Friday, April 28, 2006

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 2: High Baroque



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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliog... More >>

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 2: High Baroque

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert


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This volume traces the career of American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). The illustrations document the most important periods in her life.... More >>

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s



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Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. It covers furniture and interior decoration, sculpture, paintings, graphics, posters and bookbinding, glass, ceramics, lighting, textiles, metal work, and jewelry. It includes the work of all of the important Art Deco designers, from high-style French furniture makers to the creators of the popular “Streamline Moderne”... More >>

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Monday, April 24, 2006

Paper Illusions: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave



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Belgian artist, designer, and interior decorator Isabelle de Borchgrave has created exquisite paper dresses evoking high fashions from the courts of the Medici in the Renaissance to the legendary Fortuny silks of the early 20th century. Their historical authenticity, combined with their startling realism, caused an overnight sensation when they were first shown in France in 1998 as “papiers à la mode.” Since then, the dynamic, light-hearted collection has trave... More >>

Paper Illusions: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Tony's Artworks from Shining World



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Featuring the stunning designs of renowned Japanese pinup artist Tony Taka, Tony's Artwork From Shining World collects the beautiful artwork behind SEGA's Shining Tears and Shining Wind games. The book features over 200 pages of gorgeous, full-page pin-ups and character designs from the Shining series, plus multiple interviews with the master himself, Tony Taka.... More >>

Tony's Artworks from Shining World

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Contemporary African Art Since 1980



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Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years. Its frame of analysis is absorbed with historical transitions: from the end of the postcolonial utopias of the sixties during the 1980s to the geopolitic... More >>

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico


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Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits energies of freedom, freshness, and spontaneity and has inferences of landscape.... More >>

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico