History of art Books
Yale University Press Max Neuhaus
Book SynopsisIn 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002. This book takes considers the singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art.
£23.75
Yale University Press Sansovinos Venice
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Yale University Press Johan Zoffany RA
Book SynopsisThe 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and perceptive social commentary - all achieved while presenting his subjects as delightful and sophisticated members of polite society.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British History, as given by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal -- William M. B. Berger Prize * Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal *
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St Martin's Press The Painted Word
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Yale University Press Cubism
Book SynopsisAn innovative new history of Cubism told through some of the most significant artworks ever produced, drawn from a distinguished private collectionTrade Review"Lavishly illustrated, this groundbreaking new history of Cubism is told through important works by Braque, Gris, Leger and Picasso from the Leonard A. Lauder collection."—Apollo MagazineBoth Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow received First Place Awards for the 2014 Awards of Excellence for Catalogue Publication, sponsored by the Association of Art Museum CuratorsWinner of the 2015 Henry Allen Moe Prize given annually by the New York State Historical Association
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Cambridge University Press Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History
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Random House Perspectives
Book SynopsisFlorence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.Letters fly back and forth carrying news of political plots and speculation about the killer's identity between Maria and her aunt Catherine de' Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. Meanwhile, the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe.Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.
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Penguin Books Ltd Leonardo da Vinci
Book Synopsis''In this painting of Leonardo''s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.''Often called the first art historian, Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Vasari''s works available in Penguin Classics are Lives of the Artists Volume I and Volume II.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The 1950s American Home
Book SynopsisThis title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs, this was how to live the good life in an era of unprecedented prosperity and opportunity.Table of ContentsA Clean Break: Achieving the American Dream / Home Sweet Home: Domestic Architectural Styles / How They Lived: The Living Room / The Woman's Realm: The Kitchen, Food and Entertaining / The Good Life: 1950s American Style / Places to v Visit / Further Reading / Index
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Skira Stanislaw Fijalkowski
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Tattooed Women
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Andean Sling Braids
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Contemporary Illustrated Pinup
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Cotton Indigo from Japan
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Yale University Press Mona Hatoum
Book SynopsisA fresh and engaging look at the groundbreaking work of contemporary artist Mona Hatoum The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as kitchen utensils or cribs into things strange and threatening, Hatoum conducts multilayered investigations of the body, politics, and gender that express a powerful and pervasive sense of precariousness. Her works are never simple and often elicit conflicting emotions, such as fascination and fear, desire and revulsion. This copiously illustrated presentation of Hatoum's oeuvre offers critical and art historical essays by Michelle White and Anna C. Chave and imaginative texts by Rebecca Solnit and Adania Shibli, which contextualize the artist's work and its relationship to Surrealism, Minimalism, feminism, and politics. With extensive discussions on a s
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Cornell University Press Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts
Book SynopsisThis deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.Trade Review... for undergraduate teachers like myself who have struggled to bring codicology into the classroom, this book is a gift.... the authors do an excellent job of building characters around the shadowy figures of scribes, compilers, illuminators, binders, rubricators and annotators, explaining their impact on literature.... Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts does an excellent job of...working to break down barriers between manuscript, print and digital cultures as well as distinctions between medieval and contemporary, author and reader, student and specialist, and elite (i.e. manuscript-holding) and non-elite institutions. -- Janine Rogers * Review of English Studies *[A]n attractively laid out and richly illustrated book..This book will be of interest to the seasoned manuscript scholar as to the neophyte. -- Julia Boffey * Times Literary Supplement *Few universities in the US and the UK are able to offer their graduate students with properly supervised access to medieval manuscripts, despite the demand for such training. This superb volume fills a much-needed gap...The authors offer not just a masterly synthesis of the most recent (and even forthcoming) scholarship; they also break new ground. -- Ruth Evans * Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research *One of the crucial accomplishments of this volume is establishing without a doubt the very foundational nature of manuscript work to all scholarship on the Middle Ages. In a volume that devotes itself to a pedagogical mission, self-consciously unpacking its freight for both novices and experts alike, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts provides a great service to us all... Like the lectern-sized Riverside edition Kerby-Fulton discusses, It will become a standard in the field for both teaching and research purposes, and will hopefully drive a new generation of scholars into manuscript study. -- Kathleen E. Kennedy * The Medieval Review *The book has an engaging, conversational tone. Reading it is like being in a seminar taught by three excellent scholars deeply engaged in a burgeoning field and eager to cultivate new approaches and voices.... Fittingly for a work that examines book design as an intellectual enterprise, the book is beautifully produced and very generously illustrated with excellent color reproductions of the widest variety of works.... In sum, the present work is a sterling demonstration of what the history of the book has to offer literary studies. -- Erik Inglis * The Burlington Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology Note on Transcriptions and Transcription SymbolsTHE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript PageHow to Transcribe Middle English / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton—Bare Essentials 1: A Transcription Is Not an EditionIntroduction: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton1. The Land of Cokaygne (British Library, ms Harley 913) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton2. "Ihesu Swete" (Newberry Library, MS 31) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton3. The Pricke of Conscience (Newberry Library, MS 32.9) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton4. Chaucer's "Cook’s Tale" (Hg) (National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392D, Hengwrt MS 154) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton5. Chaucer’s "Cook’s Tale" (Cp) (Corpus Christi College, MS 198) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton6. Omnis plantacio (formerly The Clergy May Not Hold Property) (Huntington Library, MS HM 503) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton7. Hoccleve 's "Chanceon to Somer" and Envoy to Regiment des Princes (Huntington Library, MS HM 111) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton8. Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton9. Sir Degrevant (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6, Findern MS) / Linda Olson10. Wisdom (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.354, Macro MS) / Linda OlsonChapter 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300–1450 / Kathryn Kerby-FultonA Brief Overview of Topics Covered in This ChapterI. BL MS Arundel 292, Archaism, and the Preservation of Alliterative Poetry c. 1300–c. 1450II. BL MS Harley 2253 and Principles of Compilatio, or: Why Read the Harley Lyrics in their Natural Habitat?—Bare Essentials 2: Anglicana Script and Profiling the Individual ScribeIII. Gawain and the Medieval Reader: The Importance of Manuscript Ordinatio in a Poem We Think We Know—Bare Essentials 3: Assessing Emendation in a Modern EditionIV. The Rise of English Book Production in Ricardian London: Professional Scribes and Langland’s Piers Plowman—Bare Essentials 4: Some Basic Concepts of Editing, Types of Written Standard Middle English, and Scribal Handling of DialectV. Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury TalesVI. The Scribe Speaks at Last: Hoccleve as Scribe EChapter 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for "Euerich Inglische" / Linda Olson—Middle English Romances in the Auchinleck, Thornton, and Findern ManuscriptsI. Englishing Romance: The Auchinleck ManuscriptII. Romancing the Gentry Household: Robert Thornton’s Homemade Family Library—Thornton Names in the Lincoln and London ManuscriptsIII. Courting Romance in the Provinces: The Findern ManuscriptChapter 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts / Maidie HilmoI. Looking at Medieval ImagesII. The Auchinleck ManuscriptIII. The Vernon ManuscriptIV. The Pearl ManuscriptV. Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts and the Ushaw Prick of ConscienceVI. ConclusionChapter 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-FultonI. Categories of Marginalia: The Annotating and Glossing of ChaucerII. The Annotations in Manuscripts of Langland’s Piers PlowmanIII. Annotations and Corrections in the Book of Margery Kempe: Cruxes, Controversies, and Solutions—Appendix on the Red Ink Annotator and Previous Annotators in BL MS Add. 61823IV. The Quiet Connoisseur: The First Annotator(s) of Julian of Norwich’s Showings in the Amherst Manuscript (British Library, MS Add. 37790)Chapter 5. Illuminating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors / Maidie HilmoI. IntroductionII. The Decoration and Borders of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere ManuscriptsIII. The Historiated Initial with an Author Portrait: A Further Development of the Hengwrt TraditionIV. The Ellesmere Traditions: Illustrated Pilgrim AuthorsV. ConclusionChapter 6. "Swete Cordyall" of "Lytterature": Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister / Linda OlsonI. Nourishing the Spirit of Religious Women: Vernacular Texts and ManuscriptsII. Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule—The Contents of London, British Library, MS Harley 7333III. Lots of Lydgate and a Little Hoccleve: Chaucer’s Successors in Monastic HandsIV. "Sadde Mete" for Mind and Soul: Contemplative and Visionary Texts in the CloisterV. Taking it to the Streets: Middle English Drama from the CloisterReferences Cited Illustration Credits Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula General Index
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Sansom & Co Last Days of Hilton: Gouaches of Roger Hilton
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Yale University Press The Women of Atelier 17
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Atelier 17 . . . transformed the printmaking landscape in the US. Women’s contributions to that process come to life in this wide-ranging and thoughtful book.”—Hyperallergic“With scholarship about women artists having been mostly neglected until the latter half of the twentieth century, it is rewarding to see the burgeoning literature on women in the arts, including this fascinating book on the women printmakers of Atelier 17.”—Natalia Lonchyna, ARLIS/NA Reviews“Weyl elucidates the material innovation and aesthetic strength of the prints made by women artists at Atelier 17 and weaves their previously overlooked achievements into the central narrative of postwar art.”—Samantha Rippner, Print Quarterly“A pleasure to read. [Weyl’s] nuanced and well-informed explanations of thematic and technical details help readers to understand both components of illustrated prints. Additionally, her conjoining of historical narrative with a persuasive feminist analysis reminds readers of the complex intersections of aesthetics with gendered cultural politics in every aspect of artists’ lives and works.”—Helen Langa, Woman’s Art Journal“In this timely and impressively thorough examination Christina Weyl sets the record straight.”—Emma Gregory, Printmaking TodayWinner of the 2020 IFPDA Foundation Book Award, sponsored by the International Fine Print Dealers Association“Christina Weyl marshals impressive archival research to excavate the lives and social networks of women printmakers in Atelier 17 and offers convincing and beautifully described accounts of the strength and innovation of their work.”—Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard University“In this compelling study, Christina Weyl illuminates mid-twentieth century American women printmakers’ formidable accomplishments in the face of art-world prejudice against their chosen medium and broader societal bias against their gender.”—Paula Wisotzki, Loyola University Chicago
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Paintings of the Razmanama
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British Museum Press Designs of the World
Book SynopsisA sourcebook of hundreds of designs drawn from the work of artists and craftsmen throughout time, from the Pacific cultures of Oceania to the rich and varied heritage of Ancient Greece.
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British Museum Press Out of Australia
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. It features 127 works by 61 artists, and includes concise artists’ biographies and individual commentaries on the works.
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Phaidon Press Ltd 10000 Years of Art
Book Synopsis500 great works of art from all periods and regions of the world.
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Random House USA Inc Sexual Personae
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Museum of Modern Art Toward a Concrete Utopia
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Princeton University Press Nomads and Networks
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory of Kazakhstan from roughly the middle of the first millennium BCE to the early centuries CE. This title explores the conditions of mobile life ways that resulted from ecological conditions in the steppes and high valleys of Inner Eurasia.Trade Review"Nomads and Networks accompanies a very timely exhibition which should spark increased interest in Kazakhstan, the region's art, and its role in shaping the societies of Central Asia. The book's design is excellent, the image reproductions are well done, and the introduction does a fine job tying the diverse chapters together."—Michael Frachetti, Washington University in St. Louis
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Princeton University Press Georgia OKeeffe and New Mexico
Book SynopsisWhen Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. This book analyzes the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. It accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Book Award in Fine Art, Independent Publisher Book Awards "The illustrations are beautifully reproduced, and the book's three essays are intelligent, carefully researched, and elegantly presented."--Roxana Robinson, The Wilson Quarterly "In her meticulous account, Lesley Poling-Kempes discusses the geophysical origins of this land of 'extremes and contrast,' analyzing the layered stone formations and matching them up with O'Keeffe's keen observations of red shales, sandshales and silt stones created 200 million years ago... Frederich W. Turner steps more intimately into O'Keeffe's preserve, discussing her eccentricities, her remoteness from others sharing the land ... and the mythology she did much to create... Once installed in New Mexico, though, she became an authentic new conquistador, he concludes, and entered her true final domain."--Dore Ashton, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsDirector's Foreward 7 Georgia O'Keefe and New Mexica: A Sense of Place by Barbara Buhler Lynes 11 A Sense of Place I: Toas, Alcalde, Tierra Azul, Ghost Ranch, Black Place 59 A Call to Place by Lesley Poling-Kempes 77 A Sense of Place II: Chama River, White Place, Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch 89 On Her Conquest of Space by Frederick W. Turner 109 Chronology 125 Checklist 128 Suggestions for Further Reading 134 Acknowledgments 136 Index 138 Photography Credits 143
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Princeton University Press Still Lives Death Desire and the Portrait of the
Book SynopsisMichelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Durer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. Artists had beenTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2016 Art Book Prize, Authors' Club "In this fascinating publication, Loh (Univ. College London) employs a variety of strategies and material (20th-century French deconstruction; 21st-century vernacular and digital terms; cross-period parallels among artists and works; primary sources; the close study of paintings, drawings, prints, books, letters, medals, and sculpture) to make early modern artist self-portraits and their portraits painted by other artists accessible to contemporary readers... Loh's immersive readings of these works of art are original, detailed, nuanced, and often quite passionate, frequently emphasizing the vulnerability of artists and the difficulty of their work."--Choice "[A] powerful and sometimes troubling book."--Giles Waterfield, Burlington Magazine "[An] impressive book... In the world of social media saturated with Facebook and selfies, we may think that in 'managing our profile' we are shaping our portrait. After reading Maria Loh's engaging new study, one will never look at a portrait in the same way, much less believe that we exercise control over the potency and malleability of our image."--William E. Wallace, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsUSER'S GUIDE ix Getting Started ix Basics xv Advanced Features xvi Troubleshooting xix FAQs xx Credits xxi I. THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES 1 Me, Myself, and I 1 Losing Face (Damnatio Memoriae) 19 Face Value 30 Bad Hair Days 41 II. THE ARTIST'S BODY OF WORK 56 Body of Work 56 The Long Good-bye 60 Noli Me Tangere / Ostentatio Vulnerum 73 Not in a Good Place 87 All That Remains (Vestigium) 100 III. EXQUISITE CORPSE 113 The Pleasure of Disegno 113 Daydreamers in Plato's Cave 125 The Action Hero's Journey 135 The Exquisite Corpse 155 IV. A BODY TOO MUCH 171 Historical Fiction 171 Distant Voices, Still Lives 174 A Temple for All Gods 183 A Ghost Is Born 198 Science Fiction 207 POST/FACE 226 Notes 235 Bibliography 273 Image Credits 293 Index 295
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Princeton University Press Picture Titles
Book SynopsisA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers--not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the cTrade ReviewOne of The New Yorker's "The Books We Loved in 2015" (selected by Ben Lerner) "I was fascinated by Ruth Bernard Yeazell's book Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. As a writer who is often jealous of visual artists, I found her exploration of how titles inflect our experiences of viewing perversely reassuring--I mean as evidence of the power a text can hold over an image."--Ben Lerner, New Yorker "A fascinating account of how paintings get their titles."--Peter De Bolla, Times Literary Supplement "This fascinating study shows how the naming of paintings was inextricably tied to the rise of the art market in the 17th and 18th centuries."--Apollo Magazine "Yeazell's work is undoubtedly one of serious scholarship, stuffed to the margins with historical and critical analysis... Where Yeazell's analysis succeeds most is in its insistence that we consider something that seems so ordinary--a wall label, photo caption, or Google Images description--with consideration of those words' creator and with an awareness of how those words profoundly affect our perception."--Grace Labatt, Santa Fe New Mexican "That titles are somehow intrinsic to all artworks is an idea that is mistaken but frequently espoused. Welcome clarification of this fact comes with Ruth Bernard Yeazell's new book, Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. This is an important study."--Thomas Marks, Apollo Magazine "The advent of titles in Western art is the subject of this engaging book. Yeazell explores the economic and cultural changes that prompted the practice, blending historical perspective with more modern case studies... Well organized and including detailed references and a thorough index, this is a valuable resource for those interested in art history, library and museum studies, and fine arts."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Prologue (This is not a title) 1 I Naming and Circulating: Middlemen 1 Before Titles 19 2 Dealers and Notaries 25 3 Early Cataloguers 31 4 Academies 39 5 Printmakers 52 6 Curators, Critics, Friends-and More Dealers 66 II Reading and Interpreting: Viewers 7 Reading by the Title 81 8 The Power of a Name 97 9 Many Can Read Print 110 10 Reading against the Title 124 III Authoring as well as Painting: Artists 11 The Force of David's Oath 143 12 Turner's Poetic Fallacies 166 13 Courbet's Studio as Manifesto 183 14 Whistler's Symphonies and Other Instructive Arrangements 204 15 Magritte and The Use of Words 225 16 Johns's No and the Painted Word 243 Acknowledgments 265 Notes 267 Index 315
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University of Minnesota Press Collectivism after Modernism
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Essential Dürer
Book SynopsisThe Essential Durer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe.Trade Review"Provides a new and comprehensive introduction to Dürer's art, life, and times. Written throughout in a lucid yet scholarly style, it is deservedly destined to feature prominently on syllabi throughout the English-speaking world." * Burlington Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Dürer—Man, Media, and Myths —Larry Silver 2 Dürer's Drawings —Christiane Andersson and Larry Silver 3 Dürer and the High Art of Printmaking —Charles Talbot 4. Dürer as Painter —Katherine Crawford Luber 5 Dürer and Sculpture —Jeffrey Chipps Smith 6 Dürer and Venice —Andrew Morral 7 The Artist, His Horse, a Print, and Its Audience: Producing and Viewing the —Ideal in Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513) —Pia F. Cuneo 8 Civic Courtship: Albrecht Dürer, the Saxon Duke, and the Emperor —Larry Silver 9 Dürer and the Netherlands: Patterns of Exchange and Mutual Admiration —Dagmar Eichberger 10 Agony in the Garden: Dürer's "Crisis of the Image" —Donald A. McColl 11 Albrecht Dürer between Agnes Frey and Willibald Pirckheimer —Corine Schleif 12 Impossible Distance: Past and Present in the Study of Dürer and Grünewald —Keith Moxey Notes Short Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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The Natural History Museum The Art of the First Fleet Images of Nature
Book SynopsisIn 1788, nearly 1,500 people on 11 sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson in Australia, and those who sailed in them were the community who established the first European colony in Australia. The Art of the First Fleet is a captivating collection of watercolours, washes, ink and pencil drawings created during this historic time.
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The University of Chicago Press En Guerre
Book SynopsisWith 2014 marking the hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, this book offers an exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period.
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The London Stereoscopic Company The Poor Mans Picture Gallery Stereoscopic 3d
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Outre Gallery Press Outre Journal
Book SynopsisA compendium of unique art.
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Getty Trust Publications Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941
Book SynopsisIn 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Full of reminiscences, apercus, and surprising revelations from the master."--ARTnews "[Chatting with Henri Matisse] sheds light on [Matisse's] process and his approach to color."--ArtInfo "[A] comprehensively contextualised restoration of this rare and uninhibited testimonial, emerging from a moment that Matisse correspondingly called his 'resurrection' from near-death."-- Burlington Magazine "[These interviews] give valuable insight into a major artist who was not only a painter but a sculptor, set designer and maker of memorable cut-paper collages."--South China Morning Post "An extensive interview in which Henri Matisse freely shares his thoughts on everything from drawing to depression."--Guardian "This important book provides great insight into Matisse as an artist and individual, as well as into [Courthion's] interviewing and editing process."--Publishers Weekly
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Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University The Age of Reptiles
Book SynopsisRudolph Zallinger's 110-foot fresca secco painting of "The Age of Reptiles" is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts of "The Age of Reptiles". This guide includes an essay on the mural's place in the history of art.Trade Review“The Age of Reptiles is a work of art, by its own nature inevitably transcending science or subverting it and bringing to it its own special glow.” – Vincent Scully -- Vincent Scully
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Saqi Books The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun
Book SynopsisGoing beyond a record of his life and art, renowned Chamoun delves into what drives an artist to create. A lavish production featuring 322 colour illustrations of the work of this remarkable artist and teacher.Trade Review'The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun is an engaging and beautifully produced book, likely to appeal to anyone seeking to know more about an artist whose production spans six decades and shows no signs of slowing down.' Daily Star, LebanonTable of ContentsThe Beginning and Years of Self-Discovery 11 A Twist of Fate 23 Hopes and Setbacks 27 A Dream Come True! 33 The Cradle of my Art 37 In the United States 51 Years of Agony 83 A New Beginning: A New Direction 89 Between Lebanon and the States 107 A Landscape Prelude 121 Back in the States with My Family 127 Shuttling Again Between New York and Adonis 145 Mostly Black 177 Nature Revisited 199 Domestic Inspirations 203 A 2000 Anniversary Homage 209 Cana: A Painful Inspiration 213 The Big Fall 223 A New Journey 231 The Desert Experience 263 Freer at Seventy 289 Biography 317
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New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd Discovering Southern African Rock Art Southern
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National Gallery Company Ltd The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings,
Book SynopsisThe National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are grouped here with a small number of French paintings, some by artists who came from the Low Countries (Corneille de Lyon, probably Jean Hey, and perhaps the Master of Saint Giles). Lorne Campbell’s catalogue is a model of scholarship; he examined all the pictures with conservators and rigorously researched their histories, subjects, and styles. New discoveries about artists’ techniques and practices have led to many reattributions, and the rescue from anonymity of over twenty paintings. The identities of several patrons are established or suggested, while an introductory essay explains how contemporaries regarded these paintings. Generously illustrated, with many details and technical photographs, and beautifully produced, this comprehensive catalogue is essential reading for scholars, while also introducing general readers to a vital part of the Gallery’s collection.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressTrade Review‘Lorne Campbell’s scholarly and sumptuously produced catalogue contains a multitude of discoveries about the National Gallery’s rich holdings of 16th-century Netherlandish paintings.’—Apollo Magazine * Apollo Magazine *“A milestone in scholarship of Early Netherlandish painting . . . a lasting legacy.”—Larry Silver, HNA Review of Books (Historians of Netherlandish Art) -- Larry Silver * HNA Review of Books *‘Turn to the weakest paintings in the field and we realise that Campbell writes not merely to record but to inform and draw the reader into the debate so that he may take an interest in matters seemingly arcane – but that is precisely the purpose of great art history as an academic discipline. This is the perfect catalogue.’ —Brian Sewell, Evening Standard. -- Brian Sewell * Evening Standard *
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Museum of Modern Art Modern Contemporary Art Since 1980 at MoMA
Book SynopsisExtensive holdings of contemporary art produced from 1980 until now are showcased in this updated and revised edition. This edition provides an international spectrum of more than 580 works of key contemporary art in a variety of mediums, including 36 new works that have been added to the MoMA collection since 1999.
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Sculpture in FifteenthCentury Italy
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Museum of New Mexico Press Modern by Tradition American Indian Painting in
Book SynopsisKansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established America''s first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American painters have been celebrated as the first modernists. Reproduced here are over ninety paintings by such prominent artists and former students as Pablita Velarde, Joe H Herrera, Allan Houser and Pop Chalee.
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Museum of New Mexico Press Art of New Mexico
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Last Gasp,U.S. I Am Not of This Planet
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Last Gasp,U.S. 100 Artists See Satan
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Rizzoli Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana
Book SynopsisFrom the intriguing mind behind Codex Seraphinianus comes this beautifully illustrated tribute to the famed Neapolitan character Pulcinella (or Punch as he is referred to in English). This short monograph on Pulcinella is conceived as a extension of the Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia filled with variations and fantasies on a theme. Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana contains over one hundred extraordinary graphite illustrations with scarlet accents, some of which are depicted in comic-strip style. Conceived as a musical Suite, it is divided into nine scenes with an intermission. It features the oddly surreal and globally recognized character, whose origins have been lost in the mists of the time. An ancestor of Pulcinella was certainly Maccus, the protagonist of the Atellanae Fabulae, very popular farces in ancient Rome, but it was in the early seventeenth-century that the character assumed the name and costume that we all know.Trade Review"This illustrated tribute to the famed Neapolitan character Pulcinella (or “Punch” as he is referred to in English) contains more than 100 extraordinary pencil illustrations, some of which are depicted in comic-strip style."—Publishers Weekly"It’s a very different experience from “reading” the Codex and one where the physical medium of the paper book itself is put to essential use. Me, I love the thing and have been looking at it almost nonstop since they sent me the review copy"—DangerousMinds.net
£26.96
Rizzoli Francois Catroux
Book SynopsisThis first volume on François Catroux is a comprehensive consideration of the work and life of an international master of interior design. François Catroux is an innovator and explorer in interior design, who has always been a master of contemporary style. From his early days as a design prodigy, creating space-age boutiques for a house of couture and apartments that drew from Art Deco and modern design, to chic, mirror-studded interiors rich with glamour and elegant refinement in residences in Hong Kong, New York, and London, Catroux is at home in the vast world of design. His spaces may surprise with the introduction of irregular elements—a chandelier of elk horn or pink florescent lighting in a hallway—but Catroux’s hallmark sensibility combines the majesty and grandeur of high ceilings, elegant moldings, and gossamer draperies with elements that suggest comfort and tasteful, restrained opulence. Go-to accoutrements include sumptuous sofas, rich carpTrade Review"David Netto’s book on A-list interior designer Francois Catroux was also years in the making, requiring two years alone to convince his subject to agree to the book. Though Catroux’s work has been published in magazines and books, this is the first time that his body of work is laid out in a much-awaited tome."–Forbes.com"The images in the book are remarkable and author, David Netto, narrates an engaging tale. . . . I am older, wiser and perhaps a bit less prone to gush, but do buy this book. It will show you a thing or two about style and courage and balance."–MrsBlandings.com"In the visual biography François Catroux (Rizzoli), the legendary interior designer looks back chronologically at his incredibly chic body of work, offering new insight into projects like the first Paris apartment he shared with his wife, the Yves Saint Laurent muse Betty Catroux, and the mega-yacht he decorated for Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg."–W Magazine"Now here's a book dripping in sexy spaces I can't get enough of. What is it with these French designers? A must for the luxe-loving design enthusiast."–FrankieDurbin.com"Despite disperate locations, they all share the Catroux DNA of unexpected elements combined with classic sumptuous foundations."–Pretty Page Turner "Fall must haves."–La Dolce Vita "...digs deep into Catroux's jet-set personal life and celebrated career."—New Orleans Times-Picayune/Nola.Com "Catroux’s many fans have been waiting for decades for an overview of his glamorous, highly detailed, and art-filled interiors."—StyleSaloniste.com "Having created rarefied spaces for decades, the legendary French designer has finally agreed to document his impressive body of work in a new book"—1stDibs.com "Fall Books Favorite"—Peak of Chic "...traced the road to primacy of the Paris-based designer, fomr edgy early Paris apartments to an haute luxe French train in the 1980s and an astonishing yacht for Barry Diller and Dia ne von Furstenberg"—Elle Decor
£40.38
University of California Press Dematerialization
Book SynopsisDematerialization examines the intertwined experimental practices and critical discourses of art and industrial design in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. Provocative in nature, this book investigates the way that artists, critics, and designers considered the relationship between the crisis of the modernist concept of artistic medium and the radical social transformation brought about by the accelerated capitalist development of the preceding decades. Beginning with Oscar Masotta's sui generis definition of the term, Karen Benezra proposes dematerialization as a concept that allows us to see how disputes over the materiality of the art and design object functioned in order to address questions concerning the role of appearance, myth, and ideology in the dynamic logic structuring social relations in contemporary discussions of aesthetics, artistic collectivism, and industrial design. Dematerialization brings new insights to the fields of contemporary art history, crTrade Review"More than fifty years after Lucy Lippard and John Chandler published 'The Dematerialization of Art' in Art International, Karen Benezra has added significant insight to the phenomenon as it developed in Latin America. The author’s efforts are magnified by a search of the literature, which reveals that as it relates to Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, not a great deal has been written in English on this subject. While it is clear that art has pretty much continued to materialize, the importance of conceptual art and the profound place it occupies in the history of twentieth and twenty-first century art cannot be denied. Benezra’s close look at major figures, such as Oscar Masotta, Tomás Maldonado, Felipe Ehrenberg, and Gui Bonsiepe, each of whom contributed to this movement in 1960s and 1970s Latin America, is timely and welcome." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Karen Benezra offers, with impressive theoretical sophistication, new grounds for understanding the criticism, experimental art, and design practices in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . [An] impressively researched and argued study that uniquely brings together artists, authors, and designers to shed light on the role of aesthetics in transforming the social in a discussion that will be of interest to art historians, critics, designers, philosophers, and cyberneticians." * caa.reviews *"Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America is a provocative and refreshing book both methodologically speaking and in terms of its content. Offering new directions for thinking about art and design ... in the context of advanced capitalism, Dematerialization is of interest to the fields of contemporary art history, critical theory, and cultural studies in Latin America." (translation). * Transmodernity *"Dematerialization proposes new grounds for exploring an increasingly broad array of artworks that have at different times been described as conceptual, non-objectual, idea-based, media and performative (among others). . . Benezra’s approach to the social and political importance of art during this period in Latin America avoids the pitfalls of prevailing and tired tropes surrounding political and social art." * Sehepunkte *"Dematerialization holds social relations, history, politics, and the ontological status of art at its heart while recovering rich historical reflections on modernity from twentieth–century thinkers from Latin America." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1 Oscar Masotta: Materialism and Dematerialization 2 To Reconcile Art and the People: Paz on Duchamp 3 Los Grupos: Collectivism and Commodity Form 4 Cybersyn: Style, Management, and the Object of Design Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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