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Carroll Cloar: In His Studio
ISBN: 9780972389327 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the South's most beloved painters, Carroll Cloar (1913-1993) worked daily from 1959 until his death in his home on South Greer Street in Memphis, Tennessee. His studio was lined with newspapers and magazine articles that held special significance or inspiration, and he added memorabilia from various periods of his life. The walls were a work in progress and microcosm of Cloar's world. The studio, reconstructed in The Art Museum of the University of Memphis in 2013, is the point of departure for considering Cloar's drawings, lithographs, and paintings as well as his artistic... One of the South's most beloved painters, Carroll Cloar (1913-1993) worked daily from 1959 until his death in his home on South Greer Street in Mem... |
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166,52 |
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Cast for Eternity: Ancient Ritual Bronzes from the Shanghai Museum
ISBN: 9780300207897 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this generously illustrated book offers a compelling overview of the beauty of Chinese bronzes and the fascinating traditions surrounding them. These important objects, many of which have never before appeared in an English-language publication, date from the 18th to the 1st century B.C.E. and span numerous dynasties. Highlights of the exhibition include an early thin-wall cast three-legged food vessel (ding) from the Erlitou period, a set of nine bells (bianzhong) from the early...
Showcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this generously illustrated book offers a compelling...
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154,67 |
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses
ISBN: 9780870709050 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin's experiments with a range of media, from radically -primitive- woodcuts that extend from the sculptural gouging of his carved wood reliefs, to jewel-like watercolor monotypes and large mysterious transfer drawings. Gauguin's creative process often involved...
Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his...
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191,23 |
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Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America After Modernism
ISBN: 9780823260799 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revelatory, fully illustrated anthology explores modernism's complex legacy in Latin America--featuring original research by renowned architects, historians, and curators from the region. Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the...
This revelatory, fully illustrated anthology explores modernism's complex legacy in Latin America--featuring original research by renowned arc...
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137,09 |
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Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection
ISBN: 9780878468249 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. Influenced by twentieth-century art developments such as Abstraction, Op art and the Color Field movement, Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy were among the first to appreciate quilts as more than simply decorative bedcovers, women's fancy work or symbols of a rustic past. Reproduced brilliantly and arranged by ideas based in color theory--Vibrations, Mixtures, Gradations, Harmonies, Contrasts, Variations and Optical...
Quilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collecti...
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173,41 |
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Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum. Edited by Maia Gahtan
ISBN: 9781409456841 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari's original contributions to the making of museums, addressing the subject from the full range of aspects - collecting, installation, conceptual-historical - in which his influence is strongly felt. Uniting specialists of Giorgio Vasari with scholars of historical museology, this collection of essays presents a cross-disciplinary overview of Vasari's approaches to the collecting and display of art, artifacts and memorabilia. Although the main focus of the book is on the mid-late 16th...
Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari's original contributions to the making of muse...
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747,55 |
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Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
ISBN: 9780300195873 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs
Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging overview essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully examines the evolution of Koons' work and his development over the past thirty-five years, offering... A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside...
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232,00 |
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Safeguarding Cultural Properties: Security for Museums, Libraries, Parks, and Zoos
ISBN: 9780124201125 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facility or public institution. Author Stevan P. Layne, the leading expert in the field of cultural property protection, draws from his many years of experience providing protection training and planning to more than 350 cultural and public institutions around the world. Designed especially for those with limited security budgets, the book provides a proven and effective program for hiring the right security personnel, selecting the... Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facil... |
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181,17 |
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My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World
ISBN: 9780847843787 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a memoir, the museum s longtime director takes the reader on a private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the largest collections of Western art in the world, the Hermitage is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was built to house her growing collection of Old Masters and to serve as a home for the imperial family. Tsars came and went over the years, artworks were acquired and sold, buildings were burned down in terrible fires, and still the collections grew. After the violent upheavals of...
In a memoir, the museum s longtime director takes the reader on a private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the largest collections of West...
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154,67 |
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WIEN.BLICKE / VIENNA.VIEWS : Stadtbildfotografien von Reinhard Mandl / The City in Photographs by Reinhard Mandl. Dtsch.-Engl.
ISBN: 9783990436578 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Viele kleine Eingriffe verwandeln lebendige Stadte kontinuierlich. Reinhard Mandl transformiert solch fluchtige Momente des Wiener Grossstadtlebens zu bleibenden fotografischen Erinnerungen. Welche Uberraschungen gibt es von der Abbegasse bis zum Baaderwiesenweg und warum ist gleich zu Beginn fotografieren verboten ? Eroffnen sich beim Gang vom larmenden Trubel am Calafattiplatz zur Dachauer-Strasse tatsachlich neue Perspektiven auf Altbekanntes? "Viele kleine Eingriffe verwandeln lebendige Stadte kontinuierlich. Reinhard Mandl transformiert solch fluchtige Momente des Wiener Grossstadtlebens... |
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103,13 |
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Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today
ISBN: 9780759124103 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aimed at museum educators, Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today seeks to marry museum and multicultural education theories. It reveals how the union of these theories yields more equitable educational practices and guides museum educators to address misrepresentation, exclusivity, accessibility, and educational inequality. This contemporary text is directive; it encourages museum educators to consider the critical multicultural education theoretical framework in their day-to-day functions in order to illuminate and combat shortcomings at the crux of museum education: -Museum Educators as...
Aimed at museum educators, Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today seeks to marry museum and multicultural education theories. It reveals how the union ...
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435,90 |
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Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art
ISBN: 9780943651453 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experience the glamour of shades of sapphire-blue and emerald-green through a highly illustrated book that studies the symbolic nature of the peacock through the lens of art. Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art explores our fascination with that most glamorous of birds. The peacock, strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green plumage, symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of painting and sculpture, in books, and on clothes that swirl and shine like the iridescent bird itself. Intrigued by the exotic art of Asia that...
Experience the glamour of shades of sapphire-blue and emerald-green through a highly illustrated book that studies the symbolic nature of the ...
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171,42 |
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Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901
ISBN: 9780300208030 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sculpture Victorious highlights the diversity, originality, and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colorful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos, and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world. In an age of unprecedented territorial expansion, sculpture reflected the power of the British empire; at the same time, increased access to materials and resources facilitated artistic production and innovation. The partnership...
Sculpture Victorious highlights the diversity, originality, and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavi...
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283,55 |
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Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN: 9781449460365 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enjoy this beautiful companion book to the extensive Exploring Calvin and Hobbes exhibition at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. Includes an in-depth, original, and lengthy interview with Bill Watterson.
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes is the catalogue for an exhibition by the same name at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University that ran in 2014. The exhibit is Bill Watterson's personal exploration of how the wonder of Calvin and Hobbes came to be. It includes original art of Calvin and Hobbes, along with Watterson's original commentary. The... Enjoy this beautiful companion book to the extensive Exploring Calvin and Hobbes exhibition at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. Includes an in-depth...
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80,47 |
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Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
ISBN: 9780300207613 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece
Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early 19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention to the invention of the telegraph and Morse code. A signature painting in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Gallery of the Louvre underwent an extensive conservation treatment in... Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece
Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) Gallery ... |
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180,44 |
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George Inness and the Visionary Landscape
ISBN: 9780807600092 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This eloquent examination of Inness' most important paintings illuminates the artist s philosophical and religious preoccupations. It provides an overview of his life and situates Inness within the contexts of key issues in American history, such as the Hudson River School, Transcendentalism, Swedenborgianism, and the work of William James. It explains for the first time how Inness treated landscape painting as a form of philosophical inquiry that could communicate his holistic belief in the unity of nature and spirit. Bell s handsomely illustrated, eloquently written, and well-documented... This eloquent examination of Inness' most important paintings illuminates the artist s philosophical and religious preoccupations. It provides an o... |
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153,95 |
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From the Land of the Ottoman Sultans
ISBN: 9789814155403 / Angielski / Miękka / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exhibition catalogue that presents 125 beautifully illustrated objects borrowed from the premier museums in Istanbul - Topkapi Palace Museum, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, and the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Exhibition catalogue that presents 125 beautifully illustrated objects borrowed from the premier museums in Istanbul - Topkapi Palace Museum, the M... |
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78,32 |
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British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response: Reflections Across the Pond
ISBN: 9781472438065 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - historians. Collectively, they examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of their Continental European counterparts, the English and Americans have historically been exceptionally open to collecting the art made by and for other cultures. At the same time, they developed a tradition of opening private collections to a public eager for educational and...
British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - hist...
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710,17 |
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Late Harvest
ISBN: 9783777423500 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exhibition Late Harvest is organized by the Nevada Museum of Art in consultation with the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This publication seeks to simultaneously confirm through historically significant wildlife paintings and subvert through contemporary art and photography viewers preconceptions of the place of animals in culture.
The exhibition Late Harvest is organized by the Nevada Museum of Art in consultation with the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This publication seeks ...
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128,89 |
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Ireland Glenkeen Garden
ISBN: 9783777423081 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For gardeners, Ireland s Roaring Water Bay, in West Cork, is a paradise: buoyed by the Gulf Stream and long hours of sunshine, its micro-climate permits unique plantseven palm treesto grow and thrive there. And the past twenty years have seen the slow creation of a true masterpiece of wild gardening in the area: Glenkeen Garden, designed by Ulrike Crespo and Michael Satke. This book brings five photographers together to document the growth and development of the garden, each bringing to the project his own personal viewpoint. The result, a stunning and limited edition boxed set featuring...
For gardeners, Ireland s Roaring Water Bay, in West Cork, is a paradise: buoyed by the Gulf Stream and long hours of sunshine, its micro-climate permi...
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1623,98 |
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