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Buying Baroque

Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton...
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The Art of Joaquín Torres-García

Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction

by Aarnoud Rommens
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García...
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Mary Nohl

A Lifetime in Art

by Barbara Manger, Janine Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013

LOOK INSIDE THE LIFE — AND HOME — OF LEGENDARY 'OUTSIDER' ARTIST MARY NOHL "Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art" by Barbara Manger and Janine Smith, tells the story of Milwaukee-born artist, Mary Nohl. A prolific and fanciful maker who worked in a variety of media, Nohl was both a mysterious...
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The Little Rubens

A Fun and Cultural Moment for the Whole Family!

by Catherine de Duve
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015

Discover Ruben's life and work as you read, draw and playWe are at the time of Rubens… Antwerp was then a great port! Come into the house of the famous artists. Meet his family and pupils. Discover Rubens' great workshop. With whom does he paint? What do they paint? How are colours prepared? Why are...
Cover of 30 Millennia of Painting
by Klaus Carl H., Joseph Manca, Megan McShane
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

From the cave paintings of Lascaux, to the Madonnas of the Renaissance Italians, from the revolutionary Impressionists to the provocative canvases of the Pop Art movement—30 Millennia of Painting reunites the essential works of pictorial art, spanning the history of art from prehistory to the present....
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by Jp. A. Calosse
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research...
Cover of Art in Europe
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture....
Cover of Naïve Art
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Influenced by primitive arts, naive painting...
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Cover and Uncover

Eric Cameron

by Peggy Gale, Diana Nemiroff, Thierry de Duve
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013

Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. Over the years Cameron has also continued to work in...
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by Hans van Lemmen
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

Art Deco was arguably the twentieth century's most popular and memorable design movement, and has come to define the inter-war period with its clean sleek lines, streamlined shapes, bold abstract forms and bright colours. Art Deco Tiles charts the impact of this daring new style on the production...
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25 Women

Essays on Their Art

by Dave Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Newsweek calls him “exhilarating and deeply engaging.” Time Out New York calls him “smart, provocative, and a great writer.” Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him “My hero.” There’s no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey—and a new book of his writing is an event.   25...
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The Little Klimt

A Fun and Cultural Moment for the Whole Family!

by Catherine de Duve
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015

Discover Klimt's life and work as you read, draw and playDiscover Vienna in 1900The Viennese Art and its artistsEnter the secret gardenOf the famous painter Gustav KlimtWaltz with his fascinating goddessesAnd their jewels made of golden arabesquesTake a turn in boatOn a peaceful lakeIn an enchanted orchard,Under...
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Breakfast at Sotheby's

An A-Z of the Art Word

by Philip Hook
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

Two questions are key to experiencing a work of art in a museum or exhibition: 1.) Do I like it? 2.) Who's it by? You need quite a few more questions if you're in an auction room or dealer's gallery, however. You’ll find yourself asking, How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or...
Cover of Ideas About Art
by Kathleen K. Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and...
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