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68310 THE VICTORIANS: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age by Jeremy Paxton


This beautiful volume is an opinionated, informed, surprising and hugely enthusiastic appraisal of the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, the author explores themes of family, urban life, industry, empire and imagination to uncover truths and explode myths about Victorian Britain. Paxton shows how artists such as William Powell Frith, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Ford Madox Brown were chronicling a world changing before their eyes, and his overview ranges across the whole of Victorian life and culture, from high Gothic architecture and the novels of Dickens to the technological marvels of Brunel. Popular visual narratives that attracted crowds by the hundreds of thousands - and here they are for your


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illustrated in brilliant colour. £25


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floor of 3, Washington Square North. His use of motifs seems typically American and his love of realistic detail and solitude in American life is what he is now most famous for. His voyeuristic stance in for instance Reclining Nude captures a stolen moment while the woman believes herself unobserved and has snuggled into a pile of pillows in the spirit of pleasurable, dreamy abandon. American village, drug store, railroad crossing, farms and cabins, this is man and nature moving into civilisation with dreamy solitary figures such as in Compartment C, Car 193, a woman on a train carriage, or Western Motel with a woman seated on the edge of a bed, just arrived. Hopper’s use of light and shadows is remarkable and here dozens of examples are given. 96 large pages, colour. ONLY £9


68095 GISELE FREUND PHOTOGRAPHS by Gisele Freund


Renowned as the creator of iconic photos for Life magazine, the young sociology student Gisele Freund started serious photography at the last public demonstration before Hitler took power. These images are reproduced here and she went on to record the 1935 International Congress for the Defence of Culture in Paris, photographing Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, André Gide, Bertolt Brecht and others. Studying in Paris in the 30s Walter Benjamin was a personal friend, while Sylvia Beach outside her famous bookshop Shakespeare & Co. encapsulates an era. Paul Valery, Hermann Hesse and Colette posed for portraits, the latter nervous because she had a new husband in tow. Spender, Auden, Cocteau, Sartre, Beckett, Ionesco, de Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Tennessee Williams, Matisse, Bonnard, Duchamp, Henry Moore are all there. 223pp, 205 b/w and colour reproductions, text by Freund herself. 29 x 24cm.


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68466 DUCHAMP by Janis Mink Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) may be best known for his urinal signed R. Mutt, 1917. Duchamp has been an enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artists. This study addresses the myth and reveals his compelling charisma. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist. 100 colour illus of his and other artists like Matisse, explanatory captions and a concise biography. Softback, 18.5 x 23cm, 96 pages. ONLY £6


68467 ENSOR by Ulrike Becks-Malorny An expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor used the iconography of masks and skeletons to point up the essential horrors of life and often underwrote his images with a sardonic gallows humour. It has been said that he appropriated the subject matter of a Bosch or Bruegel and revisioned them using the techniques of Manet or Rubens. A genuine maverick in the way that so many Belgian artists are (lest we forget Magritte), Ensor can claim a dark and distinctive place in the art histories of the last hundred years. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work, 100 colour illus. Softback, 18.5 x 23cm, 96 pages. ONLY £6


68100 LEONARDO FROM TUSCANY


TO THE LOIRE by Carlo Starnazzi Leonardo ended his life as the guest of the King of France, Francis I, his apartment connected to the royal chateau of Amboise by an underground passage. This wonderfully illustrated book, including many little-known studies by Leonardo, traces the journey of his life from his illegitimate birth in Tuscany, via the workshop of Verrocchio and the patronage of Cesare Borgia, to the productive years of his French old age. Leonardo’s studies for a flying machine and a kite for hang-gliding are reproduced, along with some stunning figure studies and reproductions of many of his major works. The author compares Verrocchio’s work “The Baptism of Christ” and demonstrating the expressiveness of paint compared with sculptural representations such as that of Donatello. With hundreds of colour reproductions, at least one on each double spread. The text is a literal translation from Italian. 302pp, very large softback. ONLY £12


68479 THE DREAMER by Will Eisner


The first graphic novel we have ever offered on Bibliophile, this is in fact a story from the birth of comic books. New York 1937. Determined to make it among the hustlers, hucksters and heroes of a radical new art form, Billy Eyron, a junior staff artist, begins drawing and creating comics. Based loosely on the early years of Will Eisner’s own career, The Dreamer is a remarkable true tale of grit and determination as well as a look at how comics got their start. In his own shop, Eisner trained several of the finest talents ever to draw and write comics, legends like Bob Kane and Jack Kirby. 56pp, large softback. £12.99 NOW £3


68113 NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE


by Manos Biris and Maro Kardamitsi-Adami This gorgeous book traces the development of neoclassical architecture in Greece, examining its distinctive forms and arguing that it had a variety of different origins rather than being imposed wholesale by the new regime in 1832. Athens was the centre of the new neo-classicism and the brief was not only to reconstruct the damaged capital but also to create a monumentalism worthy of the new Greek state. The University, started in 1839, with its central Ionic porch and colour frieze, is exemplary in its handling of classical order and the functional design of interiors. The Arsakeion girls’ school is an example of a more austere classicism, while the Eye Hospital demonstrates Byzantine influence. The monumental reading room of the National Library is one of the finest European classical interiors. The authors conclude with the transition to modernism. Colour, 312pp. £75 NOW £10


68501 MODERN ART 1870-2000 -


IMPRESSIONISM TO TODAY edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth The story of Modern Art began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. After Impressionism, there followed Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art. At the heart of this book though is the year-by-year succession of groundbreaking works, with 200 featured pieces receiving an own text that introduces the artist and makes the importance of the work apparent. These paintings and sculptures, photographs and conceptual works, both classics and surprising rediscoveries, tell the story of an art epoch that continued to thrive on ever fresh ideas and innovations. 187 artists’ portraits, 44 original photos of artists in their studios, 14 essays, 7 fold-outs, 30-page appendix with artists’ biographies, a glossary of key terms and an index of names and works. 2 volumes in slipcase, 9.4" x 12", 674 pages. ONLY £35


68487 MASTERPIECES IN DETAIL: 2 Volume Slipcased Set


by Rainer and Rose-Marie Hagen Is the bride pregnant? What are clogs doing on a marriage picture? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier? And what does the mirror in the background reveal? Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen provide answers to these and other questions about 100 world-famous works of art. Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Renaissance and Volume 2: From Rembrandt to Rivera. Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel is a fine example of two almost touching hands, a perfect Adam, here his face is studied in close-up and God too has a face. Raphael’s The Sistine Madonna is an ideal of female virtue and six pages in colour are devoted to each of the 50 superb masterpieces under scrutiny. The same treatment is given to more modern art in Volume Two from Watteau, Hiroshige, Monet and Degas to Max Beckmann and Chagall. Two volumes in a slipcase, 20½ x 28½ cm, 770 pages and with gatefolds. ONLY £35


68931 FULL COLOUR TREASURY OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT


by Alexander Speltz


The decorative arts have flourished since prehistoric times, and these full colour pages of ornamentation from friezes, paintings, stained glass, marblework, textiles and other artforms present a panoramic history of decoration and an inspirational


resource for designers. Starting in Egypt, there are impressive ceiling and wall decorations with characteristic stylised figures, while Babylonian and Mycenaean frescoes exhibit increasing monumentality. Celtic and Romanesque illumination existed side by side for a time, while at a later period French tiles and stained glass epitomised the Gothic style. 80pp, softback, colour illus. £12.95 NOW £4


68468 MAX ERNST by Ulrich Bischoff Max Ernst (1891-1996) is one of the most important figures of Dadaism and Surrealism. The closing of the famed Dada exhibit in Cologne for ‘obscenity’ led Ernst to decide to spend the rest of his life in Paris where he came in contact with the Surrealists. He produced an oeuvre that reaches from paintings, drawings and sculpture, across texts and stage settings to collage- novels and the development of his own ‘frottage’ technique. Marlene on page 67 is a stunning image and Teetering Woman, 1923, another. In 1954 he received the Grand Prize for Painting at the Biennial in Venice and during the 1960s his work was honoured with major retrospectives. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist. 100 truly fantastical colour illus. Softback, 18.5 x 23cm, 96 pages. ONLY £6


68489 CAMERA WORK: The Complete


Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz Photographer, writer, publisher and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a visionary, far ahead of his time. This heavy work reproduces an image to a full page by other cameramen like Robert Demachy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence H. White, Eduard J. Steichen and Frank Eugene among others. Sepia toned landscapes, long-gone places and people caught in an enduring and memorable photograph for us to ponder today. By 1903 he began publishing Camera Work, an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-Secession. It was the first photo journal whose focus was visual rather than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together a broad selection from the journal’s 50 issues. Softcover, 14 x 19½ cm, 552 pages. Text in English, French, German. ONLY £8.50


68470 BAUHAUS by Magdalena Droste Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography and even theatre. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its member’s artists and architects such


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as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer. In 1930 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as the leader, but soon after, in 1933, the Nazi government shut down the school. During its 14 years of existence, Bauhaus managed to change the faces of art, architecture and industrial design forever and is still hugely influential today. 120 images, including photos, sketches, drawings, and floor plans. Softback, 18½ x 23 cm, 96 pages.


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68494 LICHTENSTEIN by Janis Hendrickson


A big, colourful book on he of the colourful tiny dots like pixels, cartoons, abstracts, poster style art and superb graphic design. In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art, that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein’s grid technique, with its allusion to the mass-production of graphic art, allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques for creating distance and irony by means of an idiosyncratic process of abstraction and especially by his use of his numerous art quotations. 100 colour illus. 24 x 30 cm, 96 pages. ONLY £9


68911 GREAT DRAWINGS OF WOMEN


by Carol Belanger Grafton Created by nearly 100 of the world’s great artists like Antoine Watteau, Max Beckmann, Botticelli, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Mary Cassatt, Daumier, Degas, Dürer, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Charles Le Brun, Leonardo da Vinci, Matisse and Millet and


from the colour section Cezanne, Fragonard, Van Gogh, Munch, Picasso, Renoir and Rubens, here are tender mother-and-child scenes, nudes, women of all classes, eras and ages and in all moods and styles. An inexpensive Dover publication, 102 illus, 16 in colour with captions. 112pp in softback, 8½” x 11". £12.99 NOW £5


49316 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: From 1839 to Present The George Eastman House Collection


George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932 and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. The continually expanding photography collection contains over 400,000 images and negatives, among them the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and others, as well as 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film. Chronological order. Softcover, 768 pages. ONLY £10


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66782 ART OF THE MIDDLE AGES by Janetta Rebold Benton


The Middle Ages was a period which produced some of the greatest art ever, works which were of deep aesthetic and spiritual importance to the people of the time and remain so today. Dr Benton’s study encompasses the whole period, the whole of Europe from early Christian, Ireland to Byzantium through Barbarian, Carolingian to Romanesque and Gothic. She looks at great cathedrals, monasteries, churches to clothing and armour and the whole range of art and architecture. Also takes in medieval mural painting, enamelling, manuscript illumination, tapestry and stained glass. 250 illus, 90 in colour. Paperback, 320pp. £8.95 NOW £3


68910 GREAT ANIMAL DRAWINGS AND PRINTS edited


by Carol Belanger Grafton


A superb archive of carefully selected works by celebrated artists. From Rembrandt’s monumental elephant and Toulouse-Lautrec’s prancing circus steed to Rubens’ masterly brush-and-ink study of a lion, this unique collection portrays all manner of creatures from the animal kingdom. Here are magnificent works by Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, Diego Velázquez, Katsushika Hokusai, John James Audubon, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso and many other masters. 101 royalty-free plates in colour and b/w. 8½” x 11" paperbound.


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68935 WILLIAM BLAKE’S DIVINE COMEDY ILLUSTRATIONS by William Blake


Here are all 102 spectacular full colour plates in a big softback collection. William Blake’s final artistic project is a stunning collection of illustrations for Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, the epic poem Divinia Commedia. Born nearly 500 years after Dante, the English poet and artist nevertheless succeeds in bridging the centuries to provide a unique perspective on the medieval classic. It is a fascinating marriage. Blake accepted and was paid £130 for the work. And here are the plates in full. We see Virgil, at the request of Beatrice, assist Dante in his quest for divine wisdom. They join the souls who suffered from apathy in life. Charon warns his passengers of the misery that awaits them. Homer, symbol of classical culture, wields his sword and so on. Today as ever we remain spellbound by the sublime portraits of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Sketches, engravings and brilliant watercolours. 112pp, 10½” x 9"


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