Authors
- Lena Lenecek
- Gideon Bosker
- Lena Lencek
Dewey code: 745.54
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.37
Review Off the Wall: Wonderful Wall Coverings of the Twentieth Century / Chronicle Books:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1998-01-10
Dewey code: 941.1
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.20
Review Tales and Traditions of Scottish Castles / Neil Wilson Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-01-09
RRP: £14.99
Price: £85.73
Review Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens / BBC Books:
Creator: Peter Humfrey
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-06-16
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.13
Review The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) / Cambridge University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-03-28
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.93
Review Art Nouveau Cross Stitch: Decorative Designs from the Turn of the Century / David & Charles PLC:
Publication date: 2006-10-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.55
Review Anita Klein Painter Printmaker / Five Leaves Publications:
Authors
- The Staff of The Andy Warhol Museum
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £24.95
Price: £6.64
Review Andy Warhol 365 Takes / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1993-08-01
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £5.95
Price: £2.40
Review Pissarro (Phaidon Colour Library) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-02-01
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.43
Review David (Art & Ideas) / Phaidon Press Ltd:Writing on the French Revolution, Karl Marx famously commented that the heroes of the revolution "performed the task of their time in Roman costume and with Roman phrases". The one painter who was almost single-handedly responsible for clothing the revolution in the mantle of the Classical past was Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), one of the most controversial painters to have emerged from this incredibly turbulent period in the history of modern France. Although David's famously austere Classical style has fallen out of fashion in recent years, Simon Lee's study David does a fine job of rescuing the artist from antiquarian curiosity, and placing him right back at the heart of revolutionary France. Lee charts the rise of David from relative mediocrity as a highly academic painter, to his enthusiastic support for the revolution of 1789, culminating in his remarkable painting Marat Breathing his Last (1793). Arrested and narrowly avoiding execution in the political backlash following the overthrow of Robespierre, David turned his back on politics to concentrate on his art, only to find himself catapulted back into the political limelight with his fervent embrace of Napoleon Bonaparte. This led to the creation of some of David's most imposing paintings, from the equestrian portraits of Napoleon, to the pomp of The Coronation of the Emperor and Empress. But once again, David's political hopes were dashed with Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, which led to David going into self-imposed exile in Brussels, where he died 10 years later. Despite Lee's rather wooden prose, this is a thorough, detailed and generously illustrated study of a fascinatingly contradictory patrician, but technically brilliant painter. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Anita M. M. Liu
- Richard F. Fellows
Publication date: 2008-07-25
Dewey code: 624.072
RRP: £22.50
Price: £19.45
Review Research Methods for Construction / WileyBlackwell:
Authors
- Graeme Brooker
- Sally Stone
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £17.95
Price: £10.16
Review Basics Interior Architecture: Form and Structure (Basics Interior Architecture) / AVA Publishing SA:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-08
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.95
Price: £3.06
Review Toulouse-Lautrec (Phaidon Colour Library) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-02-02
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.85
Review Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Classical Idealist (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Creator: Philip Ursprung
Edition: Mul
Publication date: 2008-04-25
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £80.00
Price: £54.91
Review Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopaedia (Extra Large Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Publication date: 1995-10-19
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.95
Price: £2.99
Review Vermeer (Phaidon Colour Library) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-03-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.25
Review Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) / HarperPress:
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.82
Review Open Kitchens: Inspired Designs for Modern and Loft Living / Rockport Publishers Inc:
Creator: Achim Menges
Publication date: 2008-03-07
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £22.99
Price: £12.80
Review Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho Ecological Design (Architectural Design) / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Patrick Taylor
Publication date: 2006-05-11
Dewey code: 712.03
RRP: £40.00
Price: £7.94
Review The Oxford Companion to the Garden / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 748.593
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.47
Review Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Stained Glass Design (Dover Pictorial Archive) / Dover Publications Inc.:
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