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William Christenberry: The Early Years, 1954-1968
ISBN: 9780817309602 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting for the first time this major body of paintings and constructions,
The Early Years places Christenberry's work and his life in the South in significant new context. Nationally recognized as an artist, photographer, teacher, and arts advocate, William Christenberry has lived and worked in Washington, D.C., since 1968, when he became a professor of painting at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art. Although Christenberry is well known as a photographer and sculptor, relatively little has been known about his early paintings and his career in the... Presenting for the first time this major body of paintings and constructions,
The Early Years places Christenberry's work and his life in the S... |
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116,78 zł |
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The Virgin & the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917
ISBN: 9780821415016 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beaux-arts mural movement in America was fueled by energetic young artists and architects returning from training abroad. They were determined to transform American art and architecture to make them more thematically cosmopolitan and technically fluid and accomplished. The movement slowly coalesced around the decoration of mansions of the Gilded Age elite, mostly in New York, and of public buildings and institutions across the breadth of the country.
"The Virgin and the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917" is the first book in almost a century to concentrate... The beaux-arts mural movement in America was fueled by energetic young artists and architects returning from training abroad. They were determined to ...
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204,45 zł |
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Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
ISBN: 9780822323242 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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97,30 zł |
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How To Paint & Sell Your Art
ISBN: 9780865340190 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "How to Paint and Sell Your Art," Marcia Muth has written a book for both the beginning and the more experienced artist. A practical and useful guide, it is based on actual working experiences in art. For the beginner there is information on supplies, equipment, studio space and how to start that first painting. Chapters on pricing, exhibitions, galleries and agents answer questions for the more advanced artist. * * * * Marcia Muth, a successful self-taught artist, has exhibited throughout the county. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections and in the collection of the...
In "How to Paint and Sell Your Art," Marcia Muth has written a book for both the beginning and the more experienced artist. A practical and useful gui...
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57,46 zł |
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The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse
ISBN: 9780877739388 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments.
The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawi...
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72,83 zł |
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American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II
ISBN: 9780894682544 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than one hundred works are catalogued in the second of two volumes devoted to the National Gallery of Art's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, including virtually all of the important portraits in the collection. Distinguished in part by the concentration of works by three preeminent artists, Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, this collection also includes John Quidor's The Return of Rip van Winkle, Albert Pinkham Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, and Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a Geranium. The author has... More than one hundred works are catalogued in the second of two volumes devoted to the National Gallery of Art's holdings of nineteenth-century Ame... |
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851,87 zł |
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Painting with O'Keeffe
ISBN: 9780896723818 / Angielski / Twarda / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a world-famous artist begins to lose her eyesight and puts down her brushes, it is a tragedy. When she starts to paint again, it must surely be a miracle. What are those colors? I asked, shouting over the wind.O Keeffe raised her eyes skyward, resting both hands on the cane. She looked slowly all around, squinting against the flying sand, her white dress flapping loudly. Then she lowered her eyes toward me. You tell me what they are, she said.At first I thought she was jesting. I knew she could see them, or I thought she could. But she waited patiently, looking at me. I turned back to...
When a world-famous artist begins to lose her eyesight and puts down her brushes, it is a tragedy. When she starts to paint again, it must surely be a...
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95,89 zł |
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Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art
ISBN: 9780911919042 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tempests and Romantic Visionaries examines the many ways artists have portrayed both turbulent and calm weather conditions in marine and landscape paintings, drawings, and prints. Emphasis is placed on the artist's observation and experience of weather and climate, as well as on works which use calm seas, storms, and tempests as symbol and metaphor. Essays discuss J. M. W. Turner's storm subjects (Hardy George), tempest and shipwreck subjects in Dutch art and Romantic marine painting (Lawrence Goedde), storms at sea in British marine painting (Geoffrey Quilley), and paintings... Tempests and Romantic Visionaries examines the many ways artists have portrayed both turbulent and calm weather conditions in marine and lan... |
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136,25 zł |
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Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography
ISBN: 9780916458959 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709) - the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa - be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonials commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox icon? Why are the Russian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing on some of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons? In this groundbreaking study,...
Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emp...
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81,73 zł |
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Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea
ISBN: 9780932171504 / Angielski / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer s raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art. "Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh exploration of Homer and his career-long preoccupation with the relationship between humans and the waters that define their world.
This exhibition catalog organizes Homer s sea-centered works by four periods that correspond to geographic locations: Gloucester, Massachusetts and other early East Coast seascapes; Cullercoats, England; Prout s Neck... Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer s raw, evocative seascapes are among the mos...
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174,22 zł |
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Looking At the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting Pb
ISBN: 9780948462061 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly...
In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life...
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102,23 zł |
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Kurt Kauper, Diva Fictions
ISBN: 9780964853027 / Angielski / Twarda / 37 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kurt Kauper's Diva Fictions are paintings of imaginary opera singers, invented characters of glamorous condescension and fashionable dazzle, excessive theatricality and overt emotionalism, transmitting a wide range of contemporary cultural realities.
Kurt Kauper's Diva Fictions are paintings of imaginary opera singers, invented characters of glamorous condescension and fashionable dazzle, ex...
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76,86 zł |
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A Treatise on Painting
ISBN: 9781406773828 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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150,60 zł |
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Every Painting Is a Confession
ISBN: 9781425958428 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An artist tumbles through a labyrinth of experiential realities and profound feelings. The most beautiful feeling is that of escaping the tyranny of reality and being free from the ties of objectivity. The wide range of my early works shows my anxious pursuit of myself in my art. My inner restlessness and my fantasy could not be fully expressed in one style. I was a revolutionary, irascible and uncontrolled, constantly experimenting and searching for the true expression of my inner voice. By 1974, I finally found my clearly unmistakable trademark, my unambiguous style. I needed the last...
An artist tumbles through a labyrinth of experiential realities and profound feelings. The most beautiful feeling is that of escaping the tyranny of r...
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212,60 zł |
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Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting
ISBN: 9781581809244 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create Better Compositions by Design The path to better painting begins with "Mastering Composition." This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet. Composition is the key, and here you'll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Every great painting has one, and you'll see through several famous examples exactly how the Old Masters used armatures to create movement,... Create Better Compositions by Design The path to better painting begins with "Mastering Composition." This effective guide blends clear,... |
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122,93 zł |
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The Invention of Pastel Painting
ISBN: 9781904982128 / Angielski / Twarda / 31-12-2025 / 244 str. Książka dostępna od: 31-12-2025 Chalks and pastels are particularly appropriate materials for portraits because they appear effortlessly to convey the warm tones and soft, matte velvety surface of skin. Portraits and head studies therefore figure prominently in histories of pastel. The Invention of Pastel Painting describes the relatively sudden emergence in the later seventeenth century of sets of friable pastel sticks and a new artistic practice of painting in pastel. The author reconsiders the use of natural and fabricated drawing sticks as tools, firmly locating their use in the context of historical function. 'Artistic...
Chalks and pastels are particularly appropriate materials for portraits because they appear effortlessly to convey the warm tones and soft, matte velv...
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Termin ukazania się książki: 31-12-2025
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408,90 zł |
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ReAwakening of Art
ISBN: 9781905399031 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Re-Awakening of Art and creative expression, in everyone together with a parallel growth in consciousness. Meera reapproaches the reawakening of art through offering painiting trainings and workshops- waking people's forgotten source - the creative impulse hidden in us all - which is ready to be freed at any moment.
This book is about Re-Awakening of Art and creative expression, in everyone together with a parallel growth in consciousness. Meera reapproaches the r...
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103,26 zł |
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Painting Explained
ISBN: 9781932490305 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,99 zł |
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The Mithraeum at Marino
ISBN: 9789004065000 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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481,30 zł |
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Nabokov and the Art of Painting
ISBN: 9789053567906 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sounds have colors and colors have smells." This sentence in "Ada"" "is only one of the many moments in Nabokov's work where he sought to merge the visual into his rich and sensual writing. This lavishly illustrated study is the first to examine the role of the visual arts in Nabokov's oeuvre and to explore how art deepens the potency of the prominent themes threaded throughout his work. The authors trace the role of art in Nabokov's life, from his alphabetic chromesthesia--a psychological condition in which letters evoke specific colors--to his training under Marc Chagall's painting...
"Sounds have colors and colors have smells." This sentence in "Ada"" "is only one of the many moments in Nabokov's work where he sought to merge the v...
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350,44 zł |
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