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‎Australian Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales‎

‎ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, 2000. Fort volume grand in/4 (31 x 25 cm) broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, plus de 300 illustrations - toutes en couleurs - 304 pages. Coins supérieur de l'ouvrage légèrement amorti. ‎

‎Un imposant ouvrage nous faisant découvrir l'art pictural australien des débuts de la colonisation à nos jours en douze chapitres détaillant chacun un groupe d'oeuvres d'importance majeure reproduites en grand format avec une notice biographique de chaque artiste et des informations replaçant chaque oeuvre dans son contexte historique. Un important développement bibliographique ainsi qu'un index des planches in-fine. ‎

‎Art in the Seventies.‎

‎, Phaidon, 1980 Paperback, 128 pages, ENG, 280 x 215 mm, in good condition, illustrations in color / b/w. ISBN 9780714820712.‎

‎ From his stance as an active and important art critic, Edward Lucie-Smith has close first-hand knowledge of the art of the 70s. In this first general survey of the decade, packed with images that are often surprising and sometimes disturbing, he sets out to analyse the development both of old forms and of new ones, and to provide a coherent framework for the general reader. He shows how 70s artists have reacted to the Pop Art, Minimal Art and Conceptual Art of the 60s, and traces a new interest in illusionism, figuration and realism. Other important new elements are the impact of feminism and ecology on the arts, the blurring of the distinction between art and craft, the impact of high technology, and the 'cultural colonialism' of modern art in the wake of Western technology. The author's method is to document rather than to judge; his task has been to select and order, and to allow the new works of the decade to convey their own excitement. But behind the objective presentation lies the author's argument that the 70s may well become known as the decade in which the very notion of an avant-garde was finally seen to be untenable. This stunningly illustrated book provides the general reader and the art lover with an authoritative guide to a confused but exciting decade. Edward Lucie-Smith is well known as a poet and art critic through his many books, articles and broadcasts. His books include Art Today, Super Realism and Cultural Calendar of the Twentieth Century, all published by Phaidon.""‎

‎Art auctions and dealers. The Dissemination of Netherlandish Art during the Ancien Regime. ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Paperback, original editor's jacket, english, XI+174 pp., 41 b/w illustrations., 17x25 cm. ISBN 9782503516202.‎

‎Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800). Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) (SEUH 20). This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the period 1400-1800, and highlights the role art auctions and dealers have played in this process. Auctions emerged as the primary channel for art sales at the end of the seventeenth century in the Low Countries and during the eighteenth century, countless local art collections were broken up and put up for auction. Especially (old master) paintings exchanged hands in great numbers at these public sales, and the finest pieces frequently ended up in foreign holdings. The activities of the professional art dealer form the focus of several essays. These intermediaries played an instrumental role in the commercialization and expansion of the art trade in early modern Europe. They had a profound impact on the history of collecting as they mediated and even influenced taste. Naturally, the role of art dealers changed over time. Therefore, the historians, art historians and economists who contributed to this volume have approached this phenomenon in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to properly understand how art markets functioned. In doing so, these essays explore the various ways in which art dealers helped shape markets for art, and how they facilitated the increasing volume of exports of Netherlandish art from the sixteenth century onwards. ‎

‎ Art on Paper: Ephemeral Art in the Low Countries The Triumphal Entry of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella into Antwerp, 1599 ‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2014 softcover, 157 p., 100 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm, ILanguages: English. ISBN 9782503543413.‎

‎This book focuses on ephemeral art of festival, created for public events, such as triumphal processions, weddings and court funerals. The ephemeral art of festival, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, was created for public events, such as triumphal processions, weddings and court funerals. Large-scale monuments combining painting, sculpture and the performing arts were devised for the duration of the event, but as soon as this was over, these extravagant constructions were dismantled and their individual components ultimately destroyed. Before the monuments ceased to exist, the city council would ensure their conservation in words and images, thus materializing the ephemeral art of festival into the more lasting medium of word and image on paper. One of the most celebrated such festive events was that of the 1599 Antwerp Triumphal Entry of Archduke Albert of Austria and the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, the new Spanish governors of the Netherlands. No fewer than 22 monuments, composed of ephemeral materials, were devised. Construction of the monuments was entrusted not only into the hands of sculptors, painters, goldsmiths, carpenters and architects, but also to one of the leading thinkers of the time, the humanist and city secretary Johannes Bochius. This study offers a new approach to an analysis of the art of such events, based on Bochius? book: The Triumphal Entry of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. Offering a unique and innovative interpretation of the ephemeral art books, a particular relation is revealed between the ephemeral event itself and its documentation in a book. Examining the role of the author (in this case Bochius) as the sole designer of the event, the monuments and their documentation (the book), requires an idiosyncratic reading of the text, which in turns provides more accurate and valid interpretative framework for the book, and hence also for the artwork. Such books, in uniting event and text into one coherent and long-lasting work of art, constitute a new genre of ekphrasis, formulated and conceived solely for the purpose of eternalizing the ephemeral. Tamar Cholcman, from Tel Aviv University, the Art History Department, specializes in Renaissance art, focusing on the ephemeral art of festivals in the Netherlands and the Iberian Peninsula, during the 16th and 17th centuries.‎

‎History of art of the peoples of the USSR. In nine volumes (10 books). In Russia‎

‎History of art of the peoples of the USSR. In nine volumes (10 books). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Istoriya iskusstva narodov SSSR. V devyati tomakh (10 knigakh).Volume 2-Art of the IV-XIII centuries. Volume 3-Art of the 14th-XVII centuries. Volume 4-Art of the late XVII-XVIII centuries. Volume 5-Art of the first half of the XIX century. Volume 6-Art of the second half of the XIX-early XX century. Volume 7-Art of the peoples of the USSR from the WSR to 1941. Volume 8-Art of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War and until the end of the 1950 s. Volume 9 (1 2) -Art of the peoples of the USSR 1960-1977. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb0776219bfd122e36‎