Publication date: 1979
Review Francis Picabia his art, life, and times / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 1998
Review Ansel Adams At 100 / Easton Press:LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold! ! In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents the definitive look at the life and achievements of the distinguished photographer. Over 125 breathtaking photographs by the artist are featured, each one meticulously reproduced for stunning effect.
Publication date: 2006-04-01
Dewey code: 779
List Price: $420.00
Price: $420.00
Review Roni Horn: Index Cixous / Steidl:HÈlÈne Cixous, the contemporary French philosopher with whom Roni Horn has collaborated on previous work, argues for a new language, one that acknowledges the life-giving force of the feminine. In tribute to Cixous, Horn, a major American photographer and sculptor, has created Index Cixous, which questions the nature of language in its most fundamental sense, in part by proposing a new language, one without words, but which can be read as any other. A signed and numbered limited edition of 100.
Creator: Peter Wollen
Publication date: 1997-11-01
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $59.95
Review Who Is Andy Warhol? / British Film Institute:46 b/w photographs The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy Warhol? were specially written by an amazing variety of authors-including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Wollen, and Victor Bockis-for an event held at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Through these pieces writers, researchers, and friends explore the nature of Warhol's achievements and the extent of his influence.
Edition: Exp Sub
Publication date: 1998-10-15
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $165.00
Price: $600.00
Review Egon Schiele / Harry N. Abrams:This monumental, gorgeous, two-part book, a biography and a catalogue raisonné, is the definitive tome on Egon Schiele (1890-1917), who died at the impossibly tragic age of 27. That a 700-page volume is devoted to his oeuvre says something about his youthful accomplishments, which are rivaled perhaps only by those of Georges Seurat. Author Jane Kallir is the daughter of Otto Kallir, a Viennese art historian and dealer who emigrated to New York in 1931 and opened the Galerie St. Etienne, which showcased the controversial, influential works of such artists as Oskar Kokoschka and Gustav Klimt along with Schiele. Kallir possesses the rare ability to analyze even the most delicate matters with forthrightness, disinterest, and perspicacity. Her lack of cant distinguishes her from the many passionate Schiele mythmakers, and yet there is nothing dull or cold about her writing. With characteristic understatement, she laments "the regrettable tendency of later authors to discredit their predecessors," while acknowledging that "meaningful contributions to Schiele scholarship have been made at every turn. " In the long biography, Kallir sifts through a century of potboiling prose to capture the factual past in all its mystery and sadness. She speaks of Schiele's subjects-"the quintessential adolescent experiences of sexual awakening and spiritual exploration"-and remarks, "Neither before nor after Schiele does one often encounter an artist who addresses such issues so directly. " Unlike her more reserved predecessors, Kallir openly discusses every nuance of Schiele's personal, sexual, pictorial, political, and social development with subtlety and candor. [+]And in the catalogue raisonné, she offers an essential work of scholarship. Filled with color plates, including the sexually controversial ones of pubescent children and copulating couples, this is the Schiele book that will last. -Peggy Moorman.
Authors
- Frank Zollner
- Johannes Nathan
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $200.00
Price: $449.65
Review Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings / Taschen:Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes. * Part I explores Leonardo's life and work in ten chapters, drawing upon his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings. All of his paintings are presented and interpreted in depth, with The Annunciation and The Last Supper featured on fold-out pages. * Part II comprises a catalogue raisonne of Leonardo's paintings, which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation. Each and every painting that can be justifiably attributed to Leonardo is included here; thanks to new findings and scientific research, this is the first time his definitive painting oeuvre is being published. * Part III contains an extensive catalogue of his drawings (numbering in the thousands, they cannot all be reproduced in one book); 663 are presented, arranged by category (architecture, technical, anatomical, figures, proportion, cartography, etc). Over half of the drawings included were provided by Windsor Castle, marking the first time that the Castle has allowed a publisher to reproduce so many of their drawings. This sumptuous TASCHEN offering is the most thorough and beautifully produced Leonardo book ever published. [+]Lying open, this unutterably wonderful book is almost the size of the Mona Lisa and about as hefty as a slab of The Last Supper's monastery wall. All 34 paintings are here (including what we know of the lost ones), many with huge and immensely illuminating details, plus 663 drawings. The reproductions are stunning, on paper sturdy enough to serve as wings on some of the flying machines depicted on pages 644 to 671. The precision of the images amazes: the delicate petals fingered by the larger-than-life-size baby Jesus in Madonna of the Carnation; the wailing, dismembered victims of Leonardo's scary scythed chariots; Mary's transparent drapery in the Annunciation; the bands of sunlight streaking each swirling curl of Ginevra de Benci; Mona Lisa's gossamer veil and intricately embroidered gown; even, unless my eyes deceive me, one of the fingerprints Leonardo famously left while daubing paint by hand. The text by Frank Zollner (and Johannes Nathan, who discusses the drawings) teases out meanings and sketches historical context without overloading his scholarly brush. Without it, one might have overlooked the dim crucifix on which St. Jerome fixes his blazing gaze, and quite misunderstood the sexist Hippocratic delusions that inform The Sexual Act in Vertical Section: "A tube-like duct leads from the woman’s breasts to her womb, while the male organ is directly linked not only to the testicles but also…to the brain. " (Zollner’s discussion of the erotic subtext of some of the artwork suggests that Leonardo's male passion was not necessarily so rational. ) The brief accounts of Leonardo's esthetic combat with Michelangelo and Raphael suggest that you don't need a scythed chariot to cut off an opponent at the knees. The famous quotes by everyone from Nietzsche to Warhol are well selected, especially Freud diagnosing Leonardo's genius as residing in his childlike sense of play. That's a key to the spirit of this book: it's more fun than a week in the Louvre. –Tim Appelo.
Authors
- Rodolfo Pallucchini; Paola Rossi
Review Tintoretto: L'Opera Completa / ELECTA:
Authors
- Hiroshi Yoshida
- Tadao Ogura
Dewey code: 769.92
Price: $75.00
Review The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi / Tuttle Publishing:
Publication date: 1973
Review Coucou bazar: Bal de l'hourloupe : an animated painting / Pace Editions:
Authors
- James Fenimore (1789-1851). Wyeth, Newell Convers (1882-1945) ill. Cooper
Review The deerslayer / James Fenimore Cooper ; illustrated by N.C. Wyeth / New York : Scribner, [1990]:
Authors
- Jack; Isabelle Vellay; Alphonse Mucha Rennert
Review MUCHA. La Collection Ivan Lendl. / Syros Alternatives:
Authors
- [EHON] Katsushika HOKUSAI
Review Katsushika Tame-itsu Iboku HOKUSAI SHIN HINAGATA / see notes for publisher info:
Publication date: 2008-01-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $450.00
Price: $420.37
Review Corpus: Drawings 1981-2006 (signed edition) / Other Criteria:This comprehensive monograph was produced to accompany the drawings retrospective ‘Damien Hirst: Corpus: Drawings 1981-2006’ held at Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York in 2006. It features more than two hundred drawings which offer a historical insight into rarely seen aspects of the artist’s work and process. Included are early drawings from Hirst’s student days; pencil sketches for seminal sculptures such as ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ 1991, ‘A Thousand Years’ 1991, ‘The Acquired Inability to Escape’ 1992, ‘Away from the Flock’ 1994 and ‘The Hat Makes the Man’ 2003; preparatory diagrams for early spot paintings and medicine cabinets; a large-scale series of fourteen drawings for The Stations of the Cross (2004); and proposals for unrealised and future projects. Accompanying the drawings is a conversation between the artist and political philosopher John Gray (author of Straw Dogs, False Dawn and Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern), and an essay by British historian Simon Baker. Hardback/with 29 gatefolds and book ribbon.
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $53.95
Review William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm / Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.:The Microcosm is invaluable for the light it sheds on late 18th century and early 19th century country life. This biography will appeal to students of art and social history, to costume and art historians, and to anyone interested in how the people of England lived and worked before the age of machines and power.
Publication date: 1987-11
Dewey code: 741.5973
Price: $59.95
Review Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times / Celestial Arts:These twelve classic Uncle $crooge stories have been printed from the original negatives shot from the original artwork (which no longer exists). Completely recolored in the style of the 1930s and 1940s Disney animated cartoons. Illustrated.
Authors
- Nicolas Callaway
- Nicholas Callaway
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Price: $49.99
Review Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers / Random House Value Publishing:A celebration of the artist's familar works encompasses one hundred of her famous flower masterpieces as gathered from private collections and leading museums, and is presented in an accessible, coffee-table format.
Publication date: 1973
Review Henry Moore the Graphic Work / UNSPECIFIED VENDOR:
Creator: Richard Shone
Publication date: 1993-01-27
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $90.00
Review Sickert: Paintings / Yale University Press:
Creator: Pacewildenstein
Publication date: 2002-01-15
Dewey code: 730.92
Price: $20.00
Review Donald Judd: Late Work / Pacewildenstein:Over the years, Donald Judd's constructions have evolved, becoming increasingly complex in their optical and coloristic effects, making use of Cor-ten steel, Douglas fir plywood, colored plexiglass, painted steel, and various forms of aluminum. This catalogue elegantly displays work made between 1988 and 1994, the year he died. Essay by Richard Shiff. 9. 75 x 11. 25 in. 40 color illustrations.
Publication date: 1979-01-01
Price: $100.00
Review Claude Lorrain the Paintings: volume 1: Critical Catalogue, volume 2: Illustrations / Hacker Art Books:
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