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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743327272Author Rebecca J. ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sydney University PressPublisher Sydney University PressWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978832718Author Jenevieve DeLosSantosFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a hidden gem, housing a well-respected and comprehensive art collection with more than 18,000 objects a place where visitors can see a Monet, Vigee Le Brun, and a Tibetan Buddha from the fourteenth...

An eclectic selection of twentieth-century artwork from the collection of legendary curator and museum director Walter Hopps, some with personal reminiscences by the artists themselves Over a fifty-year career that included stints at the famed Ferus...

Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory’s magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail...

What do locks of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, Sylvia Plath's attractive handmade paper dolls, John Ford's Oscars, and Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 cigars have in common? They are just a few of the fascinating objects found in the world-famous Lilly Library,...

I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works of art created for The New School between 1930 and the present. The nucleus of The New School's Art...

Off-the-grid from commercial galleries - selling visuals - and canonical institutions - there to support the often static national or regional identities- artists instigate grass-roots cultural safe havens in order to deliver the progressive and the...

The first in a series of four thematic volumes devoted to the world-class Kramlich Collection, the largest and most significant private collection of modern and contemporary media art. How does art respond to contemporary social questions? How,...

The French city of Limoges was world famous for the production of champleve enamels during the Middle Ages. During the Renaissance a revival of Limoges enamels took place, but the technique employed was that of painted enamel. Triptychs with a sacred...

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was founded 100 years ago in July 1915 in Whitechapel in London's East End by Russian-Jewish emigre Lazar Berson and likeminded, mostly emigre, artists and craftsmen, who were unable to access the cultural bastions of the...

Located in the heart of King's County, the Brooklyn Museum is an anchor of New York City and a world class institution. The museum's 560,000-square foot building is a Beaux Arts masterpiece, housing over one-and-a-half million works of art, from ancient...

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Lynda...

This catalogue presents 59 masterful Italian drawings from the late 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857244419Author Vincente TodoliFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

The works in this book have been selected because of their historical value, uniqueness, character and state of preservation. The result is 100 treasures that reflect the diversity of Brussels' museums, and the permanent collections that reside within ...

Stano Filko (1937– 2015) was one of the most important neo-avant-garde artists of the second half of the 20th century. He gave the emerging conceptualism, which became his defining form of art, his very own imprint by using various means of expression,...

A comprehensive survey of The Phillips Collection's spectacular holdings in American art American art has been essential to The Phillips Collection since its founding by Duncan Phillips in 1921. Phillips's collecting interests were decidedly against the...

In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned Costantini Collection consists of more than two hundred works, encompassing...

Walk on the Wild Side is the mesmerising second book of the Dorothy Circus Trilogy, presenting an immersive and detailed look at every exhibition of Pop Surrealism that took place at the world-renowned gallery in 2012. This volume catalogues these...

This full-color publication highlights beautiful objects-both useful and ceremonial-made by the Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast and Alaska. Since 1925, the Denver Art Museum has collected both historic and contemporary arts from these regions...

This new volume presents highlights of the Taft Museum of Art's exceptional collection, which spans over 750 years of creative endevour. Donated to the city of Cincinnati in 1927, Charles and Anna Taft's collection features beautiful porcelain from the...

A pocket-sized tour of one of the world's great museums The collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, encompasses more than 450,000 works of art, from ancient coins, gems, and mummies to work by some of today's most celebrated contemporary artists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857243870Author Tina OldknowFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2260g

A stunning tour through the renowned, wide-ranging collection of contemporary art at Ghent's Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art and commonly...

This photographic narrative by Luigi Spina reveals unexpected treasures that hail from Pompeii and Ercolano, hidden from the public eye and concealed under the roofs of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. Spina's collection of black and white...

The Danner Rotunde, the jewellery room in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, was opened in 2004. Ambitious activities by the Danner-Stiftung and Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, with the support of renowned jewellery artists such as Hermann...

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium has evolved from a single institution (founded by decree in 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte) into a world class, multi-museum showcase for art in Belgium. Over the past century, they have actively acquired a superb...

Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and timed to coincide with the 20th...

The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of Spanish drawings includes masterworks by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and Salvador Dali...

The largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mosaics, each measuring over six metres in diameter, together depict the known world and the night sky. They...

Through a decade of friendship, sharing the same environs and being active collectors, Sonja Graber and Christian Graber are inextricably connected to the photographer Annelies Strba, the jewellery and object artist Bernhard Schobinger and the painter...

100 Treasures / 100 Emotions celebrates the inauguration of the Macquarie University History Museum Sydney, NSW, Australia. This entirely new volume focuses on 100 works from a vast collection of 15,000 objects, to highlight the new museum's focus on...

The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview,...

Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich history of scholarship, research, and illuminating exhibitions. The museum collection of the New-York Historical Society comprises more than 1.6 million works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894243742Author Jim SheddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Art Gallery of OntarioPublisher Art Gallery of OntarioWeight(grams) 1063gDimensions(mm)...

This opulent catalog is the first major publication to cover the principal estate of Erfurt-born landscape painter Friedrich Nerly (1807–1878). The extensive collection arrived in Erfurt shortly after his death and led to the founding of the Angermuseum...

This book offers a privileged journey through the geography and history of Italian and international figurative culture kept at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, with works spanning a chronological period from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The...

An authoritative new volume cataloguing the German paintings before 1800 in the collection of the National Gallery, London This fully illustrated catalogue presents the most up-to-date research on the seventy-five paintings in the National Gallery...

One of the greatest Netherlandish painters of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525 1569) is best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. One of only three signed works by Bruegel in the United States, The Three Soldiers was once...