Individual artists, art monographs Books
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Juana Romani: La Petite Italienne: Da Modella a
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£134.90
L'Erma Di Bretschneider NATO Frasca. La Didattica, Un Percorso Artistico.
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£98.80
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Joseph Anton Koch: E La Sua Grande Famiglia - Und
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£143.45
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Arte Nell'orto
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£999.99
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici: Insomnia
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£284.05
Rizzoli Manal AlDowayan, Hassan Sharif: The Art Library -
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£42.75
Peeters Publishers Utopia's Doom: The 'Graal' as Paradise of Lust,
Book SynopsisThe so-called Garden of Delights by Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), now located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, was painted over half a millennium ago yet remains an absolutely iconic work in European art history. The highly complex and enigmatic image has frequently been interpreted as a paradisiacal utopia, in which people indulge playfully in erotic pleasure in harmony with nature. It is a visual utopia framed before Thomas More had actually coined the word in a book whose entirely unfrivolous blueprint for society could hardly differ more from Bosch’s phantasm. More traditional art historians have identified Bosch’s masterpiece as a painted warning against the sins of the body, more specifically that of `lust’, citing the image of Hell in the right wing in support. Paul Vandenbroeck argues that these two interpretations need not preclude one another: Bosch painted a phantasmagorical false paradise that leads inexorably to ruin. He drew his inspiration from folk ideas about a semi-earthly, semi-supernatural erotic paradise or Grail, in which those who entered could live in a dream-world of unbridled pleasure. But only until Judgement Day, upon which they would all wind up in Hell. As far as `right-thinking’ town-dwellers were concerned from their vantage point within a `bourgeois civilizing offensive’, belief in such an existence was dangerous, if not diabolical nonsense – tantamount to the `Cult of Adam’ and the indiscriminate sexual promiscuity of the late-medieval Sect of the Free Spirit. In large swathes of countryside throughout Europe, however, people were familiar with `ecstatics’, those `born with the caul’, who were able to access this other world. Bosch’s magisterial work is simultaneously a reflection on the first and last times, on passions and moral norms, human beings and Nature. A Nature which, although also part of God’s creation, was permeated with malevolent and highly dangerous sexual urges, which human beings were required to keep in check. For whom did Bosch paint this enormous triptych? Since the discoveries of Prof. J.K. Steppe of the Leuven University, art historians have tended to identify the patron as Henry III of Nassau or, more recently, his uncle, Engelbert II. This book presents an unexpected alternative hypothesis.
£99.46
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Garrett Bradley Revolutions
£25.50
Melissa Publishing House Mark Hadjipateras
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£31.50
Melissa Publishing House Angelos Painting
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£45.00
Melissa Publishing House Rika Pana: Pros to Phos
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£45.00
Kapon Editions George Kastriotis: The Sculptor 1899-1969:
Book SynopsisThe art of George Kastriotis moves against a background of a Greek-inspired symbolism. It is dominated by the female form in its various manifestations, serving as an allegory for natural phenomena, though busts and other subjects are also found. Inheriting the Archaising tradition from his master, Bourdelle, Kastriotis went on to create a personal version of Academic realism, which he combined with his invention of a new material, his special plaster, a cement of his own devising that he used to perfect his compositions. His sculptures are now to be found in several Museums, Galleries and Collections, as well as in public areas in Greece and Cyprus. Greek and English text. 121 black and white illustrations.Table of ContentsPROLOGUE Mary G. Kastriotou A GIFTED PUPIL OF ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE Paolo Moreno THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN IN GEORGIOS KASTRIOTIS ILLUSTRATIONS 1910-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1969 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£30.60
Editorial RM Mexico Alberto Gironella
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£67.36
Editorial RM Mexico Anita Brenner: Vision of an Age
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£44.55
The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Chen Xi – So We Remember
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£999.99
The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Homage to Aert Van Der Neer
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£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Imants Tillers: Journey To Nowhere
Book SynopsisA visual odyssey cataloguing the works of an award-winning, internationally exhibited Latvian artist.
£47.11
Viella Editrice Giuseppe Mentessi
£32.46
Getty Trust Publications Anne VallayerCoster
£999.99
