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Matisse
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By:
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Pierre Schneider
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From:
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Rizzoli
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Released:
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November, 2002
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Rating:
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4.5 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
This book is a nice overview of the work and life of Matisse. There are many beautiful and brilliantly described colorplates. It is a complete overview of his work. It also makes a beautiful coffee table piece that may inspire conversation. I reasoned that because the author choose to feature a... more info
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London Sketchbook
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By:
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Graham Byfield, Marcus Binney
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From:
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St. Martin's Press
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Released:
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01 November, 2002
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Rating:
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
This is a beautiful work of art for anyone who loves to look outside the well known sites of London, although that is there as well. I thorougly enjoy picking it up and having a read about the various sections and looking at the illustrations that will remind you of your time there or desire to go.... more info
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Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
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By:
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Barbara Maria Stafford, Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, J. Paul Getty Museum
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From:
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Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts
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Released:
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December, 2001
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
The book, "Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen", is the catalog for an exhibition that has just opened. The first two reviews provide perspectives and understanding that are quite different from those offered in the preceding review from Publishers Weekly. Leah... more info
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The Gothic Cathedral
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By:
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Otto Georg Von, Simson, Otto Von Simson
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From:
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Princeton Univ Pr
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Released:
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01 July, 1988
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Rating:
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
As an art historian, museum curator, and traveler to France I found this book very useful. Most books on Gothic Architecture look at style as though it exists for its own sake. Simson places the beginnings of Gothic Architecture into the intellectual and historical context that gave this... more info
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Chardin
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Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Pierre Rosenberg, Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais (France)
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From:
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Yale Univ Pr
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Released:
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May, 2000
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Rating:
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
I have to disagree with the above editorial. I compared the reproductions with others that I have, and although there are sometimes subtle differences they are not always to the disadvantage of this book. Some pictures are better than others, but the advantage here is that each reproduction is on a... more info
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Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures
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By:
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Erwin Panofsky, Abbot Suger
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From:
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Princeton Univ Pr
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Released:
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01 May, 1979
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Rating:
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
This is an OPUS MAGNUS of profound erudition! An indispensable must have for any student of Gothic Art & Architecture. From sheathed shafts thrusting upwards penetrating groin vaults to the most scholarly look nto this seminal figure in the Middle Ages, this text has it all! While certainly not... more info
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Paris Interiors = Interieurs Parisiens: Interieurs Parisiens (Single Jumbos)
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By:
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Lisa Lovatt-Smith, Angelika Muthesius
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From:
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TASCHEN America Llc
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Released:
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June, 1996
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4.5 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
As a creative director, I've found this book to be very inspiring. Great photographic studies of Paris' most stylish homes (some owned by the famous, some are not) drip from these pages. Huge full-page and sometimes double-page images, printed on nice thick semi-matte stock, draw you right in. Like... more info
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Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
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By:
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
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From:
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Yale Univ Pr
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01 June, 2002
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
The fact that the library journal's review of the book calls into question the sexual politics of french history painting demeans ITS validity. This book makes easy to understand the sophisticated racial, sexual, and art historical undercurrents that lay as a background to the 19th century. Indeed... more info
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The Cave of Lascaux: The Final Photographs
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By:
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Mario Ruspoli, Yves Coppens
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From:
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Harry N Abrams
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Released:
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May, 1987
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Rating:
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4.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
In LASCAUX: THE FINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, Maria Ruspoli, historian and television producer, says "underground Paleolithic sanctuaries were places not for living in but for initiation." Ruspoli produced a film about Lascaux, and his posthumous book includes a relatively recent version of the history of the... more info
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French New Wave
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By:
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Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno
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From:
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Distributed Art Publishers
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September, 1999
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
Jean Douchet's book is a splendid chronicle of the French New Wave phenomenon. Generously illustrated and incisively written. Well-balanced. Illuminating profiles on New Wave icons like Godard, Anna Karina, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette.
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The Art of Memory
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By:
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Frances Amelia Yates
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From:
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Pimlico
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Released:
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March, 1994
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Rating:
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4.2 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
In this era of gigabytes and floppy disks, it is easy to forget that once upon a time we had to commit things to memory. Yates does a wonderful job of recovering the ``art of memory,'' a complex and fascinating set of techniques that were in common use for thousands of years. Orators would construct... more info
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Impressionist Still Life
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By:
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Eliza E. Rathbone, George M. Shackelford, George T. M. Shackelford
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From:
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Harry N Abrams
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Released:
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September, 2001
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
I was surpised to learn new information that Manet made still lifes with the same-like object used in Chardin's paintings. They were arranged differently or presented in a different manner. There is infomation you cannot obtain when visiting exhibits or museums. It is hard to put the book down once... more info
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Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
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By:
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Robert L. Herbert
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Yale Univ Pr
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Released:
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October, 1988
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Rating:
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4.5 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
I must say that I've read quite a few Impressionist books in recent years. In no way do they come close to the entertainment and ease which I found in this book! As I began to read it, more for pleasure than anything else, I found that I was actually interested enough to continue reading it until... more info
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Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
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By:
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Anthony Blunt, Richard Beresford
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From:
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Yale Univ Pr
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Released:
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November, 1999
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Rating:
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4.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
The one sad thing about the new Yale University Press/Pelican history of art editions is that the samll format has been eschewed in favor of a large size coffee table book. The text has changed little, if at all. What has been updated is the bibliography, and many color illustrations have been... more info
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Counterpunch: Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces Now
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By:
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Fred Smeijers, Robin Kinross
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From:
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Chronicle Books
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Released:
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February, 1997
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Rating:
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5.0 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
I've read a lot of books on type and this is the only one with a practical guide on how to create your own typefaces. I'm sure more people who read this book aren't going to start making their own metal type but the lessons learned in this book easily translate to the world of creating digital... more info
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Henri Matisse (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
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By:
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Mike Venezia
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From:
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Children's Press
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Released:
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September, 1997
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Rating:
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4.7 / 5.0
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Customer Review:
Mike Venezia begins his look at Henri Matisse with the assertion that this was one of the most important painters of the 20th century. However, after having read this volume in the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series I am not sure why this would be the case. If it is because Matisse... more info
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