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William Blake Visionary
ISBN: HB: 9781606066423, Getty Publications, August 2020
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
William Blake (1757-1827) is a universal artist – an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most strikin...
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£27,00
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Homer | Remington
ISBN: HB: 9780300246100, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) and Frederic Remington (1861-1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in their day as homegrown, self-taught artists whose work offered a vision of American identity rooted in s...
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£40,00
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Caspar David Friedrich Nature and the Self
ISBN: HB: 9780300246162, Yale University Press, February 2020
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 82 colour illus., 36 black&white illus.
Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organ...
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£50,00
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Lucian Freud Herbarium
ISBN: HB: 9783791385334, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
176 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how w...
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£39,99
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London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820
ISBN: PB: 9781606065952, Getty Publications, August 2019
304 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
In the late 1700s, as the events of the French Revolution roiled France, London displaced Paris as the primary hub of international art sales. Within a few decades, a robust and sophisticated art market flourished in London. "London and the Emergence...
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£45,00
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Henry Moore From the Inside Out
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385037, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
200 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 74 colour illus., 160 black&white illus.
Henry Moore is most celebrated for his monumental outdoor sculptures which can be seen in many major cities around the world. Lesser known are the sculptor's plaster pieces, which represent an important stage in the development of his work leading up...
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£14,99
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Masterpieces of Painting J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: HB: 9781606065792, Getty Publications, June 2019
160 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 139 colour illus.
"I am convinced that the true collector does not acquire objects of art for himself alone. His is no selfish drive or desire to have and hold a painting, a sculpture, or a fine example of antique furniture so that only he may see and enjoy it. Apprec...
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£30,00
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Manet and Modern Beauty The Artist's Last Years
ISBN: HB: 9781606066041, Getty Publications, June 2019
400 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines,...
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£50,00
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Essential Duchamp
ISBN: PB: 9780300233117, Yale University Press, December 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.9 cm, 182 colour and black&white illus.
This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). A pioneer whose creative output was predicated on a fundamental questioning of what ar...
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£20,00
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