Edition: Ill
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 759.9492
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.93
Review Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Edition: Dover ed
Publication date: 2003-03-28
Dewey code: 739.270222
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.52
Review 305 Authentic Art Nouveau Jewellery Designs / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £4.95
Price: £1.94
Review Egyptian Designs: Bk. 09 (Design Source Books) / Search Press Ltd:
Creator: Billy Dancer
Publication date: 2001-05-08
Dewey code: 782.421660922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.99
Review Barcode Killers: The Slipknot Story: Barcode Killers - The "Slipknot" Story in Words and Pictures / Chrome Dreams:
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 776
RRP: £8.95
Price: £3.59
Review Internet Art (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 709.04075
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.08
Review Conceptual Art (Art & Ideas) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1996-07-08
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £17.95
Price: £10.43
Review Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum / Princeton University Press:
Authors
- Brigitte Leal
- Christine Piot
- Marie-Laure Bernadac
Publication date: 2000-10-30
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £60.00
Price: £39.00
Review The Ultimate Picasso / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:If you had to choose just one book about Pablo Picasso, the most protean artist of the 20th century, what would you look for? Copious, good-quality reproductions; an authoritative account of the way his approach to painting was influenced by his personality, the women in his life and his contemporaneousness with other notables; an in-depth treatment of key works-like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (his self-proclaimed "first exorcism painting")-and recurrent themes, like the Minotaur. Then there's the question of tone. Some books cast Picasso as a demigod or a destroyer. Others, like art historian John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, offer a more responsible, psychologically penetrating portrait of the artist. Hefty, elegant, and inclusive, The Ultimate Picasso hits most of these marks. It boasts more than 1,200 reproductions spanning the artist's entire career. Smoothly translated from the French, the it weaves biographical detail and discussions of the art into a concise narrative. Visual sources are all confidently accounted for. Yet the text does seem rather skimpy. The 16-page section on Guernica, for example, has barely two pages of actual discussion. [+]The authors maintain their extremely tight focus on their artist, which is admirable. But in their concentration, they seem to compulsively refrain, perhaps by default, from acknowledging the external world as anything but resource or dalliance for their subject. The authors' hyperbolic view of their subject-"Picasso did not paint nature, but the suffering of the men and women of his time, creating from it beauty and truth"-and the lack of any real psychological insight about, for instance, the continual hazard Picasso poses to the female form, may be considered a flaw. But in this old-fashioned portrait of the male artist as genius, so certain is it of the gulf between the common and the exalted, human flaw does not exist, unless it belongs to somebody else. -Cathy Curtis.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-05-12
Dewey code: 769.92
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.45
Review Great Goya Etchings: The Proverbs, the Tauromaquia and the Bulls of Bordeaux (Dover Books on Fine Art): The Proverbs, the Tauromaquia and the Bulls of Bordeaux (Dover Books on Fine Art) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-06-16
Dewey code: 839.8136
RRP: £9.95
Price: £2.55
Review The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen / Houghton Mifflin Company:
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 759.3
RRP: £42.00
Price: £24.03
Review Caspar David Friedrich / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 701
RRP: £22.50
Price: £13.06
Review Making Contemporary Art: How Today's Artists Think and Work / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-09-14
Dewey code: 724.19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.36
Review European Architecture, 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1997-04-07
Dewey code: 709.04075
RRP: £14.95
Price: £7.81
Review Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 / University of California Press:
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 759.9492
RRP: £12.95
Price: £8.42
Review Vermeer: The Complete Works / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:
Creator: Ivan Vartanian
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £19.95
Price: £12.42
Review Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolours / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £20.00
Price: £2.69
Review Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick / Faber and Faber:
Creator: Shane Weller
Publication date: 2003-03-28
Dewey code: 769.94309041
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.02
Review German Expressionist Woodcuts (Collections of Fine Art in Dover Books) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £40.00
Price: £32.67
Review Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox (Yale Center for British Art): The Art of David Cox (Yale Center for British Art) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2007-07-06
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.00
Review Jasper Johns (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
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