Athenaeum
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1894
Category :
ISBN :
The Cure for Sorrow
Author : Jan Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781735161204
Book Description
When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."
The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author : Carol Strickland
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780740768729
Book Description
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
A Century of Artists Books
Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780810961814
Book Description
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
The Illustrated London News
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
Vermeer's Hat
Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 159691727X
Book Description
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.
The Art of South and Southeast Asia
Author : Steven Kossak
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art, South Asian
ISBN : 0870999923
Book Description
Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.
Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal
Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1992-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362049
Book Description
Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.
Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus
Author : Camille Enlart
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892361433
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.
