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5) The Celts
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Translation of: Celti.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Celts, the origins of Europe, Palazzo Grassi ... March-December 1991"--T.p. verso.
Publisher
Yale University Press in association with Sun & Star 1996 and Dallas Museum of Art
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The history, culture, and aesthetics of the Momoyama period are explored by analyzing and reproducing masterpieces of artists in many media: paintings (including many superb screen paintings), sculpture, calligraphy, tea ceremony utensils, lacquerware, ceramics, metalwork, arms and armor, textiles, and Noh masks. A team of leading scholars and specialists in Japanese art contributes an introduction to each section with an essay that places the individual...
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous,...
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
This book published on the occasion of the Exhibition "Matisse in Morocco", National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 March - 3 June 1990 ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 June - 4 September 1990 ; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 28 September - 20 November 1990 ; The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 15 December 1990 - 15 February 1991. This catalogue reproduces Matisse's 23 Morocco paintings in color, 12 of them never before seen...
Publisher
Rivers Oram Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
This book and the exhibition launches with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease. The contributors disrupt the politically laden mythology of HIV and AIDS, and affirm the persistence of love and desire in the face of death. More than an interruption to personal life, AIDS has stimulated an eruption in creative life....
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the masters of 18th-century art. This stunning book, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work, from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of children to his sophisticated and glamorous society portraits. In their revealing essay, Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"This authoritative and beautiful book presents the first continuous narrative history of Latin American art from the years of the Independence movements in the 1820s up to the present day. Exploring both the indigenous roots and the colonial and post-colonial experiences of the various countries, the book investigates fascinating though little-known aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century art and also provides a context for the contemporary art...
Publisher
H.N. Abrams, in association with the Library of Congress
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The nucleus of the present-day Library of Congress was formed in 1815, when the nation purchased Thomas Jefferson's personal library of about six thousand volumes, which had been organized around the concepts of "Memory" (history), "Reason" (philosophy, law, and science), and "Imagination" (the arts). Today, the Library's vast holdings - nearly 110 million items in formats ranging rom manuscripts to motion pictures and sound recordings - offer an...