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The Vexations of Art : Velazquez and Others
Svetlana Alpers
Hardcover - $109.95
Velazquez is often considered an artist apart: great, but isolated in a palace/ museum in Spain. This highly original book sets him in conjunction with certain conditions of painting in his time and after.
From the seventeenth century to the twent ...
The Vexations of Art : Velazquez and Others
Svetlana Alpers
Paperback - $47.95
"Now available in paperback"A major art historian reflects on a great tradition of European painting. ""The Vexations of Art "is an engrossing, passionate attempt to re-engage with painting as a mode of thought at a time when 'it is not clear in what ...
Unknown Tuscany
Patrick Alt
Hardcover - $104.95
Unknown Tuscany, is the first book of Patrick Alt's photographic work, taking the viewer on a journey to out-of-the-way places and overlooked details of this most famous part of Italy. Shot with his 8 x 10 inch, large-format camera and rendered in th ...
The Art of Florence
Glenn Andres
Boxed Set - $279.95
Three leading art historians immerse readers in a city and a time of unparalleled cultural ferment--analyzing Florentine art as revealed through hundreds of glorious color photos. 701 color illustrations. 854 b&w. 2 volumes w/slipcase.
London's War : The Shelter Drawings of Henry Moore
Julian Andrews
Paperback - $96.95
During the Second World War, Henry Moore created a series of drawings documenting the plight of Londoners sheltering in the Underground. This is the first book to examine Moore's shelter drawings within the context of the Blitz.
Art from the Court of Burgundy : The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364-1419
Elisabeth Antoine
Paperback - $89.95
Memory Effects : The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing
Dora Apel
Paperback - $58.95
In the post-Holocaust era of continuing genocides and ethnic warfare, there is a widespread compulsion to confront the attempted Nazi extermination of the Jews before the last survivors disappear forever. Dora Apel analyzes the ways in which artists ...
Paris Underground
Caroline Archer
Hardcover - $73.95
The underground quarries beneath the city of Paris have been a mirror and memorial of events for over 500 years, with a long tradition of writing and painting on the walls. This book explores the diversity of visual statements that successive generat ...