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  • The British Surrealists

    The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris.Honored for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain— pioneering the Surrealist movement between World War I and II. Many artists banded together to form ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe

    Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

    This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Cezanne

    A Life

    by Alex Danchev ...
    With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world.With brisk ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • John Singer Sargent and His Muse

    Painting Love and Loss

    This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Bruegel the Elder: 91 Paintings

    by Narim Bender ...
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting). He received the nickname "Peasant Bruegel" or "Bruegel the Peasant" for his practice of dressing up like a peasant in order to socialize at weddings and other celebrations, thereby gaining inspiration and authentic details for his genre ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • All the Time in the World

    A Book of Hours

    Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins’s Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Hitler’s Northern Utopia

    Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

    The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lost Painting

    The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

    by Jonathan Harr ...
    Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The French Impressionists (1860-1900) (Illustrated)

    First published in 1903, with 50 illustrations, many in color. Covering such artists as Manet, Degar, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Cezanne, and Cassatt. According to Wikipedia: "Séverin Faust (December 29, 1872, Paris April 23, 1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic." ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rome

    A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Universe of Stone

    Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    by Philip Ball ...
    “[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball’s account of its construction reveals fascinating details.” —The New YorkerChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry

    The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embroidery Hidden in Plain Sight

    For the first time, a scholar reveals the meaning of the marginal images on the Bayeux Tapestry, unlocking a completely new meaning of the work.The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books on the Tapestry seeking to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris at the End of the World

    The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918

    by John Baxter ...
    A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history.From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of destruction. And yet in its darkest hour, the City of Light blazed more brightly than ever. It’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • J.M.W. Turner

    Ackroyd's Brief Lives

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a barber, and his mother came from a family of London butchers. “His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hitler's Last Hostages

    Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich

    by Mary M. Lane ...
    Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day.Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not only by harnessing the military but also by restricting artistic expression. Hitler, an artist himself, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glittering Images

    A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars

    WIth full-color illustrations throughoutFrom the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.America’s premier intellectual provocateur returns to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Da Vinci Women

    The Untold Feminist Power of Leonardo's Art

    by Kia Vahland ...
    This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted.Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female centuries ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Dali Legacy

    How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy

    Captive audience: Authors helm a massive Facebook group dedicated to Salvador Dalí (seven million followers), and will leverage administrative powers to promote forthcoming book. Large size of group also proves enduring popularity of the subject (organic growth of one million followers on the FB group since the hardcover published in 2021).Proven author track record, perfect author pairing, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renoir’s Nudes

    43 Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series World Gallery
    As celebrator of feminine sensuality and beauty, Renoir is final representative of tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene though freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. The women he painted, ... Read more

    $2.21 USD

  • Art Student Book Five 1972-74

    If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon, the caves of Altamira and Pompeii.This account of such indulgence, a mosaic of short episodes, ... Read more

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  • The Boston Raphael

    A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

    The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal.On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston’s coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus