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Wives and Stunners
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 16.62Essentially a domestic biography whose main concern is the tragicomedy of manners enacted by a closely knit group of friends and lovers, Wives and Stunners tells the story of Janey Morris, Georgie Burne-Jones, Lizzie Siddall, Effie Gray and less well-known, Marie Spartali, Aglaia Coronio and Mary Zambacco. These women were the wives, mistresses andmuses,... more...
Marks of Opulence: The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000?1914 (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableA sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian. more...
Redeeming Art
Skyhorse Publishing 2000; US$ 3.99This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthetic developments of the last twenty-five years, from Abstract Expressionism to the most recent permutation of Postmodernism.In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest... more...
Fremmed og moderne
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 28.54Fremmed og moderne søger at ændre vores syn på den antikke kulturs efterliv i europæisk civilisation. I dag betragter vi antikken som stivnet tradition, en forbigangen fortid. Men antikken har ikke primært fungeret som udtryk for det etablerede. Derimod har antikken inspireret generationer af europæere, fordi den repræsenterede noget fremmedartet og... more...
Kunsten taler
Aarhus University Press 2004; US$ 25.66Kunsten taler handler om billeder. Billeder af alle slags fra oldtidens guldgubber og vikingetids-runesten over romanske stenarbejder og senmiddelalderlige træskulpturer til værker af Claude Lorrain, Hoppe, Brancusi, Lundstrøm, Balle, Heerup og Per Kirkeby.Bogens titel refererer til Carl-Henning Pedersen, der for over tres år siden skrev om figurerne... more...
Gennem billedernes spejl
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 19.88Maleren og grafikeren Arne Haugen Sørensen har udviklet sig til at blive en af Danmarks mest værdsatte kunstnere. Med sine farvestærke figurative malerier og karakteristiske kirkeudsmykninger har han formået at appellere stærkt både til kunstkritikeren og det bredere publikum. I denne bog med smukke farvegengivelser af 70 af Haugen Sørensens kendte... more...
Decorative Games
University of Delaware 2011; US$ 75.00This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). For the first time, this publication reproduces in their initial state the embellishments Oppenord drew over the first French edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia. In lieu of a haphazard succession of sketches, it reveals Oppenord's... more...
My Life in the New York Times
Skyhorse Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99From renowned American artist Ross Bleckner comes this stunning and thought-provoking collection of more than one hundred collages assembled from clippings of New York Times articles. Chosen for their personal significance to Bleckner and for the ways in which they later affected his work, the fragments of text and image in some pieces are unadorned;... more...
The Avant Garde
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 9.99The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration.... more...
Art of Katahdin
Down East Books 2013; US$ 49.99Katahdin has been called Maine?s greatest treasure. In addition to the outdoor and sporting tradition that surrounds it, there is a distinct tradition of art. For more than a hundred years, some of the most prominent landscape painters?Marsden Hartley, Frederic Church, John Marin, and many others?have portrayed Katahdin. Art of Katahdin is the... more...









