Judith Schaecter's stained glass narratives are a paradoxical assemblage of medieval depictions, mediated by contemporary tales of human failings. Her s is a demented carnival world, made claustrophobic by dizzying arrays of t exture, obsessive detail and intense color. In a field much better known fo r abstraction, her imagery relies on painstaking draftsmanship and the figu re. Indeed, the artist has given new meaning to the stained glass genre pre cisely by adopting its historical narrative function. The artist balances t he methods of painting on glass that harken back to the middle ages w... View More...
In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. This exhibition presents works from Barney's Drawing Restraint series, which he began in 1987 and which has its roots in his own experience as an athlete. The series which Barney has developed over the last 20 years, investigates the relationship between resistance and creativity and explores parallels between artistic and athletic bodies working at the threshold of physical limitations. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.Inscri bed by the Author. William Morris is one of the most admired figures of the Victorian era. Studies of his Art and his life fill the shelves of libraries. Yet for all this accessibility, an air of uncertainty has always clouded his image. Since Morris's death, biographers and scholars have portrayed the artist as a victim, bound to an adulterous wife. In Art and Forbidden Fruit, John Le Bourgeois lifts this veil of appearances, and shows the trut... View More...
This is the definitive book on Tasha Tudor's art, including more than 150 o f her finest paintings and drawings with an informative biographical text. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistenc e of Memory, 13 others. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In the nearly 500-year history of San Miguel de Allende and its more than 50-year history as an arts center, there has not been a book like this that, in words and pictures, gives a well-informed and comprehensive look at the city many consider the prettiest and most interesting town in Mexico. Illustrated with more than 200 color photographs of the architecture, celebrations, activities, details and people of the town, the book will be a memorable so... View More...
A highly collectible, tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper,unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Few artists of this century have exercised so wide an influence as Paul Kle e (1879-1940). He was one the most inventive and prolific of the modern mas ters, working in a dozen different styles, each of which he made uniquely h is own, so that a work from his brush is unmistakable in any style/ The for ty-eight full-page colour plates in this book illustrate the unparalleled w ay in which he combined unrivalled imaginative gifts with supreme technical... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Long before the first theories of psychoanalysis were formulated, Edvard Mu nch (1863-1944) became the pioneer of an art which discovered and depicted the inner conflicts of modern man. The initiator of the movement known as Expressionism, Munch's work was greeted with indignation and incomprehension. But by 1902 he had achieved recognition in artistic circles on the Continent and was considered a leader of the new art. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A prolific creator, she died before many of her last images could be printed. The latest addition to the acclaimed In Focus series present fifty-five pictures by Ulmann from the Museum's collection. Judith Keller, associate curator of photo... View More...
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20t h century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achie ved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photog rapher and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more in extricably interwoven than in almost any other artist's case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18, a bus accident put h er in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured p... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a seminal figure in the art and thought o f the twentieth century. His paintings and theories about art delved into s pirituality and music, all the while providing the world with some of the e arliest abstract images ever seen. In Europe, his influence has long been a cknowledged through his tenure at the Bauhaus, his cofounding of the Blaue Reiter group, and his important writings. Only in recent years, however, ha ... View More...
