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Animals Animals Claude Delafosse,Gallimard Jeunesse (Publisher),Tony Ross Features die-cut and transparent pages introducing animals as portrayed in art. OL10662961W
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Ibsen Munch's Ibsen Joan Templeton "Drawing on a mass of printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the relation between the two great Norwegian mo… OL13846888W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
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
Makart Makart Hans Makart "Hans Makart left his mark on his age like no other artist of the nineteenth century. He became the symbol of his time, which has gone down in history as the Makart Era. summoned to Vienna by the e… OL16301700W
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
Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Patricia Geis Colección ¡Mira qué artista! OL16809260W
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
Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei Hans Ulrich Obrist Ai Weiwei's work is an audacious blend of old and new, Western and Eastern, serious and irreverent. He has translated the readymade into a new artistic language, fusing neolithic pottery, fourteenth-… OL17497846W
Brian Weil, 1979-95 Brian Weil, 1979-95 Brian Weil This book offers the first career retrospective of Brian Weil (1954-1996), an artist whose photographs pushed viewers into a deeply unsteadying engagement with insular communities and subcultures. A … OL17578546W
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
Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents Art Gallery of Ontario. DVD focuses on the addition to the Art Gallery of Toronto designed by Frank Gehry to house the Thomson collection. Includes interviews with the collector, museum staff and the architect. OL18647105W
The young Van Dyck The young Van Dyck Friso Lammertse,Alexander Vergara "By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the… OL19707654W
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