Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £19.95
Price: £5.79
Review An Architecture for People: Complete Works of Hassan Fathy / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Authors
- Simon Taylor
- Julian Holder
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.27
Review Manchester's Northern Quarter (Informed Conservation) / English Heritage:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 1992-05-27
Dewey code: 709.52
RRP: £20.00
Price: £13.20
Review The Art and Architecture of Japan (The Yale University Press / Pelican history of art) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1969-12
Dewey code: 701
RRP: £12.95
Price: £11.50
Review Visual Thinking / University of California Press:
Edition: English Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-01
Dewey code: 20.92
RRP: £24.90
Price: £19.23
Review Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution / Birkhauser Verlag AG:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-03-12
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £12.95
Price: £12.95
Review The International Style / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 2003-11-14
Dewey code: 720.942398
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.47
Review Bath (Pevsner Buildings of England) / Yale University Press:
Creator: daab
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 725
RRP: £17.95
Price: £11.01
Review Beauty Design (Design Books) / daab:
Creator: Peter Mortensen
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Dewey code: 721
RRP: £30.95
Price: £20.42
Review Bayt Al-'Aqqad: The History and Restoration of a House in Old Damascus (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus) / Aarhus University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-03-12
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £12.95
Price: £12.95
Review The International Style / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 2008-07-28
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.23
Review Ben Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs / Lund Humphries:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £29.95
Price: £29.95
Review Victorian Painting / Phaidon Press Ltd:After 500 pages of sparkling, appreciative text and gorgeously reproduced paintings of fairies, angels, knights in shining armour, Queen Victoria, rustic bumpkins, mermaids, society ladies, gambolling colts, roses, storm-tossed seas and small children accompanied by mutts, not to mention Ophelia floating beautifully in her watery, flower-strewn grave, readers may feel as if they inhabit the 19th century. It's a shock to wake up to the end of the 20th instead and to the end of a deeply satisfying book. Lionel Lambourne, who was head of paintings at London's Victoria and Albert Museum for nearly a decade, writes with knowledge, wit and grace. "Scratch a cynic and you will always find a sentimentalist" he says with regard to Victorian genre painting. In discussing the nude and a return to classicism, he writes, "Such works. provided an additional thrill for their nouveau-riche owners, for by displaying them they could show evidence of classical leanings, if not a classical education. " After an excellent introductory overview, Lambourne divides his course into 21 chapters, including: "The Victorian Art Establishment", "The Fresco Revival", "The Panorama", "Childhood and Sentiment", "Fairy Painting", "Sporting and Animal Painting", "The Pre-Raphaelites", "The Frailer Sex and Fallen Woman", "Aesthetes and Symbolists" and "Impressionism in Britain. " The editing and design of the book are superb, with reproductions exactly matching the text and captions containing all relevant information. [+]Lambourne offers new dimensions even to history we think we know well, such as Whistler's lawsuit against the critic John Ruskin, who famously accused the artist of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. " In Lambourne's view, the controversy "marked the beginning of aspects of art as various as conceptualism and abstraction" and he goes on to explain why. A tour-de-force of scholarship served up with style, Victorian Painting does ample justice to a complex, frequently misunderstood era. -Peggy Moorman.
Publication date: 2003-11-14
Dewey code: 720.942398
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.47
Review Bath (Pevsner Buildings of England) / Yale University Press:
Edition: English Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-01
Dewey code: 20.92
RRP: £24.90
Price: £19.23
Review Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution / Birkhauser Verlag AG:
Creator: daab
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 725
RRP: £17.95
Price: £11.01
Review Beauty Design (Design Books) / daab:
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £19.95
Price: £5.79
Review An Architecture for People: Complete Works of Hassan Fathy / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 1969-12
Dewey code: 701
RRP: £12.95
Price: £11.50
Review Visual Thinking / University of California Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-06-16
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £14.50
Price: £11.48
Review The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation / Chicago University Press:
Authors
- Simon Taylor
- Julian Holder
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.27
Review Manchester's Northern Quarter (Informed Conservation) / English Heritage:
Creator: Peter Mortensen
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Dewey code: 721
RRP: £30.95
Price: £20.42
Review Bayt Al-'Aqqad: The History and Restoration of a House in Old Damascus (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus) / Aarhus University Press:
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