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Fame and Friendship Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780954731052
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2014
Illustrations: 80 colour illustrations
Description:
No literary figure of the 18th century was more esteemed than the poet Alexander Pope, and his sculpted portraits exemplify the celebration of literary fame at a period when authorship was being newly conceived and the portrait bust was enjoying new popularity. Accompanying an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection), this publication explores the convergence between authorship, portraiture, and the sculpted image in particular, by bringing together a wide range of works that foreground Pope's celebrity status.Pope took great pains over how he was represented and carefully fashioned his public persona through images, published letters, and the printed editions of his works.
Flowering of Medieval French Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780991517206
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2014
Imprint: Les Enluminures
Illustrations: 100 colour illustrations
Description:
Although the earliest records of written French date from the 9th century, it was not until the 13th century, when there was an explosion of texts in the 'mother tongue', that French became widespread as a written language. And only in 1539, by King Francis I, was French deemed the official language of the kingdom.This beautifully illustrated catalogue explores the rise, affirmation, and triumph of the French vernacular, focusing on a group of sixteen manuscripts all written in the French language between about 1300 and 1525.
Deaf, Dumb & Brilliant Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781907372674
Pub Date: 21 Mar 2014
Illustrations: 100 illustrations
Description:
Until recently, the Dutch draughtsman Johan Thopas, who was born in 1626 both deaf and dumb, was only known to a small group of connoisseurs, dealers and collectors. However, his remarkable, subtle and technically refined portrait drawings on parchment deserve a wider audience. This handsome publication, the first devoted to his work, will prove to be an eye opener for many art lovers.
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781907372636
Pub Date: 03 Mar 2014
Illustrations: 350 colour illustrations
Description:
This richly illustrated and beautifully produced scholarly catalogue of the superlative collection of Renaissance and Baroque bronze figurative statuettes from the Hill collection accompanies an exhibition of the collection at the Frick Collection, New York, opening late January 2014. Spanning from 1470 to 1740, the bronzes presented are of exceptional quality and exemplify the development of bronze statuettes from 1470 in Renaissance Italy to their dissemination across the artistic centres of Europe. The Hill Collection is distinguished by rare, autograph masterpieces by Italian sculptors such as Andrea Riccio and Giambologna, and has the most important collection of Baroque Bronzes by Giuseppe Piamontini in the world.
RRP: £65.00
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes: Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780900785481
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2014
Imprint: Wallace
Series: Sculpture
Illustrations: 160 Colour illustrations
Description:
The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca, Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert le Lorrain, and Corneille van Clève. This volume of the contributions to the symposium held in June 2010 testifying to the importance of the Marino Collection includes ten essays by distinguished scholars of sculpture.Charles Avery, author of major monographs on Giambologna and Bernini, discusses the impetus behind one of the most exciting models in the Marino Collection, a Hercules and Antaeus, after Maderno.
RRP: £30.00
Court & Craft Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781907372650
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2014
Illustrations: 120 colour illustrations
Description:
A masterpiece of medieval Arab metalwork revealed, shedding light on courtly life in northern Iraq under the Mongol governorship. Accompanying a major scholarly exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this book explores one of the most beautiful and enigmatic objects in The Courtauld’s collection: the so-called ‘Courtauld wallet’, a brass container richly inlaid with gold and silver, imitating a lady’s textile or leather bag, and probably made in Mosul in northern Iraq around 1300. No other object of this kind is known.
RRP: £30.00
A Dialogue with Nature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9781907372667
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2014
Illustrations: 40 colour illustrations
Description:
"The artist should not only paint what he sees before him," claimed Caspar David Friedrich, "but also what he sees in himself." He should have "a dialogue with Nature". Friedrich's words encapsulate two central elements of the Romantic conception of landscape -- close observation of the natural world and the importance of the imagination.
RRP: £14.95
Robert Qualters Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780822962922
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2014
Description:
Teeming with convulsive energy, raw brush strokes, and Fauvist colors, the paintings of Robert Qualters reflect the multifaceted and kinetic spirit of the artist himself. In these pages, the art historian Vicky A. Clark presents the first in-depth study of the art and life of this iconic Pittsburgh artist.
Palace of Culture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822962854
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2013
Description:
Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the worldÆs great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his personal book collection to laborerÆs apprentices. That early experience inspired Carnegie to create the \u201cFree to the People\u201d Carnegie Library in 1895 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781907372605
Pub Date: 03 Nov 2013
Series: Medieval Craftsmanship
Illustrations: 90 Colour illustrations
Description:
In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry (who died in 1888). Since then, of the 28 ivories in the collection, about half have been on permanent display at The Courtauld, yet they have remained largely unknown, even to experts. This scholarly catalogue, full of beautiful new photography, is the first publication dedicated solely to the collection.
RRP: £40.00
West Country to World's End Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781907372520
Pub Date: 19 Oct 2013
Illustrations: 50 col illus
Description:
During the Tudor Age the South West was famed for the innovation and endeavor of its people. Devon sea dogs Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins sailed to ‘World’s End’ in their pursuit of treasure and glory, Exeter’s Nicholas Hilliard produced exquisite miniature portraits of courtiers while fellow Exonian Thomas Bodley re-founded Oxford University’s library, later named the Bodleian in his honor. These men lived during the religious turmoil and political intrigue of Elizabeth I’s reign– a time of opportunity for the merchants and traders of Devon.
RRP: £20.00
The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780957522800
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2013
Imprint: Journal of Jewish Studies
Description:
Against the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments. The visual world of ancient Judaism often reflects a tense confrontation between Mediterranean, artful classical culture and the image-filled, yet law-inspired biblical literature.
Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9781611439144
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2013
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Romans attached nuanced implications to color-terms which went beyond their literal meaning, using these terms as a form of cultural assessment, defining their social values and order. By analyzing the use and color words in specific contexts, we can gain greater insight into the Roman mind.
Malevich Paints Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780946311217
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2013
Illustrations: 138 colour, 80 mono illus.
Description:
This is the first study to investigate the sources of the creative processes in the painting of Kazimir Malevich, from Neo-Primitivism to Suprematism, 1911-1920. These sources are found in 19th century scientific investigations into optics, especially those of Hermann von Helmholtz, the artist adapting the laws of optical light and colour and the laws of optical structures of seeing in space and in depth to his painting. Malevich’s creative processes culminated in his non-objective canvases, Suprematism, between 1915 and 1920, the painting of pure seeing.
RRP: £35.00
... Unto Heaven Will I Ascend Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781907372490
Pub Date: 19 Jul 2013
Description:
As an American living in England, a conscious Jew who utilized Christian symbols, a skillful modeler who introduced direct carving into England, and a modernist who eventually came to dislike abstraction for its own sake, Epstein did not fit neatly into the artistic categories of his time. Apart from his still widely admired naturalistic bronze portraits, Epstein’s oeuvre remains poorly understood and his reputation is dominated by his famous Rock Drill from before World War I. As this book shows, Epstein remained an avant-garde artist throughout his life, even if he ignored modernist dogma as well as man-in-the-street prudery.
RRP: £20.00
Gainsborough's Cottage Doors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781907372506
Pub Date: 19 Jun 2013
Illustrations: 80
Description:
Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsborough’s masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significance of the multiple versions of designs that the artist produced during the 1780s. It demonstrates that without the pressure of exhibiting his work annually at the Academy and without a string of sitters waiting for their finished portraits, Gainsborough’s work became more personal, more thoughtful. This study of the last phase of the artist’s work is a totally fresh interpretation of not only The Cottage Door but other key works such as Mrs Sheridan and Diana and Acteon.