ledochowicz.com

History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Arts of China After 1620

Watson William, Ho Chuimei

ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings

Ganz James A., Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Locating Renaissance Art

Richardson Carol M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121889, Yale University Press, March 2007
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centres of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centres and artists and the trade in works of art. It al...

PB:

£19,95

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850126, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2007
233 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 53 colour plates, 81 halftones

The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest assemblage of modern Belgian art outside Belgium. Accompanying an exhibition held at Boston College's McMullen Museum, "A New Key" presents fifty-three works never before displayed in N...

PB:

£37,50

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Artists' Techniques and Materials

Fuga Antonella

ISBN: PB: 9780892368600, Getty Publications, January 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An artist's materials – from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase – are not just the results of their work. They are the physical embodiment...

PB:

£16,99

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Contemporary Art

Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Tunisian Mosaics Treasures from Roman Africa

Abed Aicha Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780892368570, Getty Publications, January 2007
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 136 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

As the Roman Empire expanded its borders into North Africa, thousands of mosaic floor pavements were designed and created to adorn the town houses and rural estates of the upper classes. As these Roman outpost flourished, so did mosaic art – particul...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

History of Art

Models and Prototypes

Manchanda Catharina

ISBN: PB: 9780936316192, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
64 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 61 colour plates

"Models and Prototypes" is the first exhibition in the Focus series, a collection-based series of publications and exhibitions intended to examine significant works from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's collection within the context of contempora...

PB:

£11,50

QTY:

add books to the list