Publication date: 2006-11-20
RRP: £35.00
Price: £26.66
Review Adolphe Valette / Phillimore & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-03-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.25
Review Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) / HarperPress:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-04-30
Dewey code: 736.98
RRP: £20.99
Price: £15.86
Review Pop-up Paper Engineering: Cross-curricular Activities in Design Engineering Technology, English and Art / Routledge:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £30.00
Price: £24.73
Review Giacometti / Flammarion:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-02-24
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.74
Review Victorian Painters' Monograms: Identify Almost 2000 Signatures (Dealer Guides) / Foulsham:
Publication date: 1997-10-01
Dewey code: 748
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.29
Review Scottish Stained Glass: Making the Colours Sing (Discovering Historic Scotland): Making the Colours Sing (Discovering Historic Scotland) / Mercat Press:
Publication date: 2000-06-16
Dewey code: 730.92
RRP: £50.00
Price: £24.75
Review Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2008-05-28
RRP: £3.99
Price: £2.19
Review Art Nouveau (Giftwrap Papers) (Giftwrap Papers) / Ullmann Publishing:
Authors
- Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
- Walter Hopps
- Robert Lehrman
- Richard Vine
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £40.00
Price: £31.13
Review Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay Eterniday / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 4
Publication date: 1992-05-27
Dewey code: 726
RRP: £20.00
Price: £15.69
Review Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (The Yale University Press / Pelican history of art) / Yale University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.44
Review Turner (Brief Lives) / Vintage:
Authors
- Blake Morrison
- Grayson Perry
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.69
Review Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection / Hayward Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 725
RRP: £29.95
Price: £20.00
Review Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.91
Review Anita Klein Painter Printmaker / Five Leaves Publications:
Publication date: 2005-10-14
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99
Review Jeff Wall (Modern Artists series) (Modern Artists Series) / Tate Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £8.95
Price: £2.07
Review British Painting: The Golden Age (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-10-02
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £7.99
Price: £25.29
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: Franz Armin Morat
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.11
Review Giorgio Morandi / Prestel:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-10-11
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.05
Review Painting the Mountains: Kyffin Williams / Pont Books:
Authors
- Burton Silver
- Heather Busch
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £14.99
Price: £13.49
Review Kokigami: Performance Enhancing Adornments for the Adventurous Man / Ten Speed Press:
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