History of art Books
Hirmer Verlag Rodin and Vienna
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£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler: The Hahnloser
Book SynopsisThe Hahnloser Collection was created in the early twentieth century in close friendly exchange between the collectors Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and their famous artist friends. The book provides with some 120 works an overview of this unique international collection of Modernist art as well as illustrating its exemplary cultural-political character. The catalogue sheds light on the collectors’ close contact with their artist friends including Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Henri Matisse and Felix Vallotton. It provides an insight into unknown aspects of the artists’ lives, their creative work and the motivation and passions of the collectors themselves. Today the collection is largely in the possession of the collectors’ heirs or has been donated to the art museums of Bern and Winterthur.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag The Aesthetics of Marble: From Late Antiquity to the Present
Book SynopsisThis magnificent book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. With 240 color illustrations, it showcases the marble cladding of architecture, the carving of marble and painting on stone, their political and philosophical connotations, and the de- and re-materialising of marble made possible by digital technology. Marble has been a material of choice and a subject of reflection for millennia. Its geology, history, and economics are well known, but its aesthetics remain understudied. While the iconology of materials highlights their semantic properties, this volume contributes to a historical phenomenology and anthropology of materials. It brings together theoretical propositions and empirical case studies from Late Antiquity to the present.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Raphael and the Madonna
Book SynopsisIn the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael’s paintings are regarded as some of the most innovative compositions to this day, 500 years after his death. Their groundbreaking significance is illuminated in this volume through comparisons with other principal works of the period, including those by Botticelli and Mantegna. Raphael’s Sixtine Madonna is one of the most famous paintings in art history. The book traces how the artist arrived at this pioneering composition as well as the theological statement behind the picture and the original solutions that he found in his early Madonna paintings. Comparisons with Raphael’s contemporaries in Bologna, Florence, Mantua and Venice show clearly the preferred picture types of the era as well as Raphael’s highly individual pictorial language.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Kiefer
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Heinz Mack: Ars Urbana, Public-space Art
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag The Making of a New 'Differential Space':
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£70.30
Gebruder Mann Verlag The Atrium of San Marco in Venice: The Genesis
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£82.65
Gebruder Mann Verlag The Salerno Ivories: Objects, Histories, Contexts
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£153.90
Gebruder Mann Verlag Ludwig Meidner: Expressionismus, Ekstase, Exil -
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£46.55
Gebruder Mann Verlag Dunkelheit Der Episteme: Zur Kunst Des
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Paul Klees Geheime Symbolik
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunsttransfer Und Formgenese in Der Kunst Am
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Museumsbilder Auf Altaren: Gemalde Und Retabel
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£129.20
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunst & Industrie: Veredelung Der Arbeit Und
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Statt Farbe: Licht: Das Fotogramm Bei Moholy-Nagy
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Lorenzo Lotto Malt Andrea Odoni: Kunstschaffen
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£76.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Oskar Holweck: Ein Oeuvre Zwischen Informel Und
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£59.25
Gebruder Mann Verlag Tiepolo Und Das Kostum: Konstruktion Von
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£103.68
Gebruder Mann Verlag Von Italien Nach Preussen: Die Entstehung Der
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£158.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Karl Walser: Maler - Grafiker - Buhnenbildner -
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£48.22
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Quadriga Vom Brandenburger Tor: Auf Der Suche
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Georg Kolbe - The Artist and National Socialism:
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£48.83
Prestel Photography: The Whole Story
Book SynopsisUnlike many other artistic media, photography’s origins are well documented, as are its ever-changing technologies and applications. Written by an international team of experts, this definitive history of photography looks at every step of the field’s dynamic evolution, period by period and movement by movement. Each key genre is chronologically presented within its social, economic, and political context, along with close analysis of specially selected works that best exemplify the characteristics of the period. With more than 500 gorgeous examples in black and white and color, the book explores in-depth virtually every aspect of the medium since its first public demonstration in 1839 to the latest innovations: from early portraits and the birth of photojournalism to travel photography and the mapping of the world; from the Pictorialists to the avant-garde; from celebrity and fashion to documentary and landscape. Along the way readers will learn why some photographs are considered iconic, and why the medium as an art form continues to challenge and enthrall us.Trade Review"Extensively researched and attractively produced, this guide is highly recommended for those who want to be versed on what photography actually may be, and has been." —Rangefinder"[A] lively and informative analysis." —Choice"With more than 500 gorgeous examples in black and white and color, the book explores in-depth virtually every aspect of the medium [photography] since its first public demonstration in 1839 to the latest innovations."—Make Your Ideas Art
£31.46
Prestel Publishing Mark Bradford
Book SynopsisThis generously illustrated volume features Mark Bradford’s newest work which deals with the body and the performance of identity. Mark Bradford’s layered, multi-textured paintings have earned him wide critical acclaim. His latest body of work comprises a new group of paintings and a video, each of which cycles around the idea of the body in crisis. Bradford witnessed the LA riots (1992) from his studio and has translated the fury, fear, outrage, pandemonium, and lasting wounds into artworks. This volume reproduces in full new paintings in which Bradford carved into the layered surface of the work creating depressions and arteries that structure these otherwise abstract compositions. Bradford’s new video references the history of black standup comedy taking on Eddie Murphy’s controversial concert film Delirious (1983). In the video Bradford takes on Murphy’s searing comments on sexuality, reinterpreting this important cultural moment while considering the
£37.46
Prestel Nick Cave: Until
Book SynopsisNick Cave's "Soundsuits"-exuberant, brightly colored wearable sculptures adorned with buttons, hair, toys and other found objects-have made him one of the best-known contemporary artists. This book documents his most extensive work to date, turning his art inside out. Until fills MASS MoCA's football field- sized gallery, without a single Soundsuit to be found. Instead Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities' police departments, and death. An installation diary and numerous images reveal how an idea becomes reality. Until also incorporates special appearances by dancers, singer/ songwriters, and poets, as well as community forums, and opportunities for public debate and engagement. Transcripts of the first of these events accompany the book's illustrations. This book features an essay by exhibition Curator Denise Markonish, commentary by David Byrne and Lori E.Lightfoot that contextualizes Cave's work against today's headlines, and an excerpt from Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. Powerful and transformative, Until promises to take its place among the era's most important artistic statements.Published in association with MASS MoCA
£35.99
Prestel Liz Glynn: Objects and Actions
Book SynopsisFrom her first participatory performance building Rome in 24 hours—in cardboard—to Open House, her open-air Gilded Age ballroom—cast in concrete—in Central Park, Liz Glynn examines the past to shed light on present–day social and economic conditions through a diverse array of sculptures, structures, and actions. Emphasizing Glynn’s interest in process, temporality, labor, and shifting notions of value, this monograph features a series of essays on the artist's practice as a whole, texts on each of her discrete projects, and documentation of her performances. Together they give readers a comprehensive overview of an artist whose career has garnered enormous attention from audiences and critics alike.
£44.99
Prestel Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound:
Book SynopsisTrenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing book. Accompanied by images of his paintings, drawings, and installations alongside pictures of his own vast toy and pop- culture collections as well as pages from his forthcoming graphic novel, the artist traces the birth of the Mounds and Vegans—the plants and mutants that are forever at war—through which he explores good, evil, authority, race, moral relativism, and religion. Hancock takes readers inside his largest exhibition yet at MASS MoCA—a multi-media installation that blends sculpture, painting, and installations to bring the Mounds’ world to life. Included in this book are contributions by the exhibition curator Denise Markonish, an art historical essay about Hancock’s paintings, and illuminating conversations between Hancock and some of his influences, including Frank Oz. With this book, Hancock merges his personal history with his imagination to create a rich panoply of color, image, and language.Trade Review"The toys, comic books, horror films, and super heroes Houston-based Trenton Doyle Hancock loved as a child have fueled a singular artistic practice centered around imaginative characters (Mounds and Vegans) and a mythological universe of his own making. This fascinating and revealing volume explores Hancock’s personal history and influences and documents his largest exhibition to date." —Culture Type
£33.25
Prestel Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of
Book SynopsisFrom Fluxus to conceptualism and feminism, an inside look at how California's legendary school nurtured a generation of exciting, experimental artists.Founded in 1970 by Walt Disney, CalArts was envisioned as a place where students could exchange ideas and learn multiple means of self-expression along the lines of the Bauhaus School and Black Mountain College. Disney's original impetus was to revive the moribund field of animation; he likely never dreamed that the school would become a trailblazing educational model. This multi- faceted exhibition catalog focuses on the school's early years as it brings together for the first time the parallel development of the Conceptual Art, feminism, and Fluxus movements. Chronologically arranged, the catalog traces how CalArts created fertile ground for situations in which, as founding teacher John Baldessari put it, "art can happen." It follows the institutional establishment of Baldessari's "Post-Studio" course and Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago's Feminist Art Program. It explores the school's unique pedagogy, which placed students and teachers on equal footing, and illustrates how the school reflected social issues of the time by challenging authority and patriarchal power structures. Over one hundred works--many never before published--from forty-one artists, along with several enlightening oral history interviews with CalArts protagonists, edited by Verena Kittel, capture a unique and important moment in American arts education.
£40.50
Prestel Art Nouveau: 50 Works Of Art You Should Know
Book SynopsisThe heyday of the Art Nouveau style was relatively short, spanning the decades immediately before and after 1900. However it was a tremendously important period, not only for its radical shift away from the academic and romantic movements of the late 19th century, but also for its embrace of nature and natural forms. This authoritative, accessible and beautifully illustrated book explores fifty of the most important works of the Art Nouveau style. From Mackmurdo's jacket design of Christopher Wren's City Churches to Sykes' sculpture, The Spirit of Ecstasy, each work is presented in double-page spreads that chronologically trace Art Nouveau's development and breadth-from architecture, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, and from graphic arts, Toulouse-Lautrec's poster advertising the Divan Japonais, to home decor, lamps by Tiffany and Daum Freres and to painting, Munch's Madonnas and Walter Crane's Neptune's Horses. Each entry includes a full-page illustration and concise explanatory texts. An introductory essay on the history and legacy of Art Nouveau, along with brief biographies of the artists featured in the book, making this a comprehensive yet compact reference work.
£14.24
Prestel Art Deco: 50 Works Of Art You Should Know
Book SynopsisThis new addition to Prestel's successful "50s" series focuses on Art Deco, an artistic movement that originated in France after World War I and spread throughout Europe and America. Presented chronologically in full-page illustrations accompanied by explanatory texts, these fifty iconic examples demonstrate the variety of ways Art Deco was expressed. Included here are a soup tureen designed by Jean Puiforcat; Edward Steichen's portrait of Fred Astaire; a brass-framed mirror by Austrian Franz Hagenauer; a still from the Busby Berkeley film, Footlight; and a self-portrait by the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. Other examples include jewellery, architecture, posters and items used in everyday life. Opening with an authoritative overview of the Art Deco movement and including biographies of each of the artists, this is a compact and affordable reference work
£14.24
Prestel Henri Matisse: Erotic Sketchbook
Book SynopsisFor Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense relationship between artist and model. Matisse's joie de vivre, his love of beauty, and his fascination with the human body are fully in evidence in this lovely volume.
£15.29
Schnell & Steiner Antijesuitische Bildpublizistik in Der Fruhen
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Kommunikation in Mittelalterlichen Stadten
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£35.32
Schnell & Steiner Stil ALS Bedeutung in Der Nordalpinen
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Kunst Und Eros: Lovis Corinth Zwischen Tradition
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Aus Heiltum Wird Geschichte: Der Gandersheimer
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Arts and Crafts, Nietzsche Und Die Fruhe Brucke:
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Aisthesis: Wahrnehmungsprozesse Und
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£999.99
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Der 'schatz' Von Brestovac, Kroatien: Seine
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner 1259. Altenberg Und Die Baukultur Im 13.
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£42.00
Schnell & Steiner Vdr-Beitrage Zur Erhaltung Von Kunst- Und
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£41.00
Schnell & Steiner Der Kirchenschatz Von St. Leonhard in Frankfurt:
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Die Wandmalereien Im Braunschweiger Dom St.
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£57.00
Schnell & Steiner Das Kreuz: Darstellung Und Verehrung in Der
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Kirchenbau Im Umbruch: Sakralarchitektur in
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Glasmalereien Im Bistum Speyer: Leuchtende Zeugen
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Rheinmainromantik: Gartenkunst
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£999.99
