著者:Philip Mould
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年06月10日
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun
What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off,……続きを見る
A quiet philatelist, George H. Kaestlin joined the original Rossika Society in 1935 along with the better known Theo B. Lavroff and K. Szymanowski. Whereas Lavroff contributed significantly to Russi……続きを見る
著者:Ian Wolstenholme
出版社: Penguin Random House South Africa
発売日: 2012年04月05日
Land has profound significance for South Africans. Inscribed on their home soil and seared into popular memory are tales of fierce clashes over rights to ownership, of victory, heroic deeds and the ……続きを見る
Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds leading and most……続きを見る
When Richard Thompson, creator of the cartoon strip Cul de Sac, learned that he had Parkinson’s disease, the entire cartoon community was moved. From other cartoonists to fans, the urge to “do somet……続きを見る
著者:Dharma Mittra
出版社: New World Library
発売日: 2012年08月22日
In 1974, the legendary “teacher of teachers” yogi Dharma Mittra photographed himself in 908 yoga postures. He printed each photo as an 8 x 10 and pasted them together to form a poster, creating the ……続きを見る
Handmade Holiday Cards shows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards ……続きを見る
From the monumental public frescoes of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Álfaro Siqueiros, to the canvasses and drawings of younger artists like Galván, Cantú, Meza, Tamayo, and Orozco R……続きを見る
Cape Town Then and Now is a unique visual portrait of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula, contrasting rare archival photographs with stunning contemporary views. The book draws on the superb photograp……続きを見る
“Money, pretension, horrid behavior by cultured people” (New York) ーJohn Anderson’s tale delivers it all in fabulously juicy detail.
This is the story of how a fabled art foundationーthe greatest c……続きを見る
This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby’s travels all over the globe – and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.
One of……続きを見る
The collection comprises 165 postcards of Gaeta with views of the city from the years preceding World War II up through the 1960s, which belonged to the author's grandfather, Nicola Magliocca, an ac……続きを見る
Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection ー undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind ー of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, an……続きを見る
One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singul……続きを見る
The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades……続きを見る
Few books of the past 200 years have captured the imagination of illustrators as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has. The original edition of Lewis Carroll's 1865 masterpiece featured 42 woodblock ……続きを見る
Paul Cézanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, was an important catalyst to the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to the modern and radically different ……続きを見る
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us k……続きを見る
Acompañado por su cámara fotográfica, Enrique Franco Torrijos, el incansable viajero, nos presenta en este libro una serie de bellas imágenes representativas de la vasta y exuberante naturaleza del ……続きを見る
In 1942, Executive Order 9066 mandated the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans, including men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm, for the duration of the war. Allowed only what th……続きを見る
This volume offers an impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters. From Albrecht Dürer's 15th-century brush-and-ink drawing of Female Nude, Seen from the Back and ……続きを見る
Lively, scholarly, beautifully illustrated study of the 8 artists who brought a compelling new realism to American painting, 1870 to 1913. Henri, Glackens, Sloan, Luks, 4 more. 142 black-and-white i……続きを見る
This handbook provides the definitive guide to commissioning contemporary art. Every step and stage is revealed and demystified from the initial invitation to an artist to the financing of a project……続きを見る
A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonb……続きを見る
著者:Robert C. Post
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年10月15日
When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?
Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public History
In 19……続きを見る
At the turn of the twentieth century, the demand for magazine and book illustrations was at an all-time high, offering women artists an unprecedented number of professional opportunities. This uniqu……続きを見る
Originally published in 1898. INTRODUCTION: Since the time when I made my first journey into Cambodia to examine its ancient cities, it has been my constant endeavour to show how the explorer may ad……続きを見る
If modernism erased the notion of memory from artistic practice, converting its significance into a register of pure visuality, artists in the decades following World War II, and continuing to the p……続きを見る
This collection, never before published in the United States, presents art from the early fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. Selected with great care and impeccable taste by a highly ……続きを見る
著者:Jack Doehring
出版社: Jack Doehring
発売日: 2015年05月11日
To Abstract: Features 70 full color images and is intended to be read on full color devices.
To Abstract: is a collaboration of two insightful mindsーJack Doehring, poet, and Sarah Miller, visual ar……続きを見る