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GAUGUIN: PAUL GAUGUIN. AN EROTIC LIFE

.In this penetrating and daring biography of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Nancy Mowll Mathews traces the themes of sex and violence through the artist's life, ...

ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE 650-1250

This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the ...

JONES: INIGO JONES

Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the ...

MODERN LIFE & MODERN SUBJECTS. "BRITISH ART IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY"

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting ...

SICKERT: WALTER SICKERT. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of ...

LANGUAGE OF LANDSCAPE, THE

This study suggests that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to ...

CARR, O'KEEFFE, KAHLO. PLACES OF THEIR OWN

This groundbreaking book compares the art, lives, and achievements of three great artists of the Americas: Emily Carr of Canada, Georgia O'Keeffe of the ...

PAINTING THE TOWN. CITYSCAPES OF NEW YORK. PAINTINGS FROM THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY**

This beautiful book gathers nearly 160 paintings from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, displaying the City's harbors, skylines, ...

CHALLENGE OF THE AVANT- GARDE

This volume traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-19th century. It considers the shifts ...

GUBBIO STUDIOLO AND ITS CONSERVATION. 2 VOLS. "VOL 2: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE INTARSIA AND THE CONSERVATION"

The Gubbio studiolo, a small private study that is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance intarsia, was reinstalled in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

REGAINING PARADISE. ENGLISHNESS AND THE EARLY GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT *

This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, ...

WORLD OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IN SEVENTEENTH- CENTURY ENGLAND, THE

This engaging and beautifully illustrated book take us back to the domestic world of the landed gentry in seventeenth-century England. Relating countless stories and ...

FAREWELL TO AN IDEA. EPISODES FROM A HISTORY OF MODERNISM**

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, ...

INSIDE MODERNISM. RELATIVITY THEORY, CUBISM, NARRATIVE **

In this engaging book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. ...

REPTON: HUMPHRY REPTON. LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF GEORGIAN ENGLAND

An examination of the career and work of Humphrey Repton, landscape gardener of later Georgian England. It charts Repton's vision of England, how his ...

SOANE: JOHN SOANE. AN ACCIDENTAL ROMANTIC *

John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life ...

GREAT HOUSEHOLD IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, THE

An investigation of life in the great household of late mediaeval England. Based on household accounts and related primary documents, it looks at the ...

PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, THE*

ARCHITECTURE AND THE BURDENS OF LINEARITY

In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and ...

GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE MECHANICAL AGE *

Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's private collection of 20th-century posters, adverts, photomontages and graphic ephemera, this book showcases over 200 examples of progressive graphic ...