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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Exhibition catalogues and specific collections

Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings (Hardcover, New): Peter Humfrey Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings (Hardcover, New)
Peter Humfrey
R1,744 Discovery Miles 17 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Glasgow Museums has the finest collection of Italian paintings of any civic museums service in the UK. It includes some 150 paintings ranging from the late 14th century to the late 19th century. This catalogue begins with an historical introduction to the collection and its donors, and includes 192 colour reproductions.

Subjective Maps / Disappearances (Hardcover): Little Constellation Subjective Maps / Disappearances (Hardcover)
Little Constellation
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Iconoclasm and the Museum (Hardcover): Stacy Boldrick Iconoclasm and the Museum (Hardcover)
Stacy Boldrick
R3,840 Discovery Miles 38 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept's place in public display. Presenting a selection of focused case studies, Boldrick examines long-standing desires to deface, dismantle, obscure or destroy works of art and historic artefacts, as well as motivations to protect and display broken objects. Considering the effects of iconoclastic practices on artworks and cultural artefacts and how those practices are addressed in institutions, the book examines changing attitudes to the intentional destruction of powerful artworks in the past and present. It ends with an analysis of creative destruction in contemporary art making and proposes that we are entering a new phase for museums, in which they acknowledge the critical roles destruction and loss play in the lives of objects and in contemporary political life. Iconoclasm and the Museum will be important reading for academics and students in fields such as museum and gallery studies, archaeology, art history, arts management, curatorial studies, cultural studies, history, heritage and religious studies. The book should also be of great interest to museum professionals, curators and collections management specialists, and artists.

Medieval Manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian Library - A Descriptive Catalogue (Hardcover): Daniela Mairhofer Medieval Manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian Library - A Descriptive Catalogue (Hardcover)
Daniela Mairhofer
R6,872 Discovery Miles 68 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Bodleian Library possesses a significant collection of Latin medieval manuscripts from Germany, most of them acquired and donated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s. They are precious survivals from the period of the Thirty Years' War. Their significance arises not just from the number of individual manuscripts but from the fact that they represent substantial portions of the libraries of ecclesiastical houses in Wurzburg, Mainz and Eberbach. This book presents a detailed description of the fifty-six manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian, most of them from the cathedral chapter (the Domstift St. Kilian). The majority date from the ninth century, and are extremely important from a textual and palaeographical point of view: they constitute the most important single library of Carolingian manuscripts in the British Isles. Wurzburg was one of the leading Anglo-Saxon foundations on the continent of Europe, planting cultural roots which are manifested in almost every aspect of the manuscripts themselves. The catalogue provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions of these manuscripts in all their aspects, especially their texts - there are many important early copies of the texts of the Church Fathers - and their scripts, some of whose forms are unique to Wurzburg. Detailed attention is also paid to the physical characteristics of the manuscripts, their decoration, binding, and provenance. Each of the manuscripts is illustrated.

Life Everlasting - The National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Hardcover, annotated edition): Bill... Life Everlasting - The National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Bill Manley, Aidan Dobson
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Who were the young woman and child buried with magnificent gold and luxurious finery in an Egyptian mummy dated around 1550 BC? Evidence suggests the woman may have been a queen. If so, the National Museums Scotland houses the only Egyptian royal burial seen anywhere outside Cairo. Sixty-five stunning funerary items, coffins, mummy-cases, masks, portraits, jewelry and other adornments of the well-equipped mummy are illustrated and annotated in this new hardcover that is as reader-friendly as it is comprehensive. We are reminded of the humanity here these coffins began with a life and text provides a glimpse into their stories. Included are the coffin of the priest Iufenamun and the double mummies of half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. Annotations include item owner, dating, dimensions, materials, description, provenance and mode of acquisition. Organized sequentially, the expert authors explain styles and techniques and the changes in each epoch taking their story from the age of the pyramids around 2,000 B.C.to the time of Roman Rule ending in the third century A.D., after which Egypt would transform into a Christian society. Concordances, chronology of Egypt, and a glossary are included. *For the Egyptologist - laypeople and professionals alike, for collectors, curators, historians, archeologists *Unveils information on a superb collection

Parkett No. 65 John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker (Paperback): John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker Parkett No. 65 John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker (Paperback)
John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading contemporary artists, Parkett has been the foremost international journal on art for nearly two decades.

Plus, the issue features a special Parkett Inquiry: "Learning from Documenta?" Parkett #65 will feature three of today's most exciting mid-career painters: John Currin, Laura Owens, and Michael Raedecker.

Grounded in Clay - The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery (Hardcover): Pueblo Pottery Collective Grounded in Clay - The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery (Hardcover)
Pueblo Pottery Collective
R1,467 R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Save R264 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

No art form is more associated with the Native Americans of the Southwest than pottery. For centuries, Pueblo people have made beautiful pottery, often painted with intricate designs, for everyday activities such as cooking, food storage and gathering water, and for ceremonial use. Vessels of these types have been found at ancient sites including Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. The tradition of pottery-making continues to thrive among Pueblo communities in the Southwest, and while pottery is still made for practical purposes, it is also commonly produced for the art market. Since the time of the Ancestral Puebloans, pottery has been made predominantly by women. The pots are created from natural clay using a coil method; they are hand-painted and then fired outdoors. Designs vary from one Pueblo to another, but many symbols and motifs are shared by the Pueblos. An impressive survey of more than 100 pieces of historic Pueblo pottery, Grounded in Clay is remarkable for the fact that its content has been selected by Pueblo community members. Rather than relying on Anglo-American art historical interpretations, this book foregrounds Native American voices and perspectives. More than 60 participants from 21 Pueblo communities in the Southwest - among them potters and other artists, as well as writers, curators and community leaders - chose one or two pieces from the collections of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Vilcek Collection in New York. They were then given the freedom to express their thoughts in whichever written form they wished, prose or poem. Their lively, varied contributions reveal the pottery to be not only a utilitarian art form but also a powerfully intangible element that sits at the heart of Pueblo cultures. With magnificent photography throughout, Grounded in Clay showcases the extraordinary history and beauty of Pueblo pottery while bringing to life the complex narratives and stories of this most essential of Native American arts.

Toenend hallt die Jugend (Paperback): Gregor Hildebrandt Toenend hallt die Jugend (Paperback)
Gregor Hildebrandt
R1,490 Discovery Miles 14 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bridget Riley Drawings - From the Artist's Studio (Hardcover): Jay A. Clarke Bridget Riley Drawings - From the Artist's Studio (Hardcover)
Jay A. Clarke; Contributions by Thomas Crow; Edited by Rachel Federman, Cynthia Burlingham
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating view of the career of Bridget Riley, one of the most significant living artists, through her personal archive of her own works on paper Devoted exclusively to the artist's works on paper, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio explores the importance of these works not only as a means of visual experimentation but as works of art in their own right. Throughout her working life, Riley has preserved works of particular significance, creating an archive that records her constant artistic inquiry and development. The studies presented in the book are drawn entirely from this personal collection, with Riley's own input. They demonstrate the artist's progression from early figurative works, through the monochrome geometry of the 1960s, to the examination of color that has characterized the second half of her long career. The choice of work explores the themes that have absorbed Riley in different periods and highlights key influences: the importance of life drawing to her and the significance of artists such as Seurat and Mondrian. The book illustrates-literally and figuratively-the story of a productive and constantly experimental career, underpinned by drawing. Distributed for Modern Art Press Exhibition Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago (September 17, 2022-January 16, 2023) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (January 29-May 7, 2023) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (June 16-October 22, 2023)

Villa Romana Fellows 2013 - Shannon Bool, Mariechen Danz, Heide Hinrichs, Daniel Maier-Reimer (Book): Alberto Boralevi,... Villa Romana Fellows 2013 - Shannon Bool, Mariechen Danz, Heide Hinrichs, Daniel Maier-Reimer (Book)
Alberto Boralevi, Jonathan Shaughnessy
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Parkett No. 76 Yang Fudong, Lucy McKenzie, Julie Mehretu (Paperback): Yang Fudong Parkett No. 76 Yang Fudong, Lucy McKenzie, Julie Mehretu (Paperback)
Yang Fudong
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Parkett 76 features three rising stars of the international art scene: Julie Mehretu, Yang Fudong and Lucy McKenzie. As her marks and gestures are flung into motion upon the canvas, Julie Mehretu paints a picture of an infrastructure gone awry. Their layered, calligraphic density suggests Leonardo da Vinci's ecstatically charged tidal drawings. In the frozen situations encountered in Yang Fudong's images, the viewer must always ask, "Will the protagonist survive?" Fudong's narratives read like brief, melancholic confessions, an "abstract cinema" that, in his own words, functions as "a non-describable collision in one's heart." Over the last decade, Lucy McKenzie has been umbilically attached to Glasgow's underground, guided by her elegant draftsmanship and continuously undermining her own adopted visual rhetoric--which includes facades from Tintin, Socialist mural projects and Mackintoshian Modernism. Texts by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Chris Abani, Madeleine Schuppli, Marcella Beccaria, Yuko Hasegawa, Zhang Wei, Neil Mulholland, Bennett Simpson, Isabelle Graw, Trevor Smith, Philipp Kaiser, Johanna Burton, Vincent Precoil, Hans Rudolf Reust, Matthias Haldemann and Bill Arning.

Update 5 - Technology as Context (Paperback): Update 5 - Technology as Context (Paperback)
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Christian Dior (Hardcover): Oriole Cullen, Connie Karol Burks Christian Dior (Hardcover)
Oriole Cullen, Connie Karol Burks 1
R1,375 R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Save R316 (23%) In Stock

Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the present day. Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the illustrious creative directors who followed him -Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri-are showcased here, each described by Oriole Cullen and atmospherically photographed by Laziz Hamani.

Spaceship Yugoslawia / Raumschiff Jugoslawien - The Suspension of Time / Die Aufhebung Der Zeit (Paperback): Gal Kirn, Todor... Spaceship Yugoslawia / Raumschiff Jugoslawien - The Suspension of Time / Die Aufhebung Der Zeit (Paperback)
Gal Kirn, Todor Kuljic, Ozren Pupovac
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Instant Ruins (Paperback): Robin Vanbesien Instant Ruins (Paperback)
Robin Vanbesien
R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Art Underfoot - The Nazmiyal Collection (Hardcover): Jason Nazmiyal, Elisabeth Parker, Markus Voigt Art Underfoot - The Nazmiyal Collection (Hardcover)
Jason Nazmiyal, Elisabeth Parker, Markus Voigt
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In New York, Jason Nazmiyal has a rug collection like no other. For the past three decades, interior designers and collectors have flocked to his Manhattan gallery to source art for the floor, be it a treasured antique classical carpet, an elegant Art Deco rug, or a Scandinavian minimalist piece. This book delves into the history of the handmade carpet across the world, before looking at the many ways rugs can be used to bring together interiors in a variety of styles. From a Mid-Century Modern residence to a contemporary urban sanctuary and a classic Upper East Side apartment, there is a rug for every space. With stunning interior photography and full of practical advice for the professional decorator as well as the amateur enthusiast, this publication is a useful and beautiful addition to the library of anyone with an interest in interior decoration.

Charleston: the Bloomsbury Muse (Hardcover): Philip Mould, Darren Clarke, Deborah Gage, Ellie Smith Charleston: the Bloomsbury Muse (Hardcover)
Philip Mould, Darren Clarke, Deborah Gage, Ellie Smith; Edited by Lawrence Hendra; Contributions by …
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Accompanying an exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, this lavish catalogue tells the story of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's enduring attachment to their home at Charleston Farmhouse, and showcases the work the artists produced between the two world wars. This stunning collection of artwork is beautifully presented alongside illuminating, illustrated essays, an interview and complete catalogue. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's enduring attachment to their home at Charleston Farmhouse, its idyllic surroundings, and constant fl ow of visitors can be witnessed through their art. Beginning with radical modern works influenced by European trends - from painted furniture to depictions of food preparation in the kitchen, from the barns to the pond, the people to the household cat - this catalogue tells a story of over thirty years of astonishing artistic productivity. Charleston was not just the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat but a venue for their progressive social self-expression. It was also a family home. Focusing on Vanessa and Duncan's most productive years of creativity, between and including two world wars, this catalogue will explore how Charleston fed their artistic impulses and ideas to produce a glorious canon of art.

An Instinct to Draw - John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback): Stephen Wildman An Instinct to Draw - John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback)
Stephen Wildman
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of the teaching collection of the Drawing School he established after election as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. In addition, because of the range of interests of arguably the only true polymath of his time, every drawing touches on some interesting aspect of art and architecture, landscape and travel, botany and natural history, often connected with his writings and lectures. Ruskin's life is one of the best documented of any in the 19th century, through letters, diaries and the many autobiographical revelations in his published writings: this allows the opportunity to give almost any drawing a level of context impossible for any other artist. When there is so much background information, a single drawing reveals much about its creator, and becomes a window into the great sprawling edifice of his life and work.

Queenzise - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection (English, German, Hardcover): Nicola Graef, Siri Hustvedt Queenzise - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection (English, German, Hardcover)
Nicola Graef, Siri Hustvedt
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Desperately Young - Artists Who Died in Their Twenties (Hardcover): Angela S. Jones, Vern G. Swanson Desperately Young - Artists Who Died in Their Twenties (Hardcover)
Angela S. Jones, Vern G. Swanson
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before their thirtieth birthday. Precocious talent seeps from each artist's work, along with a sense of unfulfilled potential. Informative biographies detail their legacies, while their tragic deaths lead us to wonder what heights they might've reached, had their lives not been cut short. Richly illustrated, Desperately Young presents prime examples of each artist's work, demonstrating how our cultural heritage is just a little narrower for their loss. From Europe to America to Japan and the Indian Subcontinent, the mid-14-hundreds to the late 20th century, this book hails the acknowledged greats and introduces those who died before they could leave an indelible mark on history. A compendium of 109 artists who fell prey to sickness, warfare, heartbreak or bad luck, Desperately Young is the only book to provide an in-depth study of artists who died young. Contents: With works from Tommaso Masaccio, Frederic Bazille, Thomas Girtin, Egon Schiele, Henri Regnault, Ernst Klimt, Jeanne Hebuterne, Kaita Murayama, Hermann Stenner, Maurycy Gottlieb, Fyodor Vasilyev, Marie Bashkirtseff, Richard Parkes Bonington, Luisa Anguissola, Walter Deverell, August Macke, Pauline Boty and Jean-Michel Basquiat - among many others.

Joan Didion: What She Means (Hardcover): Joan Didion Joan Didion: What She Means (Hardcover)
Joan Didion; Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler; Introduction by Ann Philbin; Text written by Joan Didion
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ray Johnson c/o (Paperback): Caitlin Haskell, Jordan Carter Ray Johnson c/o (Paperback)
Caitlin Haskell, Jordan Carter
R1,388 Discovery Miles 13 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New York Times best art book of 2021 "[A] gold mine of a book . . . Funny, biting, morbid, it's a page-turner for sure."-Holland Cotter, New York Times Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson's work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist's books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnson's democratic, rhizomatic, and antihierarchical ethos, this indispensable resource on the artist's oeuvre contains 700 illustrations, many of them never before published, and twenty-one short essays by various contributors that allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear manner. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (November 26, 2021-March 21, 2022)

Details (Paperback): Lene Berg, Burak Delier, Avi Mograbi Details (Paperback)
Lene Berg, Burak Delier, Avi Mograbi; Edited by Trevor Paglen, Superflex, …
R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Imperial Splendor - The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 (Hardcover): Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Joshua... Imperial Splendor - The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 (Hardcover)
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Joshua O'Driscoll
R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over 150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book's three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with a different thematic focus. Opening with a look at the precedents set by the Carolingian forerunners of the Empire, the first section considers deluxe imperial manuscripts associated with the Ottonian emperors. The second section examines the role of imperial monasteries in the production of manuscripts, considering in particular the patronage of aristocratic elites. The final section offers a tour of imperial cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, from Vienna and Prague to Augsburg and Nuremberg. This final stop considers the impact of Albrecht Durer and humanism on the arts of the book. The volume features a glossary, indexes, and maps showing the shifting borders of the Empire over 700 years.

Simone Martini in Orvieto (Hardcover): Nathaniel Silver Simone Martini in Orvieto (Hardcover)
Nathaniel Silver; Contributions by Machtelt Bruggen Israels, Joanna Cannon, Christopher Etheridge, Stephen Gritt, …
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New York Times best art book of 2022 New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simone Martini Painter to popes, princes, and scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344) transformed Western painting with his groundbreaking devotional images and masterful manipulation of gold. This beautifully illustrated book highlights the astonishing novelty of his paintings in terms of their construction, multimedia techniques, and imagery. A focus of the book-the first on Simone Martini in English in over thirty years-is the work that he produced for churches in the Umbrian city of Orvieto, a papal refuge and stronghold of the Guelph political faction. The publication sheds light on Simone's early career and technical accomplishments with extended catalogue entries for three Orvieto altarpieces and a painting of private devotion, including the results of new scientific analysis for the Gardner works. Leading scholars consider Simone's patrons, artistic accomplishments, and contributions to the development of the polyptych altarpiece. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Exhibition Schedule: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (October 13, 2022-January 16, 2023)

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