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  • Recollections of a Picture Dealer

    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    Celebrity, art merchant, socialite, publisher, and writer, Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939) was one of the most extraordinary figures in 20th-century art. He possessed an uncanny ability to recognize genius in painters — dozens of important artists received valuable commissions and gallery space with his help, and his galleries presented the first one-man shows for such luminaries as Matisse, Cézanne, ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knitting From the North

    by Hilary Grant ...
    Wrap up in style, the Northern way.In Knitting from the North, Hilary Grant - who lives in Orkney, at the very north of Scotland, closer to Norway than London - has translated her most popular patterns from her luxury Scottish knitwear range into 30 colourful hand-knitting projects - hats, mittens, scarves and jumpers - to keep your hands warm and spirits high. Simple, clean shapes ensure that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Shocking Paris

    Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

    For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Vanished Collection

    Translated by Natasha Lehrer ...
    "Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story."―The Washington PostIt all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo, and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Expressionism

    by Ashley Bassie ...
    Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

    This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization.At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the ... Read more

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  • What the Ermine Saw

    The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait

    The remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits—"a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe" (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Michelangelo's Mountain

    The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

    Discover the fascinating, crucial, and often dangerous relationship between Michelangelo and the stone quarries of Carrara in this clear-eyed and well-researched exploration that “recounts the artist's large life and lasting works with care and reverence” (Booklist).No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Macke: Paintings (Colour Plates)

    by Blagoy Kiroff ...
    August Macke (1887 – 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking beyond the avant-garde to the peripheries of modern art. The period is marked by radical political changes, the formation of national and regional identities, and the rise of modernism in Central Europe – specifically, the collapse of Austria-Hungary and ... Read more

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  • Modigliani

    Modigliani (1884-1920) was a painter of great unhappiness in his native Italy and felt only sorrow in his adopted country of France. Out of this discontent came forth Modigliani’s original work, which was influenced by African art, the Cubists, and drunken nights in Montparnasse. His portrayal of women—sensual bodies, almost aggressive nudity, and mysterious faces—expresses their suffering and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation’s demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of ... Read more

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  • Kenneth Clark

    Life, Art and Civilisation

    The definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life.Kenneth Clark's thirteen-part 1969 television series, Civilisation, established him as a globally admired figure. Clark was prescient in making ... Read more

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  • 歐遊情書

    因為太美,一定要說給你聽的風景

    by 謝哲青 ...
    26個不忍獨享的風景,願你在平淡的日常裡,不忘美好的他方。風景裡有故事,也有心情,若再加上你的傾聽,這趟旅行就完整了。走過86個國家,一個人的旅行,曾是他拼湊破碎靈魂的方式。因為孤獨,他看見的不只是喧囂的華麗。在維也納的摩天輪上,他找到了沉默而持續的堅定能量。在克林姆的〈擁抱〉裡,他瞥見了一瞬的幸福。在巴黎的蒙帕納斯墓園,他迷戀起生命的種種。搭過莫斯科287站地鐵後,他體悟到不見天日的自由。哲青說:「把自己丟進荒野裡,是很容易的事,只要專心前進就好了。生命中最刺激的冒險,其實是在日復一日、枯燥殘酷的現實中,還能繼續保有相同的衝勁。平淡的日常,才是生命最大的挑戰。」因此,他願意將在旅程中看見的一切美麗與感悟,放進你我平淡的日常裡,陪伴你我面對生命的挑戰。歐遊情書,是寫給他心愛的人,也寫給每個愛他的人!◆本書特色講座場場爆滿的謝哲青,首度出書暢談旅行與藝術在他生命中的意... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Boldini: Detailed Paintings

    by Narim Bender ...
    Series Book 3 - Detailed Paintings
    Giovanni Boldini enjoyed a long and successful artistic career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. His paintings showed his subject in soft-focus, elongated, in movement, alive, and sophisticated. The brush work on his paintings was swift and bold. It is the masterful brushwork that gives his paintings the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Toulouse-Lautrec

    by Narim Bender ...
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is best known as a chronicler of the nightlife of late 19th century Paris. He used to frequent the nightclubs and cafés of Montmartre, befriending the dancers and prostitutes, making countless sketches as they comb their hair or just lie in bed. Toulouse-Lautrec did not picture the world of the dancers and prostitutes from outside: he just lived in that world. From time ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Godfrey Kneller: 101 Paintings

    Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723) was German-born painter who settled in England and became the leading portraitist there in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He studied in Amsterdam under Bol, a pupil of Rembrandt, and later in Italy, before moving to England, probably in the mid-1670s. The opportune death of serious rivals (notably Lely in 1680) and his own arrogant self-assurance enabled him t. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Island Zombie

    Iceland Writings

    by Roni Horn ...
    An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI’m often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.—from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dalí

    by Eric Shanes ...
    Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gustave Courbet

    by Georges Riat ...
    Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joaquín Sorolla Landscapes

    Joaquin Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863-died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking landscapes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques at the photograph. His landscapes are a great ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Rosalba Carriera: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

    by Raya Yotova ...
    After the death of her sister Giovanna in 1738, Rosalba Carriera fell into deep depression. She suffered two failed cataract surgery, but eventually, she completely lost her sight. She survived all her family, spending her last years in a small house in Dorsoduro in Venice. She died at the age of 84.At the time of her death, Rococo's style was no longer as popular as before. However, she still had ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le Cubisme

    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon : cinq jeunes femmes qui marquèrent à jamais l’art moderne. Par ces visages vus à la fois de face et de profil, par ces corps anguleux dans lesquels les voluptueuses formes féminines ont disparu au profit de lignes asymétriques, Picasso révolutionna toute l'histoire de la peinture. Le cubisme naquit ainsi en 1907. En transformant les formes naturelles en cylindres et en ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Renaissance

    Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

    This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century—Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD