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Raphaël, « le gracieux »
L’apogée de la Renaissance italienne
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Décryptez l’art de Raphaël en moins d’une heure !Déjà encensé de son vivant, Raphaël est considéré comme le prodige de la haute Renaissance italienne. Influencé par le Pérugin, Léonard de Vinci et Michel-Ange, il pousse les principes artistiques des décennies précédentes à leur plus...
Ingres, un néoclassique français
À la recherche de l'idéal esthétique
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Décryptez l’art d’Ingres en moins d’une heure !Ingres n’est autre que le chef de file du néoclassicisme français. Admiratif du peintre italien Raphaël, Ingres passe plusieurs années en Italie, afin de s’imprégner de l’idéal classique. S’il se veut d’abord et avant tout un peintre...
The Art of Movie Storyboards
Visualising the Action of the World's Greatest Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The unsung heroes of film, storyboard artists are the first to give vision to a screenplay, translating words on the page into shots for the screen.
Their work is a unique art form in itself. Many storyboards are beautiful in their own right, but ultimately the skill of the artist lies in their...
Art at Lincoln Center
The Public Art and List Print and Poster Collections
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The first volume to showcase both Lincoln Center's fabulous public art and the List Poster and Print collection, Art at Lincoln Center begins with a tour of the campus and the art that has been collected since its inception. A brief history of how the pieces were selected and brought to Lincoln Center...
Scenic Impressions
Southern Interpretations from The Johnson Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon and Giverny emphasized the subtle textures of nature through warm color and broken brush stroke. Artists’...
by John Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
From Pixar's upcoming film Incredibles 2, this making-of book is a dive back into the beloved world of the Incredibles. The Art of Incredibles 2 explores Pixar's highly anticipated sequel through colorful artwork, energetic character sketches, intriguing storyboards, and spellbinding colorscripts.
Featuring...
by Mary Savig
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Handmade Holiday Cards shows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders. Handmade Holiday Cards offers personal insight...
by Caron Caswell Lazar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The tradition of African-American Folk Art is vast and diverse. With roots that extend overseas, these traditions now flourish and continue to bloom into the twenty-first century. In Contemporary African-American Folk Art, trace the development of such mediums as wood carving, pottery, quilt making and...
New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative,...
by Linda Nochlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The first comprehensive anthology of art historian Linda Nochlin’s work, including her landmark essays on the position and influence of women artists
Linda Nochlin is one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her essay “Why...
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti et la volupté féminine
Le héros du préraphaélisme
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Décryptez l'art de Dante Gabriel Rossetti en moins d'une heure !Dans l'Angleterre victorienne tiraillée entre conservatisme et nouveauté, un groupe de jeunes peintres foule du pied l'art officiel, sclérosé par le conformisme. Parmi eux, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, un personnage fantasque et passionné....
Ludovic Chemarin©
1998-2005 / 2011-2014...
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015
En 2011, les artistes Damien Beguet et P.Nicolas Ledoux achètent contractuellement l’œuvre et le nom de l’artiste Ludovic Chemarin, après que celui-ci a décidé en 2005 de mettre fin à sa carrière. Ils en poursuivent depuis l'exploitation sous le nom de Ludovic Chemarin© qui expose en France...
by Thomas Balston
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"A wonderful look at the many styles of wood engraving from the time period 1900–1950. The illustrations are sublime, and there is a lot of variation both in theme, execution and style. I really enjoyed looking at the engravings, and the text was interesting and very readable." — Jefferson-Madison...