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Making Renaissance Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300121896, Yale University Press, December 2006
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...
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£22,50
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William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.
William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...
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£55,00
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Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People
ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones
One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...
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Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings
Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...
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£39,00
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Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange
ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...
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£75,00
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What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...
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Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood
ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.
The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...
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£45,00
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Late Thoughts Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work
ISBN: PB: 9780892368136, Getty Publications, October 2006
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.
"Today the West" chronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the non-representational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into t...
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Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.
This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...
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European Art of the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780892368464, Getty Publications, October 2006
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other...
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