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The Architecture of the Italian Renaissanceby Peter MurrayISBN 0500181012 (0-500-18101-2)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Architecture: The Natural and the Manmadeby Vincent ScullyISBN 0312097425 (0-312-09742-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700by Anthony Blunt, Richard BeresfordISBN 0300077483 (0-300-07748-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Art History: A Very Short Introductionby Dana ArnoldISBN 0192801813 (0-19-280181-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernismby Hal FosterISBN 0500238189 (0-500-23818-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism'Book summary:Adopting a year-by-year approach, this title presents more than one hundred (c 3,000 words) essays, each focusing on a crucial event such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, or the opening of a major exhibition to tell the story of the period from 1900 to this day. [via]
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Art Since 1960by Michael ArcherISBN 0500203512 (0-500-20351-2)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Since 1960'Book summary:During the past forty years, profound and multifarious changes have taken place in art: stylistic divergence has become the prevailing characteristic. This intelligently argued survey explores the perennial question--art's relationship to everyday life--which links Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body and Installation art and myriad developments in the work of Warhol, Beuys, Bourgeois and the many other artists whose works are discussed and illustrated. With a timeline that shows movements, key figures and important world events at a glance, and full bibliography, "Art Since 1960" provides a unique and indispensable overview and source of information on the evolution of art over the past four decades. 180 illus., 74 in color. [via]
Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archiac Period A Handbookby John BoardmanISBN 0500201439 (0-500-20143-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archiac Period A Handbook'Book summary:In his sequel to "Athenian Black Figure Vases, " John Boardman, Professor Emeritus at Oxford University, covers the invention of the "red figure" technique in about 530 BC. Professor Boardman illuminates the ancient art form by placing the painters and their vases within the history of Athens and the greater tradition of Greek mythology. 528 illus. [via]
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Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period A Handbookby John BoardmanISBN 0500202443 (0-500-20244-3)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Becoming Mona Lisa : The Making of a Global Iconby Donald SassoonISBN 0156027119 (0-15-602711-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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The Birth of Venusby Sarah DunantISBN 0316725498 (0-316-72549-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Venus'Book summary:The Birth of Venus is all the more fascinating a historical novel for the author's inability to make up her mind what it is about. Is it a novel about the limited choices available to a woman with talent in Renaissance Florence--marriage or the convent? Or is it a novel about the choices you make to survive in a totalitarian society? As Savonarola takes Florence closer and closer to being an ascetic theocracy, Alessandra, her gay brother and his lover whom she has married for mutual protection find themselves in more and more peril. It could also be a detective story--Allesandra is in love with a painter whose religious mania and fascination with the body makes him a plausible suspect for a series of killings and dismemberments. Some historical novels wear their research too heavily--Dunant's is light, fluent and pacy, but her fascination with the possibilities revealed by research leaves her failing to make choices.
The Birth of Venus is a highly intelligent novel kept from incoherence mostly by the intensely imagined Alessandra, through whose eyes we see the tragic end of a key moment in human culture and whose lively sensibility constantly sparks ideas about art and her time. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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The Book of Kellsby Peter BrownISBN 0394739604 (0-394-73960-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Book of Kells: Forty-Eight Pages and Details in Color from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublinby Peter BrownISBN 0500233268 (0-500-23326-8)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Borrower of the Nightby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380733390 (0-380-73339-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture: 800-1200by Kenneth J. ConantISBN 0300052987 (0-300-05298-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cathedral:the Story of Its Constructionby David MacaulayISBN 0395316685 (0-395-31668-5)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cathedral:the Story of Its Construction'Book summary:The Gothic cathedral is one of humanity's greatest masterpieces--an architectural feast that couldn't help but attract the attention of renowned author-illustrator David Macaulay. Once an architectural student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Macaulay glories in the intricacies and beauty of structure, as evidenced in his masterful pen-and-ink drawings in critically acclaimed children's books such as Castle, Pyramid, and Rome Antics. He begins Cathedral in 1252, when the people of a fictitious French town named Chutreaux decide to build a cathedral after their existing church is struck by lightning. We first meet the craftspeople, then examine the tools, study their cathedral plans, and watch the laying of the foundation. Week by week we witness the construction of this glorious temple to God. Macaulay intuitively hones in on the details about which we are the most curious: How were those enormously high ceilings built and decorated? How were those 60-foot-high windows made and installed in the 13th century? And how did people haul those huge, heavy bells up into the skyscraper-high towers? Thanks to Macaulay's thorough, thoughtful tribute to the Gothic cathedral, not a stone, turret, or pane of stained glass is left unexamined or unexplained. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, S.G.C. Middlemore, Peter GayISBN 0375759263 (0-375-75926-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Early Medieval Architectureby R. A. StalleyISBN 0192842234 (0-19-284223-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Medieval Architecture'Book summary:The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the church spire, and the monastic cloister. By avoiding the traditional emphasis on chronological development, Roger Stalley provides a radically new approach to the subject, exploring issues and themes rather than sequences and dates. In addition to analysing the language of the Romanesque, the book examines the engineering achievements of the builders, focusing on how the great monuments of the age were designed and constructed. Ranging from Gotland to Apulia, Stalley explores the richness and variety of European architecture in terms of the social and religious aspirations of the time. Symbolic meanings associated with architecture are also thoroughly investigated. Written with style and humour, the lively text includes many quotations from ancient sources, providing fascinating insight into the way that medieval buildings were created, and in the process enlivening study of this period. [via]
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Edvard Munchby Josef Paul HodinISBN 0500201226 (0-500-20122-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Etruscan Artby Nigel Jonathan SpiveyISBN 0500203040 (0-500-20304-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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German Romantic Paintingby William VaughanISBN 0300060475 (0-300-06047-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Galleryby Nicholas Penny, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian GordonISBN 0300050828 (0-300-05082-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery'Book summary:The collection of Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery in London is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection, and is at the same time a guide to the paintings in the Gallery. It is published to coincide with the opening of the Sainsbury Wing in which the Early Renaissance collection will be exhibited. The authors explain the background of relious belief and devotional practice for which many of the paintings were created, and the secular requirements and ambitions which influenced them. They discuss the social context in which art was created and then displayed in the street, the palace or the church; and consider the role of the patron and the dealer. They describe the artist's workshop, consider the role of apprentices and assistance, discuss the influence of guilds and courts and explore the reasons for the introduction of new subjects and techniques and also the survival of traditions. The book goes on to supply an account of the materials and techniques of the early Renaissance artist. The preparation of panels, the application of gold leaf, the use of tempera and oil paint are all explained on the basis of research. After this introduction, some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the gallery are examined in detail, including masterpieces by Duccio, Van Eyck, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Bouts, Bellini, Memling, Raphael and Leonardo. [via]
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The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530by Christopher WilsonISBN 0500276811 (0-500-27681-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Periodby John BoardmanISBN 0500201633 (0-500-20163-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period a Handbookby John BoardmanISBN 0195200462 (0-19-520046-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Handbook of Greek Artby Gisela M.A. RichterISBN 0306802988 (0-306-80298-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Pastby Francis HaskellISBN 0300059493 (0-300-05949-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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History Of Architecture: Settings And Ritualsby Spiro Kostof, Greg CastilloISBN 0195083792 (0-19-508379-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History Of Architecture: Settings And Rituals'Book summary:Ten years in the making, A History of Architecture ranges from the first prehistoric environments on record to the most recent examples of urban design. A landmark work of impressive scope, the book is enhanced by 700 halftone illustrations and 150 drawings especially prepared by architect Richard Tobias.
Kostof's range of study includes not only the monumental religious, governmental and upper-class structures around which architectural history has usually been written but also the diversity of ordinary domestic, rural, and urban buildings, and landscapes which surround them. Moreover, Kostof evaluates Western achievement in the context of contemporary cultures elsewhere. Thus he duscusses the high points of imperial Rome along with Buddhist stupas and Han palaces, compares medieval Florence with medieval Cairo, and introduces Inca and Aztec cities as the Spanish conquistadores would have seen them.
The author's premise is that buldings are conditioned by the social, economic, and political frame of their time; in this sense, Kostof concludes, the history of architecture can be considered an aspect of the history of human institutions. "Architecture, in the end," he writes, "is nothing less than the gift of making places for some human purpose."
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Spiro Kostof is Professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former president of the Society of Architectural Historians and is the author of several books, among them Caves of God and The Third Rime, 1870-1950: Traffic and Glory, and editor of The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession [via]More editions of History Of Architecture: Settings And Rituals:
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Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Societyby Robert L. HerbertISBN 0300050836 (0-300-05083-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Receptionby Belinda ThomsonISBN 0500203350 (0-500-20335-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception'Book summary:The revolutionary nature of Impressionism emerged from anarchism and political radicalism, from a belief in science and individualism, creating a view of art true to modern life and to immediate visual perception. The author illuminates the thinking and personal lives of the Impressionists, including Pissarro, Monet and Renoir. [via]
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Islamic Art and Architectureby Robert HillenbrandISBN 0500203059 (0-500-20305-9)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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King of the Confessorsby Thomas HovingISBN 0345303709 (0-345-30370-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Language of Ornamentby James TrillingISBN 0500203431 (0-500-20343-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Artsby Joshua Charles TaylorISBN 0226791548 (0-226-79154-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Leonardoby Martin KempISBN 0192806440 (0-19-280644-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artistby Martin Kemp, Margaret WalkerISBN 0300045093 (0-300-04509-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artistsby James FentonISBN 0226241475 (0-226-24147-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Living With Artby Rita Gilbert, William McCarterISBN 0394374010 (0-394-37401-0)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Marcel Duchampby Dawn Ades, David Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp, Neil CoxISBN 0500203229 (0-500-20322-9)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Modern Art in the Common Cultureby Thomas CrowISBN 0300076495 (0-300-07649-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Movements in Art Since 1945by Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 050020344X (0-500-20344-X)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Movements in Art since 1945'Book summary:This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.
The fifth edition reflects the latest developments in a wide-ranging introduction and nine new chapters that deal with the radical transformations that have taken place in contemporary art. Among the topics covered are the increasing dominance of photography, film, and video, and the emergence of a new post-Post-Expressionist group of "Abject" artists whose work stresses feelings of alienation in Western industrial societies, often through the reintroduction of narrative. The emergence of an opposing trend of idealizing classicism, particularly in Italy and Russia, is discussed, and there is increased coverage of the burgeoning practice of art "on the periphery" in Third World countries, where artists have absorbed Western modernism and then created new terms of reference for artistic expression adapted to their own cultures. Numerous additional reproductions illustrate all the recent developments in this completely redesigned edition, and there are a full bibliography and comprehensive chronologies of key events. No other account of the art of the last fifty-five years provides as much up-to-date information about art issues, developments, and players. 100 color and 190 black & white [via]More editions of Movements in Art Since 1945:
Movements in Art Since 1945: Issues and Conceptsby Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 0500202826 (0-500-20282-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The National Gallery Companion Guideby Erika LangmuirISBN 0300061331 (0-300-06133-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The National Gallery Companion Guide'Book summary:[via]This beautifully illustrated and updated National Gallery Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world. Erika Langmuir offers enlightening commentary on more than 200 of the finest worksby painters including Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Ingres, and Degasfrom the National Gallerys collection, along with masterpieces by less familiar artists.
With this book, readers can trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries; develop an eye for style, technique, imagery, and genre; and learn to appreciate the talents of artists in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts. The book takes into account the latest scholarship from the National Gallery and includes discussions of the museums newest high-profile acquisitions.
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter, R.C. BellISBN 0486225739 (0-486-22573-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'Book summary:[via]Volume 2 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardos versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates, plus faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.More editions of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci:
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeingby James ElkinsISBN 0156004976 (0-15-600497-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Artby Leo SteinbergISBN 0226771857 (0-226-77185-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art'Book summary:[via]Leo Steinbergs classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flatbed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called a tour de force of critical method, is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johnss work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.
The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . . .The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insightsalthough the quality is very high and the insights are importantas in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style. . . . A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords.Alfred Frankenstein, Art News
Not only one of the most lucid and independent minds among art critics, but a profound one. Robert MotherwellMore editions of Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art:
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Out of This Centuryby Peggy GuggenheimISBN 0233976019 (0-233-97601-9)
Softcover, Andre Deutsch
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The Oxford History of Classical Artby John BoardmanISBN 0192853376 (0-19-285337-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of Classical Art'Book summary:Lying at the heart of the Western classical tradition, the rich legacy of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome continues to provide inspiration and guidance to artists and art lovers everywhere. Lavishly illustrated and masterfully prepared under the editorships of John Boardman, one of the world's preeminent classicists, The Oxford History of Classical Art offers readers the definitive companion to the artistic and architectural achievements of the Greco-Roman world, from the rise of the Greek city-states to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Written by Boardman and a team of distinguished experts including J.J. Pollitt, Alan W. Johnston, R.R.R. Smith, and Janet Huskinson, this sumptuous volume presents the full pageantry and glory of the classical world, tracing the origins and evolution of classical art as it gradually moved from the art of individuals and small communities to the art of a world power. Particular attention is paid throughout to the splendor and quality of the arts themselves, aptly represented in 442 stunningly beautiful black and white and full-color plates.
Destined to become the definitive sourcebook in its field, The Oxford History of Classical Art is indispensable for anyone intrigued by the timeless heritage of the ancient world. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of Classical Art:
Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940by George Heard HamiltonISBN 0300056494 (0-300-05649-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790by Ellis WaterhouseISBN 0300058330 (0-300-05833-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Post-Impressionismby Bernard DenvirISBN 0500202559 (0-500-20255-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Centuryby Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison, Gill PerryISBN 0300055161 (0-300-05516-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Pyramidby David MacaulayISBN 0395321212 (0-395-32121-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pyramid'Book summary:When children catch their first glimpse of a pyramid, a sea of questions inevitably tumbles forth. "Why are they shaped like that?" "How were they made?" "Who made them?" "What were they used for?" Perplexed adults can sigh with relief now that David Macaulay has found a way to thoroughly answer all those deserving questions. His exquisitely crosshatched pen-and-ink illustrations frame the engaging fictional story of an ancient pharaoh who commissions a pyramid to be built for him. With great patience and respect for minute detail (not unlike the creators of the early pyramids), Macaulay explains the sometimes backbreaking tasks of planning, hauling, chiseling, digging, and hoisting that went into the construction of this awe-inspiring monument. Just when the narrative teeters on the edge of textbook doldrums, Macaulay brings us back to the engaging human drama of death and superstition. This respectful blending of architecture, history, and mysticism will certainly satiate pyramid-passionate children as well as their obliging parents. ALA Notable Book. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hateby Alberto ManguelISBN 0375503021 (0-375-50302-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate'Book summary:Reading Pictures looks at the work of great artistsfrom the intensely familiar to the undiscoveredand examines the stories behind them, tracing the passage of life into art. Pablo Picasso torments his mistress Dora Maar and then paints brilliant studies of her grief-crumpled face; these evolve into the weeping woman in his great indictment of fascism, Guernica. Manguel untangles what this story, and countless others, shows us of our twin impulses toward creation and destruction. A tour of the psyche more than of the museum, this book dares to ponder, with contagious wonder, why we create.
Not since John Bergers influential Ways of Seeing has an essayist so eloquently examined what happens when we are moved by profound works of art and how we decode a wordless language that touches us so intimately. Richly illustrated, Reading Pictures shows us that there is no limit to the stories we may find if we look with care and delight. [via]More editions of Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate:
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Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Artby Alberto ManguelISBN 0375759220 (0-375-75922-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Art'Book summary:This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or download images on a screen? Are there ways in which we can "read" the stories within paintings, monuments, buildings and sculptures? We say "every picture tells a story" - but does it?
Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent. A History of Love and Hate is not about art history or theory - it is about the astonishing pleasures and surprises of stories.
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Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism Art Between the Wars: Art Between the Warsby Paul Wood, Briony Fer, David BatchelorISBN 0300055196 (0-300-05519-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italyby Alastair SmartISBN 0500620024 (0-500-62002-4)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Roman Artby Roger Ling, Donald Emrys Strong, J. M. C. ToynbeeISBN 0300052936 (0-300-05293-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922by Camilla Gray, Marian Burleigh-MotleyISBN 0500202079 (0-500-20207-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0300091273 (0-300-09127-3)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson'Book summary:From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs. [via]
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The Stones Of Veniceby John Ruskin, J. G. LinksISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stones Of Venice'Book summary:It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else. This was Ruskins war cry as he entered the now almost forgotten Battle of the Styles on the side against the school which has conducted mens inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street. But first the reader must know the difference between right and wrong; he must find out for himself the best way of doing everything. I shall give him stones, and bricks and straw, chisels and trowels and the ground, and then ask him to build, only helping him if I find him puzzled. Unhappily, both these exciting objectives were attained only after the expenditure of nearly half-a-million words; glorious words, but too many. For fifty years, The Stones of Venice was read by all who went there and thousands who could not; the sightseers whom the city captivates today seldom have its greatest guidebook with them.It is the aim of this new edition to put a fascinating book within reach of travelersactive or armchairwith limited resources of time. Much that was superfluous has been omitted; what remains is the essence of a now very readable and portable book. It is a book for the lover of architecture, the lover of Venice, the lover of lost causes, and, perhaps above all, for the lover of fine writing.[via] 
Story of Paintingby Horst W. JansonISBN 0517464462 (0-517-46446-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movementby Whitney ChadwickISBN 0500276226 (0-500-27622-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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The World of Leonardo: 1452-1519by Robert WallaceISBN 0316509205 (0-316-50920-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissanceby Lisa JardineISBN 0333674464 (0-333-67446-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissance'Book summary:Drawing from her earlier and more academic studies, Lisa Jardine approaches the challenge of creating a new history of the Renaissance with remarkable bravura and all the boldness required to deliver a fresh and highly readable story of an age we think we know so well. In Worldly Goods, Jardine argues that while the Renaissance was indeed marked by a flourishing cultural identity, it was the material and commercial spirit of the 15th and 16th centuries that set the tone. Commerce and international trade provided the enormous fortunes that funded artistic production, and luxury goods, including great works of art, became important as means of displaying newly acquired wealth and status. It was an urge to own, a ceaseless quest for new horizons and exotic treasures, that fueled the cultural output of the Renaissance, according to Jardine, and that taste for conspicuous displays of opulence characterizes the Western experience of the arts and culture to this day.
That Worldly Goods succeeds in telling a captivating new story of the Renaissance is testimony to Jardine's literary and scholarly success at a difficult task. That her book, richly illustrated and well written, makes contemplation of its subject a thrill is testimony of a very good read. [via]
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