Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France PBK



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Now available in paperback, Chaos and Classicism explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. Accompanying the Guggenheim's widely lauded 2010 exhibition of the same name, it examines the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations and their interpretations of classical values and aesthetics: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of th... More >>

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France PBK

Monday, May 7, 2007

Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots



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Published in association with The Art Institute of Chicago The story behind one of the best- known paintings of all time A Sunday on la Grande Jatte-1884 continues to fascinate art lovers over a century since Georges Seurat painted and first displayed it-so much so that it alone will form the basis of an entire exhibit at the world-famous Art Institute of Chicago. Award-winning author Robert Burleigh uses this extraordinary painting to give young children a comp... More >>

Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Imperishable Beauty


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"A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous forms, dramatic imagery and vivid symbolism. Many of the designers associated with the movement sought their inspiration not in traditional jewelry, but in the work of the pre-Raphaelites and Impressionists and in the arts of Japan. Rejectin... More >>

Imperishable Beauty

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects


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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he looks at eight of his contemporaries—all architects of international stature—and discusses the theoretical position... More >>

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece


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The Greek Myths are so much of our visual and literary culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.

There is no surviving accoun... More >>

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

WWW HR Giger Com


  • ISBN13: 9783822833162
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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects include Poltergeist II, Alien 3 and Species, for which he designed a deadl... More >>

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