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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
ISBN: 9780804748308 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in...
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the pos...
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451,27 zł |
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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field Museum
ISBN: 9780806129853 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintings of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolors, housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, span three decades and depict nineteen species of North American birds. Many of the paintings are reproduced here for the first time.
Sutton was fond of painting young birds from life and of recording their developmental changes. Marked by delicate brushwork and subtle color variations, his... George Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintin...
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157,77 zł |
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Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
ISBN: 9780807847626 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.
Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's... Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on t...
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300,52 zł |
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Unrecounted
ISBN: 9780811217262 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems" miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls "time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death" here find a small home. The art and...
Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems" miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works with thirty-t...
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70,93 zł |
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Frida Kahlo Postcards
ISBN: 9780811800396 / Angielski / Other Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At last--vivid, full-color postcards featuring Frida Kahlo's most popular works in a high-quality, inexpensive collection. This compilation of Kahlo's most famous and haunting works was selected from her passionate self-portraits, exotic still-lifes, and semi-surreal scenes. 22 full-color postcards.
At last--vivid, full-color postcards featuring Frida Kahlo's most popular works in a high-quality, inexpensive collection. This compilation of Kahlo's...
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47,48 zł |
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Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands
ISBN: 9780813538631 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book surveys objects maker, musician, poet, and performer Willie Cole, who liberates and aggrandizes everyday artifacts and transforms them into powerful and iconic art works. Includes thirty color illustrations of his work and an extensive interview.
This book surveys objects maker, musician, poet, and performer Willie Cole, who liberates and aggrandizes everyday artifacts and transforms them into ...
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150,37 zł |
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Henri Matisse : A Guide to Research
ISBN: 9780815300861 / Angielski / Twarda / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts relating to the artist, with an introduction examining the critical reception of Matisse during his life and after his death. This is volume 1 in the ARTISTS RESOURCE MANUALS series. A comprehensive survey of English and European language sour
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts relating to the artist, with an introduction examining the critical reception of Matisse during his li...
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959,60 zł |
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Hans Holbein the Younger: A Guide to Research
ISBN: 9780815303893 / Angielski / Twarda / 772 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts relating to the Northern European artist, with an historiographic essay on various aspects of Holbein's reception. This is volume 2 in the ARTISTS RESOURCE MANUALS series.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts relating to the Northern European artist, with an historiographic essay on various aspects of Holbein'...
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933,66 zł |
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Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.
ISBN: 9780816630523 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation.
Working in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Gamboa has pioneered multimedia formats for nearly three decades, setting a precedent for the work of artists such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Daniel J. Martinez. Urban Exile gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a visually compelling collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s. Gamboa was a founding... The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own crea...
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124,44 zł |
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Wanda Gag
ISBN: 9780816634972 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wanda Gag is best remembered for her illustrated children's books, such as Millions of Cats, but she also produced inventive prints that deal with the forces of nature and infuse everyday objects with special character and energy. In this richly illustrated volume, Audur H. Winnan provides a fascinating account of Gag's life and printmaking art, exploring the ways in which Gag's work reflects not only her Minnesota childhood but her immigrant roots and bohemian life.
Using excerpts form Gag's expressive diaries and letters, Winnan fleshes out a portrait of the artist. With extraordinary... Wanda Gag is best remembered for her illustrated children's books, such as Millions of Cats, but she also produced inventive prints that deal with the...
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145,18 zł |
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Carnal Art : Orlan's Refacing
ISBN: 9780816643226 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Greek goddesses painted by Botticelli, Gerard, Moreau, and an anonymous School of Fontainebleau artist, as well as from da Vinci's "Mona Lisa, were implanted into Orlan's face. During her surgical performances, viewers witness a material tampering with the relationship between the face and individual identity, the original and the constructed, a historical critique of the association of art with beauty and the female body. Responding to Orlan's...
The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Gr...
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321,59 zł |
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Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing
ISBN: 9780816643233 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Greek goddesses painted by Botticelli, Gerard, Moreau, and an anonymous School of Fontainebleau artist, as well as from da Vinci's Mona Lisa, were implanted into Orlan's face. During her surgical performances, viewers witness a material tampering with the relationship between the face and individual identity, the original and the constructed, a historical critique of the association of art with beauty and the female body.Responding to Orlan's...
The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Gr...
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103,69 zł |
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Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern
ISBN: 9780816643820 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932) was prolific artist who worked in many of the styles of the early twentieth century: impressionism, postimpressionism, fauvism, and expressionism. This richly illustrated book draws from the single largest public collection of his work and presents the impressive range of his paintings and works on paper throughout his career.
Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932) was prolific artist who worked in many of the styles of the early twentieth century: impressionism, postimpressionism,...
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114,06 zł |
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Charles Biederman
ISBN: 9780816643851 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Biederman (b. 1906) has been active in the avant-garde for three-quarters of a century. From his early experiments with cubism and surrealism to the brightly colored aluminum sculptures he constructed through the 1990s, he has pioneered art forms, styles, and theories. This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the career of this influential artist, and features full-color illustrations of dozens of Biederman's paintings, drawings, and signature three-dimensional aluminum constructions.
Charles Biederman (b. 1906) has been active in the avant-garde for three-quarters of a century. From his early experiments with cubism and surrealism ...
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103,69 zł |
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The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post
ISBN: 9780816648115 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently underappreciated, William B. Post (1857-1921) was a pioneer fine art photographer at the turn of the twentieth century. Admired by Alfred Stieglitz, he was among the first American photographers to compose his images and sensitively craft his finished prints. This catalogue presents approximately thirty of Post's images, noteworthy for their rich and exquisite tone. Post's deep affection for the landscape of rural Maine, where he summered and eventually lived, is evident in his soft-focus capturing of the essence of apple trees in blossom, fields at harvesttime, and most notably...
Currently underappreciated, William B. Post (1857-1921) was a pioneer fine art photographer at the turn of the twentieth century. Admired by Alfred St...
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124,44 zł |
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Talkin' with Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin
ISBN: 9780822320692 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays by leading cultural studies authors on the video work of artist Steve Fagin, together with excerpts from scripts and illustrations from his work.
A collection of essays by leading cultural studies authors on the video work of artist Steve Fagin, together with excerpts from scripts and illustrati...
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124,44 zł |
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Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
ISBN: 9780822323044 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s artworld. In "Where Is Ana Mendieta?" art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta s diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works, as well as feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism.
Taken from banners carried in a 1992... Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s artw...
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430,52 zł |
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Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
ISBN: 9780822333968 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur "genius" grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue about the dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence in both the antebellum South and contemporary culture. Walker's work has been featured in exhibits around the world and in American museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. At the same time, her ideologically...
One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur "genius" grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, ...
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103,69 zł |
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Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro
ISBN: 9780822942603 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novelist and essayist Hilary Masters recreates a moment in 1940s Pittsburgh when circumstances, ideology, and a passion for the arts collided to produce a masterpiece in another part of the world. E. J. Kaufmann, the so-called "merchant prince" who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, was a man whose hunger for beauty included women as well as architecture. He had transformed his family's department store into an art deco showcase with murals by Boardman Robinson and now sought to beautify the walls of the YM&WHA of which he was the president. Through his son E. J. Kaufmann,... Novelist and essayist Hilary Masters recreates a moment in 1940s Pittsburgh when circumstances, ideology, and a passion for the arts collided to pr... |
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151,78 zł |
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Steel Shadows
ISBN: 9780822957485 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With "Steel Shadows," you don t have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Cooper s unique, realistic and highly personal images of Pittsburgh. "Steel Shadows" brings his large charcoal and paper art home to you. Cooper details the inspiration for his artistic vision, as well as the formal properties of his art and how it relates to architecture. The book features double-page spreads of his murals, his essay, and excerpts from Pittsburgh authors telling the stories of the city s ethnic and eclectic style of... With "Steel Shadows," you don t have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Coop... |
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101,01 zł |
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