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  • Studi Vinciani : documenti, analisi e inediti leonardeschi ; In appendice : saggio di una cronologia dei fogli del «Codice Atlantico»

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Art and Life at the Court of Ercole I d'Este : The «De Triumphis religionis» of Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • FitzGerald as Printmaker

    A Catalogue Raisonné of the Frst Complete Exhibition of the Printed Works

    FitzGerald as Printmaker includes every known print made by the artist, most of them reproduced in actual size. The accompanying commentary describes the prints, the circumstances under which they were made, the artist’s comments about them, and the methods and techniques he used to achieve the effects he wanted. Written in a clear and lively style, and based on meticulous research, FitzGerald as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia : Documents for the History of Art and Culture in Renaissance Mantua

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    The complete correspondance between d'Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia, who was responsible for buying works of art in Venice for Isabella's collection. There are full indices. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Kelly Clark

    by Kelly Clark ...
    A retrospective of the art of Winnipeg artist Kelly Clark (1935–1995), with many examples from various periods of his work. Foreword by Shirley Madill, Acting Chief Curator of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Essays by George Swinton (Kelly's Artmaking), Arthur Adamson (The Human Dimension of his Art) and Donalda Johnson (Vigilant Observer/Vertical Invader). Catalogue of Clark's work and bibliography. A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bernini

    Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose

    by J. W. Smith ...
    Cherished for their sensitive and detailed depictions of children, the works of Jessie Willcox Smith are some of the most recognized and remembered images of youth for adults today. One of America’s foremost book and magazine illustrators of the early twentieth century, Smith saw in children a unique quality of innocence that she brilliantly portrayed through the creative use of color and a keen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palladio

    Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shape of Content

    by Ben Shahn ...
    Series series The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist—painter, writer, composer—to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Metodo ed ordini nella teoria architettonica dei primi moderni : Alberti, Raffaello, Serlio e Camillo

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Ce livre passe en revue les trois principaux théoriciens de l'architecture dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, en s'attachant surtout au troisème, Serlio, dont le traité est composé de la même façon que le fameux Théâtre de la mémoire de Giulio Camillo Delminio. Les mêmes principes régissent ainsi la rhétorique et l'architecture : il s'agit surtout de l' « imitation créatrice », qui requiert avant ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Inside Bruegel

    The Play of Images in Children's Games

    by Edward Snow ...
    In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children's Games—in order to unlock the secrets of the great painter's art. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Slytod

    Diana Thorneycroft

    This catalogue grew out the slytod exhibition at Gallery 1. 1. 1. from 19 October until 14 November 1997 by Diana Thorneycroft. The catalogue includes 20 of Thorneycroft’s silver prints, an Introduction by Serena Keshavjee, and essays by Martha Langford and Chris Townsend. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Where Is Ana Mendieta?

    Identity, Performativity, and Exile

    by Jane Blocker ...
    Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta’s diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Speaking Likeness, A

    In this lavishly produced hardcover volume, Plaskett has created an autobiography as colourful as his finest paintings. Plaskett begins with his early family life in New Westminster, BC, relates his encounter with abstract expressionism under Hans Hofmann, and then discusses the development of his mature style. Included are an introduction by the late George Woodcock, some 30 full-colour ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera

    Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native country.Based on extensive interviews with the artist, his four wives (including Frida Kahlo), and his friends, colleagues, and opponents, The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Jackson Pollock

    A Biography

    Deborah Solomon's biography sets Jackson Pollock in his time and portrays him as a shy, often withdrawn person, full of insecurities and self-doubts, and frequently unable to express himself about his art or its meaning. Solomon interviewed two hundred people who knew Pollock and his work and she has drawn extensively on Pollock's own writings and other personal papers. She examines the artist's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Memories of a Farm Kitchen

    by Bob Artley ...
    An illustrated memoir and cookery by an award-winning artist captures country life in America’s Midwest in the early twentieth century.In the farm home of America’s past, the hearth of the home—the kitchen—represented the warmth and well-being of the family that met daily to enjoy hearty, homemade food. Award-winning artist Bob Artley evokes this ideal in this beautiful homage to the traditional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Pleasure Dome

    Fringe Film in Canada

    by Mike Hoolboom ...
    Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Norman Rockwell

    Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a “mere illustrator”–a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rubens: A Portrait

    The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Black Angel

    The Life of Arshile Gorky

    A biography of the Armenian painter that “adds immeasurable to the interest of [his] art . . . Carefully researched, well written, [and] enlightening” (The New York Review of Books).In this first full-scale biography, Nouritza Matossian charts the mysterious and tragic life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. Born Manoug Adoian in Armenia, he survived ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Uncanny

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by David McLintock ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lives of the Artists

    Translated by George Bull ...
    Series Book 1 - Lives of the Artists
    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

    A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD