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About Rothkoby Dore AshtonISBN 0195033485 (0-19-503348-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Agnes Peltonby Michael Zakian, Agnes PeltonISBN 0295974516 (0-295-97451-6)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Almost a Womanby Esmerelda SantiagoISBN 0201483920 (0-201-48392-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Amphigorey Alsoby Edward GoreyISBN 0156056720 (0-15-605672-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Also'Book summary:Drawings (including thirty-two pages in color), captions, and verse showcasing Goreys unique talents and humor. The Glorious Nosebleed, The Utter Zoo, The Epiplectic Bicycle, and fourteen other selections.[via]More editions of Amphigorey Also:
The Art of Louis-leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic Franceby Susan L. SiegfriedISBN 0300063326 (0-300-06332-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Artist in American Societyby Heil HarrisISBN 0226317544 (0-226-31754-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverseby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0271012161 (0-271-01216-1)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Aurora Leighby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kerry McSweeneyISBN 0192836536 (0-19-283653-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early-Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satirical portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty, Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West country, to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her early adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on love, art, God, the Woman Question, and society. This edition is critically edited and fuly annotated. It should be of interest to readers of Victorian poetry and students of 19th-century English literature and women's writing. [via]
Barnett Newmanby Ann Temkin, Richard Shiff, Barnett NewmanISBN 0300094299 (0-300-09429-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Between Ruin and Renewal: Egon Schiele's Landscapesby Egon Schiele, Kimberly A. SmithISBN 0300097484 (0-300-09748-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Bruegel, or the Workshop of Dreams : A Novelby Claude-Henri Rocquet, Nora ScottISBN 0226723429 (0-226-72342-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Chattertonby Peter AckroydISBN 0241123488 (0-241-12348-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chatterton'Book summary:Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues found in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. Chatterton is at once a hilariously witty comedy; a thoughtful and dramatic exploration of the deepest issues of authenticity in both life and art; and a subtle and touching story of failed lives, parental love, doomed marriages, and erotic passions.[via]More editions of Chatterton:
Collaboration in Italian Renaissance Artby John T. Paoletti, Wendy Stedman SheardISBN 0300021755 (0-300-02175-5)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artistsby Ian ChilversISBN 0192800485 (0-19-280048-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists'Book summary:The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also patrons and dealers, collectors and writers, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. For this new edition much new material has been added on twentieth-century art, including subjects such as Neo-Expressionism and the Turner Prize.
Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Leonardo da Vinci, from Grandma Moses to Mary Cassatt, from Max Beckmann to Andy Warhol. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, the Ancients, Impressionism, the Ash-can School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing.
For this abridgement, Ian Chilvers has retained all of the essential features of the original while adding new entries and eliminating the more peripheral articles. By presenting the information in a pithier format, he is able to focus more sharply on Western and Western-inspired art. The dictionary also provides a very helpful cross-referencing system for names, art media, styles, and terms. Art enthusiasts of every kind will find this entirely reliable and highly readable volume indispensable. [via]More editions of Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists:
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Operaby Ewan West, John Hamilton WarrackISBN 0192800280 (0-19-280028-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Centuryby Susan GubarISBN 0231115806 (0-231-11580-6)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Crown of Life: Artistic Creativity in Old Ageby Hugo MunsterbergISBN 0156232022 (0-15-623202-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Cut With the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hochby Maud Lavin, Hannah HochISBN 0300061641 (0-300-06164-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Daumierby Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, Michel Melot, Le Men Segolenr, Edouard Papet, Dominique LobsteinISBN 0300083599 (0-300-08359-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringingby Carroll Parrott BlueISBN 0292709137 (0-292-70913-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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A Day With Picassoby Billy KluverISBN 0262611473 (0-262-61147-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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A Day With Picasso: Twenty-Four Photographs by Jean Cocteauby Billy KluverISBN 0262112280 (0-262-11228-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260263 (0-15-626026-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939'Book summary:Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939:
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Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260271 (0-15-626027-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Diary of Anais Nin: 1944-1947by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 015626028X (0-15-626028-X)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260360 (0-15-626036-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260387 (0-15-626038-7)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941by Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260409 (0-15-626040-9)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260395 (0-15-626039-5)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Eva Hesseby Elisabeth Sussman, Yve-Alain Bois, Briony Fer, Renate Petzinger, Ann TemkinISBN 0300091680 (0-300-09168-0)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eva Hesse'Book summary:Eva Hesse, a pivotal figure in the development of postwar international art, created paintings, sculpture, and works on paper that were striking in their beauty and playful sensibility. Although much has been written about Hesse's dramatic life - her childhood flight from Nazi Germany, her struggles to gain acceptance as a young female artist, her battle with cancer, and her tragic death in 1970 at the age of 34 - her art has yet to receive the critical attention it deserves. This lavishly illustrated catalogue redresses that omission, focusing on Hesse's innovative working methods and choices of materials as well as on the larger aesthetic and philosophical questions raised by her artistic practice. The book presents and documents over two hundred works by Hesse in all media. Particular attention is devoted to the degradation and ageing of her sculptures over the past three decades. Essays by a distinguished team of writers deal with themes of mutability and decay in Hesse's art; discuss her little-known early career in New York and Germany; explore her innovative use of translucent materials; and examine the role of drawing and collage in her creative process. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February to May 2002; the Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, from July to September 2002; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from September to December 2002. [via]
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portraitby Alfred StieglitzISBN 0300086105 (0-300-08610-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Gustave Caillebotteby Kirk Varnedoe, Gustave CaillebotteISBN 0300082797 (0-300-08279-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gustave Caillebotte'Book summary:A study of the life and work of Gustave Caillebotte - until recently the "forgotten man" of Impressionism. [via]
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Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projectsby Carl SchneemannISBN 026269297X (0-262-69297-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Imaging Her Erotics : Essays, Interviews, Projectsby Carolee SchneemannISBN 0262194597 (0-262-19459-7)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artistby Francis Ames-LewisISBN 0300092954 (0-300-09295-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist'Book summary:At the beginning of the fifteenth century, painters and sculptors were seldom regarded as more than artisans and craftsmen, but within little more than a hundred years they had risen to the status of "artist". This book explores how early Renaissance artists gained recognition for the intellectual foundations of their activities and achieved artistic autonomy from enlightened patrons. A leading authority on Renaissance art, Francis Ames-Lewis traces the ways in which the social and intellectual concerns of painters and sculptors brought about the acceptance of their work as a liberal art, alongside other arts like poetry. He charts the development of the idea of the artist as a creative genius with a distinct identity and individuality. Ames-Lewis examines the various ways that Renaissance artists like Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and D|rer, as well as many other less well-known painters and sculptors, pressed for intellectual independence. By writing treatises, biographies, poetry, and other literary works, by seeking contacts with humanists and literary men, and by investigating the arts of the classical past, Renaissance artists honed their social graces and broadened their intellectual horizons. They also experienced a growing creative confidence and self-awareness that was expressed in novel self-portraits, works created solely to demonstrate pictorial skills, and monuments to commemorate themselves after death. This book brings together a wide range of textual and visual evidence to illuminate the changing attitudes toward artists and their work, and it provides many stimulating insights into Renaissance culture and art history. [via]
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Interviews With American Artistsby David SylvesterISBN 0300092040 (0-300-09204-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ 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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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 0156508818 (0-15-650881-8)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1922by Nigel NicolsonISBN 0156508826 (0-15-650882-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928by Nigel NicolsonISBN 0156508834 (0-15-650883-4)
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan ManningISBN 0192839764 (0-19-283976-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marble Faun'Book summary:The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy.
Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. [via]More editions of The Marble Faun:
Mark Rothko: A Biographyby James E. BreslinISBN 0226074064 (0-226-07406-4)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Mary Cassatt: A Lifeby Nancy Mowll MathewsISBN 0300077548 (0-300-07754-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminatorby Michael CamilleISBN 0300064578 (0-300-06457-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, David CarrollISBN 0192834029 (0-19-283402-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:This panoramic work--considered the finest novel in English by many critics--offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment, and, at the same time, dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature. The text of this edition comes from the Clarendon Middlemarch, the first critical edition of the novel. [via]
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Middlemarchby A. S. Byatt, George EliotISBN 0192100297 (0-19-210029-7)
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Middlemarchby David Carroll, George Eliot, Felicia BonaparteISBN 0192825070 (0-19-282507-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2), the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. The text of this edition comes from the original Clarendon edition, the first critical edition of the novel. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, which roots the characters and action in the conceptual concerns that that inspired the novel. [via]
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Middlemarch a Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotISBN 0192504975 (0-19-250497-5)
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Moments of Beingby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156619180 (0-15-661918-0)
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Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writingsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156619172 (0-15-661917-2)
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The Optimistsby Andrew MillerISBN 0156030551 (0-15-603055-1)
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Oxford Companion to Western Artby Hugh BrigstockeISBN 0198662033 (0-19-866203-3)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Artby Harold Osborne, Ian Chilvers, Dennis FarrISBN 0192800221 (0-19-280022-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of Art'Book summary:Whether you are interested in Junk Art or Byzantine Art, the Ash-Can School or the Antipodeans, Praxiteles and Phidias or Gilbert and George, The Oxford Dictionary of Art is the first place to turn for accurate information about artists, schools, periods, techniques, critical terms, major museums, art historians, philosophers, and much much more. Compiled from three highly acclaimed Oxford Companions --The Oxford Companion to Art, to Twentieth-Century Art, and to the Decorative Arts--and with hundreds of new entries added, this authoritative, one-volume reference offers over three thousand entries on almost every aspect of Western art, as well as the most essential features of Asian art.
Here you will find the answer to almost any question pertaining to the world of art. In what museum is Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror exhibited today? Who coined the term "happening"? What are color field painting, hard edge painting, and op art, who are the most representative artists of these schools, and what are their best works? How does camaieu differ from grisaille? What is the most richly endowed museum in the world? As a further aid the Dictionary offers an extensive system of cross references, guiding readers to a wealth of additional information on almost any topic of interest.
Covering the entire history of art, this wide-ranging and up-to-date guide is an indispensable reference for scholars, for students, and for art enthusiasts of every kind. It is also a browser's delight, filled with fascinating facts about the personalities who people the world of art. [via]More editions of The Oxford Dictionary of Art:
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The Oxford Dictionary of Artby Ian Chilvers, Dennis Farr, Harold OsborneISBN 0198600844 (0-19-860084-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of Art'Book summary:Ideal for students, picture researchers, and enthusiasts of all kinds, this third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Art reaffirms the unrivalled position held by this authoritative one-volume guide to the art of the Western world. Covering Western art from the ancient world to the present day, the Dictionary provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts. Over 3000 entries provide the reader with information on a wide range of people and subjects, including artists, critics, collectors, dealers, patrons, museums, art schools, materials, and techniques.
This third edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded, with over 200 new entries on contemporary artists, such as Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Antony Gormley; new forms, such as video art; museums, patrons, and collectors. The Dictionary also includes an updated contextual chronology of major works, as well as a practical directory of museums and galleries around the world. [via]More editions of The Oxford Dictionary of Art:
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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Parisby Thomas E. CrowISBN 0300037643 (0-300-03764-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Styleby Michael BaxandallISBN 019282144X (0-19-282144-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style'Book summary:Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art.
This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original. [via]More editions of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style:
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendyby J. M. Barrie, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192839292 (0-19-283929-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy'Book summary:In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance, with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, in Peter and Wendy. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. This is the first edition to include both texts in one volume and the first to a present an extensively annotated text for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Joseph BristowISBN 0192807293 (0-19-280729-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Piero Della Francesca: The Flagellationby Marilyn Aronberg LavinISBN 0226469581 (0-226-46958-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piero Della Francesca: The Flagellation'Book summary:"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."Spectator[via]
"[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Piero Della Francesca: The Flagellation:
Raphaelby Roger Jones, Nicholas PennyISBN 0300040520 (0-300-04052-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Roger Fry: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 015678520X (0-15-678520-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030411 (0-15-603041-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
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Sandro Botticelliby R. W. LightbownISBN 0236309307 (0-236-30930-7)
Hardcover, Elek
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Sitaby Kate MillettISBN 0252068874 (0-252-06887-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coastby Gary WyattISBN 0295977582 (0-295-97758-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030470 (0-15-603047-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:"Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."-Eudora Welty, from the Introduction The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. [via]
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Valerie EliotISBN 0156948702 (0-15-694870-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
When I Was Puerto Ricanby Esmeralda SantiagoISBN 0201581175 (0-201-58117-5)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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