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Cambridge University Press Masaccios Trinity
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Cambridge University Press Manets Le Déjeuner sur lherbe
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Cambridge University Press Imagining the Antipodes
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Cambridge University Press A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 16071677
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Cambridge University Press Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War
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Cambridge University Press Picassos Les Demoiselles DAvignon
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Cambridge University Press Picassos Les demoiselles dAvignon
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Cambridge University Press Salvador Dalis Art and Writing 19271942 The Metamorphoses of Narcissus
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Cambridge University Press Watteau and the Cultural Politics of EighteenthCentury France
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca Cambridge Companions to the History of Art
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez
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Cambridge University Press Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Giotto
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Cambridge University Press Michelangelos Last Judgment
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Cambridge University Press Michelangelos Last Judgment
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Titian
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Cambridge University Press Raphaels Stanza della Segnatura
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Cambridge University Press An Artist against the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Cézanne and The Eternal Feminine
Book SynopsisCézanne's painting The Eternal Feminine has been known by a variety of titles and, as Wayne Andersen has discovered, has also been altered. This volume is the first to interrogate the original state of The Eternal Feminine and to resolve its mysterious importance to Cézanne and the history of art.Trade Review"A fresh and suggestive approach to rereading the history of modern painting through the lens of gender." -- Bookforum"An eminently readable and thought-provoking book about much, much more than just the painting reproduced on its dust-jacket." H-FRANCE"As a treasure trove of myths and images reflecting prurient male sexuality in high art, this study richly records a facet of nineteenth-century French cultural history." - Laurence M. Porter, Michigan State UniversityTable of Contents1. The eternal feminine; 2. The miracle of her restored vision; 3. Les Spectacles des Fêtes Foraines; 4. Ambroise Vollard's show window; 5. Leda and the Swan; 6. The clothed and the naked; 7. The Death of Sardanapalus; 8. The whore of Babylon; 9. Venus, venal, venality; 10. The sacrifice of the eose; 11. Hero and Leander; 12. The apotheosis of Delacroix; 13. The vicissitudes of love; 14. Wives in crisis; 15. Why not put the eyes at the crotch; 16. From whose point of view; 17. The sand-man.
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Cambridge University Press A Painters Pilgrimage through Fifty Years
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1939, this book presents an artistic memoir by the Scottish painter and lithographer Archibald Standish Hartrick (18641950). A richly detailed account is provided, reflecting Hartrick's first-hand experience of 'violent and puzzling' changes within the art world and his personal relationships with figures such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The painter; 2. The Atelier Julian; 3. Paul Gauguin; 4. Vincent Van Gogh; 5. The Glasgow school; 6. The Graphic and The Daily Graphic; 7. Renouard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others; 8. Some black and white artists; 9. The Penels; 10. The Pall Mall Budget; 11. The Chelsea Arts Club; 12. Early days at the New English Arts Club; 13. Changes and chances; 14. Acton Turville; 15. Tresham; 16. The International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers; 17. Retreat from Arcady; 18. London again; 19. The war years; 20. Peace and after; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Architecture in Giottos Paintings
Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of Giotto''s painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the first artist since antiquity to feature highly-detailed architecture in a primary role in his paintings. Francesco Benelli demonstrates how architecture was used to create pictorial space, one of Giotto''s key inventions. He argues that Giotto''s innovation was driven by a new attention to classical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics, mural paintings, coins, and Roman ruins. The book shows how Giotto''s images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, both ancient and contemporary, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.Trade Review'Benelli argues well …' The Art NewspaperTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The cycle of the Legend of San Francis in the upper church of Assisi; 2. The Enrico Scrovegni chapel in Padua; 3. The Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 4. The lower church of Assisi; 5. Giotto's influence in the lower church of Assisi and the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 6. Excursus; Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Frida A Biography of Frida Kahlo
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Caravaggio
Book Synopsis“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” — Boston Sunday GlobeIn Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, made him an artist who speaks across the centuries to modern day. Called “racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable” by the New York Times Book Review, Carav
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Frida Kahlo The Paintings
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Tattoo Chronicles
Book SynopsisLooks at a pivotal year in the author's personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. This title features the many of her sketches, photographs, images of a variety of finished tattoos and her many unusual personal collections - all shot by herself.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bang Bang My Life in Ink
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc What Becomes a Legend Most A Biography of Richard
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wise and ebullient . . . . Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon’s photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you’re thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon’s actual images . . . . One of the achievements of Gefter’s biography is to argue persuasively for Avedon’s place, as a maker of portraits, as one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times "Gefter weaves the particulars of Avedon’s life story into a larger narrative about American culture in the decades after World War II . . . . Read in the context of our own precarious political and ecological moment, this assessment alone argues eloquently for the abiding, even urgent relevance of Avedon’s imperfect Art." — Caroline Weber, New York Times Book Review “Imagine the offspring of Marcel Proust and the Energizer Bunny—that’s who Richard Avedon was, a chronicler of fashion, an analyst of social types, the author in pictures of his era. And Philip Gefter captures him. His biography is an Avedon of Avedon.” — Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Metaphysical Club “Mesmerizing. . . . Like Avedon’s blank white backgrounds, blasted with light, Gefter’s pages expose in a controlled and intelligent manner all the bigness and littleness of one of the greats.” — Brad Gooch, New York Times bestselling author of Flannery and City Poet "A compelling, beautifully written examination of Avedon's life as it reflects the larger cultural milieu of post–World War II New York, and, more importantly, an argument for the role of the artist in contemporary society." — Stephen Shore, photographer "The portrait that emerges in these pages is not only a biography of the artist—his professional triumphs and disappointments and personal demons—but also a beautifully written assessment of his work, which brings Avedon to life and also vividly evokes his most memorable images." — Kate Betts, Air Mail “Revealing, fluent, and very well written—an exemplary biography of an underappreciated artist.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Gefter’s expert, comprehensive, and sensitive biography embodies the electricity and complexity of Avedon’s work as he centers Avedon within the crossfire of both the battle to legitimize photography as a fine art form and the struggle for gay rights… Gefter’s engrossing portrait of a master portraitist vividly proves his claim that Avedon is “one of the most consequential artists of the twentieth century." — Booklist, starred review "Definitive and insightful." — Publishers Weekly "With this engrossing biography, readers will come away with a greater appreciation of Avedon’s artistic strengths and achievements, as well as the complex man behind the camera." — Library Journal (starred review) "Philip Gefter’s welcome new biography . . . takes Avedon at his own estimation as a serious 20th-century artist. It creates a dense, convincing portrait of a man with huge talent and a gift for life." — Scott Eyman, Wall Street Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Radiant Human
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Short Life in a Strange World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
Book SynopsisNational BestsellerA landmark and long-overdue cultural history. —VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple—Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Mystery of Charles Dickens
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc TwentiethCentury Man
Book SynopsisAn exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life.Trade Review"The author succeeds in looking beyond Beard's surface appeal as the 'ideal avatar for our adventurous impulses, shirtless on a perpetual safari,' to explore what he calls Beard's fatalism, his 'heartbreak over the destruction of the natural world'...A vivid account of a life devoted to the African wild." — Kirkus Reviews “Spirited… Wallace blends biography, art criticism, reportage and essayistic digressions to create a portrait of a man so disillusioned with civilization that he sought to ‘rewild himself.’ . . . the man is sharper as a result.” — Washington Post
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Revised and Expanded Edition
Book SynopsisA revised and expanded edition of the world-renowned graphic designer’s classic and bestselling monograph, using examples from a portfolio spanning his full career to date.Protégé of design legend Massimo Vignelli and partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram, Michael Bierut has had one of the most varied careers of any living graphic designer. The projects in How to illustrate the breadth of activity that graphic design encompasses today and demonstrate Bierut’s enthusiastically eclectic approach that has been a hallmark of his career. This revised and expanded edition of his bestselling monograph examines more than three dozen projects from start to finish—including new projects for major clients such as Mastercard, The Poetry Foundation, the International Center for Photography, and Bierut’s brand design for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign—providing insights into the creative process, his working life, his relationship with clients, and the challenges that all creatives face in bringing innovative work into the world today. It also features a new afterword on the role of the designer in the post-Covid era.
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HarperCollins Surreal
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Penguin Books Ltd Bernini
Book SynopsisSculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions.Table of ContentsBerniniList of Plates List of Text Figures Foreword Introduction 1. The Prodigy 2. Bernini in Command 3. Disaster and Triumph 4. Two Churches and St. Peter's 5. Le Cavalier en France 6. The Late Works Bibliographical Note Notes to the Text Index
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Penguin Books Ltd Ai Weiwei Speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Book SynopsisA new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present dayAi Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world''s most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging, nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work. He also talks candidly about his father, his childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state. Together, these extraordinary discussions are an essential reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic freedom.Trade ReviewAi Weiwei is the kind of visionary any nation should be proud to count among its creative class. He has drawn the world's attention to the vibrancy of contemporary Chinese culture...For the world, Ai continues to represent the promise of China. -- Jon Huntsman, US Ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011 * Time Magazine, 100 Most Influential People in the World 2011 *Ai Weiwei is the message -- Will Gompertz * BBC *
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Penguin Putnam Inc In Montmartre
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Penguin Putnam Inc Can I Recycle This
Book Synopsis“If you’ve ever been perplexed by the byzantine rules of recycling, you’re not alone…you’ll want to read Can I Recycle This?... An extensive look at what you can and cannot chuck into your blue bin.” —The Washington PostThe first illustrated guidebook that answers the age-old question: Can I Recycle This?Since the dawn of the recycling system, men and women the world over have stood by their bins, holding an everyday object, wondering, can I recycle this? This simple question reaches into our concern for the environment, the care we take to keep our homes and our communities clean, and how we interact with our local government. Recycling rules seem to differ in every municipality, with exceptions and caveats at every turn, leaving the average American scratching her head at the simple act of throwing something away. Taking readers on a quick but informative tour of how recycling actually
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Harper The Iron Tonic Or a Winter Afternoon in Lonely
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The University of Chicago Press Arthur Dove Always Connect
Book SynopsisArthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature. Challenging earlier accounts that view him as simply a landscape painter, Arthur Dove: Always Connect reveals for the first time the artist's intense engagement with language, the nature of social interaction, and scientific and technological advances. Rachael Z. DeLue rejects the traditional assumption that Dove can only be understood in terms of his nature paintings and association with photographer and gallery director Alfred Stieglitz and his circle. Instead, she uncovers deep and complex connections between Dove's work and his world, including avant-garde literature, popular music, machine culture, meteorology, mathematics, aviation, and World War II, just to name a few. Arthur Dove also offers the first sustained account of Dove's Dadaesque multimedia projects and the first explorations of his animal imagery and the role of humor in his art. Beautifully illustrated with works from all periods of Dove's career, this book presents an unprecedented vision of one of America's most innovative and captivating artists-and reimagines how the story of modern art in the United States might be told.
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University of Chicago Press Deaths of Henri Regnault
Book SynopsisThis is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (184371), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siècle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut short when he died at the age of twenty-seven in the Franco-Prussian War. The story of his glamorous career and patriotic death colored French commemorative culture for nearly forty yearsuntil his memory was swept away by the vast losses of World War I. In The Deaths of Henri Regnault, Marc Gotlieb reintroduces this important artist while offering a new perspective on the ultimate decline of nineteenth-century salon painting. Gotlieb traces Regnault's trajectory after he won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome, a fellowship that provided four years of study in Italy. Arriving in Rome, however, Regnaultsuffered a profound crisisof originality that led him to flee the city in favor of Spain and Morocco. Butthecrisis also proved productive: from Rome, Madrid, Tangier, and Paris,Regnault enthralled audiences with a bold suite of strange, seductive, andviolent Orientalist paintings inspired by hisexotic journeyimages that,Gotlieb argues, arose precisely from the crisis that had overtaken Regnault andthat in key respects was shared by his more avant-garde counterparts. Both an in-depth look at Regnault's violent art and a vibrant essay on historical memory, The Deaths of Henri Regnault lays bare a creative legend who helped shape the collective experience of a generation.
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The University of Chicago Press Vincents Books Van Gogh and the Writers Who
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The University of Chicago Press Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
Book SynopsisReproducing the artwork from that show, this book includes two conversations between Saunders and artist Josiah McElheny and an essay by experimental film scholar Bruce Jenkins that tackles the relationship among painting, photography, and film, as well as the dynamics of Saunders' iconography.
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The University of Chicago Press The Public Papers
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together for the first time all the papers Louis Sullivan intended for a public audience, from his first interview in 1882 to his last essay in 1924. Organized chronologically, these speeches, interviews, essays, letters to editors, and committee reports enable readers to trace Sullivan's development from a brash young assistant to Dankmar Adler to an architectural elder statesman. Robert Twombly, an authority on Sullivan's work and life, has introduced each document with a headnote explaining its significance, locating it in time and place, and examining its immediate context. He has also provided a general introduction that analyzes Sullivan's writing style and objectives, his major philosophical themes, and the sources of his ideas. With the help of headnotes and introduction, readers will get a thorough sense of Sullivan's concerns, discover how his ideas evolved and changed, and appreciate the circumstances under which new interests emerged. This collection is a handy introduction to the full range of Sullivan's thinking, the book with which readers interested in the architect's writings should begin. As a companion volume to Robert Twombly's biography of Sullivan, it gives a comprehensive picture of one of America's most important architects and cultural figures.
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