius Rosenwald: Unconventional Philanthropist - Peter M. Ascoli; Investment in Talent: Edwin Rogers Embree and the Julius Rosenwald Fellowships - Alfred Perkins; Writers and the Julius Rosenwald Fund - Darryl Pinckney; African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund - Daniel Schulman; Color Plates; "My Feet are Again on This Earth": Dance and the Julius Rosenwald Fund - Julia Foulkes; Between Two Worlds: Writing a Life of Activism - Kinshasha Holman Conwill; Exhibition Checklist; Appendix: Rosenwald Fellowship Recipients; Contributors; Photography Credits.
£31.96
