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Taylor & Francis Art History The Basics
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Taylor & Francis Art in the Roman Empire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art in Greece History of Civilization
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Taylor & Francis Childrens Culture and the AvantGarde
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Taylor & Francis Meanings of Abstract Art
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Taylor & Francis On Landscapes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Garden Cities to New Towns Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 18991946 18991946 From Garden Cities to New Towns Planning History and Environment Series
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Taylor & Francis The Place of Home
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Taylor & Francis The Experience of Modernism Modern Architects and the Future City 192853
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Abbot Suger of StDenis Church and State in Early TwelfthCentury France The Medieval World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The European Renaissance 14001600
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indian Art Worlds in Contention
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sufis and AntiSufis The Defence Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World Curzon Sufi Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Perspectives on Persian Painting Illustrations to Amir Khusraus Khamsah
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Enterprise and Ethics Essays on the Life and Work of William Morris
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Taylor & Francis Italian Renaissance Frames at the VA
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Turner as Draughtsman
Book SynopsisTurner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an aspect of Turner's work which has hitherto received very little attention. Andrew Wilton shows that, while Turner's art has always been celebrated for its atmospheric breadth and freedom of handling, he based his working procedures throughout his career on the discipline of drawing in outline, which was an essential element in the grand strategy by which he achieved his formidable results. An important section of the book is devoted to the vexed question of Turner's drawing of the human figure, and the crucial role played by the figure both in his conception of landscape and in his ambitious attempts to master all the genres of fashionable contemporary art.Trade Review'This book is a masterpiece. If nothing else this exceptional book lifts Turner out of the straight-jackets imposed hitherto by sundry art historians, critics and other experts, to a level free of myth and other posthumous shades. Here is the man himself, an incorrigible genius, forever experimenting, forever at work'.' www.artnewsletter.com 'This is a highly original study, resting on an intimate knowledge of the visual materials, which Wilton often characterizes with great vividness and verve ... his style is free of academic jargon ... The theme of this book is thoroughly worthwhile and its material is rich and up-to-date.' John Gage, University of Cambridge, UK ’...47 good black-and-white illustrations...Wilton writes with the erudition and knowledge of an experienced observer who is adept at casting a critical eye on both traditional and recent scholarship. At the same time, his skill at explaining the nuances of Turner’s genius should give this book a wide appeal. Extensive endnotes and full bibliography...Recommended.’ Choice ’... an important contribution to our overall understanding of Turner's work... nuanced and perceptive study...’ Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: could Turner draw?; Turner's history of drawing; The rudiments of draughtsmanship; Early influences; A mature shorthand; Line and colour; Drawing and painting; Turner's humanity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe c. 15001750
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Taylor & Francis Sacred Traces
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism and the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisSituated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, José Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Miró''s labyrinth, George Braque''s pool, Tal-Coat''s mosaic wall and Giacometti''s terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation isTrade Review'Jan Birksted has responded with passion and ingenuity to a marvellous subject. Sert's Maeght Foundation fulfils the criteria for an exemplary Gallery of Modern Art, but in this account it becomes a site of deconstruction. Using a mass of archival material from Sert and the Maeght family, he explores the relationship between patron, artists and architect, and between the built form of the gallery and the surrounding Mediterranean world.' Stephen Bann, University of Bristol, UK 'Jan Birksted's unravelling of the design process of the Maeght Foundation reads like a thriller where the corpse is only discovered at the very last line. It unwraps one layer of intentions after another, revealing the fascinating potentials of architectural modernism beyond the stereotypes of the International Style. It brings to light the surprising reinvention of architecture as landscape, and garden as architecture, begot by the dance of Modernism and Surrealism under the timely skies of the Mediterranean. A marvellous promenade architecturale.' Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks, US 'This book is a handsome object... Birksted has accomplished a rare task. He has written a book of fine scholarship; he has managed to make it read like a gripping story; and he draws us into a world of reflection upon the nature of landscape and architecture... When Birksted leaves scholarship behind and moves into the space of argumentative speculation he treats us to rich, rewarding and exigent thought.' Edward Winters, The Architects' Journal 'The author's style manages to be both readable and scholarly, and the notes and bibliography are exhaustive...' Sandy McLendon, Modernism Magazine '... this is a beautiful, many-layered book that greatly deepens our understanding and knowledge of the building's whole design and methodology and has many fascinating details.' Twentieth Century Society Newsletter 'Though of particular interest to landscape historians, this bookTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: The Commission: 'A moment of Euphoria'; The labyrinth: The labyrinth; Knossos; The Mediterranean: The Mediterranean; Narratives; The Pools: The pools; Reflections; Conclusion: The Aftermath: 1974; Academic envoi: Spatial temporality; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Picturing Children
Book SynopsisThe representation of children in modern European visual culture has often been marginalized by Art History as sentimental and trivial. For this reason the subject of childhood in relation to art and its production has largely been ignored. Confronting this dismissal, this unique collection of essays raises new and unexpected issues about the formation of childhood identity in the nineteenth century and makes a significant contribution to the development of inter-disciplinary studies within this area. Through a range of stimulating and insightful case studies, the book charts the development of the Romantic ideal of childhood, starting with Rousseauâs Emile, and attends to its visual, social and psychological transformations during the historical period from which Freudâs psychoanalytic theories eventually emerged. Foremost scholars such as Anne Higonnet, Carol Mavor, Susan Casteras and Linda A. Pollock uncover the means by which children became an important conduit for prevailing socTrade Review'... the perspective offered by the authors are new and insightful, making this a valuable book... Picturing Children offers innovative scholarship of an exceptionally high level.' David O'Brien, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide '... worthy of attention from social historians, social and cultural theorists, sociologists and art historians, particularly those interested in childhood.' Thomas Cockburn, Social History Society Bulletin 'This book is a welcome contribution to the subject of children and childhood in art... The range of subject matter presented in this book is diverse and interesting, and is designed to appeal to readers from a variety of disciplines... enthusiastically and fascinatingly...' Alison Walker, Cultural and Social HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Linda A. Pollock; Introduction: Baudelaire between Rousseau and Freud, Marilyn R. Brown; Introduction: The unmaking of childhood, Carol Mavor; Sex education and the child: Gendering erotic response in eighteenth-century France, Jennifer Milam; Family matters: The construction of childhood in the nineteenth-century artists’ biographies, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu; Childhood and aesthetic education: the role of Emile in the formation of Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio, Daniel R. Guernsey; Baudelaire’s ’La Corde’ as a figuration of Manet’s Art, Nancy Locke; Impressionist dolls: On the Commodification of Girlhood in Impressionist painting, Greg M. Thomas; Winged fantasies: Constructions of childhood, innocence, adolescence and sexuality in Victorian fairy painting, Susan Casteras; Photographing childhood: Lewis Carroll and Alice, Diane Waggoner; Toys in Freud’s attic: Torment and taboo in the child and adolescent themes of Vienna’s image-makers, Alessandra Comini; Children’s studies and the romantic child; George Dimock; What do you want to know about children?, Anne Higonnet; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Difficult Subjects Working Women and Visual Culture Britain 18801914 British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Representing Berlin Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany
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Taylor & Francis German Romantic Painting Redefined
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Prousts Cup of Tea Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture 15 Studies in European Cultural Transition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Shared Legacy Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings
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Taylor & Francis Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art Patronage and Theories of Invention
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Taylor & Francis FigurationAbstraction Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 19451968 SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marie Laurencin Une femme inadapte in Feminist
Book SynopsisMarie Laurencin, in spite of the noticeable reputation she made in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, has attracted only sporadic attention by late-twentieth century art historians. Until now the substance of her art and the feminist issues that were entangled in her life have been narrowly examined or reduced by an author's chosen theoretical format; and the terms of her lesbian identity have been overlooked. In this case study of une femme inadaptÃe and an unfit feminist, Elizabeth Kahn re-situates Laurencin in the on-going feminist debates that enrich the disciplines of art history, women's studies and literary criticism. Kahn's thorough reading of the artist's visual and literary production ensures a comprehensive overview which addresses notable works and passages but also integrates those that are less well known. Incorporating feminist theory and building on the work of contemporary feminist art historians, she avoids the heroics of conventional biography, instead allowing her subject to participate in the historical collective of women's work. Provocative and engagingly written, this fresh new study of Marie Laurencin's life and works also explores the multiple valences by which to connect the histories of, and find new connections between, women artists across the twentieth century.Trade Review'Elizabeth Kahn's impressive and timely study rescues Marie Laurencin from the margins of modern art. She emerges here not just as the mysterious and beguiling woman who inspired the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and painted the members of Picasso's cubist circle, but as a complex, multifaceted pioneer: in her painting, her writing, and her radical sexuality.' Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist MovementTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: Une femme inadaptée or the case of the unfit feminist; A Not So Straight Biography: Out of step: Social class and surrogate men, 1883-1923; Strangely estranged women: Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier and Marie Laurencin; Laurencin's insiders: Flora Groult, Louise Faure-Favier; The Laurencin self portraits: Subject, object, spectacle? Marie Laurencin's Men of the Avant-Garde: The monkey on her shoulder: Marie Laurencin's Guillaume Apollinaire; André Salmon in Marie Laurencin's court; Walking the line: Roger Allard's 1921 Laurencin monograph; Sexual politics: Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso; Marie Laurencin, the scandal of the Cubist House and André Mare; Laurencin's 'old men' of the Great War; Five in Hand: Sexual Politics and the Women of the Avant-Garde: Foiled again: The modern woman artist; Women of the fan: Berthe Morisot and Marie Laurencin; Feminist moments: The Great War, childless women, Mary Cassatt and Marie Laurencin; Illegitimate women: Suzanne Valadon and Marie Laurencin; The 'queerest' feminists the world has ever seen: Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin; Pictures That Could Not Have Been Painted: A Feminist Lesbian Reading: Not the modern woman? Laurencin's Amazons; Naming the Laurencin goddesses, 1904 -14; Sisters, playmates and lovers: Laurencin's unnamed goddesses; The Great War's 'new woman' and her lesbian gaze; The Marie Laurencin lesbian heroine; Laurencin's Final Say: The Artist as Ghostwriter: Postscript: Trespassing on the banks of feminist art; Les filles ambigües: Louise Bourgeois and Marie Laurencin; Unfit feminists I and II: Hannah Wilke and Marie Laurencin; Fan ladies and women warriors: Harmony Hammond and Marie Laurencin; Continuum: Julia Mystère; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Famine and Fashion Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century
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Taylor & Francis Rodin The Zola of Sculpture SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Villards Legacy Studies in Medieval Technology Science and Art in Memory of Jean Gimpel 2 AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology Science and Art
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