Publication date: 1912
Review The old colleges of Oxford;: Their architectural history illustrated and described / B.T. Batsford:
Publication date: 1997-12
Review Jan Van Bijlert, 1597/98-1671 (OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries) / John Benjamins Publishing Co:
Publication date: 1994-01
Dewey code: 709.510745125
Price: $135.00
Review China's New Art, Post-1989/With a Retrospective from 1979-1989 / Univ of Washington Pr:
Publication date: 1997
Review Wood Engravings of Paul Nash: Catalogue of the Wood Engravings, Pattern Papers, Etchings and an Engraving on Copper / Wood Lea Press. Book Condition: U:
Creator: Malcolm Andrews
Publication date: 1994-01
Review The Picturesque (Helm Information Literary Sources & Documents Series) / Helm Information:Each title in the "Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents" series concentrates on a significant cultural and literary area or period and offers the student an extensive range of primary source and documentary material which together represents a significant research resource. The material presented consists of original source material from the period or subject and includes prefaces, letters, essays and critical texts from the period as well as related material - especially complete texts. In addition, each set includes a substantial introductory essay placing the material in context; a chronology of the period or movement noting texts and figures as well as relating material to relevant references elsewhere; a bibliography of the texts associated with the period or movement; an extensive critical bibliography; and biographical notes on significant figures and editorial notes on the source material. The aim of these volumes is to provide a wide selection of texts which bear upon the development of the idea of "The Picturesque in 18th and 19th century Britain. With one or two exceptions only, all writers here represented are British and the object of their less abstract reflections is the nature of British landscapes, although it should be recognized that many of these commentators developed their connoisseurship on the Grand tour of Europe, where a capacity for the aesthetic evaluation of landscape was regarded as the mark of a cultivated sensibility. "The Picturesque" developed as a mode of landscape appraisal in the middle and later 18th century. It assumes for many the status of a science. It acquired its own technical jargon of "side-screens", "off-skips", three "distances" etc. By the late 18th century, the fashion for scenic tourism to the Lake district, North Wales, and the Scottish Highlands, was well developed. The Tourists were well versed in the vocabulary of the "Picturesque", and under its prescriptive influence would refine their water-colour sketches and journal entries to fit a series of landscape formulae. [+]The topic of the "Picturesque" was much debated, both informally in the journals and correspondence of these tourists and, more formally, in a number of "essays" in the 1790s - notably by William Giopin and Uvedale Price. Both debates are extensively represented in this volume. The vogue for the "Picturesque" became an object of ridicule early in the 19th century: in the novels of Jane Austen and Peacock and in the satirical travels of Dr. Syntax. These, too, are featured. In the victorian period, a more serious reaction against the "Picturesque" developed, chiefly in the writings of John Ruskin who tried to introduce a stronger ethical element into an aesthetic that concentrated with such relish on scenes of poverty and dilapidation. The volumes close in about 1870 when Ruskin's revisionist work on the "Picturesque" had largely been completed. But this is not the end of the story. The "Picturesque" has a remarkable tenacity and adaptability, even to the present day. Although the word itself no longer excites the controversy that it did in the later 18th century, our attitudes to the natural landscape are still coloured by it. These volumes provide the material for re-examining what may be regarded as the roots of our modern attitudes towards natural scenery.
Creator: George G. Roussas
Publication date: 2003-08-01
Dewey code: 519.5
List Price: $1,161.00
Price: $1,161.00
Review Madan Lal Puri Selected Collected Works (Madan Lal Puri. Selected Collected Works, 1-3) (Madan Lal Puri. Selected Collected Works, 1-3) / Brill Academic Publishers:Professor Puri is one of the most versatile and prolific researchers in the world in mathematical statistics. His research areas include nonparametric statistics, order statistics, limit theory under mixing, time series, splines, tests of normality, generalized inverses of matrices and related topics, stochastic processes, statistics of directional data, random sets, and fuzzy sets and fuzzy measures. His fundamental contributions in developing new rank-based methods and precise evaluation of the standard procedures, asymptotic expansions of distributions of rank statistics, as well as large deviation results concerning them, span such areas as analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, multivariate analysis, and time series, to mention a few. His in-depth analysis has resulted in pioneering research contributions to prominent journals that have substantial impact on current research. These volumes are a concerted effort to make his research works easily available to the research community. The sheer volume of the research output by him and his collaborators, coupled with the broad spectrum of the subject matters investigated, and the great number of outlets where the papers were published, attach special significance in making these works easily accessible. The papers selected for inclusion in this work have been classified into three volumes each consisting of several parts. All three volumes carry a final part consisting of the contents of the other two, as well as the complete list of Professor Puri's publications.
Publication date: 1992
Dewey code: 745.6'7'016
Price: $827.83
Review Manuel De L'Amateur De Livres Illustres Modernes 1875-1975 (Dictionnaires) / Editions Ides et Calendes:
Publication date: 1994
Price: $889.97
Review Oskar Kokoschka, Emigrantenleben: Prag und London 1934-1953 / Kerber:
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Price: $889.97
Review Enrico Baj / Mondadori Electa:
Publication date: 1989
Review Fulbrook: "a house you will love to live in" : the sketchbook, letters, specification of works & accounts for a house by Edwin Lutyens, 1896-1899 / Libanus Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-08-31
Dewey code: 574.5268
Price: $187.00
Review The Ecology of Urban Habitats / Springer:A survey on the ecology of plants and animals in such familiar habitats as parks, gardens, cemetries, wasteland, industrial sites and shopping centres, railways, roads and canals. The importance and significance of the flora and fauna in these areas is highlighted and ideas for developing mutually beneficial links between people and urban wildlife are suggested. Emphasis is placed on successful relationships, regional patterns of variation and those habitat factors that are peculiar to towns and cities.
Publication date: 1986-01
Dewey code: 769.924
Price: $395.00
Review Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints / Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns:
Publication date: 1983
Review African mammal drawings: The Wellcome volume / Pangolin Prints:
Publication date: 1991
Price: $889.96
Review Cuatro direcciones: Fotografia contemporanea espanola, 1970-1990 / Lunwerg:
Edition: Unbnd Ltd
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 746
List Price: $175.00
Price: $875.00
Review Visionaire No. 48: Magic (Visionaire) / Visionaire Publishing, LLC:What are the limits of paper? Can a two-dimensional image move? Transform? Lift off the page? Following lavish multimedia issues including Scent, which featured vials of original perfumes, and World which came in an exclusive Gap satchel, Visionaire's 48th edition, Magic, brings the still picture to life in 25 unbound cards, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches each, printed in the latest lenticular technology, a process that captures motion on a page. Visionaire invited filmmakers, photographers and artists to explore the magic of motion. Contributors include Spike Jonze, Wong Kar Wai, Pedro Almodovar, Gus Van Sant, Viktor & Rolf, Mario Sorrento, Karl Lagerfeld and Moriko Mori. Their three-second clips were transformed into lenticular images, images that shift when seen from different angles. Remove them from the case, which features an 18-karat gold Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra on a satin ribbon, and tilt each one to and fro to watch it move. To be released in February, just in time for Valentine's Day, in a numbered limited edition of 3000 copies.
Authors
- R.J. Charleston
- John Ayers
Review Waddesdon Manor Catalogue (The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor) / National Trust:
Publication date: 1912
Review An account of medieval figure-sculpture in England, / University Press:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $174.00
Review The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches / John Benjamins Publishing Co:
Creator: Hans Werner Holzwarth
Publication date: 2008-11-27
Dewey code: 759.13
List Price: $1,000.00
Price: $823.28
Review Christopher Wool / TASCHEN America Llc:Covering all work phases in large-scale reproductions and accompanied by extensive texts as well as production Polaroids and installation photos by Wool himself. Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist. In-your-face, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of Christopher Wool is so very New York. Though he owes a debt to abstract expressionism and pop art, he completely transcends even demolishes these genres. Whether it s a text-based painting or an abstract spray-painted piece, his work is immediately engaging. Wool questions painting, like many other artists in his generation, but he doesn t provide any easy answers. The harder you look the harder you look, as he titled one of his word paintings, is an excellent example of how he states the obvious whilst provoking us to think deeper about what seems obvious. Christopher Wool became known in the mid-1980s through allover paintings produced with rubber rollers commonly used to simulate decorative wallpaper patterns on walls. By 1988 he had hit stride with his dry, dead-pan word paintings ( Trbl, Riot, Sell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids ), while continuing to explore the possibilities of pattern painting. Since the 1990s, he has been developing the painterly qualities of his work, using a mostly black-and-white palette, starting from abstract lines drawn with a spray gun or layered stock images, overpainting silkscreens on linen, wiping out images, with a widening variety of media, a process that can involve photography, silkscreen, and, in the new millennium, also the computer. [+]Exploring Wool s work in close to 500 pages, this monograph is exhaustive in scope and depth. All work phases are covered in large-scale reproductions and accompanied by production Polaroids and installation photos by Wool himself.
Publication date: 1998-08
List Price: $82.80
Price: $819.49
Review Felipe II - Mecenas de Las Artes / Nerea:
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The old colleges of Oxford;: Their architectural history illustrated and described, Jan Van Bijlert, 1597/98-1671 (OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries), China's New Art, Post-1989/With a Retrospective from 1979-1989, Wood Engravings of Paul Nash: Catalogue of the Wood Engravings, Pattern Papers, Etchings and an Engraving on Copper, The Picturesque (Helm Information Literary Sources & Documents Series), Madan Lal Puri Selected Collected Works (Madan Lal Puri. Selected Collected Works, 1-3) (Madan Lal Puri. Selected Collected Works, 1-3), Manuel De L'Amateur De Livres Illustres Modernes 1875-1975 (Dictionnaires), Oskar Kokoschka, Emigrantenleben: Prag und London 1934-1953, Enrico Baj, Fulbrook: "a house you will love to live in" : the sketchbook, letters, specification of works & accounts for a house by Edwin Lutyens, 1896-1899, The Ecology of Urban Habitats, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, African mammal drawings: The Wellcome volume, Cuatro direcciones: Fotografia contemporanea espanola, 1970-1990, Visionaire No. 48: Magic (Visionaire), Waddesdon Manor Catalogue (The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor), An account of medieval figure-sculpture in England,, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Christopher Wool, Felipe II - Mecenas de Las ArtesTop headlines: Portable media players shrink in size, price: Portable media players are almost essential for any music, video or photo fan which could be just about anyone on your holiday gift list. ›20:58 Technology may be altering how brains work: Some scientists think the wired world may be changing the way we read, learn and interact with each other. ›19:01 3 Dec, Wed 9 tips for creating a happy life list: You can write down your goals and dreams for the next week (or the next decade) without stressing yourself out. 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