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DICKENS, Charles
KERSTBOOM
Paperback. ISBN 9789076347332. Charles Dickens leefde het grootste deel van zijn leven in Londen. Hij had al veel korte verhalen gepubliceerd toen hij beroemd werd met The Posthumus Papers of the Pickwick Club, dat eerst als feuilleton verscheen. Daarna volgden onder meer Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities en David Copperfield. Hij is beroemd geworden vanwege zijn zogenaamde Dickensiaanse karakters en om zijn zorgvuldige intriges en expressieve stijl. Het persoonlijke verhaal Een kerstboom verscheen oorspronkelijk in de Morning Chronicle in 1836. Nieuw.
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ELIOT, George.
SILAS MARNER.
Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.3x13.5 cm., 74 pp., illustrated in b/w. Tales from England 3rd Degree No. 29.
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SCOTT, Walter.
SCENES FROM "IVANHOE".
Stapled, original editor's jacket, 17.9x13.7 cm., 64 pp., illustrated in b/w. Tales from England 3rd Degree No. 22.
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SHAKESPEARE, William. windroos
THE STORY OF JULIUS CAESAR
Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.2x13.5 cm., 24 pp., illustrated in b/w. Tales from England 2nd Degree No. 7. ill g w irwin
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Ronald Windross
THE STORY OF MACBETH
Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.4x13.6 cm., 22 pp., illustrated in b/w. Tales from England 2nd Degree No. 3.
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
TWO TALES FROM "A WONDER BOOK".
Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.5x13.9 cm., 36 pp., illustrated in b/w. Tales from England 1st Degree No. 11.
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Forster, E.M.
passage to India. De echo van de Marabar.
Softcover, 303pp., 12.5x20.5cm., goede staat. ISBN 9070038781.
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White, Edmund.
farewell symphony.
Paperback, 504pp., 13x19.5cm., good cond. ISBN 0099768011.
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JAMES, Henry
WASHINGTON SQUARE
Pictorial cardboard cover in colour, 125 x 195mm., 154pp. ISBN 9781840224276. In perfect condition.
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THOMAS, Edward
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Bound, red cloth with gold impression, 125 x 195mm., 333(8)(31)pp., 8 b/w illustrations. Second edition. Some slight foxing, which is normal considering age.
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CLARK, John R.
THE MODERN SATIRIC GROTESQUE AND ITS TRADITIONS
Bound, black cloth, illustrated dustjacket, 155 x 240mm., 212pp. English ISBN 0813117445. Deadly laughter - Satiric Gothic, Satiric Grotesque - Degrading the hero - Debunking the author - Dislocating the language - Gaming with the plot - Further Intrusion and Obstruction - Discordant Endings - Infernal Repetition - Ennui - Scatology - Cannibals - Dystopias and Machines - Entropy and Armageddon - The Death of the Humanities. Book is in excellent condition.
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BOON, Louis Paul
SUMMER IN TERMUREN
Pictorial softcover, 150 x 230mm., 492pp. ISBN 9781564784148. Spanning two world wars and anticipating a catastrophic future, Louis Paul Boon captures the history of the 20th century by exploring the twisted, corrupt lives of the inhabitants of one small town - a microcosm fot the changing world. Netherlandic Literature Series. Translation by Paul Vincent. Book is new.
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Leslie A. Marchand
BYRON. A PORTRAIT
Pictorial carboard cover, 125 x 215 x 45 mm., 518(XXXIV)pp. (552) ISBN 9780712656597. Good condition.
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GOMBRICH, E.H. & WOODFIELD, Richard (edit.).
THE ESSENTAIL GOMBRICH. SELECTED WRITINGS ON ART AND CULTURE.
Paperback, original editor's jacket, 24.5x17.12 cm., 624 pp., illustrated in b/w. ISBN 0714834874. This work introduces the reader to the whole range of Gombrich's thought. With his commitment to reason and tolerance, Gombrich is a true humanist, whose abiding concern is to understand and interpret our cultural heritage and its values. In this rich and illuminating collection, a wide range of fundamental issues are presented with force and clarity.
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Willem Elsschot.
Cheese.
Hardcover with dustjacket, 134pp., 19.5x14cm., as new. ISBN 186207481x. Translated and with a preface by Paul Vincent.
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Paul West.
women of Whitechapel.
Hardcover with orig. dustjacket, 420pp., 24x16.5cm., good condition. ISBN 1852422386.
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Chambers.
Chambers's readings in English Literature.
Bound with gilt title on spine, 450pp., 19x12.5cm., good copy, some foxing. A collection of specimens from our best writers from the earliest times to 1860 with bigraphical notices and explanatory notes.
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Sydney Lee
Complete Works of William Shakespeare in forty volumes. Volume XII: The Life and Death of King John.
Bound, half cloth ( spine, coins), original frontispice by W.H. Margetson. b/w, 21,5x29,5cm, 129pp. The University Press Shakespeare. Volume XXII. Numbered Edition. nr. 117 from the 250 sets limited for sale in America and England, Volume XXII. With annotations and a general introduction by Sidney Lee.With a special introduction by Richard Garnett and an original frontispice by W.H. Margetson.
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Lee, Sydney.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare in forty volumes. Volume XXVI: King Henry VIII.
Bound, half cloth ( spine, coins), original frontispice by Cowper, F.C. b/w, 21,5x29,5cm, 155pp Numbered Edition. The University Press Shakespeare. Volume XXVI. nr. 117 from the 250 sets limited for sale in America and England, Volume XXVI. With annotations and a general introduction by Sidney Lee.With a special introduction by Edward Dowden and an original frontispice by Cowper, F.C.
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Cattle, P.C.
Down the road, in Belgium a volley of verse, signed + dedication
Original binding, paper, limited edition of 400 copies numberd; HC signed. With had written dedication of the author Cattle.
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JOYCE, James
GENS DE DUBLIN
Relie, toile decoree, pages de titre en noir et rouge, 135 x 210mm., 232pp., decore. Traduit de l'anglais par Eva Fernandez, Helene du Pasquier et Jacques Paul Reynaud. Preface par Valery Larbaud.
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Heriot, Guy
Changi Interlude: leaves from the diary of a third class internee. *** SIGNED
Original publishers cloth-covered boards, original binding of blue cloth, 120 pages, First and only edition. *** SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HERIOT
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Christmas Holiday. 1939
Original publishers boards, No DW. Blue cloth, gilt. No date [1939]. First Edition.
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
WRITER'S NOTEBOOK
Original publishers boards, No D/J. The book is in good used condition. This edition issued on first publication by The book society, in association with william Heinemann (oct 1949) reprint, 2e edition
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GOLDSMITH (Oliver) Dr.
Vicar of Wakefield.
Relie l'epoque, 8x14cm. 446 pages,. Leroy-Berger printer.
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Edward Norgate ; Jeffrey M. Muller ; Jim Murrell
Miniatura or the Art of Limning
Hardcover, 312 pages, English, 240 x 165 mm, cover has some traces of being used before, book however is in very fine condition, and not unimportant, with a signature and greeting from the author, !!. ISBN 9780300069136. Edward Norgate, aristocratic friend of Charles I and the Earl of Arundel, made his mark in seventeenth-century England as musician, herald, and courtier. He also wrote Miniatura, a widely circulated study of miniature painting in his era that serves today as both a guide to materials and techniques and a record of the artistic knowledge and taste of Charles' court. This new edition of Norgate's treatise, the first since 1919, introduces and fully annotates the text from technical and art historical perspectives, firmly establishing the prime importance of Norgate's work. The book provides a detailed account of Norgate's life and many interests, his readership, and his technique. The editors-a noted scholar of seventeenth-century art and an authority on the techniques and materials of miniature painting-closely examine Norgate's text and compare it with other contemporary treatises, placing his techniques in the context of the period. The treatise itself, first written in 1627-28 and then substantially revised in 1648, sets forth in great detail the methods of English miniaturists, from the composition and preparation of pigments and brushes to lighting in the studio. Norgate acknowledges indebtedness to Hilliard, comments on other artists' styles and techniques, and reveals through his own views the English aristocracy's interest in and assimilation of European artistic culture.
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Barber, Charles
English Language : A Historical introduction
Paperback, 299 pages, ENG, 215 x 140 mm, in fine order, . ISBN 9780521785709.
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Mieder, Wolfgang
The Netherlandish Proverbs : An International Symposium on the Pieter Brueg(H)els
Hardcover, 241 pages, ENG, 235 x 160 mm, in perfect condition, with dozens of illustrations in b/w, . ISBN 0971022380. The sixteenth-century Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder [also known as: Pieter Bruegel] was born between 1525 and 1530, most likely in Breda or the surrounding area. Brueghel's work is considered to belong to the style period of the Northern Renaissance.
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Paul A. Olson
Canterbury Tales and the Good Society
Hardcover, 323 pages, ENG, 225 x 150 mm, book is in good condition, with illustrations in b/w. ISBN 0691066930. Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline.
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Philip Hoare
Albert and the Whale
Bound cover, 305 pages, ENG, 225 x 145 mm, in very good condition, dustjacket, illustrations in b/w and a few pages in colour. ISBN 9780008323295. A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022
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Julian Barnes
Only story
Bound cover, 213 pages, ENG, 225 x 145 mm, the dustjacket has a little water damage, the book itself is in new condition. ISBN 9781787330696. The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn?t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he?s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.
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Jerry Brotton
Sale of the Late King's Goods : Charles I and his Art Collection
Bound cover, 436 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 mm, in very good condition, with illustrations in colours. ISBN 9781405041522. So wonderful and glorious a collection, that the like will never again be met with.' This is how one awed and wistful observer described King Charles' artworks. As an acquirer of paintings by Europe's great masters and patron of Rubens and Van Dyck, Charles's extravagance in amassing his collection only exacerbated the parliamentary disapproval that led to civil war and the King's own execution. After his death, one of the Commonwealth's first decrees was to sell off his treasures to raise money for the new regime. After the Restoration, one of Charles II's first resolutions was to get the collection back.
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Szalay, David
All That Man Is
Bound cover, 437 pages, ENG, 210 x 145 mm, in New condition !. ISBN 9780224099769. Szalay was born in Montreal in 1974 to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. His family then moved to Beirut. They were forced to leave Lebanon after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. They then moved to London, where he attended Sussex House School. Szalay studied at the University of Oxford. After leaving university, Szalay worked various jobs in sales in London. He moved to Brussels, then to Pécs in Hungary to pursue his ambition of becoming a writer. Szalay lives in Budapest, with his wife and two children
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Salter, James
All That Is
Bound cover , 290 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 mm, in good condition, dustjacket, . ISBN 9781447238249.
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William M. Barton
Pascasius Justus Turcq: On Gambling
Hardcover, 284 pages, English & Latin , 240 x 170 mm, NEW, rounded spine, sewn, dust jacket, reading ribbon. ISBN 9789464447668. Pascasius Justus Turcq was born in the Flemish town of Eeklo. As a young man, he travelled through Spain before devoting himself to the study of philosophy and medicine in Italy. On gaining his doctorate, he returned north and settled in Bergen-op-Zoom, where he worked as a physician and eventually became the city?s mayor. He attended to William the Silent as one of the physicians who worked to save the Prince?s life after the assassination attempt of 1582. Alongside tales of gambling princes and perceptive accounts of the mental suffering experienced by problem gamblers, Pascasius? De alea is remarkable for its singular insights into 16th-century medical science. Basing himself on the authority of the ancient, late-antique and mediaeval traditions, Pascasius first fuses discrete theoretical systems into an innovative framework, allowing him to propose a novel description of compulsive gambling as a psychological disorder. Secondly, Pascasius articulates a series of pioneering cures. He describes this therapy in cognitive terms reminiscent of approaches to non-substance addiction in use today. On Gambling was routinely referenced in scholarship on gambling into the 18th century before disappearing almost entirely from view. Newly available here, with a critical Latin text and English translation, On Gambling epitomises the creative potential of 16th-century medical humanism.
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Jeroen De Keyser, Noreen Humble, Keith Sidwell
Henri Estienne : On Books
Hardcover, 488 pages, English & Latin, NEW, 240 x 170 mm, rounded spine, sewn, dust jacket, reading ribbon. ISBN 9789464447675. Henri II Estienne (1531-98) was the most outstanding member of his family?s long-lived publishing dynasty. He continued the work of his father, Robert, by publishing many unedited Greek texts and completing the Thesaurus linguae Graecae (1572), an expensive venture from which his business never fully recovered. His versatility? as publisher, scholar, corrector, lexicographer and poet ? can be seen in the paratextual material in his many editions, and in his own original works. This anthology presents a sample from Henri Estienne?s writings across his career and from different genres. These range from letters, to poetry, to essays, to his Encomium of the Frankfurt Fair. They reveal him as a remarkable scholar with an astonishing grasp of Latin and Greek literature, while highlighting also his problems both as a publisher and as a scholar. Estienne?s elaborate essays on the ancient Greek historians Xenophon and Herodotus use ancient examples to support contemporary arguments. His verses preserve a strong sense of the life of a scholar turned businessman, both at work and at play. In remarkably fluid Latin, Estienne reveals in these writings his aspiration to be worthy of his father?s legacy, his affection for family and friends, his humour, and his gripes with other scholars and publishers.
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Sue Thornham , Caroline Bassett , Paul Marris
Media Studies : A Reader
Paperback, 894 pages, ENG, 245 x 175 x 45 mm, as new, some illustrations in b/w, . ISBN 9780748637843. Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jurgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a stellar collection of diverse theorists, including Annabelle Sreberny, Paul Gilroy, Charlotte Brunsden, Angela McRobbie, Asu Askoy and Kevin Robins, Micheal Bull, and Nick Couldry, to name only a very few of those included. Finally, the Reader looks to the future, exploring new media formations and their significance, through the work of Mark Andrejevic, Lev Manovich, Jonathan Sterne and others. The sixty-five readings are divided into two main parts: 'Studying the Media' begins with a section on key theoretical perspectives and follows this with five sections opening up questions around the Public Sphere, Representation, Feminism and Gender, Audiences, and Everyday Life respectively. The second part, 'Case Studies', brings together concrete examples of how theoretical approaches can be realised through a series of case studies, covering for instance, reality TV, news, advertising, and new media. With easy-to-follow introductions and guides to further reading accompanying each section, Media Studies: A Reader equips the student to engage with key debates in the field. This new edition updates all sections with a rich selection of contemporary writing complementing re-chosen media 'classics'. In addition: * Further Reading lists have been comprehensively updated * Introductory essays to each section have been expanded and re-written
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Cecil Hilton ; Monk Gould
Sixteenth-century Italian Schools : National Geography Catalogs
Paperback, 358 pages, ENG, 250 x 155 mm, in very good condition,. ISBN 9780947645229. The National Gallery catalogues are among the essential reference works for an art-historical scholarship. Each picture is examined, with a discussion of subject matter, authorship, provenance and art-historical significance. This volume describes Italian schools from the 16th century.
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Jonathan Brown
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting : Princeton Essays in the Arts, 6
Hardcover, 169 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 mm, dustjacket, black linen with goldcoloured imprint, with 55 b/w images, in good condition. ISBN 9780691039411. Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.
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Andy Grundberg
Crisis of the Real : Writings on Photography 1974-1989
Hardcover, 258 pages, ENG, 245 x 170 mm, dustjacket, grey linen with silver imprint, book is in very good condition, with images in b/w . ISBN 9780893814007. Articles argue that photography has changed perceptions of the relationship of art and life and discuss the works of individual photographers...... His interpretations and critical views have helped shape a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.
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Max Porter
death of Francis Bacon
Hardcover, 74 pages , ENG, 185 x 115 mm, New condition, dustjacket, . ISBN 9780571366514. Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.
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Marius de Zayas, Francis M. Naumann
How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York
Hardcover, 260 pages, ENG, 235 x 190 mm, dustjacket, as good as new !, black linen with red imprint, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780262041539. Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle at "291", was among the most effective propagandists of modern art during the early years of the 20th century. His writings were the first to provide the American public with an intellectual basis upon which to understand and eventually appreciate the newest artistic developments. "How, When and Why Modern Art Came to New York", originally written in the late 1940s, is a chronicle assembled from de Zaya's personal archive of photographs and from newspaper reviews of the exhibitions he discusses, beginning with those held at the Stieglitz gallery and including important shows mounted in his own galleries: The Modern Gallery (1915-1918) and The de Zayas Gallery (1919-1921).;An appendix added by the editor provides detailed information on the various exhibitions. Additional appendixes contain transcriptions of the de Zayas and Stieglitz correspondence, as well as an account of de Zayas's unique relationship with Picasso, a Spaniard with whom he felt a special kinship and whose work he would be among the first in America to promote and defend.;Among the press reviews included here are many important documents coming to light for the first time since their original publication. Moreover, the photographs de Zayas selected specify which works were shown in the exhibitions he discusses (as opposed to vague titles in catalogue listings), and many of the photographs illustrate works that have been lost or destroyed since they were first shown.
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Murray Roston
Renaissance Perspectives : in Literature and the Visual Arts
Hardcover, 380 pages, ENG, 260 x 200 x 30 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, black linen with silver imprint, illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9780691066837. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.
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Avedis Krikor Sanjian
Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States ENG / ARM
Paperback, 863 pages, ENG / ARM(enian), 260 x 170 x 60 mm, in reasonable condition, . ISBN 9780520095052. University of California Press, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Good. Berkeley, 1976; English and Armenian text; green paper covers; cover edges and spine faded; mild edge wear; corners bumped; bottom corner of front cover creased; large scuff on spine; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 863 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
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Walter F. Friedlaender
David to Delacroix
Paperback, 136 pages, ENG, 225 x 155 mm, in good condition, however, someone made pencil remarks, better that than with a pen, 83 ill. in b/w. ISBN 9780674194014. This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early-nineteenth-century artists against the background of their times. He reveals the baroque tendencies diffused into the art of Prudhon and the same predisposition, mixed with a strong realism, in the work of Géricault. Two distinct trends appear, deriving from Pussin and Rubens. The author follows the styles as they mature, and represents their consumation in two great masters?the refined and abstract classicism of Ingres and the baroque of Delacroix with its flamboyant colorism and exotic subjects.
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John Berger ; Tom Overton
Portraits : John Berger on Artists
Hardcover, 512 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 x 50 mm, as new, in perfect condition ! illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9781784781767. One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.
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Richard Shone ; Molly Sisley ; Jane Shone
Sisley
Softcover, 240 pages, Texte en Francais, Tres belle exemplaire, 290 x 250 x 22 mm, illustrations en couleur / n/b. ISBN 9780714894119. Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) fut l'un des plus grands peintres de paysages du XIXe siècle et l'un des chefs de file du mouvement impressionniste. Cette monographie détaillée fournit des informations inédites sur sa vie et son oeuvre. Accompagné de nombreuses reproductions de ses peintures, le texte révèle l'?uvre d'un artiste original à la puissance indéniable. Sisley a consacré toute sa production aux paysages. Ses célèbres peintures des villes de la banlieue parisienne sous la neige, des inondations de la Seine à Port-Marly ou des régates sur la Tamise sont remarquables par l'équilibre des tons et l'atmosphère poétique qui s'en dégage, en même temps que par la description précise des sujets représentés. Le critique Kenneth Clark considère d'ailleurs la série des peintures de la Tamise comme l'un des " moments parfaits de l'impressionnisme ". Pourtant, comme le dit de lui son ami Arsène Alexandre : " Sisley a vécu fier et est mort pauvre. " L'?uvre de Sisley n'a été pleinement reconnue qu'après sa mort prématurée et reste encore de nos jours injustement méconnue. Dans cette monographie, Richard Shone, s'appuyant sur sa connaissance de l'Ile-de-France, apporte un nouveau regard et analyse les différentes phases du travail de Sisley. Ses recherches ont mis à jour certains aspects de la vie de l'artiste : sa nationalité anglaise, le début de sa carrière, son combat pour gagner sa vie, l'isolement des dernières années. La vie privée de Sisley apporte en effet un éclairage particulier sur son évolution artistique. Richement illustré, cet ouvrage présente notamment d'importantes séries de peintures jamais publiées auparavant ensemble en aussi grand nombre-les inondations, les paysages sous la neige, l'église de Moret-sur-Loing et la côte galloise. Cet ouvrage propose l'image d'un peintre qui s'est constamment renouvelé, s'est ouvert aux influences et a offert une vision personnelle de la campagne française, aussi forte et séduisante que celle des autres impressionnistes. Le livre de Richard Shone confirme la justesse du jugement de Pissarro pour qui Sisley était " un grand et magnifique artiste ".
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Kenneth McConkey ; Jo Johnson
British Impressionism
Hardcover, 160 pages, ENG, 285 x 250 x 25 mm, dustjacket, book is in fine condition, 132 illustrations of which 72 in colour. ISBN 9780714825212. British Impressionism (1880-1910) was a direct and spontaneous period of British art, when artists were concerned with painting the effects of light.
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Peter Robb
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Hardcover, 571 pages, ENG, 240 x 170 x 48 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, with some b/w illustrations, red/black linen with golden imprint, . ISBN 9780805063561. The short, violent life of Michelangelo Merisi -- sometimes called simply M, and known to us as Caravaggio -- changed art forever. In the words of Robert Hughes, 'There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.' M threw out accepted technique and dogma to paint from life with dazzling clarity. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longings and the brutal realities of life with shocking frankness. M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio is strikingly different from the usual artist's life: The Times Literary Supplement writes, 'Its hero is wholly, richly alive.' With 'tremendous vigor, dash and swagger' Peter Robb evokes the seething and dangerous world of Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Caravaggio is seen as a provocateur to a culture riven by the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. M was imprisoned for criminal libel and saw his work rejected by Roman churches. A savage street fight nearly killed him and left his enemy bleeding to death. Later, with a price on his head, Caravaggio fled south to Naples and beyond, where he experienced four years of creative triumph and personal catastrophe. After being jailed in Malta for an unnamed crime, and pursued by killers through Sicily and Naples, he disappeared in the summer of 1610. Refuting standard accounts, Robb presents Caravaggio's death in a gripping scenario of sexual vendetta, betrayal, ambush and state collusion -- a startling conclusion to a groundbreaking book.
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Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Hardcover, 934 pages, ENG, 240 x 175 x 55 mm, dustjacket ( looks terrible) book itself is in very good condition, illustrations in b/w, white cloth with golden imprint,. ISBN 9780712638661. Attempts to reveal the life behind the paintings, from New York during the Depression to his last years with Lee Krasner. This biography tells of Pollock's disjointed childhood, and of sibling rivalry, sexual ambiguity and the artistic frustration out of which the man and the artist developed.
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