Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

This author has dug deep in depicting the story of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Stories range from how the museum lost an important work of art, a nude statue in bronze, Standing Women by Gaston Lachaise, due to local patrons concerns with nudity, to the charming tale of a charismatic director who gave moonlight parties on the back lawn of the historic Deshon-Allyn mansion. The tales are set against a background of museum operations and management, and the social events the museum presented-Gala dinners and dancing in the galleries, and trips abroad.

Fascinating characters abound, their...

This author has dug deep in depicting the story of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Stories range from how the museum lost an important work of art, a nude statue in bronze, Standing Women by Gaston Lachaise, due to local patrons concerns with nudity, to the charming tale of a charismatic director who gave moonlight parties on the back lawn of the historic Deshon-Allyn mansion. The tales are set against a background of museum operations and management, and the social events the museum presented-Gala dinners and dancing in the galleries, and trips abroad.

Fascinating characters abound, their...

When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler's classic work is now made available in a freshly designed edition.

"The Shape of Time is as relevant now as it was in 1962. This book, a sober, deeply introspective, and quietly thrilling meditation on the flow of time and...

Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolor to depict new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book, the first critical study of Whistler and his Impressionist followers, offers an in-depth analysis of Whistler's art as well as new insights into his modernist project.

Using a wealth of primary material, Robins tracks the history of Whistler and his group and shows through testimony and practice that they were formulating an identity as avant-garde artists. This is the first critical study of these...

In early 2000 two extraordinary paintings by Poussin hung in the Getty Museum in a single room, Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, London) and the Getty's own Landscape with a Calm. Clark found himself returning to the gallery to look at these paintings morning after...