76402 MY HIGHEST PLEASURES: William Hunter’s Art Collection


by Peter Black, Mungo Campbell,


Anne Dulau and Helen McCormack William Hunter was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts on its foundation in 1768, a post that was specially created for him. All London attended his sparkling lectures, whether directed at artists or at medical students, and visited the unique museum that he established as a study collection. In addition to the extensive catalogue and appendices, this splendid volume presents a revised edition of the text of Hunter’s manuscript notes for his lectures to the Royal Academy as well as biographical essays by specialists on Glasgow, his native town, plus Hunter’s taste as an art collector, his collection as a whole, and his original museum in London. This collection is the only one formed by one of the founding members of the Royal Academy that survives today. It was remarkable at the time and remains so today. This revealing book examines, and at the same time documents in full, the art works that he bequeathed to the University and the town of Glasgow. It was the age of Hogarth, Stubbs and Reynolds, a time of particular ferment as regards the arts in Britain, and this insightful volume analyses Hunter’s paintings in relation to the taste of the period. The paintings, which include such masterworks as Portrait of a Lady by Rembrandt, Colonel Acland and Lord Sidney by Reynolds and Landscape with the Tomb of Phaethon by Millet, are


considered alongside books, prints and other objects illustrating the intellectual agenda that lay behind Hunter’s acquisitions and his relationship with other artists. 192 peerless pages lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. Chronology. £30 NOW £10


understanding of perfection...’ Rocking a baby to sleep, their endless fascination, singing to her, telling them about life. With an angelic baby at the end, big round eyes, pink squidgy belly, 2000 first edition. 43 colour illus.


$12.95 NOW £2.75


64161 REGINALD BRILL by Judith Bumpus


Reginald Brill, 1902-1974, was an English realist painter who has recently begun to receive the recognition enjoyed during their lifetimes by Stanley Spencer and William Roberts. He studied at the Slade School and, at the age of 31, became Head Master at Kingston School of Art in Surrey, later becoming its principal. He transformed a poorly organised and cramped institution into one of the most respected art schools in the country. This is the first major study of Brill using his diaries, archive material and anecdotes from friends and students. 89 of his works are reproduced in colour plus 46 monochromes and sketches. Subjects range from the prosaic - three GPO telephone line men in their canvas shelter - to the majestic interior of a mosque in Cairo. First edition, 1999. 144 large pages. £37.50 NOW £6


75149 BOTTICELLI by Barbara Deimling ‘Pallas and the Centaur’, in which Pallas Athene is twisting the Centaur’s hair, represent the victory of chastity. Love is the dominant theme in ‘Venus and Mars’ and also in ‘The Birth of Venus’, acquired by the Medici family in the early 17th century, though it is not certain who commissioned it. Botticelli’s religious paintings are suffused with intense feeling, expressed for instance in the pose of the crouching Angel of the Annunciation, and in Mary lamenting over the dead Christ. Perspective becomes less important in these later paintings where spiritual power dominates, but Botticelli’s elegant figures and dynamic composition remain instantly recognisable. 96pp, 91 colour plates, chronology. ONLY £9


75256 EDWARD W. REDFIELD: Just Values


And Other Fine Seeing by Constance Kimmerle Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1887, which had been transformed by the teaching of the great Thomas Eakins, and also travelled to Britain and France. By the end of the century Redfield was widely regarded as the stylistic leader of the Pennsylvania impressionist school of painting. Come the 20th century, he was one of most popular and widely exhibited painters in America, his life and work viewed as an embodiment of the national spirit of American progress, raw and energetic. This book features over 65 exhibits, each reproduced in colour with full descriptions, dates, medium etc and also, when possible, contemporary comments or correspondence regarding the work. Subjects include a decorated blanket chest and boxes he painted, canals and harbors in Maine painted in oils in all seasons, cherry blossoms, a sleigh, Evening on the Seine, Dune Walk in France, charcoal studies of nudes and an elderly man, a beautiful house and garden scenes in summer, with his wife seated under a wisteria arbour, even a fine portrait of Thomas Eakins. With an


excellent essay on his life and work, colour and b/w family photos. 142pp, 8½”×11" softback exhibition catalogue.


£22 NOW £8


www.YouTube.com - Type in bibliophilebooks to see our video book reviews of books available to buy 74003 GAUGUIN CÉZANNE MATISSE:


www.bibliophilebooks.com


Visions of Arcadia by Joseph J. Rishel The notion of a golden age set in an earthly paradise has long kindled the human imagination. This superbly illustrated catalogue focuses on three monumental paintings - Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? painted in 1897-8, Paul Cézanne’s Large Bathers (1900- 1906) and Henri Matisse’s Bathers By A River (1909- 1913, 1916-17). Cézanne’s Large Bathers in particular had a profound impact on the European avant-garde. Why did the subject hold such fascination for the generation of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Pablo Picasso and Robert Delaunay? Masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot also serve as examples of the high value given to Arcadia in the history of French painting. These are joined by major works from the likes of Henri Rousseau and Paul Signac, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc and Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova. 243 pages 31cm x 25cm with plates in faithful colour, gatefold. $40 NOW £12.50


74903 PUBLIC ART SINCE 1950 by Lynn Pearson


Following the 1951 Festival of Britain, post-war public art encompassed a wide range of intriguing, curious and colourful artworks in urban and rural locations throughout Britain. Abstract or historical murals were often integrated with new buildings. In the 1990s and early 21st century, public art became a tourist attraction. Our guide offers nearly 200 of the most interesting and accessible works in the UK, Channel Islands and Scotland. A Shire paperback, 80pp, colour illus. £5.99 NOW £2.50


74931 ANCIENT AMERICAN ART IN DETAIL by Colin McEwan


The breathtakingly lovely objects in this luxurious volume are fashioned from jade, turquoise, feather- work, metalwork, wood, stone, ceramics and textiles. Drawing on the extraordinary breadth and depth of the British Museum’s American collection, and with essays written by an expert in Ancient American art, this beautifully photographed work offers fascinating insights into the design and production of a wide range of objects from Mexico and Central and South America. Enlarged details, chosen specifically to inspire, illuminate and surprise bring readers close to the world of the Olmecs, Mayans, Mixtecs, Aztecs and Incas. 144 pages, illustrated, 21 x 22cm. $21.95 NOW £4


74022 THE BOOK OF MIRACLES by Till-Holger Borchert and Joshua Waterman


The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular new discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The nearly complete surviving illustrated manuscript which was created in the Swabian Imperial Free City of Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages with large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolour depicting wondrous and often eerie celestial phenomena, constellations, conflagrations and floods as well as other catastrophes and occurrences. It deals with events ranging from the creation of the world and incidents drawn from the Old Testament, ancient tradition and medieval chronicles to those that took place in the immediate present of the book’s author. With the illustrations of the visionary Book of Revelation, it even includes the future end of the world. The surprisingly modern looking, sometimes hallucinatory illustrations and the cursory descriptions of the Book of Miracles strikingly convey a unique view of the concerns and anxieties of the 16th century, of apocalyptic thinking and eschatological expectation. The present facsimile volume reproduces the Book of Miracles in its entirety for the first time. With an extensive description of the manuscript and its miniatures, as well as a complete transcript of the text, accompany the facsimile. With booklet in a clamshell box, 12.6" x 8.5", 560 pages. Text in English, French and German. From Taschen. ONLY £100


75206 10,000 YEARS OF ART by Phaidon Press Limited


A compact guide to the whole of art history, from 8,000 BC to the present day. 500 masterworks from all cultures are presented in chronological order so that readers can compare what was being created across the globe at the same time. Only here can you find for example Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de’ Benci next to an ink painting from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, or Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon alongside a face mask from Gabon. With descriptive text that sets each work in context explaining its contribution to the development of art, and the medium in which it was created. Roughly 40 consultants and writers were involved in its production. 544 pocket sized softback pages, colour reproductions, glossary. £7.95 NOW £4.75


75619 VENETIAN VILLAS: The History and Culture


by Michelangelo Muraro and Paolo Marton Nearly 80 superb villas in the province of the Veneto, many Palladian, are captured in 400 beautiful large colour photographs. Dotted over the evocative landscape adjacent to Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso and other centres are world-famous country houses, manors and villas in their beautifully landscaped or magnificent and rustic settings. Those designed by the great Andrea Palladio and his followers inspired celebrated houses and palaces in 18th century Britain and Colonial America. Names of these villas recall Venetian power and splendour - Comaro, Barbaro, Contarini, Foscari. The book is arranged chronologically and each villa assessed historically, architecturally and artistically within a suite of photographs, some with plans and elevations. Following the 112 page introduction is the first section beginning with Petrarch’s house, his coat of arms, and contemporary photographs of exterior and interior and the poet’s study with a beautiful wooden chair. Next is the Palazzo da Mula on the Isle of Murano, the palace appears to float on water. Slipcased, a huge monumental 13" x 11" volume, maps, 514pp in delicious colour, many double page spreads of rich interiors and close ups of tapestries and masterpieces. £110 NOW £32


75152 1000 TATTOOS by Henk Schiffmacher and Burkhard Riemschneider


This edition of 1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs and photos - from 19th century engravings to tribal body art, from circus ladies of the ’20s to classic biker designs -giving a fascinating insight into the art of tattooing. Repulsive to many yet irritatingly and endlessly fascinating to look at, here are 1,000 classic tattoo designs; ethnographic tattoos, Japanese tattoos, the early days to contemporary tattoo art. The opening chapter covers the history and practice of tattooing. The text is in German, French and English and the balance of this 544 page heavyweight hardback are the breathtaking designs themselves. 5.5" x 7.7". Erotic for some. From Taschen. ONLY £11


75012 MONUMENTS OF EGYPT AND NUBIA by Ippolito Rosellini, edited by Franco Serini


The first international scientific mission to Egypt was launched by Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, led by two Egyptologists who were close friends, the Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion and the Italian Ippolito Rosellini. The new expedition had the enormous advantage that, following the Napoleonic discovery of the Rosetta Stone, Champollion had deciphered the hieroglyphic language and a much more systematic study was possible as a result. Rosellini’s Monuments of Egypt and Nubia was subsequently published using data from the expedition, and this beautifully illustrated book reproduces a selection of Rosellini’s prints together with views and scenes recorded by other artists. The plan and elevation of the Garden of Amun found in a Theban nobleman’s tomb is now destroyed, but Rosellini’s print shows papyrus plants and ducks swimming in ornamental pools. Ramesses III’s temple at Medinet Habu has a naval battle scene in which sea marauders attempt to conquer the well-armed Egyptians. 128pp, lavishly illus in colour, 36 x 26cm. £34.95 NOW £7


74951 DESCRIPTION DE L’EGYPTE: Napoleon’s Expedition and the Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt by Franco Serino


When Napoleon set out to conquer Egypt in 1798, he had set up the Institut de l’Egypte, an academy for studying antiquities. He had brought with him over 150 scholars whose job it was to record the culture and art of the nation. Their discoveries included unearthing the Rosetta Stone and their findings were published in four volumes, of which this large format compendium offers a selection. Artists such as Dominique Vivant Denon drew landscapes, battles, ceremonies, mosques, and above all, ancient ruins. Among the historic reproductions in this book are the Temple at Dendera, with cartouches of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Claudius and Caligula. In another print the monumental head of the Sphinx emerges from the sand, and a study of the tomb of Peheri, an 18th dynasty functionary, includes an artist sketching and a local man smoking a long pipe. Includes zodiacal and astrological motifs and texts. 128pp, illus in colour and b/w engravings. £19.95 NOW £6


74658 GREAT WORKS: 50 Paintings Explored by Tom Lubbock


First published in the Independent, here are 50 of Lubbock’s best essays on painting, which span 800 years of Western art from Giovanni Bellini to Jeremy Moon and from Rembrandt van Rijn to Jackson Pollock. Why was Edouard Vuillard’s genius confined to the decade when he worked at home? Having done Germolene, sticking plaster, marshmallows, prawn cocktail, pork paté and sausage meat, how many other ways could Philip Guston have found to paint pink? Lubbock’s writing is original and exciting. It finds Hitchcock’s lighting tricks on Suspicion compared to a still life by Francisco de Zurbaràn and the figure in Gwen John’s Girl In A Blue Dress withdrawing from life, ‘fading into its surface, pressed like a flower’. 216 pages, colour plates. £18.99 NOW £8


75215 FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW: Islamic Miniature Painting from The


David Collection by Kjeld von Folsach This breathtakingly beautiful publication takes 132 works to illustrate 650 years of Islamic painting from about 1200 to 1850, covering an area that reaches from Egypt, Iraq and Turkey to Central Asia, Iran and India. The very small medallion portraits, that are frequently termed ‘miniatures’ in the West, hardly exist in the Islamic world. This volume also includes a few Indian paintings that were made in a Hindu context, such as the Birth in a Palace on page 224. They were included because they were clearly inspired by the Indo-Islamic culture, and created when a Muslim dynasty ruled on the Indian subcontinent. Amazingly, the book reveals that the Koran expresses no unequivocal prohibition against images of the human figure, although there are warnings against polytheism and idolatry. Enjoy in this gorgeous volume such wonderful reproductions as The Iranian Princess tells Bahram Gut the Story of the Lovers’ Tribulations. 236 pages 33cm x 24.5cm in glorious colour with Map of the Islamic World and Islamic Dynasties.


$50 NOW £18


75254 TIGERS AND SAILS AND ABC TALES by Malcolm Cormack and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts


One masterpiece per right hand page, the A-Z begins with Renoir’s The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing 1901, Philip Reinagle’s Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog 1805, Renoir’s Pensive 1875, Walter Parry Hodges’ title page for ‘The Beaufort Hunt’ 1833 of a fox, curled up, penetrating eyes staring straight ahead at you through the picture frame, George Stubbs’ Hyena with a Groom on Newmarket Heath 1767, Pissarro’s Coconut Palms by the Sea, Picasso’s Jester on Horseback, Sir Alfred Munnings’ After the Race, Cheltenham, Rousseau’s Tropical Landscape to Sledding by George Henry Durrie and another American Winslow Homer, plus Manet, Derain and Matisse among the 26 works featured. Colour.


£12.95 NOW £3.50 76011 CODICES ILLUSTRES


by Ingo F. Walther, Norbert Wolf From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio’s Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante’s Divine Comedy, to open the world’s most famous illuminated manuscript Codices Illustres is to open the door into a precious, private world. This radiant book brings you face to face with 167 of the most exquisite and important manuscripts of the medieval age. From Vergilius Vaticanus, the Vienna Genesis, the Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels, The Book of Kells, the Utrecht Psalter, Aratea, the Vivian Bible, the Joshua Roll, the Paris Psalter, the Gospels of Otto III, Winchester Bible, Book of Antidotes, Bestiary all appear just within the first 150 pages. Of course there is also the Duc Jean de Berry, Books of Hours, Boccaccio, The Black Prayer Book, the Flemish Calendar, the History of Akbar and oh, so much more. To convey the sheer wealth of colours used in the original books, 212 pages were printed with gold as a fifth colour. Our edition contains a total of 66 double page illustrations and a further 20 important manuscripts not treated in the main text. Hundreds and hundreds of examples presented in brilliant large-format reproductions, these paradigms of miniature painting and illumination from the 4th century to 1600 were once the property of some of the greatest power players in history. Now art-historical treasures, they are worth many millions and typically tucked away in private collections or closely-guarded archives - until now. Although the focus of this collection is on European manuscripts, 23 examples are from Mexican, Persian, Ottoman and Indian tradition illustrate the refinement and intricacy of manuscript illumination in non-European cultures. An informative synopsis for each manuscript orients the reader at a glance, while a 36 page appendix contains biographies of the artists. Index and a glossary of technical terms. 167 of the finest classic examples, an expert text. 8.5" x 10.8", 504 heavy, glossy, richly coloured pages. Previously published by Taschen as ‘Masterpieces of Illumination’. ONLY £28


NEW GOAT The undisputed


heavyweight champion of books


Bantamweight edition (slimmed down from 50 to 15 pounds)


Film Just Released 76673 GOAT: GREATEST OF ALL TIME: A Tribute to


Muhammad Ali by Benedikt Taschen Four years in the making and the most


comprehensive study of Muhammad Ali to date, GOAT chronicles six decades of his life in


stunning detail. The project took place with the participation of Ali himself and those members of his inner circle who have been closest to him over the years, from managers and key corner men to friends, family and children, from spiritual and other advisors to broadcasters and journalists. A tome as heavyweight as the great man himself, Taschen's epic book is a phenomenal artefact that reflects the scale of Ali's many achievements. The coverage, depth, creativity and dazzling energy of its extraordinary subject is captured in over 1000 images, photography, art and memorabilia, as well as the best interviews and writing of the last five decades. It is a complete picture of the Champ.


Originally published in 2003 in a limited edition signed by Muhammad Ali, it is here available in an updated and revised edition, October 2010, and now in a finite supply of which Bibliophile is permitted to discount. The current Amazon price is 79.98 pounds. Measuring 39.6 x 9.7 x 49cm and weighing many kilos, it has 652 pages in glorious colour and comes in a special carry case for safe mailing and protection. See the glistening skin in the ring, that face of determination, the words of wisdom, the generosity of the humble sportsman, the Gorilla in Manila grinning broadly and many of his fantastic sayings and thoughts: 'White people are good thinkers, man, but they are crazy.' Get under the skin with this, the biggest, heaviest and most radiant book ever printed on the man who could float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. UK mainland despatch only due to weight of 6.85kg.


£99.99 NOW £65


5


BACK IN STOCK


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36