Publication date: 2005-02-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.88
Review Nothing is True - Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin / DISINFORMATION COMPANY LTD:
Authors
- Isabella Livingston
- Alan Livingston
Dewey code: 741.603
RRP: £6.95
Price: £5.97
Review The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Graphic Design and Designers (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.55
Review Anita Klein Painter Printmaker / Five Leaves Publications:
Creator: Adrian Forty
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £24.95
Price: £17.47
Review Brazil's Modern Architecture / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-10-03
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.90
Review Walter Sickert: A Life / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2004-02-06
Dewey code: 709.04
RRP: £19.95
Price: £16.06
Review Frameworks for Modern Art (Open University Art of the Twentieth Century) / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Demetrio Paparoni
- Gianni Mercurio
- Annette Lager
- Glenn O'Brien
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £47.00
Price: £35.49
Review The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show: Catalogo Della Mostra (Milano, 19 Settembre 2006-28 Gennaio 2007) / Skira:
Publication date: 2005-04-21
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.49
Review Hans Coper / Alphabet and Image Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £13.99
Price: £11.33
Review Minimalism: Origins / Indiana University Press:
Authors
- Christine Piot
- Marie-Laure Bernadac
- Brigitte Leal
Publication date: 2003-11-03
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £25.00
Price: £19.36
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 edition
Publication date: 2007-08-05
Dewey code: 304.23
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.66
Review The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society / The New Press:
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 709.0406
RRP: £14.95
Price: £8.69
Review Dada and Surrealism (Art & Ideas) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Creator: C.S. Smith
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1980-06-02
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £13.50
Price: £5.49
Review On Divers Arts / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1972-11-27
Dewey code: 709.43
RRP: £8.95
Price: £1.84
Review The Expressionists (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-05-15
Dewey code: 759.4361
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.66
Review Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Jennifer Laing
- Lloyd Laing
Dewey code: 704.03916
RRP: £8.95
Price: £0.49
Review Art of the Celts: From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-11-26
Dewey code: 745.619956
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.27
Review Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting / Kodansha International Ltd:
Publication date: 1989-03
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £45.00
Price: £27.85
Review The Designs of William De Morgan / Richard Dennis:
Publication date: 1997-11-28
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £17.50
Price: £11.55
Review The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco / Papadakis Publisher:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-10-08
Dewey code: 810
RRP: £11.00
Price: £7.09
Review Practicing New Historicism / Chicago University Press:
| Browse History of Art & Architecture:
Models & Brands:
Nothing is True - Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin, The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Graphic Design and Designers (World of Art), Anita Klein Painter Printmaker, Brazil's Modern Architecture, Walter Sickert: A Life, Frameworks for Modern Art (Open University Art of the Twentieth Century), The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show: Catalogo Della Mostra (Milano, 19 Settembre 2006-28 Gennaio 2007), Hans Coper, Minimalism: Origins, The Ultimate Picasso, The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society, Dada and Surrealism (Art & Ideas), On Divers Arts, The Expressionists (World of Art), Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Art of the Celts: From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival (World of Art), Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting, The Designs of William De Morgan, The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Practicing New Historicism |
