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American Museum of Natural History: The Official Guide... |
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CLAMP South Side- An exhibition of art from one of the most popular, best-selling manga teams ever. - Resplendent full-color art on glossy paper with a stylish matte cover. - Original artwork not featured in other Clamp titles. - Features an exclusive how to draw manga section - Printed in Japan with special color inks not available in the United States South Side features art from beloved series such as Man of Many Faces, Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders, Clamp School Detectives, Suki, Wish, CLAMP... |
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Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century ParisFounded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvrewith the greatest collection of Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roofbecame the model for all state art museums subsequently established. Andrew McClellan chronicles the formation of this great museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. More than a narrative history, McClellan's account explores the ideological un... |
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The Art of the Fillmore, 1966-1971Legendary impresario Bill Graham began in January 1966 to commission posters to promote the concerts he was putting on at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The poster artists created vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted were signature juxtapositions of design, lettering, and color that represented a brand-new art form. These posters now occupy a place in art history while surviving as treasured artifacts of rock archaeology. Pub... |
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Treasures of the Uffizi: Florence : Tiny FolioItaly's most famous museum, the Uffizi in Florence, houses a spectacular collection of Renaissance art as well as works by later masters. In this grand tour of one of history's preeminent public art collections, the greatest works by early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael are presented, along with work by later Italians and other artists from throughout Europe. 216 full-color illustrations.... |
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Anish KapoorAnish Kapoor (b.1954) is one of the world?s most prominent artists, as the creator of popular public sculptures around the globe ? including Cloud Gate (2004, Millennium Park, Chicago), Mirror (2006, Rockefeller Center, New York) and Tarantara (1999-2000, Gateshead and Naples) ? and the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Turner Prize (1991). This is the most extensive monograph ever published on the artist, covering more than 30 years of work and illustrated with hundreds ... |
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CLAMP North SideNorth Side takes a look at art from Clamp's illustrious career in manga. It features art from beloved series such as Clover, Magic Knight Rayearth, Legend of Chun Hyang, Clamp in Wonderland and many others. Also included: original Clamp artwork, the original comic Princess Mokona of the CLAMP Country (featuring the Clamp artists themselves), a CLAMP interview and a complete catalogue of all featured images with a description of each. The work here spans the period between 1989-2002.... |
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Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that... |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and AbstractionGeorgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction–published for the exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin–explores O’Keeffe’s method of transforming known or recognizable objects into painted abstractions that express the essential elements of form, color, and allusion. This catalog presents O’Keeffe’s oeuvre through a selection of paintings that display her penchant for abstract forms derived from her personal observation of the natural world. It displays the development of he... |
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