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  • Rembrandt and the Female Nudeby Eric Jan Sluijter

    Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 74.50

    First detailed study of Rembrandt's fascinating depictions of female nudes more...

  • From High Art to New Artby Hans Abbing

    Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 10.50

    Mijnheer de Rector Magnificus, Mevrouw de Decaan, Zeer Gewaardeerde Toehoorders, Dutch data on graying audiences 'Public interest in art is declining and the young are defecting en masse.' Actually, the story is quite the opposite. more...

  • Maximaal Minimaal Invasiefby Jean De la Rosette

    Amsterdam University Press 2003; US$ 10.50

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  • Renaissance Artby Geraldine A Johnson

    Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 9.99

    Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, D--uuml--;rer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are many of the works. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? This book answers such questions by considering both famous and lesser-known artists, patrons, and works... more...

  • Countdown - 3 Kunstgenerationen: Mit Abbildungen von Rainer Gabriel (TRACE Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution) (German Edition)by Heiner Mühlmann

    Springer 2008; US$ 29.95

    Jede Generation bringt Künstler zum Vorschein. Jedem Meister folgen Schüler. Doch aus der Vielzahl talentierter und weniger talentierter Personen wird nur ein Bruchteil wahrgenommen. Noch weniger Künstler erringen eine generationsübergreifende Bedeutung. Was entscheidet über Erfolg und Misserfolg in der Kunst? Wer oder was steuert diese Selektion?... more...

  • Marianne Madernaby Marianne Maderna

    Springer 2008; US$ 49.95

    Macht, Ohnmacht, die Suche nach einem friedlichen Prinzip" als Regulativ des Menschen, das Forschen nach neuen Erkenntnissen diese Themen verknüpft die Künstlerin Marianne Maderna zu einer weltanschaulichen Bildgeschichte. Wissenschaftlerinnen verschiedener Disziplinen vervollständigen in ihren Essays diese Ansätze zu einem Netzwerk zeitgenössischer,... more...

  • The A to Z of Renaissance Artby Lilian H. Zirpolo

    Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99

    The A to Z of Renaissance Art covers the years 1250 to 1648, the period most disciplines place as the Renaissance Era. A complete portrait of this remarkable period is depicted in this book through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on major Renaissance painters, sculptors,... more...

  • From Head to Handby David Levi Strauss

    Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 18.99

    In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, a writer with... more...

  • Rewriting Conceptual Artby Michael Newman; Jon Bird

    Reaktion Books 1999; US$ 28.95

    An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the institutional and social relationships among production, work and audience in ways which have comprehensively transformed the nature of the art object and forms of artistic practice, both historically... more...

  • Interpreting Contemporary Artby Stephen Bann; William Allen

    Reaktion Books 1991; US$ 37.00

    The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying speed, a critical engagement with the works of our own time is particularly vital. Each contributor to Interpreting Contemporary Art has looked at his chosen... more...