Authors
- Frank Graham
- Ronald Embleton
RRP: £15.00
Price: £25.00
Review Hadrian's Wall in the Days of the Romans / Frank Graham:
Publication date: 2003-07-10
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.96
Review De Stijl and Dutch Modernism (Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History) / Manchester University Press:
Creator: Mallory Pearce
Edition: Cdr/Pap
Publication date: 2004-02-27
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £11.49
Price: £6.48
Review Celtic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Electronic Clip Art) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 759.209034
RRP: £35.00
Price: £28.32
Review Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art): Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Demetrio Paparoni
- Annette Lager
- Gianni Mercurio
- Glenn O'Brien
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £47.00
Price: £32.73
Review The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show: Catalogo Della Mostra (Milano, 19 Settembre 2006-28 Gennaio 2007) / Skira:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £40.00
Price: £31.04
Review G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary / Yale University Press:
Authors
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- Hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 708
RRP: £48.00
Price: £27.40
Review Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's "Divine Comedy" / Thames & Hudson Ltd:The Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli is probably best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera, two commissions for the young Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. The same delicate, rhythmic line and fanciful imagination can be found in another project for this patron-an unfinished set of drawings from the 1480s that illustrate The Divine Comedy, Dante's chronicle of his vividly imagined travels through the Inferno and Purgatory to Paradise. For those familiar with the jewel-like colours of Botticelli's paintings, it may come as a shock that many of the 92 drawings that survive are very faint preliminary sketches. (They were made with a metal point on sheep parchment, sometimes touched up with pen and ink. A few have been coloured in. ) But just as the poet Virgil serves as the 35-year-old epic hero's indispensable guide, the astute running commentary in this book helps modern readers perceive how Botticelli subtly evokes the hero's feelings. "Botticelli's Dante is guided above all by his eyes," writes Hein-Thomas Schultze Altcappenberg, chief curator of Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett. "[They] are literally opened in proportion to his enlightenment, until his vision ultimately dissolves in an image of pure beauty, liberated from constraints of time and space. " By showing multiple views of the characters in a single drawing, Botticelli portrays Dante's successive reactions to what he sees and Virgil's responses to his charge's state of mind. And by giving every group of doomed souls a distinctive gesture or expression, he follows the poet's lead in illuminating both the individual and the universal. [+]Published to accompany the exhibition of the same title that has been shown in Berlin and Rome and continues at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through June, 2001, this book represents a triumph of accessible scholarship, intelligent design and deeply rewarding content. -Cathy Curtis.
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2001-02-15
Dewey code: 745.09042075
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.60
Review Art Deco (Miller's Antiques Checklist) / Miller's Publications:
Creator: David Mitchinson
Publication date: 2007-06-28
Dewey code: 730.92
RRP: £35.00
Price: £29.99
Review Hoglands: The Home of Henry and Irina Moore / Lund Humphries:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-04-15
Dewey code: 709.0407
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.11
Review How to Look at Outsider Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:
Edition: Crds
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 703
RRP: £3.99
Price: £3.98
Review Claude Monet Postcard Book (Postcard Books (Todtri Productions)) / Todtri Book Publishers:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1991-01-01
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £27.95
Price: £22.44
Review Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art / Princeton University Press:
Creator: Jonathan Harris
Publication date: 1992-11-30
Dewey code: 709.04
RRP: £14.95
Price: £6.85
Review Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts (Open University Set Book) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £29.99
Price: £19.79
Review A Shady Promise / Damiani:
Edition: Paperback Ed
Publication date: 2006-03-31
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £15.00
Price: £8.64
Review Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:
Creator: Terry Friedman
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £35.00
Price: £32.00
Review Time / Thames & Hudson Ltd:In his first major publication for four years (excepting the smaller, project-led Arch and Wall), Andy Goldsworthy examines the complementary dimension in his work to the sheer physicality of Stone and Wood. The recent work included here is at once new and recognisable: an illustrated chronology by curator and long-time admirer Terry Friedman reveals themes that he has revisited and variegated over 25 years, and to which time has lent an increasingly influential angle, while remaining rooted in the British landscape. The creation of a work a day connects up his life in a continuous artistic narrative, while his earthy materials often draw on centuries of artisan heritage, while embracing seasonal change. The issue of power is fundamental to his working: there is a sense in which he plays God with the potential of his resources, and for the observer, some of the magic lies in the split moment when one sees his instilled order without mental recourse to his hand. The effect can be strikingly epiphanic. At the other end of the spectrum, his communion with the elements puts him at their mercy, subjugating to their will, and investing his creations with an unpredictability fundamental to his intention. Snow melts, ice collapses, clay cracks, wind blows; he is "nurturing" rather than "forcing" a form into being. The photographic records are sublime, and vital to his ephemerality, whether in Montreal, Digne, Nova Scotia, Holland, New Mexico or Cornell. The accompanying text, a continuing dialogue for Goldsworthy, explores still further his familiar conceits, though diary excerpts give evidence of the toil behind the beauty, and bring out the unpredictability of his work, from which he unflaggingly draws inspiration, whether on a beach, in a river, in a wood, or in a gallery. One is left with an intuitively organic sense of continuity, of which this absorbing and lavish volume is itself a record of regenerative temporality: "What I have made so far gives me a strong sense of the work yet to come. [+]" -David Vincent.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-07-01
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £22.95
Price: £14.25
Review Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works : Vol 1 / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-02-28
Dewey code: 709.0407207477157
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.67
Review Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s / Merrell Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 261.57
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.19
Review God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art (Cultural Exegesis) / Baker Book House Co ,U.S.:
Creator: Carolyn Lanchner
Publication date: 2008-08-11
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.00
Price: £1.08
Review Joan Miro (Museum of Modern Art) / Museum of Modern Art:
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Hadrian's Wall in the Days of the Romans, De Stijl and Dutch Modernism (Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History), Celtic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Electronic Clip Art), Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art): Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show: Catalogo Della Mostra (Milano, 19 Settembre 2006-28 Gennaio 2007), G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary, Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's "Divine Comedy", Art Deco (Miller's Antiques Checklist), Hoglands: The Home of Henry and Irina Moore, How to Look at Outsider Art, Claude Monet Postcard Book (Postcard Books (Todtri Productions)), Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts (Open University Set Book), A Shady Promise, Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams, Time, Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works : Vol 1, Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art (Cultural Exegesis), Joan Miro (Museum of Modern Art) |
