Authors: Megan Marshall.
Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 2006-05-11


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    Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history.Though theirs may not be household names, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody had an extraordinary influence on the thought of their day, the movement of intense creative ferment known as American Romanticism. Megan Marshall adeptly brings to life the sisters and the men they loved and inspired, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In a work filled with startling revelations, Marshall presents a vivid and nuanced psychological portrait of a sisterhood rife with shifting loyalties yet founded on enduring affection....

Authors: M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher.
Paperback, 77 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Date: 2001-06


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    Renowned artist M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. Weird, beautiful, finely detailed illusions....

Authors: Britta Benke.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Date: 2001-02-01

Authors: Janis Hendrickson.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Date: 2001-02-01

Authors: Anthony Hobson.
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Publication Date: 1994-01-01


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    - An accessible introduction to the works of John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) - The author, himself a painter, presents an artist's appreciation of Waterhouse as a master of Romantic classicism - Includes his paintings of Ophelia, the Lady of Shalott and Pandora - some of the most archetypal Victorian images...

Authors:
Paperback, 520 pages
Publisher: h. f. ullmann
Publication Date: 2008-02
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and they couldn't have been written and illustrated any more clearly. The informative and interesting texts have been written by renowned authors from the fields of history, architecture and art history, providing a multifaceted view of each period. These books are a real pleasure for anyone with an interest in art....

Authors: Werner Hofmann.
Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 2001-01
Edition: 1

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    A new and profusely illustrated appraisal of this leading Romantic painter. The international reputation and popularity of Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic artist of the nineteenth century, has grown steadily since the major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1972. In the past three decades, intense critical interest has led to different, and sometimes conflicting, interpretations, thus necessitating this new appraisal of the artist and his achievements. Friedrich's works have an extraordinary, haunting quality that is the product of an elaborate and consistent system of symbolism. The elements that make up a traditional landscape painting--high and low, near and far, light and dark, summer and winter--are all used symbolically. Declaring that "every true work of art must express a distinct feeling," Friedrich painted the yearning of people for the infinite and their perpetual separation from it. Among his characteristic subjects, depicted in a sharply delineated style, were gothic ruins, stark contorted trees, bleak seascapes, and mountain crags often seen under mysterious lighting and peopled with lonely figures. This comprehensive and marvelously illustrated survey examines Friedrich's paintings, watercolors, and drawings in a new critical light, and places the artist in his intellectual and historical context. His difficult relationship with Goethe, his nationalism, the critical judgments of his contemporaries, his position in European art: these and many other topics are explored. 210 color illustrations....

Authors: William Vaughan.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 1994-11
Edition: Rep Sub

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    In the age of revolutions, at the end of the 18th century, the mental and spiritual life of Europe and North America began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity, direct expression and natural feeling transformed the arts, encouraging artists to explore the extremes in human nature, from heroism to insanity and despair. Previously published as "Romantic Art" and now revised, William Vaughan's study analyses the achievement of the leading artists of the age - masters such as Goya, Blake, Gericault, Turner and Delacroix - and sets in context a host of fascinating figures in painting, sculpture and architecture: Palmer, Runge, Soane, Gros, Overbeck, Schinkel, Flaxman, Pugin, Bingham and many more. The result is an account of a dramatic and contradictory artistic epoch....

Authors: Julian Treuherz. Liz Prettejohn. Edwin Becker.
Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 2003-11-24


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    A cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) has become well known to many through the widespread reproduction of his work on posters, cards, and prints.

This sumptuous survey of his colorful, romantic art includes major works from all periods of his life in every media including watercolors from the 1850s; paintings of the female figure from 1859 on; representations of artists and their models; studies of Elizabeth Siddall, his wife; late paintings on themes from Dante and the Arthurian legends; the monumental decorative projects at Llandaff Cathedral and at the Oxford Union; and his contributions to the decorative arts (book bindings and illustrations, stained glass, furniture, and picture frames).

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Van Gogh Museum, the book complements recent scholarship and will stimulate further research on Rossetti. The book and exhibition mark a landmark in Rossetti studies, providing an unprecedented opportunity to view the entire range of his achievement. The contributors include Edwin Becker, exhibition curator at the Van Gogh Museum; Liz Prettejohn, Professor of Art History at Plymouth University; and Julian Treuherz of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. 330 illustrations, 130 in color....

Authors: Barbara Babcock Millhouse.
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Black Dome Press Corp.
Publication Date: 2007-08-13


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    More than 40 full-color reproductions of some of their greatest paintings illustrate this historical overview of the Hudson River School of landscape painting and the lives and works of artists Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher Durand, Sanford Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, Worthington Whittredge, William Merritt Chase, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, George Inness, and other American landscape painters who created a new and quintessentially American style of art in the early and mid-19th century. Inspired first by the pastoral Hudson River Valley and the rugged wilderness of the Catskill Mountains, many of these artists then ventured forth to capture unspoiled scenes of the American West, New England, or South America. This critical history and intimate look at the lives of the artists features a foreword by Kevin Avery, Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is set in a beautifully designed oversized volume....