Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-05-15
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £22.95
Price: £10.29
Review About Rothko / Da Capo Press Inc:
Authors
- Philippe Vergne
- Midori Matsui
- Jens Hoffmann
Dewey code: 704
RRP: £39.95
Price: £25.97
Review Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 932.014
RRP: £13.95
Price: £6.97
Review Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2006-05-19
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £45.00
Price: £29.70
Review Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1991-12-31
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £5.37
Price: £32.89
Review Andrew Wyeth: the Helga Pictures / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:
Creator: Nicholas Sinclair
Publication date: 2004-04-28
Dewey code: 759.2929
RRP: £35.00
Price: £30.86
Review Kyffin Williams / Lund Humphries:
Publication date: 2002-05-09
Dewey code: 684.08
RRP: £14.95
Price: £5.25
Review Celtic Woodcraft: Authentic Projects for Woodworkers / Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd:
Creator: Millicent Rose
Publication date: 1974-11-18
Dewey code: 769.924
RRP: £13.50
Price: £6.84
Review The Dore Bible Illustrations / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 1998-06-25
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £5.95
Price: £1.89
Review Chagall (Phaidon Colour Library) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £4.67
Price: £1.15
Review Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) / Children's Press (CT):
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1983-09-29
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £23.99
Price: £19.40
Review The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 17301840: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840 (Cambridge Paperback Library) / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2007-10-29
Dewey code: 306.893092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £2.23
Review Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit When He Split / Health Communications:
Publication date: 2007-02-05
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £29.95
Price: £19.13
Review Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban / Black Dog Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-01-28
Dewey code: 769.92
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.97
Review French Baroque Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives) / Dover Publications:
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2005-09
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £12.95
Price: £5.61
Review Exploring the World of the Celts / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 745.4090403
RRP: £8.95
Price: £2.34
Review Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900 (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 733
RRP: £10.95
Price: £5.45
Review Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles and Techniques (Looking at) / J. Paul Getty Museum:
Authors
- Richard R. Brettell
- Joachim Pissarro
Publication date: 1993-06-28
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £25.00
Price: £55.02
Review The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series / Yale University Press:
Edition: Har/Com
Publication date: 2005-07-13
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.72
Review Cabaret Berlin: Berlin in the Roaring Twenties / edel classics GmbH:
Edition: Updated Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.95
Review Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:In this magnificent book, Pietro Marani, the director of the project to restore Leonardo's Last Supper, presents all the artist's known paintings. The history and significance of each are analysed at length: we read, for example, that "from a very early date", Mona Lisa was considered among Leonardo's most extraordinary accomplishments, one that made every other artist "tremble and lose heart". Context is provided by a wealth of related paintings and sketches. The presentation is extravagant: double-foldouts show frescoes in their entirety, and small areas are hugely expanded to give access to a world of sensuous detail. The intimacy of these extreme details-a tiny blue landscape glimpsed through a window, or the warm flesh of a baby's foot resting on its mother's arm-is unexpected and one of the book's many successes. Marani combines connoisseurship with the technological tools of art history, such as x-ray exploration of revisions in a painting's underdrawings. He has spent his life studying Leonardo's paintings at first hand, so closely that he can point to where the artist lightly blurred layers of paint with his fingertips to suggest the soft skin around the eyes of his portraits of women. A chapter is devoted to Marani's belief that Leonardo was profoundly influenced by ancient art works rather than being exclusively the "modern genius" described by Romantic critics. The research is fully footnoted, with appendices including checklists of paintings and lost paintings and a collection of all the known primary documents referring directly to Leonardo's life. From its enigmatic cover (the lips of the artist's exquisite portrait of Ginevra de' Benci) to its extensive bibliography, Leonardo da Vinci comes the closest this reviewer has seen to being the ultimate art book. [+]-John Stevenson.
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About Rothko, Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt, Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic, Andrew Wyeth: the Helga Pictures, Kyffin Williams, Celtic Woodcraft: Authentic Projects for Woodworkers, The Dore Bible Illustrations, Chagall (Phaidon Colour Library), Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists), The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 17301840: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840 (Cambridge Paperback Library), Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit When He Split, Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban, French Baroque Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives), Exploring the World of the Celts, Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900 (World of Art), Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles and Techniques (Looking at), The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series, Cabaret Berlin: Berlin in the Roaring Twenties, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings |
