4 Art and Architecture


73753 THE TUDOR CHRONICLES: 1485-1603 by Susan Doran


For many people, the Tudor period marks the emergence of an English national identity. Defined by the iconic figure of the ‘virgin queen’, Elizabeth I, it witnessed the end of the


dynastic uncertainties of the Wars of the Roses, the creation and triumph of the Protestant Church, and the successful repulsion of a foreign invader - in the person of King Philip of Spain. It also hailed the blossoming of a sublimely gifted generation of musical composers, including Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, as well as the flowering of English poetry and drama, culminating in the incomparable writings of Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. However, it was also a period wracked by rebellion, invasion scares, sectarian strife, and - increasingly, as the Queen rejected one suitor after another - by worries about the dynastic succession. This superb volume is a compelling, year-by- year chronology of a tumultuous period. Extensive quotations, portraits, maps, illuminations, royal seals, tapestries and many other artefacts. 416 pages 28.5cm x 23.5cm. Colour and family tree.


£25 NOW £9 71002 MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENT


SEAFARERS: Early Maritime Civilizations by Robert D Ballard with Toni Eugene From wall paintings of ancient ships through underwater shots of astonishingly well-preserved vessels that sank 1,500 years ago, to mind-blowing portraits of modern dhows combining superb history with state-of-the-art underwater archaeology, the author explores six maritime civilisations: the Phoenicians, those of the Black Sea, the Egyptians, the Minoans, the Greeks and the Romans. Here are the submerged remnants of the famed Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria and here the enormous volcanic explosion of Thera, which some scholars call Atlantis. Speculation, theory and the use of high-tech equipment. 224 pages 26cm by 18cm, 110 colour illus and maps. ONLY £6.50


74146 WHAT IT MEANS TO


BE HUMAN by Joanna Bourke Victorian regulations prohibit cruelty against dogs, horses and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. Now historian and professor at Birkbeck College Joanna Bourke provides an intellectually energetic and important book where human and animal relations ceaselessly cross over. She reveals the extent


to which the term ‘human’ has been politically loaded, historically complex and theoretically ambivalent. The book traces not only shifts in the boundaries of how being human has been conceived in the past, but looks at the bewildering implications of medical science with her extraordinary curiosity and knowledge. 369pp in paperback, photos. £10.99 NOW £4


72524 GILDED LIVES, FATAL VOYAGE: The Titanic’s First Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster


This study of the key first-class passengers of the Titanic, many of whom lost their lives, makes an absorbing read and is full of social history. Travelling with his pregnant wife Madeleine, John Jacob Astor IV was the richest person on board, a close friend of J. Bruce Ismay, Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, was the leader of a fashion revolution in which women were encouraged to abandon the stiff whalebone corsetry of their mothers and grandmothers. The author describes the fates of these and other passengers, including their refusal to pick up those struggling in the water. 338pp. £20 NOW £6


72407 CHRONICLE OF THE WORLD 1493 by Hartmann Schedel, edited by Stephan Füssel


500 years before Google, Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik, or Chronicle of the World (better known today as the Nuremberg Chronicle, after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic work and at the time the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe. Albrecht Dürer was possibly a contributor to the physician and humanist Schedel’s massive project. Both a historical reference work and a contemporary inventory of urban culture at the end of the 15th century, it was divided into six ages from the Creation to the ‘present’. It was particularly notable for its vast quantity of woodcut illustrations (more than 1,800) depicting events from the Bible, human monstrosities, portraits of kings, queens, saints and martyrs, and allegorical pictures of miracles, natural catastrophes, wars, as well as views of the founding of a great number of “modern” cities many of which had never been documented before. Today, copies of the Chronicle sell for up to 800,000 dollars. Taschen publishers procured a rare hand-coloured copy, true to the original in every respect, and have here created a complete facsimile of the finest quality. With summaries of the book’s main stories. Hardcover with colour illustrated 88 page booklet in slipcase, 8" x 11½”, 684 pages. Cloth bound, gold-tooled, ‘antiqued’ parchment- look paper and exquisite typography and design. Complete and annotated. ONLY £35


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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.


- Pablo Picasso


74344 PAINTER RAs: A Guide to the Painter Members


of the RA by Dennis Toff The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in 1768 under the patronage of George III with 40 Members and 20 Associates and first housed in Pall Mall, then Somerset


House before moving to Birlington House in 1867. The first president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, established it as a school to train artists and represent their interests. Today there are 116 Royal Academicians, 39 of whom are Senior, 40 painters, 22 sculptors and 15 architects. Our book photographs in full page colour 63 of the painters including some seniors. Includes David Tindal, Joe Tilson, Leonard Rosoman, David Remfry, Fiona Rae, Chris Orr, Ken Howard (our favourite), Anthony Eyton, Tracey Emin, Jennifer Dickson and the lovely Elizabeth Blackadder with her black cat in her arms! With short biography and example for each, 126pp in large softback. £12.99 NOW £6


74345 RECOLLECTIONS: The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect by Sir Thomas


Graham Jackson Bt, R.A. Travelling extensively throughout Europe, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924) recorded his experiences in notebooks, sketchbooks and diaries. He was one of the most distinguished architects of his generation and was


created a baronet by King George V in 1913 in recognition of his restoration of Winchester Cathedral. He is best known for his work at Oxford where he designed buildings for no fewer than 12 of the colleges and many other universities and City institutions. His landmark buildings are the Examination Schools in the High and the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ over New College Lane which has become almost an Oxford ‘logo’. An all-round designer in the Arts and Crafts tradition, Jackson designed stained glass, table glass and even a grand piano while restoring and designing churches, private houses and schools. A talented draughtsman and watercolourist, his visits to Dalmatia, little known to the British, resulted in his writing a three-volume history which is today still recognised as the definitive work on the medieval movements of the region. This new edition of Recollections adds much to the 1950 original by Jackson’s son and includes many illustrations, some in colour. 334pp in heavyweight hardback. £35 NOW £7


73805 WORLD’S GREATEST WAR CARTOONISTS AND CARICATURISTS


1792-1945 by Mark Bryant


The cartoon is one of the most potent political weapons, never more so than in times of war. 300 brief biographies in this book cover international war cartoonists from 30


countries, including German artists during both World Wars, together with details of the journals that published their work and 150 reproductions. In 1859 John Leech’s famous cartoon of Napoleon III as a bristling porcupine unconvincingly spouting words of peace appeared in the pages of Punch, while in 1870 the aristocratic French cartoonist “Cham” was still picturing the unpopular Napoleon in a favourable light, fighting the Prussians to the last. World War I cartoons include a Futurist Hitler by “E”, a French cartoonist who worked for London’s Evening Standard, and a frame from Alfred Leete’s “Schmidt the Spy” cartoon strip in which Schmidt is unconvincingly disguised in full Highland regalia. Anti- Nazi cartoons of World War II include works by E.H. Shepard. 192pp, 150 reproductions some in colour. £20 NOW £9


74433 ANTONY GORMLEY by Martin Caiger-Smith


Antony Gormley’s sculptural presence is something of a phenomenon. You can come across his sculptures on a Lancashire beach, in a Norwegian fjord or on the salt-pan wastes of Western Australia, as well as the British Museum, a cathedral crypt, a civic square or a contemporary art gallery. His materials range from the pebbles of the seashore and the mud of the desert to the metals of the forge and the steel mill, and his means vary from advanced computer imaging to the press of a hand in soft clay. His controversial Angel of the North has become a recognised benchmark for public projects. This book looks beyond the commonly-held view of Gormley as a maker of large-scale public sculptures. It traces the development of his art as a series of distinct themes and ideas, ideas that relate and interlace, come together and continue to form a body of work. Analysing six key works in depth including Allotment, Field and Another Place. 128


paperback pages 27cm x 21 cm, 100 colour


illustrations and short biography.


£14.99 NOW £6


73906 AUDUBON’S MASTERPIECES


by John James Audubon Early in the 1800s, John James Audubon conceived the vast project of painting all the birds in North America. His pioneering work, entitled Birds of America has become an undisputed classic. The 150 exquisite prints, collected here


into a must-have volume, represent Audubon’s genius at its height and comprise one of the most magnificent collections of bird prints ever published, conclusively establishing the breadth and depth of the great naturalist’s achievement. The son of a French naval officer and a Creole woman, Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785, educated in France and moved to his family’s estate near Philadelphia in 1803. It was there that his love of birds and his desire to draw them became the driving force and consuming passion of his life. He devoted the whole of his time to the pursuit of accurately yet artistically capturing the intricate details and individual splendour of the birds of his adopted country. The enduring popularity of his work attests to his success both as an artist and a scientist. Today, his name is synonymous with wildlife preservation. From the Carolina Parrot, now sadly extinct, to the rare Whooping Crane and the more common blue birds and woodpeckers, his portrayals are among the finest examples of wildlife art in existence. With an introduction by David Reinhardt. Approx 300 pages, 26cm x 21cm in life-like colour. ONLY £15


72315 ART OF MESOAMERICA: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller


One of the excellent Thames and Hudson World of Art series, a standard work which succinctly and evocatively surveys the Olmec, Mayan, Teotihuacan, Toltec and Aztec, as well as some of their less well-known contemporaries. The 193 stunning illustrations, 44 of which are colour and frequently full-page, leap from the pages as vividly as they did when they astonished Cortés’s men in 1519. Here are pyramids and palaces, exquisite jades and blood-chilling statues and brightly coloured paintings, plus recent archaeological finds. 240pp.


£8.95 NOW £4.50 72509 HEROES AND VILLAINS AT THE


NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: Over 50 Celebrities, Writers and Experts Debate Famous Britons by Gerald Scarfe et al


Refreshingly original, Scarfe’s caricatures reveal the vision of an exceptional draughtsman at work. As a writer who has anchored his career in making people laugh at politicians, he appreciates the humour of caricature but also exposes how merciless and unsettling it can be. Arguing their views for and against subjects as wide ranging as Henry VIII, Oswald Mosley, Tracey Emin and Virginia Woolf are famous public figures including Joanna Lumley, Ian Rankin, Simon Schama, Peter Hall and Mo Mowlam. 160 pages in colour and b/ w with short biographies of subjects. $40 NOW £11


72566 DESIGNS AND ORNAMENTS FROM THE CHAPELS OF NOTRE DAME by Eugene


Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Maurice Ouradou Architecture theorist Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79) was a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival and active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration - the cleansing and restoration of Notre Dame and for the next 23 years he laboured at the task. The volume is based on a faithful reproduction of the restored mural paintings of the chapels, notable for their colouring. The 60 full page colour plates are the best record available. Enjoy the floral patterns, animals, geometric designs, scrollwork, chequerboard and famed gargoyles. Colour plates. 64 page large softback. £15.99 NOW £4


72511 CARAVAGGIO BACON edited by Michael Peppiatt and Anna Coliva


Caravaggio was one of the most penetrating and remarkable of all Italian artists while, as a painter and intellectual, Francis Bacon left a profound mark on 20th century art history in the United Kingdom. In their search for similarities and differences, the contributors address such issues as: The Sacred and the Profane, and Space and Reality. Maurizio Calvese also explores the outstanding art of a slandered painter, i.e. Caravaggio who was, perhaps falsely, accused of murder, while Chris Stephens examines Darkness, Life and Death in the Art of Francis Bacon, and Anna Coliva sees Caravaggio beckoning to Bacon in the Beauty of Sorrow. Includes their famous pieces such as Three studies of Lucian Freud by Bacon and Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath. 223 softback pages, 28.5cm x 25cm in life-like colour. £35 NOW £12


72562 ART AND ILLUSTRATION OF WALTER CRANE by Jeff A. Menges


Few artists of Walter Crane’s generation achieved careers as varied and successful as his. This compilation reflects the diversity of his subjects: alphabet books, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, scenes from stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood and illustrations inspired by the classics of Shakespeare, Hawthorne and Spenser. He led the way towards the Golden Age of Illustration. This original collection features more than 100 of the artist’s brilliant images. It constitutes a survey of his paintings as well as a visual history of the development of the first colour illustrations. 109 paperback pages 28cm x 21cm in b/w and delicate colour. £18.99 NOW £6.50


72582 SPANISH TILE DESIGNS IN FULL


COLOR by Carol Belanger Grafton Tiles have long been a staple of Spanish design and décor, ubiquitous in all sorts of buildings large and small, private and public, architect-designed or strictly


74422 VAN GOGH: The Master Draughtsman by Sjraar van Heugten with Marije Vellekoop and Roelie Zwikker


When Van Gogh started drawing in 1880, at the age of 27, determined to embark upon an artistic career, there was little to suggest that this might become successful. Unlike artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso who were already gifted draughtsmen in their youth, Van Gogh had to master the techniques of drawing the hard way - through trial and error. It is even more surprising, then, when marvelling at the breathtaking masterpieces that grace this exquisite volume, to realise that he was in effect self-taught. He became one of the greatest draughtsmen of the 19th century. As well as many preliminary studies, his drawings include highly ambitious, stand-alone works that testify to his capacity for artistic innovation. This lavish survey of his works on paper brings together around 100 of the finest and most important drawings of his entire oeuvre. Even when, from around 1884, Van Gogh’s attention turned more towards painting, drawing still remained a passion with him. While living in Arles in 1888 he created some extraordinary sketches of the Provençal landscape in reed pen and later, at Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur- Oise, he experimented with rhythm and colour. Examples of those works are reproduced here. This magnificent volume is organised chronologically, and records the artist’s work during the early years, his townscapes,


portraits of popular characters, the superb drawings of rural life, his


paintings in pen and colour while he was in the psychiatric clinic, and his last, highly innovative works. A volume to treasure. 192 pages 30cm x 24.5cm with 170 colour illustrations.


£24.95 NOW £11


vernacular. Here the author has brought together nearly 100 classic tile designs from the turn of the 20th century displaying multiple colours, many revealing striking Moorish influence and incorporating stylised flowers and leaves as well as rich abstract patterns. 64 page softback.


£12.49 NOW £3.50


72512 DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY - BRITISH


by John Ingamells


A bequest in 1811 of a treasure trove of paintings by, among others, Poussin, Rembrandt and Rubens, transformed the gallery into a major public collection, and it was given a purpose-built new building designed by Sir John Soane. The Linley bequest contributed several major canvases by Gainsborough, shifting the focus of the collection towards the previously neglected area of British art - a process further consolidated by many gifts and bequests, most notably that of Charles Fairfax Murray who, in 1911, donated over 50 spectacular paintings, mostly British. Here are a beautiful early Gainsborough An Unknown Couple in a Landscape, two Hogarths, Hudsons, Lucy Ebberton by George Knapton, a Kneller, a great Lely and many more. A volume to treasure. 287 pages 29cm x 22cm in colour and b/w. Previous owners and sales, numerical index and concordance. £40 NOW £15


72513 DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY:


Complete Illustrated Catalogue by Dr Richard Beresford


Dulwich Picture Gallery is England’s oldest public art gallery, founded in 1811, and is still extremely popular. This is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of the entire collection. Among the most renowned pictures are Rembrandt’s Girl at a Window, Rubens’ Venus, Mars and Cupid, Poussin’s The Triumph of David and Jean- Antoine Watteau’s Les Plaisirs du Bal. The gallery itself, specially commissioned to hold the collection, was designed by the great Regency architect Sir John Soane and it must surely be the only gallery in the world where its founders are interred in their own mausoleum right at the centre of the building, together with Desenfans’ wife! The entries here are arranged alphabetically, giving title, date, attribution, medium, inventory number and dimensions, with a brief biographical note for each artist. 320 pages 29.5cm x 26cm with 656 paintings, 150 of which are in colour. Chronology of Acquisitions. £59 NOW £17


72585 VISIONS OF CAMELOT by Jeff Menges


Subtitled Great Illustrations of King Arthur and His Court, this unique collection presents interpretations of medieval times and the chivalric code, from simply elegant to lavishly ornate, by legends N. C. Wyeth, Aubrey Beardsley, William Russell Flint, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, Willie Pogany, H. J. Ford and his wonderful woodcuts and others. 148 colour and b/w illus. 114 very large pages, softback. £15.99 NOW £4


72514 ROBERT BEVAN FROM GAUGUIN TO


CAMDEN TOWN by Frances Stenlake


Stenlake places Bevan in context, socially and geographically as well as artistically. She ranges from Pont-Aven to Exmoor, from Poland to north London, examines his interaction with other members of the Fitzroy Street, Camden Town and Cumberland Market Groups, and deals with his periods of self-imposed isolation painting the hills along the Somerset and Devon borders. Also included are paintings by his wife, Stanislawa de Karlowska, and studies of his son and daughter. The breadth of his subjects, from Cows at


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