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Silvana Editoriale Toyin Ojih Odutola
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Skira Zeng Fanzhi (Bilingual edition): Catalogue
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Skira Chen Zhen: Short-circuits
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Skira Pedro Cabrita Reis: Field
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Skira Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths.
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£40.00
Damiani Chromotherapia
Book SynopsisChromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography offers genuine relief from the black-and-white world. Often disparaged, not always taken seriously, color photography has nevertheless allowed artists to get out their palettes and paint. Many have freed themselves from the medium's documentary status to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with the worlds of Surrealism and Pop. Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds. Treat yourself to sunny yellow, azure blue, bright red, bubbly orange and more, straight from the lenses of the biggest names in color photography. Artist include: Yevonde Middleton, Harold Edgerton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Walter Chandoha, William Wegman, Hiro, Guy Bourdin, Alex Prager, Juno Calypso, Adrienne Raquel, Miles Aldridge, Ouka Leele, Ren Hang, Hassan Hajjaj, Ruth Ossai, Pierre et Gilles, Sandy Skoglund, Martin Parr, Arnold Odermatt, Toiletpaper.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Shringara of Shrinathji: From the Collection of
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Onomatopee Breadcrumb
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National Gallery Singapore Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore since the 19th
Book SynopsisPublished to accompany National Gallery Singapore's inaugural exhibition Siapa Namu Kamu?, this catalogue presents a survey of Singapore art from the 19th century to the present, charting major themes across broad time periods. Over 400 works of art in a wide range of media are brought together to trace the ebb and flow of the history of Singapore art. Curatorial essays provide insight into the exhibition that considers the parameters of time and nation in relation to the history of art in Singapore.
£35.20
Hong Kong University Press Collected and Curated
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Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Plano de Edicoes Splendour in Venice
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Oxbow Books Stone and Metal Vases
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Oxbow Books Limited The Gateway of Ramesses IX in the Temple of Amun
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Oxbow Books Limited The Tomb and Beyond
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Goose Lane Editions Winter Count Compte dhiver
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Edition Patrick Frey AA Bronson: AA Bronson's House of Shame
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Mousse Publishing Reversibility - a Theater of De-Creation
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Mousse Publishing Masks/Máscaras
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APE Bart Janssen, Koen Peeters, Dirk Zoete - Not A
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Monacelli Press KAWS: New Fiction
Book SynopsisBased on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: New Fiction documents the groundbreaking, multi-layered exhibition that presented the artist’s new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A unique collaboration between the acclaimed artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: New Fiction bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, showcasing KAWS’s artworks as they’ve never been seen before. This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it journeys through viewing the exhibition’s paintings, sculptures, site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality (visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in Fortnite. KAWS: New Fiction is a celebration of the unprecedented exhibition, and KAWS’s creative influence, as it was experienced in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye
Book SynopsisA penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Form and Surface: African Ceramics from the
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights one of the most significant collections of African ceramics in the United States, distinguished for its breadth and representation of women’s excellence in ceramics. It presents these ceramics through sections organised around topics that explore ceramics through different lenses of place, time, artistic media, and cultural identity. This richly illustrated volume organized by the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art celebrates outstanding African ceramics in the collection of Professor Emeritus William M. Itter.
£31.96
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Afterlives: Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in
Book SynopsisIn ancient Greece, funerary monuments were visual expressions of mourning that provided the opportunity for the living to commemorate and communicate with the dead. Today they offer a wealth of information about the deceased and the communities of which they were a part, for example, their status, material aspects of their lives, and how they wanted to be depicted. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest collections of Greek funerary monuments outside of Greece. This richly illustrated volume, by renowned author Paul Zanker, presents more than 50 outstanding examples, created from the 7th to the 2nd century B.C., that represent a variety of media and geographical regions. Through their shared focus on memorialising the dead, these extraordinary works of art offer insights into all facets of life in ancient Greece. Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 9 Map 10 INTRODUCTION 13 I. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 15 Funerary Ritual in the Visual Record • Funerary Monuments of the Archaic Period II. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 47 White-Ground Lekythoi • Private Funerary Monuments • Funerary Monuments of the Classical Period • Three Akroteria from Inscribed Grave Stelai III. THE HELLENISTIC PEERIOD 117 Taranto • Sculptures and Fragments from Free-Standing Tarentine Funerary Monuments • Vases from Canosan Tombs in Daunia • Funerary Vases from Centuripe, Sicily • Lucanian Warrior Graves • Grave Stelai and Funerary Vases from Alexandria • Painted Grave Stelai from Alexandria • Hadra Vases from Alexandria • Hellenistic Funerary Stele from Asia Minor CONCLUSION 177 Bibliography 182 Concordance 186 Index of Names Inscribed on Works 186 Index 187 Credits and Copyright 192
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print
The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview, the grid visualises control, mastery, and order. As an invisible framing device, it has become so pervasive that we habitually ignore it. Yet when artists call our attention to the grid, its layered meanings come fully into view. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print surveys photographs, prints, artist’s books, and printed sculptures from the dynamic permanent collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. From 19th-century scientific and portrait photography to avant-garde and conceptual photography; from mid- 20th-century Minimalist, Pop Art, and Op Art printmaking to experimental bookmaking and photography in the 21st century, this richly illustrated volume explores how artists have embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid. By altering and challenging perception, they offer new ways of seeing the world. With contributions by Jared Bark, Jessica D. Brier, Lukas Felzmann, Stephen Frailey, John P. Murphy, Werner Pfeiffer, Alison Rossiter, Stephanie Syjuco, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Massimo Tarrida.
£21.25
Hayward Gallery Publishing Kiss My Genders
Book SynopsisAn important and timely survey of work from the late 1960s through to the present, focusing on artists who draw on their own experiences to create works that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Kiss My Genders celebrates more than 30 international artists whose work explores and challenges traditional gender categories. The book features works from the late 1960s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create works that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the ‘monstrous’ or ‘freaky’, from the politics of pose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. In addition to original texts by Amrou Al-Kadhi, Paul Clinton, Charlie Fox, Jack Halberstam, Manuel Segade and Susan Stryker, the book reprints a key text by artist Renate Lorenz and includes poetry by Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard, Nat Raha and Tark Lakhrissi. Also featured is a roundtable discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré.
£23.99
D Giles Ltd In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de
Book SynopsisThis is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (16961782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the favourite of the Bourbon King Charles VII, was the chief painter of decorative cycles to emerge from the studio of Francesco Solimena (16571747), the famous Baroque artist. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and colouring, heralded the rococo in Naples, and his later style was a precursor of Neo- Classicism. His ceiling frescoes rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (16961770). Yet, today, De Mura lacks his proper place in the history of art. Author Arthur Blumenthal argues that this is because nearly a third of De Mura's work was lost during World War II, including, most tragically his crowning achievement, a series of frescos at the abbey of Monte Cassino. It is now time to re-evaluate this once celebrated artist. AUTHOR: Arthur R. Blumenthal is director emeritus of Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College Nicola Spinosa is director of the Capodimonte Museum Naples and former Superintendent of the National Museums in Naples David Nolta is professor in History of Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodino is governor of the Pio Monte della Misericordia Loredana Gazzara is governor of the Office Picture Gallery and Historical Archive, Pio Monte della Misericordia. 110 colour illustrations
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D Giles Ltd 100 Treasures / 100 Emotions: The Macquarie
Book Synopsis100 Treasures / 100 Emotions celebrates the inauguration of the Macquarie University History Museum Sydney, NSW, Australia. This entirely new volume focuses on 100 works from a vast collection of 15,000 objects, to highlight the new museum's focus on social history and the human condition beyond the borders of space and time. This story is told through a mixture of short essays and colour plates of 100 selected objects drawn from across five continents and over the course of 5,000 years. These objects - ranging from fragments of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to a WWI era Turkish Star medal - have been chosen by Museum staff and Macquarie scholars to achieve a representative and rigorously researched survey of human experience and creativity over five millennia. Professor Martin Bommas, edits short essays on each of the 100 selected objects by a broad range of academic authors, complemented by entirely new photography of the objects commissioned from award-winning photographer Effy Alexakis.Trade Review"This meditation on a large collection is both focused and expansive, reminding us that human society and all its production function fundamentally in the service of human emotion."—Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic: The Best Art Books of 2022
£25.50
D Giles Ltd East Meets West
Book SynopsisThis entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Crusades from the eleventh to late thirteenth century; in particular it presents and studies 20 Byzantine and Mamluk Egyptian artworks and illuminated manuscripts drawn both from the collections of the Museum and external loans. The diverse artworks-ceramic bowls, Sgraffito ware, gold coins, glass jewellery and leaves from the Qur'an, and other illuminated manuscripts-are presented in broad chronological and thematic sections, each with an introductory text by a Professor Martin Bommas of the Museum, and other guest authors. These sections look at these objects within the broad context of the Crusades and the history of the Byzantine Empire and Mamluk Egypt, as well as considering reception to, and presentation of, Mamluk heritage in modern-day Cairo, and the reception of object of non-European heritage in Australia. In addition to the main sections and presentation of the objects, many also illustrated using wonderful colour details for the section openers, the volume includes a timeline, selected bibliography and brief biographies of the contributing authors.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Martin Bommas; The Crusader Period and Medieval Understandings of the East by Keagan Brewer; The Byzantine Empire by Bronwen Neil; The Invention of Skyscape: Mamluk Architecture in Egypt during the 13the and 14th Centuries by Martin Bommas; the Art of Sgraffito by Martin Bommas and Bronwen Neil; The Book of Hours by Martin Bommas and Louise D'Arcens; "We have sent down the Qur'an ourself, and we will guard it" by Mohamad Ali; The Middle Ages in Sydney Cultural Institutions: Western and Eastern by Louise D'Arcens; Timeline by Georgia Barker; Select Bibliography; Glossary; Authors
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Schweizer Kunstlerbucher- Livres d'artistes
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Kapwani Kiwanga: The length of the horizon / Die
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig The taste of Studio Jeppe Hein: You cant have a
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Hatje Cantz A Decade of Cultural Production: Samos Young
Book SynopsisFor 12 years, the Schwarz Foundation has been organizing regular exhibitions on the island of Samos at Art Space Pythagorion as well as the Samos Young Artists Festival. Due to its location on the Greek–Turkish border, Samos symbolizes one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time: Migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, geopolitical conflicts at the borders of Europe, and the human impact on the oceans around he world. A Decade of Cultural Production presents the work of the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation, whose declared aim is to promote dialogue through music and art. The book highlights how its projects deal with issues of migration, social responsibility and intercultural coexistence. Text by: Fanie Antonelou, Tania Canas, Markellos Chryssicos, Michelangelo Corsaro, Boris Dezulovic, Dorukhan Doruk, Antje Ehmann, Marina Fokidis, Mulo Francel, Caspar Frantz, Konstantia Gourzi, Katerina Gregos, Masha Ilyashov, Alexis Karaiskakis-Nastos, Dimitris Kountouras, Guy Mintus, Ina Niehoff, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Daniel Nodel, Lorenda Ramou, Lenia Safiropoulou, Nikos Tsouchlos, Ioli Tzanetaki, Alexander Ullman, Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz, Nikos Xydakis, Katerina Zacharopoulou
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Hauser & Wirth Publishers Sophie TaeuberArp The Rule of Curves la règle des courbes
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Yale University Press Radical
Book SynopsisTrade Review “An important record of a design movement that has much to offer us today”—Penny Sparke, World of Interiors“For anyone wanting to learn more about the subject, currently at the centre of a historical and critical revival…There are rare examples in this glossy volume, like a panel painted by Archizoom in 1969, also chosen as the cover; and real gems, like the Cielo, Mare, Terra buffet by Officina Undici.”—Ali Filippini, Abitare magazine
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Yale University Press Cubism in Color
Book SynopsisRestoring a “perfect painter” to the Cubist canon
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Yale University Press Folon
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon
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Yale University Press Art in the First Cities of Iran and Central Asia
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated book exploring the art of Iran and Central Asia from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BC.Trade Review“Art in the First Cities of Iran & Central Asia combines the thoroughness of a scholarly study with a collection focused on the beauty of the objects...Enthusiasts for the arts of Iran will appreciate owning this beautiful book.”—David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books
£33.25
Yale University Press Roger Raveel Retrospection
Book SynopsisAn extensive retrospective dedicated to Roger Raveel (1921‑2013), one of the most important Belgian painters of the second half of the 20th century
£33.25
Yale University Press Carolee Schneemann
Book SynopsisTraces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression
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Yale University Press Art of Japan
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric times to today
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism, known as trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”), employs visual tricks that confound the viewer’s perception of reality and fiction, truth and falsehood. This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris both parodied and paid homage to classic trompe l’oeil themes and motifs with wit and invention. More than one hundred illustrated works juxtapose Cubist paintings, drawings, and collages with related compositions by the old masters. Essays based on new research explore connections between the Cubists and the trompe l’oeil specialists of earlier centuries and their games of creative one-upmanship. The informed and engaging texts trace the changing status of trompe l’oeil over the centuries, reveal Braque’s training in artisanal trompe l’oeil techniques as an integral part of his Cubist practice, examine the materials used in Gris’s collages, and discuss the previously unstudied trompe l’oeil iconography within Cubist still lifes—including newspapers, word puns, pictures-within-pictures, imitation wood grain, and tools of the trade.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 20, 2022–January 22, 2023)
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Getty Trust Publications Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late
Book SynopsisFor the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser's book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser's biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.Trade Review“This first English translation of Julius von Schlosser’s classic study of the Kunstkammer (1908) is a cause for celebration by anyone interested in the history of collections. Directly or indirectly, his book inspired a legion of studies on early modern art and curiosity cabinets, a subject that continues to captivate our imagination and has shaped the appearance of some museum displays. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s penetrating introduction examines Schlosser, his intellectual contributions as a curator and teacher, his place within Viennese art history around 1900, and his subsequent reputation.”—Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Forsten Chair in European Art, University of Texas, Austin ;;“Schlosser’s book is a classic of art history: still a standard text for all students of the first great age of collecting, but one which, previously unavailable in English, had remained unfamiliar to a wider audience. This translation, whose virtuosity matches that of Schlosser’s original writing, is here combined with a superb appreciation by Kaufmann of the author's life and works. Schlosser used the extraordinary world of the “cabinet of curiosities” to explore not only how and why museums came into being, as repositories of universal learning and global outreach, but also the gestation of distinctly modern notions of “art” and “nature” and of the “artificial” over against the “natural,” concepts that coexisted in multifarious ways in the minds of the collectors he describes.”—R.J.W. Evans, Regius Professor of History emeritus, University of Oxford;;;“This fascinating publication not only illuminates the history of art history through Schlosser's pioneering study from the early twentieth century, but also offers new insight into important dimensions of the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna in which Schlosser participated as an art historian. Schlosser's study of art collections and curiosity cabinets allows us to understand better the complex cultural relation between late Habsburg art and museum culture and the early modern Habsburg period that is so fundamental for his analysis, especially concerning the collections of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Finally, the whole publication is framed by the exceptionally interesting introduction of the very distinguished Princeton art historian Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, who is well known for his studies of art and culture in the early modern Habsburg monarchy. This book will be of great interest to scholars of art history specializing in art collecting and collections, cabinets of wonders or curiosities, and Habsburg culture."—Larry Wolff, Professor of History, New York University and author of The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon;;“It was an excellent idea to make Schlosser’s classic work—which everyone interested in collections and museums should read—available in English. The translation is enriched by an introduction by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann that situates Schlosser in his milieu, Vienna circa 1900, and brings him back to life.”—Peter Burke, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge;;“A half century or so of recent scholarship has brought the extraordinary collections of art amassed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century noble courts to public view and imagination, with the result that chambers of wonders and curiosity cabinets are nearly household concepts. All such scholarship looks back to, and cites, Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance of 1908. Until now, however, the author of this precocious work has remained little known in English. This authoritative and thoughtful English translation by Jonathan Blower with an introduction on Schlosser’s place in the history of art by the polymathic doyen of art history, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, itself forms a milestone in the still-burgeoning scholarly literature on Kunstkammer collections.”—Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, and Director, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
£49.50
Getty Trust Publications French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Book Synopsis"The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance, and the renown of its maker. This volume is the first complete study of these exquisite objects, with more than 250 color photographs bringing into focus extraordinary details such as minuscule makers' marks, inscriptions, and heraldic armorials. The publication details the formation of the Museum's collection of French silver, several pieces of which were selected by J. Paul Getty himself, and discusses the regulations of the historic Parisian guild of gold- and silversmiths that set quality controls and consumer protections. Comprehensive entries catalogue a total of thirty-three pieces with descriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and technical information. The related commentaries shed light on the function of these objects and the roles they played in the daily lives of their prosperous owners. The book also includes maker biographies and a full bibliography. "
£45.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Spanish Line
Book SynopsisPublished to accompany the first substantial exhibition on the tradition of Spanish drawings to take place in London, this catalogue captures the excitement and importance of this rapidly developing field of study. It presents highlights from The Courtauld Gallery's collection of Spanish drawings, one of the most important in Britain. Comprising some 120 works, the collection ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries and features examples by many of Spain's greatest artists, including Ribera, Murillo, Goya and Picasso.
£45.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine De Medici
Book SynopsisThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, which is the first dedicated to the graphic oeuvre of Antoine Caron (1521–1599). Bringing together a core group of drawings centred around the figures and deeds of the French Royal family, the Valois, this display highlights the role played by Catherine de’ Medici (1519–1589). Featuring the Valois series, a set of drawings here reunited for the first time, the display showcases the way in which the powerful and influential Catherine promoted the success of her regency and future of her progeny by delivering a series of lavish courtly events that were meant to enhance the power and diplomacy of her family. The drawings represent jousts, tournaments, festivals and a mock naval battle, events that occurred at the French court during the reigns of Catherine’s sons Charles IX and Henri III. Preparatory designs for a group of tapestries, these visual documents relate to actual events that were organised by the court, some of which took place at the French castles of Anet, Palace of Fontainebleau, Bayonne and at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. Minutely designed, they thus allow a reconstruction of the visual testimony of those events, as they were documented in written contemporary sources.
£14.85
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd The Splendor of Germany: Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century. Published to coincide with the collection’s 150th anniversary. In the 21st century, the collecting and study of 18th-century German drawings has become a major focus for American museums. One of the finest collections of them, however, has been in California for 150 years. The superb drawings at the Crocker Art Museum, from a Baroque altarpiece design by Johann Georg Bergmüller to a Neoclassical mythology by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, provide a panorama of German draughtsmen and draughtsmanship throughout the century. Many of the drawings are remarkable for their modernity. A self-portrait by Johann Gottlieb Prestel bypasses convention to achieve a direct, unmediated likeness. Well-placed slashes with brush and black ink define the features below his peruke outlined in black chalk. Other drawings encapsulate specific developments and styles, such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner’s Lazarus and the Rich Man, which shows the florid dynamism of the Augsburg Rococo. A full range of eighteenth-century German artists are represented here, from the satirizing moralists Johann Elias Ridinger and Daniel Chodowiecki to the Classicist and friend of the art theorist Johann Joachim Winkelmann, Anton Raphael Mengs. Landscape artists are especially well represented, such as the key figure Johann Georg Wille, printmaker to the French king Louis XV, and generations of artists he taught and influenced all the way to the early Romantic landscapists. The exhibition and catalogue gather together a variety of dynamic and sensitive portraits, charming scenes of daily life, and often humorous moralizing subjects, as well as narratives, both religious and mythological, from the late Baroque to Neoclassicism. In the realm of landscape, the depth of the collection allows the exhibition to trace schools and influences—in addition to Wille’s mentioned above—even in families such as that of Prestel, whose wife and daughter were both landscapists. It also allows it to demonstrate the great variety of works by single artists such as Christoph Nathe, represented by four landscapes in four different genres including a splendid scene near Görlitz. Some artists, in fact, work in several genres as in the case of Johann Christian Klengel, whose works include the scene of a family by candlelight, a farmstead landscape, and a sketchbook that he carried through the countryside to record picturesque views. This is a rare opportunity for the public and for drawings enthusiasts. Two-thirds of the drawings in the exhibition have not been shown before; most of the exceptions have not been seen since 1989. Because of the drawings’ 150-year history of limited exposure, the state of preservation of the collection is exceptional, as is the condition of the new acquisitions included in the exhibition.
£38.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Luigi Pericle: a Rediscovery
Book SynopsisThis important book presents the work of the fascinating and singular artist Luigi Pericle (1916–2001). Pericle was a painter, illustrator and scholar, as well as a leading figure in the story of art in the second half of the twentieth century.The artist initially found fame as an illustrator, gaining widespread renown in the 1950s as the inventor of the character Max the Marmot. But his intense, enigmatic and multi-layered paintings increasingly drew the attention of the art world, with works that reflect his personal, metaphysical take on post-war abstraction exhibited at numerous venues in Britain during the 1960s. Pericle then abruptly retreatedfrom the art system, and for the rest of his life continued to paint, write and to study esoteric philosophy in the secluded house he shared with his wife Orsolina on Monte Verit in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The artist’s work was dramatically rediscovered in 2016 when the contents of his former residence were revealed. The process of restoring, cataloguing and researching his vast oeuvre is ongoing, and is overseen by Ascona’s Archivio Luigi Pericle, with which the exhibition has been organised.This beautifully illustrated publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London, includes a full catalogue of the works, as well as essays by noted scholars.
£38.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd IRTH
Book SynopsisThis catalogue invites readers to dive deeper into the captivating dialogue between materiality and imagination, as envisioned by IRTH ??? at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Prepared for the Biennale Architettura 2023, for which the theme was The Laboratory of the Future', the catalogue of IRTH ??? immerses visitors into the profound interplay between material and immaterial. It chronicles the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia's multi-faceted contribution to the discussion, in which the essence of earth as a material becomes a canvas for envisioning tomorrow's architectural legacies. In a curatorial journey told through essays from visionary architects, researchers and experimental material alchemists, the catalogue represents the multiple viewpoints and projects emerging from Saudi Arabia and its wider region. It delves into vernacular Saudi architecture, which, meticulously deconstructed and reimagined, forms the key point of reference for this journey. As we navigate the universal challenges of belonging and legacy, this exhibition transcends geographical boundaries, seeking common ground in the tapestry of diverse identities and perspectives. Through the lens of materiality, the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia compels us to answer collectively the problems of tomorrow, one narrative at a time. Notable topics: The Exploration of Immateriality in Architecture; Examining Experimental Materials for Future-proofed Built Environments; Understanding Vernacular Architecture and Modernization in Saudi Arabia.
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