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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain Harrow School
ISBN: 9780197263068 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. The core of the collection of Greek vases at Harrow School is the gift of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, a leading Egyptologist of the mid-nineteenth century whose wide range of interests is well demonstrated by his skill in collecting Greek vases, as well as his still influential books on Egypt. The collection is by no means an ordinary one, since it contains more than its share of Athenian masterpieces as well as a full range of wares from other parts of Greece and Italy. It includes the name vase of the Harrow Painter, an outstanding amphora by the Kleophrades Painter, and many hitherto...
The core of the collection of Greek vases at Harrow School is the gift of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, a leading Egyptologist of the mid-nineteenth cen...
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310,36 zł |
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A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois
ISBN: 9780252064425 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. This lively photographic guidebook deals with art patronage at the University of Illinois, from the first gallery's tentative beginnings in 1875 to the collections now gracing campus museums and the everyday environment. Placing her subjects in a social as well as art historical context, Muriel Scheinman provides engaging catalog entries describing how various pieces came to the university and how critics, faculty, and students received them. She investigates the many works made for the Chicago medical campus by Works Progress Administration artists, reports on the influence of the famous...
This lively photographic guidebook deals with art patronage at the University of Illinois, from the first gallery's tentative beginnings in 1875 to th...
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109,10 zł |
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Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945: The Bridges Collection
ISBN: 9780252072222 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. As Chicago grew into the world-class city it is today, its civic leaders took exceptional care in their cultivation of the arts. The establishment of the Art Institute, the widespread support of wealthy patronage, and the activity of numerous organizations including the Chicago Architectural Club, the Urban League, and the Chicago Women's Club, combined to make Chicago home to many painters. Since rising from the ashes in 1873, Chicago has supported generation after generation of inspired artists who painted land and cityscapes, and honored their patrons with portraits. The full length and...
As Chicago grew into the world-class city it is today, its civic leaders took exceptional care in their cultivation of the arts. The establishment of ...
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140,28 zł |
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Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection
ISBN: 9780252074615 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accompany him on his 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Beginning in St. Louis, they journeyed as far as inland waterways could take them, through present-day Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and into Montana. During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as aquatints and woodcuts in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying...
To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accom...
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103,90 zł |
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Slideshow: Projected Images in Contemporary Art
ISBN: 9780271025414 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. "New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other happy memories live on through the magic of color slides." --Kodak instruction manual, 1967 Interview with Darsie Alexander, Curator, BMA, August 2004 Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides? It's tempting to see slide projection as quick and easy. Indeed, many artists cite these qualities when... "New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties--these and many other ... |
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162,15 zł |
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Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition
ISBN: 9780292728059 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. Alicia Gaspar de Alba looks at the exhibit as a cultural text in which the Chicano/a community affirmed itself not as a "subculture" within... In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United State... |
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180,64 zł |
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British Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections in the Hermitage
ISBN: 9780300069464 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century.
Distinguished critic John Russell provides the introduction for this book, and eminent British and Russian scholars offer chapters on such topics as British gardeners and the vogue of... More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some sp...
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233,89 zł |
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This Other Eden: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art
ISBN: 9780300074987 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. In 1966, American collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon presented to Yale University a glorious collection of British paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and rare books. Subsequently he provided funds for the celebrated Louis Kahn building to house the collection, bestowed additional works of art, and established an endowment for continuing acquisitions. This lavishly illustrated book presents eighty masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art--a collection of British art that is unrivalled outside the United Kingdom for either size or comprehensiveness.
In his introduction,... In 1966, American collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon presented to Yale University a glorious collection of British paintings, drawings, sculptur...
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140,33 zł |
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Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: 9780300081107 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. This is the first complete catalogue of oil paintings by Allan Ramsay, a Scotsman whose career in the eighteenth century spanned the period in which British art established a national identity. The book includes more than 600 portraits and selected drawings, as well as a biographical summary, chronology of portraits, and informative introduction.
This is the first complete catalogue of oil paintings by Allan Ramsay, a Scotsman whose career in the eighteenth century spanned the period in which B...
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374,22 zł |
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Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
ISBN: 9780300090185 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. This magnificent book traces the development of nineteenth-century German paintings through the story of a remarkable institution--the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, one of Germany's most important collections. In their substantial general essays, Francoise Forster-Hahn surveys the social and political background to art and
culture in Berlin in the nineteenth century; Claude Keisch and Angelika Wesenberg discuss the reception of German painting in Germany itself; and Peter-Klaus Schuster provides a historical overview of the Nationalgalerie. The authors focus on some seventy paintings,... This magnificent book traces the development of nineteenth-century German paintings through the story of a remarkable institution--the Nationalgalerie...
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181,91 zł |
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Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
ISBN: 9780300099287 / Angielski / Twarda / 692 str. Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work, and now the long-awaited catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre is complete. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and England, where his brief, productive life ended. He is best known for his work at the court of Charles I. His full-length portraits of aristocrats in the Caroline court and in Genoa, Antwerp, Brussels, and The Hague influenced the history of Western portraiture into the... Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to... |
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584,72 zł |
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Art in Nature: The Clark Inside and Out
ISBN: 9780300111071 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is home to exceptional collections of European and American painting and sculpture, master prints and drawings, English silver and porcelain, and early photographs. Published on the occasion of the Clark's 50th anniversary, this handsome book combines beautiful images with engaging narrative to capture the unique experience of "art in nature" that has made the Clark one of the country's best-loved museums.
Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the Sterling and Francine Clark Ar...
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70,12 zł |
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Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City
ISBN: 9780300134278 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art. Escultura Social features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how they have contributed to an international dialogue through their use of nontraditional materials, new media, and critical perspectives.This book takes Joseph Beuys's idea of "social sculpture," or escultura social, as a multivalent reference point for understanding how these socially engaged works draw connections between people and nature and promote a demystified and democratic concept of...
Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art. Escultura Social features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has alre...
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140,33 zł |
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Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City
ISBN: 9780847849727 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. An essential look at American modernism as seen through the landscape painting of Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Demuth, Georgia O Keeffe, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, and many others. Paintings of New England coastlines, small-town Pennsylvania, Southwestern canyons, Midwestern farms, and other evocative landscapes fill the pages of Rural Modern. More than sixty modernist works, created between the wars, present an important and often overlooked history: how American painters adapted avant-garde styles like Cubism and Fauvism to reimagine familiar landscapes and develop a distinctively American...
An essential look at American modernism as seen through the landscape painting of Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Demuth, Georgia O Keeffe, Grant Wood, An...
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228,69 zł |
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Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit
ISBN: 9780393324778 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Schad is a contradictory character. For all his icy-cool realism, Schad's mesmerizing paintings are characterized by an intense engagement with his models. While he is best known as a realist, he is also credited by the Dadaists as the inventor of abstract photograms, or "Schadographs. Published in conjunction with an exhbition at the Neue Galerie in New York, Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit includes over 140 full-color reproductions of Schad's paintings, drawings, woodcuts and "Schadographs."
Schad is a contradictory character. For all his icy-cool realism, Schad's mesmerizing paintings are characterized by an intense engagement with his mo...
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249,48 zł |
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Dinner for Architects
ISBN: 9780393731545 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. The spontaneous sketch, drawn when occasion offers on whatever comes to hand, is a trademark of the architect's creativity. On the occasion of the opening of the museum of architecture in the Gallery of Modern Art in Munich, the museum director asked architects of international standing to sketch their personal greetings and congratulations on a paper napkin. These napkins are now part of a colorful, imaginative, and often droll collection, reproduced here interspersed with pithy quotes from an array of famous architects.
The spontaneous sketch, drawn when occasion offers on whatever comes to hand, is a trademark of the architect's creativity. On the occasion of the ope...
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82,95 zł |
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Art at Lincoln Center: The Public Art and List Print and Poster Collections
ISBN: 9780470169131 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. A lavish, full-color volume featuring all of the works in the famous Lincoln Center collections The Lincoln Center Public Art Collection includes pieces by luminaries such as Alexander Calder, Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, and Jasper Johns, among others.
A lavish, full-color volume featuring all of the works in the famous Lincoln Center collections The Lincoln Center Public Art Collection includes pie...
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298,86 zł |
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Art in Museums
ISBN: 9780485900057 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Displaying art in museum galleries is more complex than it used to be. This book aims to canvass past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and of the relationship between the artist, the museum and society. It aims to explore issues relating to audiences for art, and the role of galleries in these and other debates. Topics discussed include: display, cultural representation, the artist and society, museums and the art market.
Displaying art in museum galleries is more complex than it used to be. This book aims to canvass past and contemporary problems of cultural representa...
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1170,54 zł |
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Dore's Illustrations of the Crusades
ISBN: 9780486295978 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Long regarded as the standard history of the subject, Francois Michaud's "History of the Crusades, "published in 1877, recorded over four centuries of passionate, bloody wars that brought the countries -- and cultures -- of Asia and Europe into conflict with one another. To illustrate Michaud's classic study, Gustave Dore executed 100 striking plates, capturing all the savagery, nobility, and vast sweep of the centuries-long conflict. Long regarded as the standard history of the subject, Francois Michaud's "History of the Crusades, "published in 1877, recorded over four centuries... |
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78,79 zł |
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Art of the Gold Rush: (Published in Association with the Oakland Museum of California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento)
ISBN: 9780520214323 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State during the latter nineteenth century and documents the dramatic impact of the Gold Rush on the American imagination.
Among the throngs of gold-seekers in California were artists, many self-taught, others formally trained, and their arrival produced an outpouring of artistic works that provide... The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catal...
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154,37 zł |
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