‎Hun kleine bevrijding : Herinneringen in woord en beeld. September 1944‎

‎, , 1984 Paperback, 95 pagina's, NL, 225 x 155 mm, in prima staat, met vele foto's in z/w. ISBN 9010054187.‎

‎Albert Baertsoen : Protagoniste de la fin de si cle ‎

‎, MSK GENT / SNOECK UITGEVERS, 2022 Hardcover, 300 pages, Texte en Francais, 285 x 215 mm, NOUVEAU, avec illustrations en couleur. ISBN 9789461618481.‎

‎En collaboration avec l'Universit de Gand, le MSK Gent met l'honneur le peintre, dessinateur et graphiste Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922) : descendant d'une famille d'usines gantoises, artiste quasi autodidacte, et l'un des acteurs les plus importants de la Sc ne artistique belge et internationale de la fin de si cle. Baertsoen a t d crit par ses contemporains comme le peintre de Gand , un titre honorifique qui non seulement indiquait son importance, mais faisait galement r f rence son amour remarquable pour Gand. Son regard tait principalement focalis sur la d composition‎

‎Albert Baertsoen : Protagonist van het fin de si cle. ‎

‎, MSK GENT / SNOECK UITGEVERS, 2022 Hardcover, 300 pagina's, NL, 285 x 215 mm, NIEUW, met illustraties in kleur !. ISBN 9789461618092.‎

‎In samenwerking met de Universiteit Gent zet MSK Gent de schilder, tekenaar en graficus Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922) in de kijker: telg uit een Gentse fabrieksfamilie, een quasi autodidact, en n van de belangrijkste spelers in de Belgische en internationale kunstsc ne van het fin de si cle. Door tijdgenoten werd Baertsoen als 'le peintre de Gand' omschreven, een eretitel die niet alleen op zijn belang wees, maar ook sloeg op zijn opmerkelijke liefde voor Gent. Zijn blik was vooral gericht op de verval‎

‎What's the time in Dhaka? : the new photography thinking‎

‎, K.A.S.K.A / Eric Ubben, 2010 Paperback, 96 pages, ENG, 245 x 170 mm, in fine condition, with photo's in b/w. ISBN 9789490521066.‎

‎ Johan Swinnen studied photography, film and video at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels, cultural sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and art history at the Universidad de La Laguna, where he obtained his doctorate cum laude in art sciences (1998). He was merger coordinator of the Hogeschool Antwerpen, founding chairman of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) and instigator of the Master in Conservation and Restoration at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He is currently senior lecturer in contemporary art history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and professor at the Hogeschool Antwerpen, as well as a regular guest lecturer at the Universit de la Sorbonne Nouvelle ? Paris III. He is the author of several monographs and essays. He also remains active as a photographer and is working on a short film about erotic pantheism. He works as an art critic for VRT-Radio, European Photography, art and for the digital magazines www.edit-revue.com and www.photoq.nl. He is chairman of the Henri Storck Chair and of the Flemish Film Culture Agency, manager of the Henri Storck Fund and of the Raoul Servais Fund and member of the Flanders Culture Council‎

‎SPREKEN MET HET LICHT : Leven en Werk van Adelin De Craene‎

‎, Stichting Kunstboek 2022, 09 / 2022 Hardcover, 192 pagina's, NL, 305 x 245 mm, NIEUW, stofomslag, meer dan 150 illustraties in kleur / z/w. ISBN 9789058566874.‎

‎Adelin De Craene ( 1951), lesgever in het kunstonderwijs, was ook zelf levenslang als beeldhouwer actief. Spreken met het licht volgt hem doorheen zijn ontwikkelingsgang en peilt naar zijn inzichten als kunstenaar. De lezer leert hem kennen als een gedreven zoeker naar authenticiteit en als een begenadigd bewonderaar van schoonheid. Zijn oeuvre geeft subtiel en behoedzaam gestalte aan de waarden waar hij voor staat en laat de ingetogenheid van zijn omgeving als het ware kristalliseren in tastbare vormen. Deze monografie gaat in op de diverse thema's van zijn werk en dialogeert, in woord en beeld, met een boeiende persoonlijkheid. De teksten zijn van de hand van Johan van Iseghem ( 1952), emeritus hoogleraar. Hij doceerde Nederlandse literatuur en taaldidactiek aan de KU Leuven en de KULAK. In opdracht van o.m. de steden Brugge en Kortrijk en het Letterenhuis te Antwerpen werkte hij tentoonstellingen uit over literaire auteurs.‎

‎Portraits : John Berger on Artists‎

‎, Verso Books, 2015 Hardcover, 512 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 x 50 mm, as new, in perfect condition ! illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9781784781767.‎

‎One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.‎

‎Oxford History of Classical Art‎

‎, Oxford University Press, 1993 Hardcover, 406 pages, ENG, 285 x 225 x 35 mm, dustjacket, black cover with golden imprint, illustrated in colour / b/w, in very good condition, . ISBN 9780198143864.‎

‎Lying at the heart of the Western classical tradition, the rich legacy of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome continues to provide inspiration and guidance to artists and art lovers everywhere. Lavishly illustrated and masterfully prepared under the editorship of John Boardman, one of the world's preeminent classicists, The Oxford History of Classical Art offers readers the definitive companion to the artistic and architectural achievements of the Greco-Roman world, from the rise of the Greek city-states to the fall of the Roman Empire. Written by Boardman and a team of distinguished experts, this sumptuous volume presents the full pageantry and glory of the classical world, tracing the origins and evolution of classical art as it gradually moved from the art of individuals and small communities to the art of a world power. Particular attention is paid throughout to the splendor and quality of the arts themselves, aptly represented in 528 stunningly beautiful black and white and full-color plates. From the stiffly representational style of early antiquity and the oriental influence of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the full flowering of the Greece's Golden Age, text and illustrations work together to enhance our appreciation of the fascinating process through which humanity itself became the central focus of art, and artists and artisans sought for the first time not just to imitate the natural world, but to actually improve on nature through perfection of form and composition. Turning to Rome, the contributors dramatically illustrate that Roman art was far more than a mere pastiche of Greek influences. They take an in-depth look at the Romans' profound contributions to architecture, as they used their technical progress with arch, vault, and the use of brick and concrete, to create new attitudes to the use of space and light and principles of design which went far beyond the more limited ambitions of the Greek world. Destined to become the definitive sourcebook in its field, The Oxford History of Classical Art is indispensable for anyone intrigued by the timeless heritage of the ancient world, as well as for artists and students of art and art history.‎

‎John Derian Sticker Book : An InStyle 2021 gift guide pick‎

‎, Artisan Books, 2021 Hardcover, 320 pages, ENG, 210 x 170 x 40 mm, New edition, full of coloured illustrations, . ISBN 9781648291012.‎

‎John Derian Sticker Book, from revered designer John Derian, offers a curated collection of over 500 stickers that allow adults and children to add a touch of beauty to any surface with these beautiful images of blooming flowers, charming critters, and darling forest animals. John Derian first caught the eye of tastemakers and design gurus with his now iconic collectible plates, decoupaged with 19th-century artwork sourced from old and rare books. Derian?s home goods empire has since grown to global recognition, including the New York Times bestseller John Derian Picture Book, which perfectly captures the artist?s unique and timeless eye.‎

‎LIFE: Faces‎

‎, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1997 Paperback, 192 pages, ENG, 280 x 230 x 12 mm, in very good condition, dispite some crashes on the backside, photographs in colour and b/w. ISBN 9780500279991.‎

‎John Borg Loengard (September 5, 1934 ? May 24, 2020) was an American photographer who worked at Life magazine from 1961, and was its picture editor from 1973 to 1987. He taught at the International Center of Photography, New York, The New School for Social Research, New York, and at workshops around the country.‎

‎Zo leer ik mensen tekenen : een complete gids‎

‎, Parragon, 2004 Softcover, 160 pagina's, NL, 265 x 200 mm , in prima staat, enkele lichte krassen op de achterzijde , met veel info en illustraties in kleur en z/w. ISBN 9781405421416.‎

‎Zo leer ik mensen tekenen. Een complete gids. Van modelstudie tot karakterportretten - een uitvoerig ge llustreerde masterclass in het tekenen van het menselijk lichaam. Opgebouwd van project tot project waardoor vaardigheden in logische volgorde worden geleerd en toegepast. Met honderden prachtige illustraties die laten zien hoe je boeiende tekeningen maakt. Een duidelijke en complete cursus voor zowel beginners als gevorderden.‎

‎Life of Picasso: 1907-1917: The Painter of Modern Life Part II‎

‎, Random House, 1996 Hardcover, 500 pages, ENG, 260 x 215 x 40 mm, dustjacket, book is in very good condition, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780394559186.‎

‎In the second volume of his definitive biography of Pablo Picasso, John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research and personal experience that made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly re-creates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-1917--a period during which Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Thanks to his friendship with Picasso and his family, mistresses, friends, dealers and other associates, Richardson has had unique access to untapped sources and unpublished material. By harnessing biography to art history, he has managed to crack the code of cubism more successfully than any of his predecessors. And by bringing fresh light to bear on the artist's too often sensationalized private life, he has succeeded in coming up with a totally new view of this paradoxical man and of his paradoxical work. Never before has Picasso's prodigious technique, his incisive vision and, not least, his sardonic humor been analyzed with such clarity. Richardson reveals that the young Picasso saw himself in the Baudelairean role of "the painter of modern life"--a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great innovative painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, the author analyzes the more compassionate side of his genius. The misogynist of posthumous legend turns out to have been surprisingly vulnerable--more often sinned against than sinning. Heartbroken at the death of his mistress Eva, the artist tried desperately to find a wife. Richardson recounts the untold story of how his two great loves of 1915-1917 successively turned him down; and how these disappointments, as well as his horror at the outbreak of World War I and the wounds it inflicted on his closest friends, Braque and Apollinaire, shadowed his painting and drove him off to Rome--back to the ancient world. For Picasso, art would always have a magic function. As Richardson reveals, the artist saw himself as a shaman who could use his art to cast spells, both good and bad, and play all manner of ingenious and sardonic games. This greatest of modern artists knew better than anyone how to outrage us, also how to fascinate, puzzle and disturb us. Above all, he makes us perceive reality afresh by re-energizing our minds as well as our eyes.‎

‎Kees Andr a‎

‎, Van Spijk , 1981 Paperback, 30-40 pagina's, geen nummering, NL, 255 x 255 mm, in prima staat, illustraties in kleur en z/w.‎

‎Slavery and the Politics of Liberation 1787-1861: A Study of Liberated African Emigration and British Anti-slavery Policy‎

‎, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1969 Hardcover, 231 pages, ENG, 225 x 145 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, with a few illustr. in b/w. ISBN 9780841900271.‎

‎Documents the experiences of abolitionists and liberated Africans following passage of British policies against slavery and provisions for settlements in Sierra Leone‎

‎Rijk der Scythen‎

‎, Waanders, Uitgeverij, 1993 Paperback, 118 pagina's, NL, 305 x 245 mm, in prima staat, illustraties in kleur / z/w. ISBN 9789066304543.‎

‎Tentoonstellingscatalogus 'Het Rijk der Scythen - Uit de schatkamers van de Hermitage' De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 1993‎

‎Portrait in the Renaissance‎

‎, Princeton University Press, 1979 Paperback, 348 pages, ENG, 255 x 190 x 20 mm, in good condition, illustrated in b/w, some spots on the outside ( tracks of time). ISBN 9780691018256.‎

‎A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century's most eminent art historians The Portrait in the Renaissance provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. In this compelling book, John Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. This concept was first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.‎

‎1969 - Het jaar van Eddy Merckx‎

‎, Lannoo, 2019 Hardcover, 432 pagina's, NL, 315 x 250 x 40 mm, Nieuw, 2 druk, prachtige foto's in kleur en z/w, . ISBN 9789401457477.‎

‎Het wonderjaar van een fijne jonge Kannibaal Nooit heeft een renner een wielerseizoen zo gedomineerd als Eddy Merckx in 1969. Hij wint een indrukwekkende reeks topkoersen: Parijs-Nice, Milaan-Sanremo, de Ronde van Vlaanderen, Luik-Bastenaken-Luik n de Tour de France. De manierwaarop hij dat doet, voert ons terug naar het vooroorlogse wielrennen. Hij gaat geregeld 100 kilometer of meer in de aanval en wint zware wedstrijden met maar liefst 8 minuten voorsprong, zoals Luik-Bastenaken-Luik of de koninginnenrit in de Tour over de Pyrenee ncols Tourmalet en Aubisque. In het eindklassement van de Ronde van Frankrijk gaat hij de nummer 2, Roger Pingeon, met bijna 18 minuten vooraf. 1969 is voor Eddy Merckx ook een jaar met veel drama. Hij wordt met de roze leiderstrui om de schouders uit de Ronde van Itali gezet na een betwiste positieve dopingcontrole. In het najaar komt hij zwaar ten val tijdens een dernymeeting in Blois, waardoor hij nooit meer pijnloos kan klimmen. Ditboek blikt gedetailleerd terug op het formidabele wielerseizoen 1969. Ook Merckx zelf, zijn familie en ploegmaats geven uitleg bij alle belangrijke gebeurtenissen van dat jaar. Bovendien vertellen de toprenners van dat wielerseizoen hun kant van het verhaal. Bij de Belgische grote namen zijn dat onder meer Roger De Vlaeminck, Walter Godefroot, Herman Vanspringel, Lucien Van Impe, Eric Leman, Frans Verbeeck, Guido Reybrouck, Martin Van den Bossche, Willy Vekemansen Roger Swerts. Ook blikken tal van buitenlandse toprenners terug op 1969: Raymond Poulidor, Roger Pingeon, Felice Gimondi, Jan Janssen, Rini Wagtmans en Barry Hoban. Het boek is prachtig ge llustreerd met nooit eerder gepubliceerde foto's.‎

‎Tasty Stories : Legendary Food Brands and Their Typefaces‎

‎, Luster Publishing, 2014 Hardcover, 141 pages, ENG, 185 x 185 mm, NEW, full of illustrations / photo's in colour / b/w. ISBN 9789460581014.‎

‎Tasty Stories presents 50 of the world's best-known food brands, describing them through the evolution of their packaging, logo, typeface and fonts. A brief history of each brand is followed by details of the logo and typeface, and accompanied by 'Nice to Know' anecdotes. A must-have for graphic designers, foodies, and other people of good taste. Brands featured include: Baleine Zeezout, Barilla, Bertolli, Boursin, Campari, Campbells, Chiquita, Coca Cola, Cote d'Or, Danone, Douwe Egberts, Duvel, Heineken, Heinz, Jacques, Jules De Strooper, Kellogg's, Kitkat, La Vache Qui Rit, Lipton, Lu, M&M's, Maille Mosterd, Mars, McDonald's, McVities, Moet et Chandon, Nesquik, Oreo, Oxo, Pepsi, Perrier, Quality Street, Spa, St. Raphael, Sunkist, Tabasco, Twinings.‎

‎ Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting : Princeton Essays in the Arts, 6‎

‎, Princeton Univ Press, 1978 Hardcover, 169 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 mm, dustjacket, black linen with goldcoloured imprint, with 55 b/w images, in good condition. ISBN 9780691039411.‎

‎Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.‎

‎Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries ‎

‎, Princeton University Press, 1990 Hardcover, 165 pages, ENG, 290 x 225 mm, dustjacket, as New !, with illustrations in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780521401074.‎

‎The National Gallery's collection of Spanish paintings is distinguished by seven of El Greco's works from every period of his activity in Italy and Spain; Diego Vel zquez' work on an intimate scale; Bartolom Esteban Murillo's images addressing both the sacred and profane; and seven of Francisco de Goya's incisive portraits of Spain's aristocratic and intellectual society. Also included are two panels by the Master of the Catholic Kings, which represent Hispano-Flemish painting of the late fifteenth century at its best.‎

‎50 Great Adventures : Extraordinary Places and the People Who Built Them ‎

‎, Prestel, 2005 Paperback, 192 pages, ENG, 265 x 235 x 16 mm, in very good condition, illustrated in colourful photo's. ISBN 9783791334349.‎

‎Architecture meets biography, and also meets travel guide in this highly personal exploration of some of the world's most provocative, revealing and beautifully built structures. Jonathan Lee travelled the world and found some truly extraordinary man-made places, from stunning mansions, subterranean auditoria, hotels and churches to bizarre houses and a breathtaking sports ground. He was particularly interested in places that blur the boundary between people and nature.‎

‎Jonathan Meese.‎

‎, Tim Van Laere Books,, 2022 Hardcover, 156 pages / seiten, ENG / D, 255 x 205 mm, NEW, full of illustrations in colour / farbe. ISBN 9789464004168.‎

‎Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Jonathan Meese ( 1970 Tokyo, lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) is renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings, installations, ecstatic performances and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. Apparently effortlessly, he has developed in all genres an independent and at the same time unique vocabulary that gives his work a variety, visual energy and quality which, according to Robert Fleck, has been unheard of since Picasso. Meese creates an expansive personal mythology, which also features characters inspired by history, legends and science fiction. Throughout his works you can find a not easily decodable system of signs/badges, neologisms, symbols, and figurative allusions to all types of power seekers, mythical personages and geniuses of history, stars and starlets of pop culture, or fictional heroes of novels and films. All of Meese?s works share a humor tending towards the grotesque, as well as a powerful, original creative will. Both are driven and supported by a striving for a rule of art, the dictatorship of art. What is meant here is the development of a new world order where art is the legislative power, and free play the foundation of all life and creation.This utopian approach runs like a leitmotif through all his works and brings his individual parts of the oeuvre together to form the Jonathan Meese Gesamtkunstwerk. He does not aim at anarchy, but rather the rule of metabolic necessity: ?Art is total play.? In this exhibition, Meese presents a new body of works, which capture the interplay of interior and exterior worlds, combining the phantasmagoria of the imagination with the bric- -brac of mundane reality. To him, art is osmosis. His paintings are filled with photosynthesis and mimicry, which allows us to enter the counter world. The self portraits and nudes point out that all self portraits are nude and all nudes are self portraits. Within the self portraits you can find the childhood of everything, with the ultimate self portrait being the embryo. According to Meese this exhibition celebrates ?the birth of the Gesamtkunstwerk?. This theme is also visualized in the large scale painting TOTAL RECALL (THE R.I.P.-DIDDLOIDEN ARE BACK TO FIGHT THE ?KAMPF UM KUNST (BIRTH OF GESAMTKUNSTWERK)). With this exhibition, he pays hommage to evolution, nature, love, power, collage, abstraction, animalism, and art itself. Meese celebrates especially the following artists and ?Spielkinder?: Van Gogh, Fidus, Warhol, Dali, Picasso, Balthus, Barbarella, Pippi Longstocking, and Moominism.‎

‎IK HAD DIE MAN KUNNEN ZIJN. ‎

‎, Antwerpen, Manteau, 1970., , originele geillustreerde ( Stefan Mesker) uitgeversomslag z/w, 10,5x18cm, 112pp.‎

‎Marnixpocket. . Eerste druk.‎

‎MINIATUREN.‎

‎, Brussel/ Amsterdam, Manteau/Elsevier, 1929. ( opdracht en gesigneerd)., Originele geillustreerde uitgeversomslag in kleur, 13,5x21,5cm, 381pp.‎

‎Met opdracht en gesigneerd door de auteur.‎

‎VERBANNEN IN HET VADERLAND.‎

‎, Brussel/ Amsterdam, Elsevier/ Manteau, 1928. ( opdracht en gesigneerd)., Originele geillustreerde uitgeversomslag in kleur, 13,5x21,5cm, 306pp.‎

‎Met opdracht en gesigneerd door de auteur.‎

‎Carpets: From the Tents, Cottages and Workshops of Asia‎

‎, Barrie & Jenkins, 1988 Hardcover, 176 pages, ENG, 305 x 215 mm, dustjacket, in reasonable condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780712625012.‎