Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has attained lasting fame for paintings and prints--above all The Scream-- that express the isolation and anxieties of the modern condition. Recently, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired a large Munch painting, Mermaid, little known outside a small circle of experts because it had never been displayed in museums or galleries. To introduce this important work to the public, the Museum has organized an exhibition that presents Mermaid alongside related paintings, drawings, and prints. Edvard Munch's Mermaid, which accompanies the exhibition, provides the first compre... View More...
Used - good. Catalog of 1937 El Greco exhibition in Paris, with French text, black and white plates, 8 1/2' by 11'; covers discolored, edgewear, interior bright and clean, binding cracked but intact, a fascinating piece of art history. View More...
Used - good. A very solid, attractive copy, previou owner inscription, includes color frontispiece, extensive photographs in both color and black & white. Dustjacket good with su fading, protective mylar cover. View More...
Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) idiosyncratic style grew out of a deep admiration for and connection to the 19th-century art world. This fresh look at Van Gogh's influences explores the artist's relationship to the Barbizon School painters Jean-Fran ois Millet and Georges Michel--Van Gogh's self-proclaimed mentors--as well as to Realists like Jean-Fran ois Raffa lli and L on Lhermitte. New scholarship offers insights into Van Gogh's emulation of Adolphe Monticelli, his absorption of the Hague School through Anton Mauve and Jozef Isra ls, and his keen interest in the work of the Impressionists. ... View More...
Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Arguing that Vermeer was not a painter in the conventional, commercial sense of his Dutch colleagues, Arasse suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal and ambitious effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art. By examining Vermeer's approach to image-making, the author finds that his works demonstrate the concept of painti... View More...
Light to moderate cover wear including diagonal corner crease in rear cover; binding firm, text unmarked. Previous owner's name inside front cover. View More...
Good to very good: Spine cocked, owner inscription present, slightly foxed textblock, text solid & unmarked. Jacket almost as new, slight bump at lower fore edge. View More...
Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet , and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist's marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal express... View More...
Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet , and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist's marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal express... View More...
Fred Bauer writes about Rockwell's message of optimism and the artist's faith in America and its people in a forthright and sympathetic text complemented by numerous Rockwell favorites in all their warmth and color. Bauer visits Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Arlington, Vermont, talking to the people who lived with Rockwell and posed for his anecdotal pictures, the people about whom the artist said, "If you are interested in the characters you draw and understand them and love them, why, the people who see your pictures are bound to feel the same way." This lovely book enables us to partake o... View More...
