The author of the "New York Times"-bestselling PostSecret books addresses life's biggest questions, as he reveals the incredibly moving, personal postcards he's received that touch upon every aspect of spirituality.
The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions.
This second volume of erotic imagery features works created to illustrate works of literature. Artists featured include: Boucher; Dali; and Fragonard, with each image being reproduced in full and with its accompanying text.
This book answers questions that every crafter ponders: What is creativity, anyway? Where do ideas come from? How do successful artists get started? How do you know when a piece is finished?Creativity is different for everyone, and "Living the Creative Life" offers a wide range of insights from 15 well-known and admired full-time artists, ...
The artists who made the West known to the rest of the country, and then to the world, have been America's myth makers. In this handsome volume, the dramatic story of the American West unfolds through text and full-color reproductions of these artists' works. 400 illustrations, 150 in color.
The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied ...
This stunning book showcases the largest collection of ancient jewelled objects ever assembled, with sparkling photography and history throughout.Jewelry aficionado, and president of America's National Jewelry Institute, Judith Price has compiled a collection of the most stunning ancient objects ever assembled. Pieces on loan come from the Berlin ...
Profiles patent-medicine king and founder Albert C. Barnes and influential lawyer and president Richard Glanton, tracing their rags-to-riches lives while discussing their impact on one of America's most significant private art collection. 30,000 first printing.
Published to accompany the third season of a groundbreaking four-year PBS series devoted to contemporary artists and their work, Art - 21 - 3 presents a behind-the-scenes look at the lives and work of sixteen artists at work today. Some are well established, others only now emerging. The artists discuss their work in their own words and in their ...
This book has long satisfied the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. It is the definitive study of the subject, filled with information and insight garnered through many years of far-ranging research. All the masterworks are here, from Childe Hassam's sun-drenched gardens to John Twachtman's snow-silenced landscapes, from Edmund ...
This volume offers a grand tour of one of the world's greatest museums, featuring masterpieces dating from ancient civilizations to the 19th century. Two hundred years ago, the doors of hte Louvre opened to the public for the very first time. The palace of the French Kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous ...
After six decades of limited access to visitors, and a ban on colour reproduction, the Barnes Foundation, one of the world's most prestigious private art collections, presents this volume containing more than 100 masterpieces of modern French painting. The artists include Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, ...
This volume reproduces over 1000 works in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in colour, many printed with gold. Every full-page colour plate is accompanied by a commentary, and the artists covered include Giotto, Leonardo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso.
Sir Winston Churchill began painting during World War II, and it became his lifelong passion. His works, which number over 500, are of remarkable quality and have received the most positive criticism in the English press. "Had he signed his pictures 'Jones,' the critic would still find himself pausing in front of them," noted one Sunday Times of ...
Clothes define people. A person's clothing, whether it's a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential key to his or her culture, class, personality, or even religion. The Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothing sociologically, historically, and artistically. Founded in 1978, the KCI holds one of the world's ...
Like gold nuggets amongst pebbles, the more than 200 images reproduced in this book include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from using our own imaginations to spectulate on the circumstances in which they were taken. Superbly produced with an introduction by internationally ...
The work of the Impressionists during the wi nter months, often described by the term ''effet de neige'', i s the focus of this book, published to accompany an exhibiti on of winter landscape paintings opening at the Phillips Col lection '
"The Hermetic Museum" takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific ...
Published to accompany the second season of the PBS television series, this illustrated book offers a glimpse into the life stories, sources of inspiration and creative processes of some of the most interesting contemporary artists working in America. Sixteen artists are featured in groups of four, and each group represents a theme. The artists ...
This catalogue of Jackson Pollock's paintings was released to accompany New York City's Museum of Modern Art's October 1998 exhibition. It contains 318 illustrations.
This magnificent gathering of more than 800 exemplary paintings from one of the world's greatest collections of European art has been lovingly reproduced in lavish full color. Over 800 color plates. Boxed.
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. ...
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