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Norman Rockwell's Faith of America
Автор: John Rockwell Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 1996 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091998-10-07
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More than one hundred heartwarming illustrations, many in full color, by the acclaimed artist offer an inspirational portrait of uniquely American towns, families, traditions, and more, all captured with Rockwell's trademark understanding of everyday human existence.
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Joel Perlman: A Sculptor's Journey
Автор: Philip F.Palmedo Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2005 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092007-05-15
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An elegantly produced volume which illustrates celebrated American metal sculptor Joel Perlman's finest works and relates them to his fascinating life story This handsomely illustrated book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Joel Perlman, an acclaimed sculptor in steel and bronze, whose works are represented in the permanent collections of America's top museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Perlman's best works from the 1970s to the present day — from the austerely abstract Chevy Short (For Jeannie Day), shown at the 1973 Whitney Biennial, to the lyrical Sky Spirit, a monumental commission completed in 2004 — are depicted in here in stunning full-page photographs, most in full color. All readers with an interest in contemporary sculpture will appreciate not only the book's striking illustrations but also its thoughtfully written text, which relates Perlman's art to his life. This thoughtful narrative, which seamlessly synthesizes Perlman's intimate art-world anecdotes and Palmedo's own keen critical observations, is beautifully complemented by an insightful foreword by renowned art dealer Andre Emmerich, whose gallery represented Perlman for twenty years.
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American Impressionism
Автор: William H.Gerdts Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2001 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092005-03-18
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This book has long satisfied the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. It is the definitive study of the subject, filled with information and insight garnered through many years of far-ranging research. All the masterworks are here, from Childe Hassam's sun-drenched gardens to John Twachtman's snow-silenced landscapes, from Edmund Tarbell's coolly elegant ladies in dim, luxurious parlors to Frederick Friseke's voluptuous, sun-dappled nudes. Documentary photographs of the artists and quotations from their private letters and journals complement the text and provide a vivid sense of their lives and times. The fascinating text is now updated and expanded with a new chapter discussing in detail the themes particular to the American artists of the Impressionist movement. Twenty-five new illustrations have been added, nineteen in color. Three hundred entries have been added to the bibliography, bringing it up to date with the most current research in the field.
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Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto 1280-1400
Автор: Poeschke Joachim Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2005 Страниц: 472 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20092008-02-26
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The fourth, but the earliest volume chronologically, of the only comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism, this groundbreaking oeuvre is an achievement in scholarship and publishing of the same magnitude as Abbeville's Art of Florence and Art and Spirit of Paris . Following the success of the previous volumes in this extraordinary series: Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance , Italian Frescoes: The Flowering of the Renaissance , and Italian Frescoes: The High Renaissance and Mannerism — Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280 — 1400 presents twenty-two outstanding fresco cycles. Created during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, these cycles set new standards for painting and an innovative vision of man, paving the way for the monumental achievements of the Renaissance. It was at this time that fresco painting was not only commissioned for churches and chapels, but also for such secular places as town halls and royal residences with humanist in addition to religious themes. The fresco cycles featured here include brilliant works by Giotto in Assisi, Padua, and Florence; dramatic paintings by Cimabue, thought to be Giotto's teacher; Pietro Cavillini in Rome; and the Sienese artists Simone Martini and Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti — all of these works still visible on walls and ceilings of palaces and churches spanning Italy from the Veneto to Rome. The authors describe and illustrate such celebrated sites as the Church of Saint Francis in Assisi, the Chapel of the Scrovegni in Padua, the Public Palace in Siena, and the papal chapel, the Sancta Sanctorum, in Rome. Each of the twenty-two chapters is concise and authoritative, offering a descriptive and interpretive essay on all aspects of fresco painting, covering the artists and their patrons in the context of their cultural and political history. Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a series of full- and double-page color plates showing the entire cycle, many reproduced from new photographs of recently restored frescoes. No publisher until now has attempted to gather together and document all the important fresco cycles of Italian art from the late thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. While this volume is the predecessor to the previous books, Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280 — 1400 easily stands alone as a masterpiece of art and scholarship which will be welcomed by art historians and art lovers alike.
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William Morris: Animal/Artifact
Автор: Yood James Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 275 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092013-08-13
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Internationally acclaimed for his compelling work in glass, William Morris approaches the demands of glassblowing and glass sculpting with an experimental eye and an innovative hand. Morris, who lives and works near Seattle, has collaborated with master glass blowers as well as renowned painters and sculptors in making art that is widely admired by artists, sought by collectors, and praised by critics. For him, glass is an endlessly intriguing material-fragile yet timeless, preserving the spontaneity of the creative moment unlike any other medium. In this strikingly handsome volume of recent work, Morris explores themes related to archaeology, animals, and the hunt. His Crows, Ravens, and Rhytons embody his intellectual interest in myth and ancient history, as well as his keenly intuitive understanding of the natural world.
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Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art
Автор: Homer William Innes Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 276 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20112012-03-18
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The full range of Thomas Eakins's art — lively sporting scenes, psychologically incisive portraits, dramatic historical tableaux, as well as numerous sculptures and innovative photographs — is explored in revealing detail in this critical biography. This edition adds an appendix discussing discoveries about Eakins's use of photography and a bibliographical addendum. Professor Homer explains Eakins's working methods through telling comparisons between his paintings and the photographs and drawings that were part of his creative process. Drawing on previously undiscovered primary sources, Homer paints a nuanced portrait of the career of this controversial artist, who was too frequently seen as a victim of the establishment. The result is a publication which helps to demythologize Eakins without diminishing his brilliance or importance.
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Goddesses
Автор: Graham Lanier Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 1997 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20091999-07-21
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Since time immemorial, artists have created impassioned images of the goddess as the ultimate generator and destroyer of life, as fertility figure, and as ruler of love and war. Encompassing a variety of media — sculpture, painting, photography, performance art, and film — Goddesses also provides an enlightening text exploring all her many guises.
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Giotto
Автор: Flores D'Arcais Francesca Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2012 Страниц: 391 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20162016-03-28
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Producing a series of commissioned works for the church and upper classes in his native Tuscany and surrounding regions, Giotto changed the course of European art by breaking away from the rigid, stereotyped figures of the Byzantine and Giotto medieval traditions. This title provides a survey of Giotto's life and work.
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Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance 1400-1470
Автор: Roettgen Steffi Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 452 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122010-06-23
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This first comprehensive survey in recent times of the surving fresco cycles of the early Renaissance, this path-blazing work is an extraordinary achievement in scholarship and publishing.
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Караваджо (на английском языке)
Автор: Spike John T. Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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A new and revised edition of this most comprehensive book on the life and work of Caravaggio published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio`s birth in July 2010.
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Illuminated Manuscripts
Автор: Voelkle William M. Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 1998 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092000-07-21
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Glorious works of art as well as chronicles of a past age, illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the finest and best-preserved evidence of what life was like during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library draws on one of the most extraordinary collections of painted books in the world to illustrate the angels, demons, and everyday denizens of the Middle Ages.
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Greek and Roman Mosaics
Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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Mosaic has been called «painting for eternity», and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic pavements with geometric and figural motifs first appeared in Greece at the end of the fifth century BC and subsequently spread throughout the entire classical world, from the palaces of the Greco-Bactrian rulers of present-day Afghanistan to the villas of Roman Britain. Local workshops cultivated many distinctive regional styles, while traveling teams of Hellenistic craftsmen produced figural mosaics of stunning refinement, often modeled after famous paintings; indeed, their work constitutes one of our only records of classical Greek painting, which has been almost entirely lost. The styles and techniques of the ancient mosaicist’s art are given a concise yet authoritative exposition in the first part of this handsome volume. The second, and larger, part conducts the reader on a chronological tour of the most important centers of the art form’s development, from the Macedonian capital of Pella, whose compositions in natural pebbles set a high artistic standard for mosaics at the very beginning of their history, to the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, whose wall and vault mosaics, with their glittering vision of a triumphant Christianity, mark the transition between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Special attention is given to Pompeii and its surroundings, where the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 preserved intact an astonishing variety of mosaics, including such ambitious figural scenes as the famous Alexander mosaic, composed of some four million miniscule tesserae, as well as characteristically Roman pavements in black and white, and the brightly colored wall mosaics of garden grottoes. Featuring more than two hundred newly commissioned photographs, Greek and Roman Mosaics is the first survey of its subject to be illustrated in full color. It will be a necessary addition to every art lover’s library, and a worthy companion to Abbeville’s Italian Mosaics: 300—1300. Umberto Pappalardo has served as Inspector of Excavations at Pompeii and Director of Excavations at Herculaneum. Rosaria Ciardiello, also a classical archaeologist, received her doctorate from the University of Naples Federico II. Luciano Pedicini, a second-generation photographer of antiquities, has contributed to numerous important publications.
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Renaissance Intarsia
Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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In this volume, a team of noted Italian art historians trace the evolution of Renaissance intarsia through a discussion of twelve of the most important intarsia cycles. These include the famous studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro in the ducal palace at Urbino; the sacristy of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, which Vasari described as the most beautiful in all of Italy; and the choir of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, the cartoons for which were prepared by Lorenzo Lotto. Drawing on the latest scholarship and, in some cases, newly discovered documentary evidence, the authors explain the historical context and iconography of these masterpieces, as well as their connections to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the time. Their insightful essays are illustrated with some two hundred new color images, the result of an extensive photographic campaign carried out exclusively for this work.
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The Grand Medieval Bestiary: The Animal in Illuminated Manuscripts
Автор: Heck Christian Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2012 Страниц: 620 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20162014-10-13
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With more than six hundred reproductions of illuminated manuscripts from the 4th to 16th centuries, this book provides an extensive look at the presence and significance of animals in medieval thought and art. The Medieval Bestiary explores the space between reality and myth; religious symbolism and political allegory; and man's combined fear of and admiration for animals both common and exotic. Many of the illuminated manuscripts shown in this book are barely known outside an intimate circle of medieval specialists, finally brought to light for a wider audience to appreciate and enjoy. In addition to its commentary on the visual depiction of beasts in medieval manuscripts, The Medieval Bestiary explores the literary context wherein the language of animal symbolism is explained, and where the categories of representation were first determined. Animals had different meanings in religious and popular texts, for example, and this book aims to underline the differences. Moreover, The Medieval Bestiary discusses how the establishment of animal symbolism in the Middle Ages spurred the growth and development of fable-writing, which made the animal world a veritable mirror of human society. The Medieval Bestiary provides a complete encyclopedic treatment of animals both real and imaginary, arranged alphabetically by each creature's name in Latin.
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A Year in Sports: From the Rose Bowl to Figure Skating
Автор: Leifer Neil Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 347 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20152016-08-11
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»Will appeal to anyone who loves either photography or sports. For those who love both, it is a little bit of paradise.»
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The Art and Spirit of Paris: v: 1, 2
Автор: Kruta Venceslas Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2003 Страниц: 1528 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092005-05-26
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All the arts have played a role in creating the enduring spirit of Paris. The Art and Spirit of Paris spans more than 6000 years of cultural history. In two volumes, the authors chronicle the history of the visual arts in Paris, tracing their evolution and the social systems that supported them.
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Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
Автор: Finch Christopher Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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This is a magnificent new printing of this classic album of Norman Rockwell's best-loved works. Norman Rockwell gave us a picture of America that was familiar — astonishingly so — and at the same time unique, because only he could bring it to life with such authority. Rockwell best expressed this vision of America in his justly famous cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, painted between 1916 and 1963. All of his Post covers are reproduced in splendid full color in this oversized volume, with commentaries by Christopher Finch, the noted writer on art and popular culture. In this latest printing of 332 Magazine Covers, the thumbnail images accompanying Finch's descriptive captions are printed in full color for the convenience of the reader, and the typography has been refreshed.
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85 Years of the Oscar
Автор: Osborne Robert Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 471 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162018-08-27
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A deluxe, year-by-year chronicle of the Academy Awards, with an entertaining text, hundreds of star-studded photographs, and complete lists of the nominees and winners. 85 Years of the Oscar, newly revised and expanded, is the official history of the Academy Awards. Following an introductory chapter on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the birth of the Oscars, the book presents the story of each year's awards, beginning with the very first, for the years 1927-28. Author Robert Osborne surveys the movies in competition, recounts the speculation on various winners, and describes events during the awards ceremony. He also provides a complete listing of the all the nominees and winners in every category. Each year is illustrated with evocative stills from winning films and candid shots from the awards ceremony. Altogether, the book features more than 750 rare photographs, including original movie posters for every best picture. Drawing on Osborne's profound knowledge of film, the Academy's exceptional archives, and the personal reminiscences of stars from Katharine Hepburn to Clint Eastwood, 85 Years of the Oscar is unrivaled in illustration, accuracy, and completeness.
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Selling Russia's Treasures
Автор: Iljine Nicolas V. Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Страниц: 362 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20092004-09-30
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This abundantly illustrated oversize volume presents the definitive account of the sale of Russia's cultural patrimony by the Soviet government in the interwar years. Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Faberge eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light. Distributed for the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation.
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Classic Wristwatches 2014-2015
Автор: Muser Stefan Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2014 Страниц: 232 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-05-26
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A fully illustrated price guide to vintage mechanical watches from more than 45 historically significant brands. Now in its third edition, Classic Wristwatches is the ultimate resource for information on vintage watches, that is, watches no longer in current production. For each of the 1,300 timepieces listed, the authors provide a color photograph; a description of the movement, case, and special features or historical significance; and an estimated value, based on recent auction results. They also forecast whether the value will increase, decrease, or remain the same. The watches are arranged alphabetically by manufacturer; the featured brands include mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe, as well as rarities like Record and Enicar.
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