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Varieties of Romantic Experience British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp
ISBN: HB: 9780300152920, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 200 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated book considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon by bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish, and Dutch drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp...
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£50,00
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Vincent Van Gogh
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791343969, Prestel Publishing, July 2009
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...
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£14,99
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Viewing Renaissance Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...
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£25,00
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Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...
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£25,00
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Van Gogh's "Sheaves of Wheat"
ISBN: HB: 9780300117721, Yale University Press, October 2006
112 pp., 27.1x23.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
Vincent Van Gogh viewed wheat as a central metaphor of the cycle of life and the creative process. As such, it was a theme that he consistently explored throughout his career. This book examines the artist's personal and visual fascination with wheat...
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£22,50
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Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780892367221, Getty Publications, March 2006
390 pp., 29.8x22.2 cm, 239 illus., 261 colour illus.
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were re...
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£65,00
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Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain Catalogue of the Collections
ISBN: HB: 9780892361731, Getty Publications, March 2006
206 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 53 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.
This book is the first completely detailed and descriptive companion to the museum's holdings of Vincennes and Sevres porcelain. The porcelain is catalogued in chronological order by factory. Each entry provides a complete bibliography and provenance...
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Varieties of Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780300102963, Yale University Press, July 2004
352 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 285 colour illus.
"Varieties of Modernism" discusses the art of the middle third of the twentieth century. It consists of a short general introduction and four parts, each concentrating on a key aspect of the art of the period. With the rise of the European dictatorsh...
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£25,00
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Van Dyck The Complete Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300099287, Yale University Press, June 2004
528 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 black&white illus.
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work and this is a catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also li...
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£125,00
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Visitable Past Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915
ISBN: HB: 9780226494128, University of Chicago Press, April 1989
139 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 92 halftones, 17 maps
In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...
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£60,00
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