Publication date: 2007-11-19
Dewey code: 760
RRP: £22.95
Price: £5.93
Review The Fundamentals of Digital Art (Fundamentals) / AVA Publishing SA:
Edition: 40 Anv
Publication date: 2007-10-09
Dewey code: 780
Price: £29.95
Review Mind Over Matter: The Images of "Pink Floyd" / Wise Publications:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-03-28
Dewey code: 709.035
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.34
Review Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-10-17
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.00
Review Strangeland / Sceptre:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-09-10
RRP: £30.00
Price: £16.50
Review A Life of Picasso: 1881-1906 v. 1 (Pimlico) / Pimlico:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.53
Review Out of This Century: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-06-16
Dewey code: 839.8136
RRP: £5.06
Price: £1.99
Review The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen / Houghton Mifflin Company:
Edition: Har/Com
Publication date: 2006-10-01
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £30.00
Price: £12.48
Review Edie: Girl on Fire / Chronicle Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-05-20
Dewey code: 920.720941
RRP: £13.40
Price: £6.05
Review The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-09
Dewey code: 796.8092
RRP: £8.03
Price: £4.23
Review Against All Odds: My Story / B&H Publishing Group:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1995-10-04
Dewey code: 720.94509031
RRP: £25.00
Price: £20.23
Review Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Colin Michael Hines
- Keith Chetham
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.07
Review Art Deco London / Park House Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.71
Review Caravaggio / Phaidon Press Ltd:Catherine Puglisi's magnificent book on Michelangelo Merisi, better known simply as Caravaggio begins with Caravaggio's beguiling self-portrait as Bacchus, painted around 1594 when the artist was in his early twenties. This is then dramatically contrasted with the devastating self-portrait of the artist as the severed head of John the Baptist, painted only 15 years later in 1610, the year of Caravaggio's untimely death. These two pictures frame the incredible career of one of the most brilliant and complex of all Baroque artists, which is comprehensively analysed in Puglisi's wonderful study. The book moves with great lucidity from Caravaggio's early success in Rome, to his exile in Malta and Sicily and his later astonishing religious paintings, undertaken in the dark years prior to his untimely death. Puglisi argues that Caravaggio was not the socially alienated painter that tradition has assumed, but that his highly innovative work took place within a deeply self-conscious awareness of contemporary developments within the composition of still life, portraiture, and devotional painting. What is so persuasive about Puglisi's argument is that, rather than diminish our sense of Caravaggio's originality, it only heightens our understanding of his brilliance in both composition and the use of light and colour. The final section of the book is particularly compelling in its account of Caravaggio's approach towards the composition of his work, as well as offering perceptive comments on the biographical assumptions which have grown up around the painter. Throughout, Puglisi's passion for the paintings shines through; the book is beautifully produced, with nearly 200 wonderful illustrations, most in colour, a fascinating appendix of contemporary documents on the painter's life, and a checklist of all of Caravaggio's work. Caravaggio is a splendid book, which is undoubtedly destined to become the standard work in English on one of the greatest painters of Renaissance Italy. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: ARTS
Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £19.95
Price: £9.88
Review DEATH, DESIRE & THE DOLL: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer (Solar Art Directives) / SOLAR BOOKS:
Publication date: 2007-10-31
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £35.00
Price: £28.14
Review Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture / Yale University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-11-03
Dewey code: 787.87166092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.55
Review Don't Try This at Home / ReganBooks,U.S.:
Publication date: 1983-10
Dewey code: 751.45
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.79
Review How to Paint Like the Old Masters / Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: G. Bull
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1987-08-27
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50
Review Lives of the Artists: A Selection v. 1 (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2007-08-01
Dewey code: 745.2094109045
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.63
Review Festival of Britain 1951 (Design) / Antique Collectors' Club Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-10-15
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.64
Review Van Der Weyden / Chaucer Press:
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