Publication date: 1993-07-19
Dewey code: 720.284
RRP: £42.50
Price: £24.30
Review Drawing and Designing with Confidence / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 709.04
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.45
Review Realism (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- Anthony J. Threlfall
- Charles E. Reynolds
- James C. Steedman
Publication date: 2007-01-01
Dewey code: 624.18341
RRP: £35.00
Price: £28.84
Review Reynolds's Reinforced Concrete Designer's Handbook / Taylor & Francis:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £22.95
Price: £12.57
Review Alvar Aalto / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- D.P. Mortlock
- C.V. Roberts
Publication date: 2007-10-25
Dewey code: 914.2610486
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.59
Review Guide to Norfolk Churches / Lutterworth Press:
Authors
- Tom Williamson
- Susanna Wade Martins
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £25.00
Price: £20.35
Review The Countryside of East Anglia: Changing Landscapes, 1870-1950 / The Boydell Press:
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £48.00
Price: £30.28
Review Antony Gormley / Steidl:
Authors
- Jason Gaiger
- Charles Harrison
- Paul J. Wood
Dewey code: 709.034
RRP: £22.99
Price: £19.49
Review Art in Theory, 1815-1900 / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 741.24
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.47
Review Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil / North Light Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-01-12
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £40.00
Price: £38.00
Review The Works / Unicorn Press:
Publication date: 2006-11-15
Dewey code: 791.430233092
RRP: £9.95
Price: £21.99
Review Gothic Fantasy: The Films of Tim Burton / Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Jens Hoffmann
- Philippe Vergne
- Midori Matsui
Dewey code: 704
RRP: £39.95
Price: £25.97
Review Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Dewey code: 635.03
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.96
Review The Oxford Companion to the Garden (Oxford Companions) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2004-12-03
Dewey code: 720.942821
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.46
Review Sheffield: Pevsner City Guides (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides) / Yale University Press:
Edition: Rev., Updated and Expanded Ed
Publication date: 2007-06-28
Dewey code: 720.941
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.02
Review Architectural Britain: From 1066 to the Present Day / National Trust Books:
Authors
- Michael Freeman
- Xiao Dan Wang
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £24.95
Price: £14.10
Review China Contemporary / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £29.95
Price: £19.47
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: 2004-05-04
Dewey code: 702
RRP: £16.99
Price: £38.60
Review How to Paint Like the Impressionists / Collins:
Publication date: 1989-09-07
Dewey code: 720.941
RRP: £16.95
Price: £9.90
Review A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture / Doubleday:
Publication date: 2007-04-24
RRP: £40.00
Price: £22.36
Review Portraits / Gomer Press:
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