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

A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (Hardcover): Peter Stewart A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (Hardcover)
Peter Stewart; Photographs by Guido Petruccioli
R2,719 Discovery Miles 27 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. Originally comprising some 340 works, the collection was formed around the late 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Herbert, the eccentric 8th Earl of Pembroke, who stubbornly 're-baptized' his busts and statues with names of his own choosing. His sources included the famous collection of Cardinal Mazarin, assembled in Paris in the 1640s and 1650s, and recent discoveries on the Via Appia outside Rome. Earl Thomas regarded the sculptures as ancient - some of them among the oldest works of art in existence - but in fact much of the collection is modern and represents the neglected talents of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century artists, restorers and copyists who were inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture. About half of the original collection remains intact today, adorning the Gothic Cloisters that were built for it two centuries ago. After a long decline, accelerated by the impact of the Second World War, the sculptures have been rehabilitated in recent years. They include masterpieces of Roman and early modern art, which cast fresh light on Graeco-Roman antiquity, the classical tradition, and the history of collecting. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, this catalogue offers the first comprehensive publication of the 8th Earl's collection, including an inventory of works dispersed from Wilton. It re-presents his personal vision of the collection recorded in contemporary manuscripts. At the same time, it dismantles some of the myths about it which originated with the earl himself, and provides an authoritative archaeological and art-historical analysis of the artefacts.

The Art of Porco Rosso (Hardcover): Hayao Miyazaki The Art of Porco Rosso (Hardcover)
Hayao Miyazaki
R908 R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Save R161 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In early 1930's era Italy, bounty hunters and high flyers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso, a man cursed with the head of a pig after watching the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle he fought in rise to the heavens. He now makes a living taking jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action-packed finale.

anna kazianka / falk lennart kremzow (Bilingual edition) - cekati / warten (Paperback): Anna Kazianka, Falk Lennart Kremzow,... anna kazianka / falk lennart kremzow (Bilingual edition) - cekati / warten (Paperback)
Anna Kazianka, Falk Lennart Kremzow, Michael Obris
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This photo series captures moments of periphery in Croatian Istria with 26 bus stops. Documentary and conceptual, the photographic cartography approaches the different perceptions of the places. Ed Ruscha's methodology, and in particular his photographic series Twentysix Gasoline Stations, serve as a method and inspiration to examine the stops and their identity in the urban fabric. With this photographic concept as well as the texts, the observations are presented analytically and at the same time unfold a greater poetic meaning. How does it feel to live in the environs of urban reality? The book transmits the fascination for simple building methods, locations as well as the aesthetics of decay.

Parkett No. 97: Andrea Buttner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Camille Henrot, Hito Steyerl and More (Paperback): Nikki Columbus Parkett No. 97: Andrea Buttner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Camille Henrot, Hito Steyerl and More (Paperback)
Nikki Columbus
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Heidi Kumao - Real and Imagined (Paperback): Heidi Kumao Heidi Kumao - Real and Imagined (Paperback)
Heidi Kumao
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Masterpieces of European Furniture from the 15th to Early 20th Centuries (Hardcover): Tamara Rappe Masterpieces of European Furniture from the 15th to Early 20th Centuries (Hardcover)
Tamara Rappe
R1,659 Discovery Miles 16 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Greek Gold in the Hermitage Collection - Antique Jewellery from the Northern Black Sea Coast (Hardcover): Yuri Kalashnik Greek Gold in the Hermitage Collection - Antique Jewellery from the Northern Black Sea Coast (Hardcover)
Yuri Kalashnik
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue (Hardcover): Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue (Hardcover)
Dawoud Bey; Contributions by Carrie Mae Weems; Edited by Ron Platt; Introduction by Dana Friis-Hansen; Text written by Kinshasha Holman Conwill
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Who Told You So?! (Paperback): Freek Lomme Who Told You So?! (Paperback)
Freek Lomme
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Museum of Lisbon Highlights (Paperback): Joana Sousa Monteiro Museum of Lisbon Highlights (Paperback)
Joana Sousa Monteiro
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This guide displays the rich and varied collection of the Museum of Lisbon and its five sites. From prehistory to the end of the 20th century, the book reveals the various layers of one of Europe's oldest cities, highlighting structural themes in Lisbon's history and also emblematic pieces in the museum's collection: the Roman Theatre of Olisipo; the international character of the Franciscan Saint Anthony; the importance of Lisbon as a force behind the Discoveries; the model of the city before the earthquake of 1755; the legacy of a city which produced ceramics and azulejos (glazed wall tiles); the rationalism and illuminism of the Pombaline reconstruction of the city after 1755; and finally the Expo '98.

The Altering Eye - Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (Hardcover): Sarah Greenough The Altering Eye - Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (Hardcover)
Sarah Greenough
R1,387 R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Save R294 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe chose the National Gallery of Art as the custodian of nearly 1,600 photographs by Alfred Stieglitz - the Key Set, as it has become known. With the formation in 1990 of the Gallery's department of photographs under Sarah Greenough, the collection has grown to 14,000 works of art, an assemblage that both charts the development of the medium and reveals the beauty and dynamic versatility of photography over its course of more than 175 years. This elegant book presents some of the most significant and compelling photographs acquired over the years, ranging from experimental photographs made in the earliest years of the medium's history to key works by major twentieth-century figures and contemporary pieces that reset the ways in which photography shapes our experience of the modern world. The guides on this enlightening walk through the history of the medium are members of the extraordinary curatorial team that established the National Gallery's international reputation for photography exhibitions and publications over the past twenty-five years, ever advancing the recognition of photography as a fine art.

Power! Light! (Hardcover): Andreas Beitin Power! Light! (Hardcover)
Andreas Beitin; Text written by Andreas Beitin, Gottfried Boehm, Carolin Bohlmann, Holger Broeker, …
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Cezanne in the Barnes Foundation (Hardcover): Nancy Ireson, Sylvie Patry Cezanne in the Barnes Foundation (Hardcover)
Nancy Ireson, Sylvie Patry
R2,171 R1,693 Discovery Miles 16 930 Save R478 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Barnes Foundation s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne (1839 1906) sixty-one oils on canvas and eight works on paper are among the most significant in the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually unrivalled collection, which can only be viewed at the Barnes Foundation, also includes exceptional paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Beginning in 1912, Barnes acquired works by Cezanne from major Paris dealers such as Paul Durand-Ruel and soon ranked among the artist s most prominent collectors. At the time, this expressed a pioneering taste that Barnes shared with only a small group of enthusiasts, even though Cezanne had been posthumously hailed as a father of modern art at the turn of the twentieth century. The foundation s impressive holdings of Cezannes never before published in a single study in their entirety span every period of the artist s career and include his largest rendition of The Card Players and one of the three versions of The Large Bathers, one of his signal testaments. This lavishly illustrated landmark volume is both a work on Cezanne and his time, and an impetus for further study of an artist whose oeuvre is at once luminous, austere, challenging, and deeply confounding.

With a Probability of Being Seen, Dorothee and Konrad Fischer - Archives of an Attitude (German, Hardcover): Rudi Fuchs, Thomas... With a Probability of Being Seen, Dorothee and Konrad Fischer - Archives of an Attitude (German, Hardcover)
Rudi Fuchs, Thomas Kellein, Friedrich Meschede
R1,416 R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Save R197 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archives of an Attitude focuses primarily on the personality of Konrad Fischer - as a painter, as an exhibition maker and as a gallery owner. The influence of this key figure in the development of contemporary art from the 1960s to the 1990s is presented in the exhibition in three ways: through his own works, through archived documents and through the works of his artists, which he collected together with his wife Dorothee. Numerous documents and photographs, shown in public for the first time, convey a richly faceted picture of Konrad Fischer's activities and a captivating panorama of this great period of contemporary art in the Rhineland. This collection, too, testifies to the consistent attitude that characterised Konrad Fischer, an attitude that cannot be readily explained or quantified in material terms.

Sound Art (Paperback): Arnau Horta Sound Art (Paperback)
Arnau Horta
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

`Sound Art` is the catalogue that accompanies a new exhibition at the Fundacio Juan Miro Gallery in Barcelona. It offers a critical interrogation of this category in art and presents an overview of the sonorisation of the art object from the later C19 to today. The exhibition examines how, in the late C19 and early C20 many visual artists worked references to sound and music into their pieces using a variety of strategies. In turn, it also addresses the influence of visual arts on contemporary musical practices. It considers how several composers and visual artists turned the music score into a space for experimentation and performativity, and explains how the introduction of sound enables art objects to state their presence in a radically different, augmented way. In the text of this book, the experimental musician and artist Max Neuhaus questions the validity of the term `Sound Art` and so creates the starting point for the various artists and critics who also contribute to the discussion, including Suzanne Delehanty, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Maija Julius and Miki Yui, David Toop, Fiona McGovern, Ursula and Rene Block and Arnau Horta, who is the curator the exhibition and editor of this book.

Cecily Brown - Death and the Maid (Hardcover): Ian Alteveer Cecily Brown - Death and the Maid (Hardcover)
Ian Alteveer; Contributions by Adam Eaker
R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An intimate survey of Cecily Brown's paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work Cecily Brown (b. 1969) transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of European painting's grandest and most time-honored themes, including still life motifs and meditations on mortality through vanitas This intimate survey of the acclaimed British painter reexamines the work of an artist whose influential output references both modern heavyweights, such as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, and Old Masters like Goya, Hogarth, Manet, and Rubens. The book features 21 paintings and 26 works on paper-drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, and monotypes-that span the three decades of Brown's career to date, including recently completed and never-before published works. A conversation with the artist provides insight into her process and sources, while an insightful essay situates Brown in the lineage of the great artists of the last five hundred years. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (April 4-September 24, 2023)

La Bourse de Commerce - The Museum of the Pinault Collection in Paris (Hardcover): Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Anne Hidalgo,... La Bourse de Commerce - The Museum of the Pinault Collection in Paris (Hardcover)
Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Anne Hidalgo, Francois Pinault; Text written by Tadao Ando, Martin Bethenod, …
R1,902 R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Save R391 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jelle Martens & Raimundas Malasauskas - After The Midst (Paperback): Jelle Martens & Raimundas Malasauskas - After The Midst (Paperback)
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Portrait Miniatures in National Trust Houses - Volume 2 : Cornwall,Devon & Somerset (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Richard... Portrait Miniatures in National Trust Houses - Volume 2 : Cornwall,Devon & Somerset (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Walker, National Trust Books
R917 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R238 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world. Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world. As a whole, these precious works of art represent the highest standard of artistry and provide a history of miniature painting in Britain. They range from Holbein's 1533 portrait of A Man Holding a Pink at Upton House in Warwickshire through to Wainwright's portrait of Evelyn Ward (1916), painted several decades after the advent of photography had begun to supersede the art of the miniature. This comprehensive catalogue, featuring every miniatures in the National Trust's care, is being prepared in volumes, divided by region. The first volume, covering Northern Ireland, was published in July 2003. This second volume looks at miniatures from the Trust's historic houses in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, including those that recently came to the Trust as part of its acquisition of the magnificent Victorian mansion of Tyntesfield, south of Bristol.

Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things (Hardcover): Robin Muir Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things (Hardcover)
Robin Muir 1
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers. These 'Bright Young Things' captured the spirit of the roaring twenties and thirties as they cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his beautiful, often striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. More than a photographer, Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 60 leading figures who sat for him are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, the Mitfords, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne Du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings and ephemera and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb.

Face to Face - Marc Quinn meets Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (English, German, Paperback): Marc Quinn, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Face to Face - Marc Quinn meets Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (English, German, Paperback)
Marc Quinn, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt; Text written by Georg Lechner, Stella Rollig, Tim Smith-Laing, …
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Hermitage - 250 Masterworks (Hardcover): The Hermitage Museum The Hermitage - 250 Masterworks (Hardcover)
The Hermitage Museum; Foreword by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
R1,004 R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Save R178 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary. For 250 years, the State Hermitage Museum has been one of the world's most palatial and significant museums. The Hermitage collections were developed beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and now encompass more than 3 million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of which is the famed Winter Palace. Now, on this important anniversary, this stunning volume captures the masterpieces that make this world-famous institution a cultural destination and a global treasure.
"The Hermitage: 250 Masterpieces" explores this sumptuous collection in the manner of a private tour, showcasing the museum's extraordinary and uniquely underpublished treasures: no other institution has thirty-six Rembrandts; works by Italian Renaissance artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian; Spanish artists such as Vel+zquez, Ribera, and Murillo; Flemish baroque artists such as van Dyck, Rubens, and Jan Brueghel the Elder; impressionist and post-impressionist works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Degas; and modern paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky. Priceless antiquities, feats of mechanical engineering such as the famous Peacock Clock, and works of sculpture and decorative arts will also be shown. With lavish reproductions accompanied by texts by the museum's leading curators, this volume is sure be cherished by art lovers around the world.

Emotion - Fashion in Transition (Hardcover): Kaat Debo, Alistair O'Neill, Caroline Evans Emotion - Fashion in Transition (Hardcover)
Kaat Debo, Alistair O'Neill, Caroline Evans
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at the beginning of the 20th century, the role and position of the designer has drastically changed. This book addresses how the interpretation of creativity, authorship, craft, and innovation have evolved in this new context, and asks what role designers play in a globalised and digitised fashion world.

Strokes of Genius 8-Expressive Texture - The Best of Drawing (Hardcover): Rachel Rubin Wolf Strokes of Genius 8-Expressive Texture - The Best of Drawing (Hardcover)
Rachel Rubin Wolf
R889 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Save R209 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inspiration fresh from the studios of 131 master artists! A celebration of creative drawing, the Strokes of Genius series showcases standout work from today's top artists. This 8th volume focuses on how artists use texture to bring life and depth to subjects ranging from soulful portraits and expressive still lifes, to beautiful landscapes and pulsing city scenes. Texture plays an essential role in each of these drawings--capturing character, building mood, and paying homage to everyday moments that often go unnoticed. These pages serve up a tantalizing buffet of tactile impressions, from rough tree bark and silky fur to peeling paint and timeworn fabrics. Complete with fascinating, firsthand insights on the drawing techniques behind the textures, Strokes of Genius 8 offers hours of browsing and inspiration for artists and art-lovers alike. Inside you'll find: 139 magnificent works in charcoal, pencil, pastel, colored pencil, scratchboard and pen+ink An exciting range of styles and approaches, presented in subject-themed chapters A behind-the-scenes look at the tools and methods used to evoke a wide range of natural and manmade textures

MoMA Now - MoMA Highlights 90th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover): MoMA Now - MoMA Highlights 90th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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