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Existentialists and Mystics Existentialists and Mystics Iris Murdoch Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her mos… OL1326355W
Munch's Ibsen Munch's Ibsen Joan Templeton "Drawing on a mass of printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the relation between the two great Norwegian mo… OL13846888W
Bildsatz Bildsatz Kathrin Röggla,Czernin, Franz Josef.,Benedikt Ledebur,Richard Obermayr,Wolfgang Schlüter,Anja Utler,Sebastian Kiefer,Ferdinand Schmatz,Michael Donhauser,Andrea Winkler,Martin Janda,Florian Neuner,Monika Rinck,Ann Cotten,Lukas Czejpek,Florian Huber,Peter Waterhouse Es war Martin Jandas Gedanke, anlässlich des fünfzehnten Geburtstags seiner Galerie Schriftsteller und Schriftstellerinnen aufzufordern, sich zu Werken von mit der Galerie verbundenen Künstlern und K… OL14985366W
A short guide to writing about art A short guide to writing about art Sylvan Barnet This book is for art courses where there is a writing component. Would you like your students to have the tools to write confidently about art? This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of … OL15501296W
The great debate about art The great debate about art Roy Harris Includes bibliography (p. [131-134]). OL15597683W
Eric Ravilious Eric Ravilious Alan Powers More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of mid-20th-century England. This new survey of his work by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious… OL157209W
I spy a freight train I spy a freight train Lucy Micklethwait Draws the viewer's eye to notice a transportation-related object in each of the well-known paintings represented in this work. OL15851800W
Henri Matisse Henri Matisse Shirley Neilsen Blum This volume explains the works of Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Matisse was a French artist, known primarily as a painter and for his use of color and his fluid and original draftsmanship. The colorful,… OL15975194W
The first panoramas The first panoramas Denise Oleksijczuk "The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering t… OL16214815W
Jeff Wall Jeff Wall David Campany Jeff Wall's 'Picture for Women' (1979) marks the transition of photography as an art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Here, David Campany offers an account of Wall's move from a Concep… OL16240515W
Man Ray in Paris Man Ray in Paris Erin C. Garcia American artist Man Ray spend the most productive years of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris. OL16358605W
Renoir Renoir Colin B. Bailey "Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s--the decade of Impressionism--his vertic… OL16361903W
Shadow spans Shadow spans Claire Barclay 52 p. : 22 cm. + OL16645389W
Complete writings 1959-1975 Complete writings 1959-1975 Donald Judd "Donald Judd's uncompromising reviews avoid the familiar generalizations so often associated with the styles emerging during the 1950s and 60s. This book is not a mere survey of the art produced and … OL1695497W
Botero: La corrida Botero: La corrida Fernando Botero,Erica Jong,Rudy Chiappini "Catalog of artist's most recent exhibition at MACCSI, including a donation of 15 sculptures, five works already in the collection of the museum, and 20 new color drawings on canvas. Beautifully illu… OL1744402W
The Rape of the Masters The Rape of the Masters Roger Kimball Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball shows in this witty and prov… OL1844296W
Marta Palau Marta Palau Marta Palau,José Luis Barrios "A retrospective of artist Palau (b. Spain, has lived in Mexico since 1940) and her artwork created from 1962 to 2003. The artist started as an engraver and later experimented withdiverse techniques … OL18863318W
Les arts visuels Les arts visuels Rosalind Ragans viii, 568 p. : 29 cm OL19409861W
Converging lines Converging lines Eva Hesse "Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt formed a close friendship between the late 1950s and Hesse's death in 1970. Converging Lines celebrates this friendship and offers an illuminating look at their close-knit N… OL19670789W
How to write about contemporary art How to write about contemporary art Gilda Williams How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first nav… OL19987849W
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