Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
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.
£39.09
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.
£33.29
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.
£28.79
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.
£46.74
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.
£23.79
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 Art From Cape Cod Selections from the Cape Cod
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£46.74
Government of British Columbia Out of the Mist
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£20.85
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
£9.99
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.
£9.77
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
£21.66
University of Oklahoma Press Wildlife in American Art Masterworks from the
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£30.35
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.
£999.99
MJ - Ohio University Press The Cincinnati Wing
Book SynopsisOn May 10, 2003, the Cincinnati Art Museum will celebrate the opening of the Cincinnati Wing: eighteen thousand square feet of handsomely renovated gallery space devoted to the museum’s renowned collections of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and metalwork by Cincinnati artists.Trade Review“The objects created since the city's founding in 1788…demonstrate the pivotal role that the city has played in the history of American art.”“The objects created since the city’s founding in 1788…demonstrate the pivotal role that the city has played in the history of American art.”
£999.99
Rizzoli International Publications Masterworks of the Barnes Foundation
Book SynopsisThe Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern paintings, with holdings by such luminaries as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.The Foundation’s collection also holds significant examples of American art, including works by Demuth, Glackens, and the Prendergasts; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings by El Greco, Rubens, Titian, and others; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork. The presentation of the collection reflects Barnes’s educational and aesthetic approach: symmetrical &lTrade Review"The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks is the definitive guide to the Foundation, affordably priced to help make it accessible to the public. The cover pictures three objects—a Matisse painting, an African sculpture, and a key—suggesting the idiosyncratic nature of the collection, applied to a cloth cover that has the tactile quality of the galleries’ cloth-covered walls.” ~Pentagram“If you can’t get to the Barnes Foundation in downtown Philadelphia to see all these wonderful works up close and personal, then the selected pieces profiled in The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks will be more than adequate to whet your appetite and keep you sated until you can…” ~Fashion Maniac
£999.99
Rizzoli International Publications Pattern and Light The Aga Khan Museum
Book SynopsisAn introduction to 1,400 years of Islamic art and culture as seen through the stunning and diverse masterpieces of the new Aga Khan Museum. Opening in 2014 in Toronto, the Aga Khan Museum will be a showplace for Islamic art and culture unlike anything in the Western Hemisphere. This richly illustrated volume features the new museum and park complex and more than one hundred rare treasures from one of the most important collections of Islamic art and objects in the world, assembled by His Highness the Aga Khan and his family. Masterpieces of design, texture, and artistry created from 600 AD to the 1800s in Spain, North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, India, and China, the works include radiant illuminations and calligraphy; marvels in ivory, wood, glass, and metal; and exquisite paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and textiles.
£35.96
Rizzoli International Publications Birds of a Feather Wildfowl Decoys at Shelburne
Book SynopsisA book that celebrates one of the most breathtaking and comprehensive collections of wildfowl decoys in America. Bird decoys were used for hunting in North America until the advent of hunting regulations in the early twentieth century, when decoys started to be prized and collected as masterpieces of American folk art. This handsome book is the first examination of the historic and unparalleled decoy collection at Shelburne Museum. Featuring new photography of 250 of the museum’s most important and artistically carved decoys, it includes examples made by the most respected American carvers: Charles Osgood, Lem and Steve Ward, John Blair, Bill Bowman, Nathan Cobb, Jr., Lee Dudley, James Holly, Jr., Nathan Horner, Albert Laing, Joseph Lincoln, A. Elmer Crowell, and Charles “Shang” Wheeler. The story of the collection begins with Joel Barber, the pioneer decoy enthusiast and New York architect, artist, and carver, whose gift of 400 superior examples estaTrade Review"The unparalleled collection of 1,400 wildfowl decoys at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., was established with a 1952 gift of more than 400 superior examples from Joel Barber, a New York City architect, artist, and carver. Barber's groundbreaking 1934 book “Wild Fowl Decoys” was the first to identify the importance of bird decoys as a uniquely American art form."—Antiques & Auction News "The unparalleled collection of wildfowl decoys at Shelburne Museum are featured in the newly published Birds of a Feather: Wildfowl Decoys at Shelburne Museum..."—Vermont Country Sampler
£47.50
Rizzoli International Publications Black Refractions
Book SynopsisAn authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley.The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and bold acquisitions, this pioneering institution has served as a nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally since its founding in 1968. Rather than aim to construct a single history of black art, Black Refractions emphasizes a plurality of narratives and approaches, traced through 125 works in all media from the 1930s to the present.An essay by Connie Choi and entries by Eliza A. Butler, Akili Tommasino, Taylor Aldridge, Larry Ossei Mensah, Daniela Fifi , and other luminaries contextualTrade Review"Comprised of over one hundred works by nearly eighty artists across all media dating from the 1920s to the present, Black Refractions surverys close to a century of creative achievements by artists of African descent and is the first traveling exhibition in twenty-five years to reveal the breadth and expansive growth of the Studio Museum's permanent collection." — ARTFIXDAILY.com"The richly illustrated volume includes essays by Connie H. Choi and Kellie Jones; entries by a range of writers, curators and scholars (among them Lauren Haynes, Ashley James, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Hallie Ringle) who contextualize the works and provide detailed commentary; and a conversation among Choi, Thelma Golden, and Jones that draws out themes and challenges in collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary art by artists of African descent." —CHARLESTON CHRONICLE"The touring exhibition Black Refractions is a comprehensive introduction into the broad repertoire of the collection at the Studio Museum of Harlem. From Malick Sidibe to Kerry James Marshall to the exquisite Barkley Hendrick’s Lawdy Mama featured on the book cover, the scale of the show is vast, yet not unwieldy. The accompanying book published by Rizzoli offers a notable dive into the museum’s history and status as one of the most exciting museums in today’s American artistic landscape." —TEETH MAGAZINE
£999.99
Museum of New Mexico Press Albuquerque Museum History Collection Only in
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£30.59
Museum of New Mexico Press Buried Cars
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£32.39
Museum of New Mexico Press Albuquerque Museum Art Collection Common Ground
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£35.09
American Numismatic Society When Coinage Was Born
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£95.00
Griffith Institute Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection
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£62.34
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Shining Spirit
Book SynopsisWith styles ranging from traditional to abstract, this volume features works spanning late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art. It includes paintings that play on the boundaries between reality and fantasy and are rendered in an expressive style which does not directly imitate the natural world.
£26.00
University of Washington Press Metaphor Into Form
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£33.96
MP - University Of Minnesota Press T. L. Solien Toward the Setting Sun
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£999.99
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Models and Prototypes Focus CHI
Book SynopsisDraws on the works of modernist pioneers and contemporary figures alike to explore how artists in a variety of media have redefined artistic practice by expanding the use of the model as a new visual force. This book illuminates the centrality of models in contemporary art, asking why they remain so compelling as both tools and subjects.
£999.99
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper
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£999.99
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Sadie Benning Shared Eye
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition Shared Eye, presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in Shared Eye defy easy categorization: they include collage, painting, photography, and sculpture. The seriality of the installation also nods to the artist's history with the moving image. Throughout the 1990s, Benning created an extraordinary body of experimental video work, improvising with materials at hand and a toy camera. More than two decades later, in Shared Eye we see the handmade aesthetic, grainy imagery, and durational logic of Benning's early videos take on different forms to correspond to our current moment. The catalog documents the exhibition in full color, and it features an interview between the artist and Julie Ault, essays by John Corbett and Christine Mehring, and an introduction by the Renaissance Society's executive director, Solveig Øvstebø, and Elena Filipovic, director of Kunsthalle Basel. These texts provide illuminating framework for the exhibition and key insights into how Benning pushes the limits of abstraction in response to our present political climate.
£999.99
Square Halo Books Faith and Vision TwentyFive Years of Christians
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£44.99
Square Halo Books Art of Sandra Bowden
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£44.99
Mesaros Galleries Blanche Lazzell The Hofmann Drawings
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£999.99
University of New Orleans Press Art and Life in Louisiana Elemore Morgan Sr
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£16.96
DePaul University Art Museum Re Chicago
Book SynopsisFor over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. This book and the exhibition on which it is based reframe Chicago as an artistic center in its own right, with a perspective and community as distinctive as its geography, economy, and politics.
£999.99
DePaul University Art Museum Ink Paper Politics WPAEra Printmaking from the
Book SynopsisThe Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. This book accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in celebration of the generous gift to the museum of one hundred WPA-era prints from the collection of Belverd and Marian Needles.
£999.99
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART Higher Ground
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£31.46
HarperCollins Focus Paint Me Critters
Book SynopsisUnleash your inner artist and splash 30 adorable animals to life with Paint Me Critters!From cuddly koalas to frolicking foxes and adorable deer, you’ll find a delightful array of charming critters to paint, each bringing their own splash of fun. Each page comes with its own watercolor palette, allowing you to dive right into your painting without the need for additional materials. Whether you’re at home relaxing or seeking a creative outlet, this book is your perfect companion!Inside you''ll find: 30 watercolor pages designed to help you unwind One-sided pages so your art doesn’t bleed through Watercolor palettes for each page Let your imagination run wild one brush stroke at a time with Paint Me Critters.
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Sesqui
Book SynopsisIn 1916, Philadelphia department-store magnate John Wanamaker launched plans for a Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in 1926. It would be a magnificent world's fair to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Sesqui would also transform sooty, industrial Philadelphia into a beautiful Beaux Arts city. However, when the Sesqui opened on May 31, 1926, in the remote, muddy swamps of South Philadelphia, the fair was unfinished, with a few shabbily built and mostly empty structures. Crowds stayed away in droves: fewer than five million paying customers attended, costing the city millions of dollars. Philadelphia became a national scandala city so corrupt that one political boss could kidnap an entire world's fair.In his fascinating historySesqui!, noted historian Thomas Keels situates this ill-fated celebrationa personal boondoggle by the all-powerful Congressman William S. Vareagainst the transformations taking place in America during the 1920s. KeeTrade Review"In his portrayal of the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial, Tom Keels has once again opened a wide, insightful and revealing historical lens on Philadelphia. It is hard to imagine how the flaws and fault lines in American society could be more stunningly exposed than in this fast-paced story of the 150th anniversary of the nation's birth in the city where it all started. By tracing the political, social, cultural, and economic conflicts that inflicted the once promising event, Sesqui! portrays the ongoing tensions between good government reformers and the political machine, reinforces the second-class citizenry bestowed on women and African Americans, and vividly shows how the best intentions and investment can go so badly wrong through human error. Sesqui! is a great read that helps us better understand urban America in the early twentieth century."—Sam Katz, Executive Producer, History Making Productions"The close observer of Philadelphia is always searching for the reason that the city fell so far behind its peers in the twentieth century. How did so much industrial wealth amount to so little civic grandeur, even during the roaring twenties? Why did Philadelphia lose its historically vital influence over the nation and the world, while its peer cities gained? How is it possible that only two of a planned dozen or more subway lines got built? Tom Keels' convincing answer to all these questions is the tragicomic disaster of the Sesqui-Centennial, a planned world's fair that spun itself and the city into muddy ground. In Sesqui!, Keels reveals the devastating interplay of the South Philadelphia-based Republican political machine known as The Organization, Republican reformers, elitists, and an incompetent mayor seemingly owned by everyone from which the city could never recover."—Nathaniel Popkin, Founding Editor, Hidden City Daily
£999.99
Chronicle Books At Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
Book SynopsisThis book showcases a major exhibition of site-specific, multimedia installations and sculptures Ai Weiwei has created for the island. Featuring beautiful photographs and thought-provoking text, At Large is the essential document of this remarkable happening from one of today's most celebrated artists.
£29.55
Arcadia Publishing (SC) DepressionEra Sculpture of the Bay Area
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing Caspers Troopers Drum Bugle Corps
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£20.39
Amon Carter Museum American Modernism from the Charles Butt
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£999.99
University of Massachusetts Press Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art
Book SynopsisThe author of this text considers the way art museums have depicted and continue to depict American society and the American past. He explores issues from the absence of art museums before the Civil War, to the dilemma of the Museum of Modern Art over their ""West as America"" exhibition.
£999.99
University Press of New England Art Museums PLUS
Book SynopsisAn engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
£999.99
Smithsonian Books The Sweat on Their Face: Portraying American
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£31.50
Smithsonian Books America'S Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
Book SynopsisA striking collection of presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, this volume encapsulates the spirit of the most powerful office in the world.America's Presidents showcases the nation's largest collection of portraits of all the presidents beyond the White House's own, capturing the permanent exhibition that lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.The book explores presidential imagery through portraits ranging from the traditional, such as the iconic and newly restored Lansdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, to the contemporary, such as Elaine de Kooning's colorful depiction of John F. Kennedy. Many of the featured portraits reveal much about the sitter, such as the intimate rendering of an informal George W. Bush by Robert Anderson and the fanciful, mosaic-like Chuck Close image of Bill Clinton. Some tell us more about the artist, such as the likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that Douglas Chandor planned to include in a larger work about peace that would commemorate Roosevelt's Yalta meeting with wartime Allied leaders Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Works in other media, including sculptures and daguerreotypes, round out the presidential collection. Lively narratives accompany each piece, exploring the president's background and biography as well as the work's artistic and historical significance. Taken together, the portraits are a powerful visual exploration of the history of the highest office in the land and the diverse men who have held it.
£16.19
Shanghai Press Exquisite Fabrics: Traditional Weaving and
Book SynopsisThis authoritative collector's book is the largest collection of Chinese weaving and embroider patterns available.For more than twenty-five hundred years the patterns of Chinese silk textiles captured the imaginations of their beholders. The woven and embroidered designs catalogued in Exquisite Fabrics, a survey by Gao Chunming, combine consummate mechanical and technical skill with an aesthetic vision driven by the need to communicate the most important message of Chinese culture. This Chinese art book is a compilation of over one thousand Chinese traditional designs found in weaving and embroidery. Known as zhiwen or wen in ancient China, these traditional patterns are the products of brilliant artistic skills that have been passed down from one generation to the next. Available in a gorgeous slipcase, this book presents a wide and comprehensive range of classical design motifs that include: dragons phoenix birds auspicious animals floral patterns insects and fish figures religious allegorical Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Monographs 1.The Development of Weaving and Embroidery Technology 2.The Formal Elements of Traditional Patterns 3.Weaving and Embroidery Patterns through the Ages Volume II: Album of Patterns Dragon and Python Pattern Phoenix Patterns Rare Bird Patterns Auspicious Animal Patterns Flower Patterns Insect and Fish Patterns Figure Patterns Religious Patterns Geometric Patterns Allegorical Patterns
£174.40
Shanghai Press A Dream of Red Mansions: As portrayed through the
Book SynopsisThis exquisite edition of A Dream of Red Mansions features a rare set of Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen. This collector's edition features a complete set of Sun Wen's 230 paintings in splendid color, printed on fine paper. Condensed text from the original novel accompanies each of the paintings and offers a wonderful insight and a brief summary of each of the 120 chapters. This rare edition will be a keepsake for many generations, and is perfect for gift-giving and presentations. The original paintings are presently preserved in Lvshun Museum, Dalian, China.Trade Review"As one leafs through this luxurious folio, one encounters a panoply of late Imperial Chinese images — dream sequences, demons, goddesses, nuns, nobles, beggars, raging fires, landscapes, interiors, wildlife, gardens, temples, funerals, battles, processions, banquets, trials, operas, marriages — all rendered in exquisite detail by the artist. The highly realistic figures display the full ranges of human emotion and interaction. The folio thereby provides a broad and meticulously rendered nearly-cinematic exposure to aristocratic life in the China of the late 1800s. In sum, A Dream of Red Mansions, as portrayed through the brush of Sun Wen provides an immersive experience of late Imperial China, one that entices, entertains and enraptures the reader, the historian, and the art lover alike." —Examiner.com
£47.70
