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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance A Contribution to the History of Collecting
ISBN: PB: 9781606066652, Getty Publications, January 2021
224 pp., 0x0 cm
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a s...
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£50,00
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Americans in Spain Painting and Travel, 1820-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780300252965, Yale University Press, November 2020
232 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
The art and culture of Spain significantly influenced many of America's most renowned 19th- and 20th-century artists. Mary Cassatt visited the country early in her career and first garnered the attention of the French Impressionists with her painting...
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£45,00
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Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America Collectors, Art Worlds, Networks
ISBN: HB: 9781913107147, Yale University Press, October 2020
288 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 illus.
In the 19th century, the Aesthetic movement exalted taste, the pursuit of beauty, and self-expression over moral expectations and restrictive conformity. This illuminating publication examines the production and circulation of artworks made during th...
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£40,00
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Art of Illusion
ISBN: HB: 9783791386799, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work...
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£29,99
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Asian Modern, Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9789811406072, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
450 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
John Clark's magisterial "The Asian Modern" reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes meticulo...
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£28,00
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America's Impressionism Echoes of a Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300247701, Yale University Press, June 2020
192 pp., 27.4x25.4 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.
From the late 19th century to the Second World War, American painters adapted Impressionism to their own ends, shaping one of the most enduring, complex, and contradictory styles of art ever produced in the United States. This comprehensive book pres...
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£35,00
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Artemisia
ISBN: HB: 9781857096569, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2020
256 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 140 black&white, colour illus.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654 or later) is the most celebrated woman artist of the baroque period in Italy. Her career spanned more than 40 years, as she moved between Rome, where she was raised and trained by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, to Fl...
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£35,00
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Alps in Panoramic Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9783791385877, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 100 colour illus.
As downhill skiing became popular in 20th-century Europe, resorts in the Austrian, German, French, and Swiss Alps commissioned paintings of their ski runs to turn into maps. The best of these paintings are now featured in this book showing the artist...
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£35,00
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Albrecht Durer
ISBN: HB: 9783791359311, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 260 colour illus.
During his lifetime, Durer found tremendous success as a painter and printmaker, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. His drawings and studies reveal his interest in human proportio...
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£49,99
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48
ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm
Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...
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£17,00
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