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19th-century Artby Robert Rosenblum, H. W. JansonISBN 0131895621 (0-13-189562-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: '19th-century Art'Book summary:Now full color throughout, this matchless survey of nineteenth-century painting and sculpture begins with the French revolution in 1776 and ends with the dawn of a new century at the Paris World Fair in 1900. In addition to the ample treatment of geniuses such as Ingres, Courbet, Manet, and Monet, readers will find full coverage of master artists from around the globe--Australia to the United States, Mexico to Russia. [via]
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After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Paintingby Marc Simpson, John Siewert, Sylvia Yount, Lee Glazer, Robyn Asleson, Lacey Taylor Jordan, Linda MerrillISBN 0300101252 (0-300-10125-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting'Book summary:James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) left the United States for Europe at the age of 21, never to return, and his style developed independently of American art currents. Nonetheless, he left an indelible mark on the art of his native land, for his modernist aesthetic influenced the work of a generation of American painters. This illustrated book, published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death, addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art. "After Whistler" juxtaposes 14 of the artist's most important works with an array of pictures by 38 other American painters - including Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Merritt Chase, and John Singer Sargent - to demonstrate how Whistler's American contemporaries were affected by his techniques, colour palette, compositions and subject matter. The introduction to the book provides an overview of Whistler's association with American artists and the reception of his work in the United States. The essays that follow discuss Whistler's Venetian sojourn and its effect on the American artists who flocked to that city, his relationship with Philadelphia's art community, the Whistler Memorial Exhibition held in Boston in 1904, and much more. [via]
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in Americaby Robert HughesISBN 0375703659 (0-375-70365-9)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America'Book summary:Australian-born art critic Robert Hughes, author of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New has made his home in the United States for the last 20 years. His latest undertaking, which he calls "a love letter to America," is his most massive: a 350-year history of art in America. Published in association with an eight-part PBS series of the same name, this is no scholarly text. With the same voracious wit and opinionated brilliance that have characterized his criticism for Time magazine, this tour-de-force spans three centuries of events, movements, and personalities that have shaped American society and its art. The reproductions are outstanding; 323 out of 365 are in rich, vivid color. Infinitely entertaining and perceptive, this superb book makes readers feel as if they have discovered a truer, hidden America. It seems certain to become one of the most important works in the art-historical canon. [via]
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Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Presentby Jean-Louis Ferrier, Yann Le PichonISBN 0130116440 (0-13-011644-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present'Book summary:Description: 896 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. Translation of: L'aventure de l'art au XXeme siecle. Includes index. Includes index. Subjects: Art, Modern --20th century. [via]
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Art of the Twentieth Century: A Readerby Jason Gaiger, Paul WoodISBN 0300101449 (0-300-10144-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Arby Robert HenriISBN 0064301389 (0-06-430138-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar'Book summary:In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.[via]More editions of The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar:
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciationby Robert Henri, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), Margery RyersonISBN 0397001215 (0-397-00121-5)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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An Artist of the Floating Worldby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679722661 (0-679-72266-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Artist of the Floating World'Book summary:In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize. [via]
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Caravaggioby Helen LangdonISBN 0374118949 (0-374-11894-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravaggio'Book summary:Seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin once said that Caravaggio came into the world to destroy painting. Helen Langdon's marvelous biography suggests that rather than destroying painting, the Milanese artist gave it a new lease on life. Upon his arrival in Rome, Caravaggio ended a tradition of Italian Renaissance painting with his radically new naturalistic style, which continues to dazzle and influence viewers today. Beautifully poised between biographical scholarship and artistic appreciation, Langdon's book provides the reader with a complex, fascinating portrait of Caravaggio, still the rebel and outsider of the popular imagination, but also immersed in the Roman world of art, politics, and patronage. Some of the finest sections of the book vividly evoke the streets and brothels of early 17th-century Rome, which provided Caravaggio with the inspiration for many of his early works. By contrast, the later sections--which deal with Caravaggio's exile and commissions in Naples, Malta, and Sicily--seem rather brief and truncated, giving the final third of the book a rather unbalanced feel. This is, however, partly due to the elusiveness of Caravaggio himself--with little direct contemporary documentation on the painter, he often slips into the shadows, evading the scrutiny of even the most persistent biographer.
Langdon's achievement here is to produce a compelling portrait of the artist that throws new light on his paintings. Here is a painter who was proud, difficult, and arrogant, yet highly intellectual in his appreciation of the changing face of both Catholicism and scientific enquiry. Written with great historical clarity, and supplemented by 42 magnificent color illustrations, Helen Langdon's Caravaggio is a worthy contribution to scholarly study of this artist. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Carlson's Guide to Landscape Paintingby J. F. CarlsonISBN 0486229270 (0-486-22927-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Composition in Artby Henry Rankin PooreISBN 0486233588 (0-486-23358-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsisterby Gregory Maguire, Bill SandersonISBN 0060987529 (0-06-098752-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'Book summary:Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. Plain but smart Iris and her sister, Ruth, a hulking simpleton, are dazed and terrified as their mother, Margarethe, urges them into the strange Dutch streets. Within days, purposeful Margarethe has secured the family a place in the home of an aspiring painter, where for a short time, they find happiness.
But this is Cinderella, after all, and tragedy is inevitable. When a wealthy tulip speculator commissions the painter to capture his blindingly lovely daughter, Clara, on canvas, Margarethe jumps at the chance to better their lot. "Give me room to cast my eel spear, and let follow what may," she crows, and the Fisher family abandons the artist for the upper-crust Van den Meers.
When Van den Meer's wife dies during childbirth, the stage is set for Margarethe to take over the household and for Clara to adopt the role of "Cinderling" in order to survive. What follows is a changeling adventure, and of course a ball, a handsome prince, a lost slipper, and what might even be a fairy godmother. In a single magic night, the exquisite and the ugly swirl around in a heated mix:
Everything about this moment hovers, trembles, all their sweet, unreasonable hopes on view before anything has had the chance to go wrong. A stepsister spins on black and white tiles, in glass slippers and a gold gown, and two stepsisters watch with unrelieved admiration. The light pours in, strengthening in its golden hue as the sun sinks and the evening approaches. Clara is as otherworldly as the Donkeywoman, the Girl-Boy. Extreme beauty is an affliction...
But beyond these familiar elements, Maguire's second novel becomes something else altogether--a morality play, a psychological study, a feminist manifesto, or perhaps a plain explanation of what it is to be human. Villains turn out to be heroes, and heroes disappoint. The story's narrator wryly observes, "In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats." --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister:
David to Delacroixby Walter F. FriedlaenderISBN 0674194012 (0-674-19401-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artistby Gail LevinISBN 0393315770 (0-393-31577-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156029588 (0-15-602958-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
Fra Angelico at San Marcoby William HoodISBN 0300057342 (0-300-05734-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Artby Barbara Steffen, Wilfried Seipel, Michael PeppiattISBN 8884917212 (88-8491-721-2)
Hardcover, Skira Editore
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahloby Hayden HerreraISBN 0060085894 (0-06-008589-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Frida Kahlo: The Paintingsby Hayden Herrera, Frida KahloISBN 0060923199 (0-06-092319-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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George Tookerby Thomas H. GarverISBN 0517560186 (0-517-56018-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowersby Georgia O'Keeffe, Nicholas CallawayISBN 0394755731 (0-394-75573-1)
Softcover, Knopf in association with Callaway Editions
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Hackers and Paintersby Paul GrahamISBN 0596006624 (0-596-00662-4)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hackers and Painters'Book summary:[via]"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?
Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."
The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.
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History of Modern Artby H.H. Arnason, Marla F. PratherISBN 0131830562 (0-13-183056-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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History of Modern Art: Painting Sculpture Architecture Photographyby H.H. Arnason, Peter KalbISBN 013184069X (0-13-184069-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Modern Art: Painting Sculpture Architecture Photography'Book summary:Authoritative and insightful, Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the Modern Era from modernism's mid-nineteenth century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full-color throughout, this Fifth Edition has been completely redesigned to make it even more elegant and easy-to-use. New heads, subheads, and a glossary have been added to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. [via]
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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architectureby H. Harvard ArnasonISBN 0133903516 (0-13-390351-6)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photographyby H. Harvard ArnasonISBN 0132273233 (0-13-227323-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography'Book summary:History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather's contributions to the new Fourth Edition include:
-- More biographical information about each artist.
-- An entirely new chapter on Cubism.
-- A lively sense of social and historical context.
-- Coverage of work in nontraditional mediums. such as video, installation, and performance art.
-- More than 30% new illustrations and text and nearly twice the number of color illustration as in previous editions.
-- A culturally diverse selection of artists and a much broader selection of works by women.
-- Chronological reorganization of the text, an updated bibliography, and a complete index. [via]More editions of History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography:
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How to Paint and Drawby Bodo W. JaxtheimerISBN 0500272522 (0-500-27252-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Impressionistsby W. GauntISBN 0500231346 (0-500-23134-6)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Impressionists'Book summary:Now available in paperback for the first time, an introduction to the art of the Impressionists, which includes an overview of the movement and reproductions of the work of Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir and others. First published in 1970. [via]
Johannes Vermeerby Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr., Ben BroosISBN 0300065582 (0-300-06558-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452285453 (0-452-28545-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet - their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life - yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own. [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Lady and the Unicorn: ISBN 0525947671 (0-525-94767-1)
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Leonardo Da Vinciby Kenneth Clark, Da Vinci LeonardoISBN 0140169822 (0-14-016982-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Letters of Vincent Van Goghby Ronald De Leeuw, Arnold PomeransISBN 0140446745 (0-14-044674-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Letters of Vincent Van Goghby Vincent Van GoghISBN 0684843005 (0-684-84300-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Life With Picassoby Carlton Lake, Francoise and Carlton Lake GilotISBN 0385261861 (0-385-26186-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lust for Lifeby Irving StoneISBN 0452262496 (0-452-26249-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lust for Life'Book summary:The book captures the atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs the development of Van Gogh's art. [via]
Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazareby Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Juliet Wilson BareauISBN 0300075103 (0-300-07510-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Materials and Techniques of Paintingby Jonathan StephensonISBN 0500277044 (0-500-27704-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Materials and Techniques of Painting'Book summary:In the past, artists inherited a tried and tested body of knowledge concerning materials and techniques, this practice manual aims to restore this heritage and to supply a single reliable source of information, a guide both for beginners and advanced practioners. Here are details of pigments, media and fillers; types of support and studio equipment. Descriptions, accompanied by full-colour demonstrations and numerous specially prepared illustrations, offer a complete introduction to traditional techniques of painting - oil, tempera, watercolour, fresco - and to comparative innovations such as acrylics and silica painting. The author reveals the important links between various media and makes the case for a systematic approach to painting, in which materials are working for, not against, the artist. [via]
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Matthew's Dreamby Leo LionniISBN 067987318X (0-679-87318-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Maxfield Parrishby Laurence S. Cutler, Judy Goffman, American Illustrators GalleryISBN 0517067145 (0-517-06714-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Maxfield Parrishby Random House Value Publishing Staff, Judy A. G. Cutler, Laurence S. CutlerISBN 0517161222 (0-517-16122-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973by Pablo Picasso, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 9707181338 (970-718-133-8)
Hardcover, Numen
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The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followersby T. J. ClarkISBN 0691002754 (0-691-00275-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers'Book summary:The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T. J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others as an attempt to give form to that modernity and seek out its typical representatives--be they bar-maids, boaters, prostitutes, sightseers, or petits bourgeois lunching on the grass. The central question of The Painting of Modern Life is this: did modern painting as it came into being celebrate the consumer-oriented culture of the Paris of Napoleon III, or open it to critical scrutiny? The revised edition of this classic book includes a new preface by the author.
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Paul Klee on Modern Artby Paul KleeISBN 0571066828 (0-571-06682-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man: An Interpretive Biographyby Norman MailerISBN 0446672661 (0-446-67266-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininityby Jan MarshISBN 0517567997 (0-517-56799-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Pre-Raphaelitesby Christopher WoodISBN 0517103494 (0-517-10349-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Uncovering the Forgotten Secrets and Hidden Life Histories of Iconic Masterpiecesby Monica Bohm-DuchenISBN 0520233786 (0-520-23378-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Story of Artby Ernst Hans J. GombrichISBN 0130818925 (0-13-081892-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Art'Book summary:Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art historical literature, this book reflects the vast knowledge, insights, and expertise of one of this century's greatest art historians and thinkers. Extensively illustrated, it treats the history of art both chronologically and geographically as a continuous unfolding story. Offers a vivid, enthusiastic, and interpretive narrative written in direct, straightforward language with technical terms always explained when they are introduced. KEY TOPICS: Focuses on the most significant works of Western art. Considers each work of art in its context: shows how art reflects the historical setting, the artist's intentions, and the values of that civilization, and how each artist built upon, or sometimes reacted against, the style of his/her predecessors. Contains chronological charts, maps, and notes on art books. Illustrates all works that are discussed. Features a new designwith each illustration appearing on the same spread as the narrative that discusses it. [via]
That's The Way I See Itby David Hockney, Nikos StangosISBN 0500280851 (0-500-28085-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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That's The Way I See Itby Nikos Stangos, David HockneyISBN 0500092133 (0-500-09213-3)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Paintingby Richard M. Barnhart, James Cahill, Wu Hung, Nie Chongzheng, Lang ShaojunISBN 0300070136 (0-300-07013-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting'Book summary:This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting combines the best of both countries' scholarly approaches with new discoveries and illustrations of numerous paintings located in China and previously little known abroad.
Insightful, often lively discussions tell the story in six chapters, mostly dynastic, after briefly giving two "approaches" to Chinese painting. History, politics, biography, and training get their proper due and are complemented by often-detailed analyses of individual artworks. Close attention to the text and the 300 color and 25 black-and-white illustrations enable the reader to "see" these paintings--which are often constructed on different perceptual and cultural premises than the post-Renaissance and photographic images by which most Westerners structure their visual vocabulary. The glossary and other tools are welcome aids; the list of artists is organized by period and offers their names in the two most common romanization systems as well as in Chinese characters. And to read James Cahill on the Ni Zan paintings that may at first appear uninviting, or Lang Shaojun on the proportionally numerous 20th-century painters, is a real adventure for both the eye and the mind.
Anyone with more than a passing interest in one of the world's most esteemed art traditions--be they a Sunday museumgoer or a confirmed lover of the gnarly pines set amidst the towering mountains of the Song-period masters--will want this book in their library. --Joseph N. Newland [via]
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Paintingby Yang Xin, Wu Hung, Nie Chongzheng, Lang Shaojun, James Chaill, Richard M. BarnhartISBN 0300094477 (0-300-09447-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting'Book summary:This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting combines the best of both countries' scholarly approaches with new discoveries and illustrations of numerous paintings located in China and previously little known abroad.
Insightful, often lively discussions tell the story in six chapters, mostly dynastic, after briefly giving two "approaches" to Chinese painting. History, politics, biography, and training get their proper due and are complemented by often-detailed analyses of individual artworks. Close attention to the text and the 300 color and 25 black-and-white illustrations enable the reader to "see" these paintings--which are often constructed on different perceptual and cultural premises than the post-Renaissance and photographic images by which most Westerners structure their visual vocabulary. The glossary and other tools are welcome aids; the list of artists is organized by period and offers their names in the two most common romanization systems as well as in Chinese characters. And to read James Cahill on the Ni Zan paintings that may at first appear uninviting, or Lang Shaojun on the proportionally numerous 20th-century painters, is a real adventure for both the eye and the mind.
Anyone with more than a passing interest in one of the world's most esteemed art traditions--be they a Sunday museumgoer or a confirmed lover of the gnarly pines set amidst the towering mountains of the Song-period masters--will want this book in their library. --Joseph N. Newland [via]
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To the Hiltby Dick FrancisISBN 0330352253 (0-330-35225-3)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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Treasures of the Vatican Collectionsby Alan LevyISBN 0452253934 (0-452-25393-4)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Velazquez: Painter and Courtierby Jonathan BrownISBN 0300038941 (0-300-03894-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospectiveby Steven A. Nash, Adam GopnikISBN 0500092923 (0-500-09292-3)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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What Painting Isby James ElkinsISBN 0415926629 (0-415-92662-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Painting Is'Book summary:Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium.
In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look.
Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.
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World of Cezanneby Richard W. MurphyISBN 0316508209 (0-316-50820-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The World of Goya, 1746-1828by Richard SchickelISBN 0316508608 (0-316-50860-8)
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The World of Matisse, 1869-1954by John RussellISBN 0316509418 (0-316-50941-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The World of Michael Parkesby John Russell TaylorISBN 9071867137 (90-71867-13-7)
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Benim Adm Krmzby Orhan PamukISBN 9754707111 (975-470-711-1)
Hardcover, Iletisim
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2006 Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü Orhan Pamuk 100'ü askin ülkede 46 dilde okunuyor.
Orhan Pamuk'un "en renkli ve en iyimser romanim", dedigi "Benim Adim Kirmizi", 1591 yilinda istanbul'da karli dokuz kis gününde geçiyor. iki küçük oglu birbirleriyle sürekli çatisan güzel Seküre, dört yildir savastan dönmeyen kocasinin yerine kendine yeni bir koca, sevgili aramaya baslayinca, o sirada babasinin tek tek eve çagirdigi saray nakkaslarini saklandigi yerden seyreder. Eve gelen usta nakkaslar, babasinin denetimi altinda Osmanli Padisahi'nin gizlice yaptirttigi bir kitap için Frenk etkisi tasiyan tehlikeli resimler yapmaktadirlar. Aralarindan biri öldürülünce, Seküre'ye asik, teyzesinin oglu Kara devreye girer. istanbul'da bir vaizin etrafinda toplanmis, tekkelere karsi bir çevrenin baskilari, pahalilik ve korku hüküm sürerken, geceleri bir kahvede toplanan nakkaslar ve hattatlar sivri dilli bir meddahin anlattigi hikayelerle eglenirler. Herkesin kendi sesiyle konustugu, ölülerin, esyalarin dillendigi, ölüm, sanat, ask, evlilik ve mutluluk üzerine bu kitap, ayni zamanda eski resim sanatinin unutulmus güzelliklerine bir agit.
"Genç Türk Romancisi Orhan Pamuk, Avrupa'ya roman nasil yazilir, gösteriyor."
- Frankfurter Allegemeine, Almanya
"Orhan Pamuk'u herkes okumali."
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