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During the nineteenth century, what had been British hostility toward French art shifted toward acceptance and even enthusiasm, a change that transformed British art. This book charts the impact of French culture on British art and, to a lesser extent,...

A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States. While in New York Pop Art offered a fresh perspective on an America in the throes of frenzied change, in Paris French painters and others from Italy, Spain, Portugal,...

- Showcases the wealth of Spanish art in American collections, ranging from medieval to renaissance to contemporary art- Highlights the collections of seventeen museums across the country, including the Hispanic Society of America, the Meadows Museum in...

'Masters of French Painting, 1290-1920' presents 138 of the most significant and representative works of art in the Wadsworth Atheneum's internationally recognised collection of French paintings and pastels, ranging from religious subjects, such as...

This volume contains twenty essays and reviews, chiefly concerning Claude Lorrain, but also including one on Gaspard Dughet, two on Nicolas Poussin (including the latest piece, an authoritative review of the 1994 Poussin exhibition), and a comparison of...

How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as "Black Britain." Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375707Author Monika RosenauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are...

Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R...

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563505Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503518138Author Piet LombaerdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375318Author C J BerserikFormat HardbackPage Count 631Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375257Author Cj BerserikFormat HardbackImprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2359g

Meandering ,walking without necessarily a plan to arrive, to take in the scene, to explore, to experience. This is what this book is about. It's an attempt at a sideways glance at the cultural activity bubbling under the surface, deliberately choosing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400337Author Felipe PeredaFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1769gDimensions(mm) 292mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400887Author Christopher de HamelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1633gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501444Author Distinguished Professor of Law Robert WilliamsPage Count 282Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114068Author Hugh AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 355g

This book is an introduction to the history of the concept and the institution of (fine) art, from its ancient Southern European roots to the establishment of the modern system of the arts in eighteenth century Central Europe. It highlights the way the...

This essay, a meditation on the butterfly and its resonance in art history, is organized in three parts. I begin with Aby Warburg's fascination with moths and butterflies as documented by (1) his letters to Andre Jolles (e...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566499774Author The Scala GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,USWeight(grams) 1248g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503583990Author Alexander NagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 221mm *...

The Catalan painter’s work is inseparable from his birthplace. The best evidence of this we have in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the house in Portlligat and the castle in Púbol. Three sides of the triangle in which a large part of the brilliant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995318Author Nathalia BrodskaiaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams)...

For over a millennium, the Italian coastal state of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, or La Serenissima, flourished as a center for sea trade and the arts. Here an important final phase of late Baroque mythological and Biblical painting took place...

Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating...

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd, and they are now icons of their age. Frith's...

In 1760 an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the first show split exhibitors into rival groups,...

A revealing investigation into Picasso's career-long fascination with the written word Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso had close friendships with writers and an abiding interest in the written word. This groundbreaking book, which draws on the...

For many people Vermeer's paintings form the highlight of a visit to the Maurithuis. This museum holds three of his paintings; Diana and Her Companions, the exquisite View of Delft and the Girl with a Pearl Earring, all of which have become some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789040076831Author H. Perry ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Waanders BV, UitgeverijPublisher Waanders BV, UitgeverijWeight(grams) 1513g

In the late 1960s and '70s, artists in Yugoslavia rejected the official language of expression licensed by the regime, abstract art, and replaced it with "anti-art" - works on the borderline of the form that balanced between amateurism and...

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective...

In the fall of 1956, Hungarians led a successful rebellion against Soviet control. How-ever, after only ten days of freedom, the uprising was brutally crushed, and the Soviet-aligned minister Janos Kadar assumed power. Focusing on the Kadar era...

This title gathers together the most important texts on this critical topic, from antiquity to today. The sixth volume in the Getty's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of...

Charles Baudelaire's flaneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the gaze in late nineteenth-century Paris, despite misgivings by some scholars. Baudelaire's privileged and...

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that...

Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration of the domestic interior - as opposed to patronage of...