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Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

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Leonardo, The Last Supper

Barcilon Pinin Brambilla, Marani Pietro C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226504278, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
458 pp., 12x10 cm, 382 colour plates, 64 halftones

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

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Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds Joshua, Ingamells John, Edgcumbe John

ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.

A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...

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Legends in Limestone Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

Seidel Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226745152, University of Chicago Press, October 1999
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 78 halftones, 9 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is...

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Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts

Taylor Joshua C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones

Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...

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Language of Images

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532158, University of Chicago Press, November 1980
314 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones

Introduction Howard Nemerov: On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music Giulio Carlo Argan: Ideology and Iconology Joshua C. Taylor: Two Visual Excursions Elizabeth Abel: Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the Art of Delacroix...

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