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Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...
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£32,00
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Cy Twombly's Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300190113, Yale University Press, April 2014
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or pla...
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£40,00
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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.
In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...
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£37,00
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£65,00
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Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300170450, Yale University Press, October 2011
220 pp., 33x24.6 cm, 400 black&white illus.
By the time of Richard Parkes Bonington's tragic death from tuberculosis in 1828, the 25-year-old artist, who was born in England and moved to France as a teenager, was already a seminal figure in the development of modernism in 19th-century French p...
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£50,00
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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9780955339349, Casemate, Sam Fogg, October 2011
298 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 440 colour illus.
These exquisite late Medieval works, often fragments of larger altarpieces designed for liturgy or devotion, can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.
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£40,00
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Controversy of Renaissance Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226567723, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
376 pp., 25.7x22.4 cm, 100 halftones, 60 colour illus.
Many studies have shown that images – their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses – were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it aff...
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£60,00
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Carleton Watkins The Complete Mammoth Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060056, Getty Publications, August 2011
608 pp., 32.4x25.6 cm, 1351 duotone photos
This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The extraordinary body of work by photographer Carleton Watkins – taken between 1858 and 1891 – constitutes one of the longest and...
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£150,00
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Jan Koblasa Intaglio Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024618111, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2011
264 pp., 28x23 cm, 473 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Koblasa has ranked among the leading figures of Czech and European art since the1960s. His sculptures have been integrated into many European cities, sacred spaces, and sculptors' park...
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£30,00
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Devotion by Design Italian Altarpieces Before 1500
ISBN: HB: 9781857095258, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 colour illus.
Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for...
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£19,99
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To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America
ISBN: HB: 9780300172393, Yale University Press, May 2011
156 pp., 28.4x26.7 cm, 35 black&white illus., 55 colour illus.
An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920...
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£45,00
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