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Holding one of the largest collections of Western art in the world, the Hermitage is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was built to house her growing collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452119700Author Laura HeitFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 1805gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 229mm *...

The first book to study Vincent van Gogh's fascination with cypresses, the "tall and dark trees" that feature in some of his most iconic pictures Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous...

The Parrish Art Museum, on Long Island's East End, holds one of the largest public collections of William Merritt Chase in the United States: over forty paintings and works on paper, and a wealth of archival photographs and documents. This new volume...

A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together"[A] lavish volume. . . . Illuminating. . . . MacDonald's deep research has . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912500048Author Paul E H DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g

This book offers a beautiful exploration of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's works in lithography. It explores the new artistic approach to the poster at the end of the 19th century, which bridged visual and popular culture and turned the relationship between...

The Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. The exhibit was a legend in its own time and has been considered...

This catalogue documents the first exhibition in the Middle East by KAWS (Brian Donnelly, born 1974, USA). The solo show explores his career and vast oeuvre and features paintings and sculptures made over the past 20 years. KAWS' imagery has ...

A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France's famous Sevres Porcelain Manufactory Sevres Extraordinaire! brings to light the production of sculpture at Sevres over the 280 years of the...

Published to accompany a major new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, this book examines the spectacular and controversial vision of art practice that raged across the Western world from the end of the 19th century: Art Nouveau.The role of nature is a...

An in-depth exploration into the immense popularity of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's work in America throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries Seeking to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance into their galleries and drawing rooms,...

From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the Royal Academy of Arts in London has occupied a prominent, occasionally controversial and always individual position in the art world. Its Annual Exhibitions, now known as the Summer Exhibitions, have...

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in...

An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to...

A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape...

An exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500028865Author Anne LemonnierFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 2064gDimensions(mm) 318mm *...

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture - were used...

The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available-with the majority of attention having been given to...

. The treasures of the Alba family represent more than five hundred years of patronage and collecting of European art of the highest quality and importance The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is honoured to offer viewers in the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451018Author Starr FiguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534390Author Nato ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 187mm * 25mm

A richly illustrated companion to selected works from the collections at M+. At the heart of Hong Kong's new museum of visual culture are the M+ Collections - the result of a carefully considered programme of collection-building that began with the...

Harnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of stars such as Robert Ricci (Nina Ricci's son),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969001073Author Kiki KogelnikFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

This book is a precious small volume on precious small boxes. Most of them were used to hold snuff, powdered tobacco, and were meant to be looked and admired from a close-up. These miniature masterpieces were a key accessory for every stylish man and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857242675Author Louisa MacmillanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1820g

A New York Times best art book of 2022New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simone Martini Painter to popes, princes, and scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734733808Author Lara Yeager-CrasseltFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Arthur Ross Gallery, University of PennsylvaniaPublisher Arthur Ross Gallery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961883086Author Ouattara WattsFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Karma, New YorkPublisher Karma, New York

A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) are considered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638342Author Glasgow Life MuseumsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)...

Beirut and the Golden Sixties revisits a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut beginning with the 1958 Lebanon crisis and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300...

John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught at...

Celebrates the thoughtfulness, wit, and sense of wonder that are signatures of Callan’s workSeeing glass through the eyes of Nancy Callan is a delight, and experiencing the material through her work is a master class in the artistic process. Her elegant,...

The British Museum has one of the world's finest collections of antiquities from medieval Europe, and this is the first fully illustrated guide to the highlights of the collection, now in paperback. In one beautiful volume are displayed 150 of the most...

The volume Nicolas Party | L'Heure Mauve collects a vast visual epic in which Party plays a variety of roles, sometimes impersonating the artist, others the scenographer, the conservator, or the sculptor. His work, and the title of the show, are inspired...

The Viennese architect and 'allround designer' Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is much more than just the founder of the Wiener Werkstatte. This book offers a wide-ranging look at his oeuvre, which took shape over no less than 60 years. The timeless beauty...

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