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Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...
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£25,00
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Basic Instincts Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
ISBN: PB: 9781911300281, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), an artist of status and substance in his day, who is now largely unknown. It takes as its focus Highmore...
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£25,00
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William Henry Hunt Country People
ISBN: PB: 9781911300236, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
60 pp., 21x21 cm, 25 colour illus.
Taking its lead from W. H. Hunt's watercolour The Head Gardener, c. 1825, that is part of The Courtauld Gallery's permanent collection, this focused display will be first to investigate Hunt's depiction of rural figures in his work of the 1820s and 1...
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£12,00
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Reservoir of Ideas Essays in Honour of Paul Williamson
ISBN: HB: 9781911300168, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
292 pp., 28.7x24.7 cm, 130 illus.
This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contributors, all friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, are prominent experts in their different fields,...
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£50,00
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Art of G. F. Watts
ISBN: PB: 9781911300076, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 colour illus.
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G. F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most charismatic figures in the history of British art. Covering all aspects of Watts's career, it places hi...
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£17,00
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Important European Sculpture Tomasso Brothers Fine Art
ISBN: HB: 9781911300151, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm
This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such...
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£30,00
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Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV
ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...
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£40,00
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Library of Manuscripts from India
ISBN: PB: 9781911300120, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
72 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 95 colour illus.
The rich variety of languages, religious traditions and schools of art of the Indian subcontinent are brought together in this exceptional library of Indian manuscripts. Religious and philosophical texts from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Sikh and...
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£20,00
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Silk, Porcelain and Lacquer China and Japan and Their Trade with Western Europe and the World, 1500-1644
ISBN: HB: 9781911300014, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
440 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.
Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures of late Ming China and Momoyama/Early Edo Japan o...
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£75,00
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Rodin and Dance The Essence of Movement
ISBN: PB: 9781907372995, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
"Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement" is the first serious study of Rodin's late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist's fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying...
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£30,00
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