Celtic Art

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The Pictish School of Celtic art from pagan symbols to monumental sculptures, thoroughly covered and illustrated.... More >>

Celtic Art

Caravaggio: The Complete Paintings

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Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan 1571 Porto Ercole 1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have attracted such controversial and contradictory interpretations right up to modern times and to the latest art historical research.



The book offers a comprehen... More >>

Caravaggio: The Complete Paintings

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Volumes 1-2

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A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium.In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the present i... More >>

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Volumes 1-2

Claude Monet - 1840-1926: a Feast for the Eyes

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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter associated with the Impressionist movement. His long life and extraordinary work were dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. Monet's poplars, grain stacks, Rouen Cathedral, and water lilies paintings - among the most beloved works of the Impressionist period - were created long before the currents of the ... More >>

Claude Monet - 1840-1926: a Feast for the Eyes

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

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Contemporary art has never been so popular, but what is its role today and who is controlling its future? Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. But away from shock tactics in the gallery, there are many unanswered questions. Who is really running the art world? What effect has ... More >>

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics

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Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.... More >>

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

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The chief art critic for The New York Times on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living.

Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artist's sensibility from the inside. Re... More >>

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

Introduction to Manuscript Studies

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Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while also... More >>

Introduction to Manuscript Studies

The Upset: Young Contemporary Art

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A new breed of contemporary artists is celebrating newfound international recognition
for their style and approach to creating art that is sprouting from and largely
influenced by visual subcultures. These young artists, who are associated with the
widespread movements of Lowbrow Art and Neo-Surrealism, share similarities with
the popular art movements of the 1960s and 70s as well as urban art.
The term Lowbrow may sound self-deprecating; rather it re... More >>

The Upset: Young Contemporary Art

American Art: History And Culture

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American Art: History and Culture is a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting book is as much a his... More >>

American Art: History And Culture