Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell Jack Glenn,Motherwell, Robert.,Flam,Dore Ashton,Robert Buck,Constance Glenn Exhibition on expresionist abstract painter Motherwell with artworks from the holdings of the T.B. Walker art collection. OL112484W
Painting today Painting today Tony Godfrey A worldwide survey of painting from the 1970's to the present. OL15539235W
Painting the century Painting the century Robin Gibson From Boldini, Schiele, Grosz and Picasso to Hockney, Freud and the latest wave of new emerging artists, this book celebrates the turbulent history and extraordinary revolutions in styles & attitudes … OL15832515W
Picturing old New England Picturing old New England Roger B. Stein,William H. Truettner When we think of New England, we envision village greens surrounded by neat, white-framed houses; tall elms and church spires; country stores; Yankee farmers; sailing ships; rocky coastlines; brillia… OL19772662W
Gendering landscape art Gendering landscape art Anna Gruetzner Robins,Steven Adams This collection of essays charts the ways in which artists from the late 18th century to the 21st have used notions of femininity and masculinity to understand and interpret the landscape and how it … OL20888156W
Orientalist Aesthetics Orientalist Aesthetics Roger Benjamin "Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade's research in untapped archives, introduced many paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expa… OL2182359W
Vrouwen die lezen zijn gevaarlijk Vrouwen die lezen zijn gevaarlijk Stefan Bollmann Er bestaan veel afbeeldingen van lezende vrouwen in de beeldende kunst. Overzicht van schilderijen, tekeningen en foto's van lezende vrouwen van de 13e tot de 21e eeuw. Het duurde vele eeuwen voordat… OL24164434W
Schilderkunst en leefwereld in het Quattrocento Schilderkunst en leefwereld in het Quattrocento Michael Baxandall De relatie tussen 15de-eeuwse Italiaanse schilderkunst en het maatschappelijke en religieuze leven in die tijd. OL24743395W
Grote Kunst Grote Kunst Adriana Kalwij Kunstenaar Pablo maakt een schilderij voor een schilderwedstrijd. Janneke, Skip en Joep vermoeden dat hij niet zal winnen. Daarom gaan ze zelf aan de slag. AVI-E4. Vanaf ca. 7,5 jaar. OL26185320W
Julia's reis Julia's reis Finn Zetterholm Als Julia (12) in een museum een schilderij aanraakt, wordt ze wakker in het schilderij. Via allerlei schilderijen reist ze door de tijd en leert van de beroemde schilders van alles over kunstgeschie… OL27974445W
Frida, a biography of Frida Kahlo Frida, a biography of Frida Kahlo Herrera Hayden,Hayden Herrera Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came … OL4114749W
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance was one of the most talked about books in nineteenth-century Britain, and it remains a work of unusual importance to anyone interested in art … OL43676W
The portrait in Britain and America The portrait in Britain and America Robin Simon 255 pages, 32 pages of plates : 28 cm OL5270699W
The rescue of Romanticism The rescue of Romanticism Kenneth Daley "Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close i… OL6209472W
Leonardo Leonardo Carlo Pedretti,Kunster,Erfinder,Wissenschaftler,Michael Desmond,Leonardo da Vinci Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the wor… OL695408W