Publication date: 1995-12-31
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £1.50
Price: £0.01
Review Egyptian Tattoos (Temporary Tattoos) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £8.95
Price: £3.90
Review American Art Since 1945 (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Creator: Rolf Roman
Publication date: 2007-03-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.63
Review Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting / Konemann:
Publication date: 2008-05-30
Dewey code: 709.0862
RRP: £35.00
Price: £29.73
Review Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) / Yale University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-08-01
Dewey code: 759.9492
RRP: £18.00
Price: £6.18
Review Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £110.00
Price: £69.84
Review Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings: 1983 - 1987 v. 3 / Steidl Verlag:
Authors
- Andreas Prater
- Hermann Bauer
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 759.046
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95
Review Baroque (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Creator: Rolf Roman
Publication date: 2006-02-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.89
Review Baroque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting / H F Ullmann:
Publication date: 2005-10-11
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.10
Review Painting the Mountains: Kyffin Williams / Pont Books:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 1996-08-01
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £18.50
Price: £5.83
Review Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography / Da Capo Press Inc:
Edition: n.e.
Publication date: 1996-01
Price: £7.99
Review Techniques of the Impressionists (A Quarto Book) / Tiger Books:
Edition: Rev Ed
Publication date: 1977-01
RRP: £14.95
Price: £5.99
Review William Morris, from Romantic to Revolutionary / The Merlin Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £29.95
Price: £20.00
Review Picasso: Style and Meaning / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-13
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £24.99
Price: £22.00
Review Roman Architecture / Routledge:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2000-01-06
Dewey code: 759.2911
RRP: £45.00
Price: £25.80
Review Scottish Art, 1460-2000 / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.50
Review M: Caravaggio / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:The artist formerly (and usually) known as Caravaggio has been a perennial and fascinating enigma for centuries. Born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571, he took the name Caravaggio from the small town outside Milan in which he lived before moving to Rome in 1592, where he rapidly established himself as one of the most acclaimed but also controversial painters of his time. In Peter Robb's groundbreaking biography of the artist he is simply but elusively M, a shadowy, enigmatic figure who "floats on the surface of a treacherous reality" in the "bitchy" decadent world of Counter-Reformation Rome. With great style and pace Robb pursues M through the archives, revealing an extraordinary life characterised by "lies to the police, reticence in court, extorted confessions, forced denunciations, revengeful memoirs, self-justifying hindsight, unquestioned hearsay, diplomatic urbanities, theocratic diktat, reported gossip, threats and propaganda, angry outbursts-hardly a word untainted by fear, ignorance, malice or self interest". The result is a magnificent evocation of Caravaggio's paintings and turbulent life set against the backdrop of the politically coercive and decadent world of power-hungry cardinals, rent boys, prostitutes, pimps and painters where "fear and suspicion pervaded the culture". Robb wonderfully evokes this oppressive world, arguing that M's repeated arrests for fighting, libel and ultimately murder, which led to him fleeing Rome, were as much the product of the culture as of the artist's troubled mind. Interwoven within this account are deft and insightful readings of M's paintings from life, which are lavishly reproduced in both colour and black and white. M will undoubtedly outrage art historians and some of its claims are tenuous (such as the dark conspiracy it claims led to M's mysterious death in 1610). Nevertheless, M's yoking together of biography, thriller and detective story is the perfect medium through which to tell the story of Caravaggio's extraordinary life. -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Richard Beresford
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1999-10-26
Dewey code: 709.44
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.15
Review Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £27.93
Price: £13.82
Review Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers in Modern Design / Princeton Architectural Press:
Publication date: 2008-05-23
RRP: £13.00
Price: £13.00
Review St Ives Art Pre-1890: The Dawn of the Colony / Wilson Books:
Authors
- Donald Preziosi
- Louise Hitchcock
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.64
Review Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art) / Oxford Paperbacks:
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