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Art and Architecture


75228 PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART edited by James


Beechey and Chris Stephens Picasso’s enormous influence on British modernism is explored through seven of his British contemporaries, for whom he proved to be an important stimulus. They are Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry


Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. This volume helps us to appreciate more fully the work of those artists who have come to be seen as central to any story of Modern British Art, and to realise how their story connects with that of Picasso. In the pre- and inter-war period, the work of Picasso could generally only be seen in small galleries and the houses of a select group of private collectors, by the post-war period he was permanently represented in the National Collections. So, too, were the modern artists who came under his influence. Readers will be fascinated to compare Hockney’s Christopher Without His Glasses and Picasso’s Portrait of Emilie Marguerite Walter, and Sutherland’s Composition: Devastation with Picasso’s Guernica. 240 paperback pages 30cm x 23.5cm, over 160 plates in glowing colour and b/ w, chronology and list of exhibited works.


£24.99 NOW £8.50 75251 PICASSO: Masterpieces from the Musée


National Picasso, Paris by Alex Nyerges and Anne Baldassari A very beautiful exhibition catalogue we have imported of an ambitious project staged at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts charting his whole career from the Blue Period to the final years of his


life. Paintings, sculptures and constructions as well as graphic and photographic works, this chronologically arranged itinerary begins with a small yet iconic canvas dating to 1901 entitled The Death of Casagemas, a portrait by Picasso of his double and friend as artiste maudit and concludes with a self portrait in the form of a homage to Velázquez and Rembrandt, The Musician, dating from 1972. Sailors in a Brothel, The Kiss, Standing Nude, Bull’s Head, Reclining Nude, many portraits of Dora Maar, The Embrace, Reading, Bust of a Woman, the vibrant Two Women Running on the Beach from 1922, The Village Dance, Violin, Construction of Sheet Metal and Wire, Man with a Guitar are among the varied, spectacular examples, each given one very large page and reproduced in quality colour. With a short quote to introduce each section. 272 huge glossy pages in Skira softback.


$39.95 NOW £16 74572 ROBERT ADAM: The Search for


a Modern Classicism by Richard John In this polemical and beautifully illustrated book, Professor John examines the work of Robert Adam, now director of the largest traditional architectural firm in Europe, ADAM Architecture. In the early 1970s, Adam was granted a scholarship at the British School in Rome and, although it was then unfashionable, turned to traditional design. In the 1980s, he became one of the spokesmen for the emerging body of traditional designers in the UK and abroad. He continued to draw from the entire classical tradition, spanning a time-scale from ancient Greece to the 1930s. From 2000 onwards, Adam was instrumental in the establishment of the Traditional Architecture Group, The International Network for Traditional Building, the Council for European Urbanism and the Academy of Urbanism, which have firmly established traditional architecture as part of the UK scene. He trusts that it will develop further as a major challenge to the orthodoxy of modernism. 28 x 28 x 2.5cm, 256 pages, colour photos, drawings and plans. £40 NOW £10


75618 UFFIZI & PITTI: The Paintings, the


Artists, the Schools Of Painting by Mina Gregori


The Uffizi, the Palatine Gallery, the Accademia and other Italian national collections were closely tied at first to the Medici family. The Uffizi Gallery since the 1600s has been admired for its wonderful objects and later for its classical sculpture and was laid out with a magnificence inspired by Ancient Roman galleries. Enjoy here a ‘monumental’ tome of 648 pages 9" x 12" and a real heavyweight at over 4kg because of the quality of the colour illustrations and plates. Many are double and full page spreads featuring by Titian, Tintoretto, Dürer, Federico Barocci, Guercino, Giovanni Bilivert, Volterrano, Rubens, a whole section on the Netherlands, dramatic biblical scenes like the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew by de Ribera and the lifelike portraits and scenes created by Velázquez and Goya, the classical dreamlike quality of Poussin and the cherubic depictions by Boucher among the hundreds and hundreds of examples, beautifully reproduced. Covering late and international Gothic style, Italian painting, the 13th century onwards plus Germany, Flanders, Spain in 16th century and more. £99 NOW £47.50


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75693 BECKMANN & AMERICA: Art to Hear Book and CD by Hatje Kantz


41 important paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture present the ‘Half American’ Max Beckmann (1884-1950) in an entirely new art and listening experience. The official audio guide has been recorded onto a 75 minute CD for the occasion of a major exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. You will hear all about the highlights of the exhibition and in tandem you can observe all the plates of the works discussed, one per full page in this 60 page hardback book. We love Back Bend, a 1950 bronze, the wild and sometimes grotesque nudes such as in Early Men - Primeval landscape, watercolour, gouache and ink drawings and the precise lithographs like the Day and Dream series of Sleeping Athlete and King and Demagogue. 47 illus in colour where possible. ONLY £5


75253 TIFFANY: Color and Light edited by Rosalind Pepall


‘Glass of all hues and colours’ - streaky, mottled or spotted, feather, streamer, drapery, hammered, ‘jewels’ or cabochons, ripple glass, fractured or confetti glass. Tiffany’s furnace managed to combine four to five different colours thanks to Nach’s expertise and certain colours combined in the molten state or when cooling. The results are spectacular. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) first set out to become a painter and was influenced by his trip to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt via Europe which he began in July 1870. His Orientalist-inspired rooms he later decorated for clients demonstrate the influence and Tiffany concentrated on the atmospheric effects of light in his canvases. Tiffany had been inspired by the principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement and was the product of the American Aesthetic Movement’s love of ornamentation and colour. His work was exhibited beside the swirling lines and patterns of French Art Nouveau and his love of the mysteries of the glass medium drew him into the Symbolist spirit of the period. His first leaded-glass window in his Bella Apartments studio was radical in its assembly of contrasting painterly and sculptural effects in glass. He went on to create and original Tiffany style. This spectacular showcase publication is a tremendously heavy outsize tome with gold blocking and tipped in illustration to the front, cloth spine and containing 185 colour illus in 264 pages. Nine specialists examine Tiffany’s prodigious productions from his earliest window to the ‘Peacock’ vases and signature Wisteria and Dragonfly lamps, his domestic and ecclesiastical windows, stunning mosaics and glass tiles, even tall- cased clock faces and entrance halls. A Skira publication. $60 NOW £22.50


75860 DAVID BOMBERG: Spirit in the Mass edited by Edward King


A Slade School contemporary of Stanley Spencer and Ben Nicholson, David Bomberg went through a number of different styles, starting with muted tones reminiscent of the Camden School and followed by the simplified abstractions of his Futurist phase, for instance the angular forms of “In the Hold”, inspired by the docklands close to his native Whitechapel. Following World War I, this style was the basis for several modernist masterpieces such as the powerful “Ghetto Theatre”, but on a visit to Palestine with his wife Alice he returned to Realism, using strong impasto and a limited palette. Working in the open air, he produced many sketches like the “Temple of Isis at Petra”, executed at speed. Bomberg’s Toledo paintings are more studied, but failing to find a buyer on his return to London, he turned to portraiture and some of his most striking canvases date from this period, a particularly vivid image being a portrait of his second wife Lilian in a red hat. Following another visit to Spain he adopted the freer, semi-abstract approach to landscape that would be his permanent style, shocking the War Artists’ Committee with the rawness of his picture of Burton-on-Trent bomb store, though when the arsenal subsequently exploded, destroying much of the neighbourhood, his vision seemed vindicated. 96pp, softback, fully illustrated in colour, chronology. £15 NOW £7.50


75258 MANET AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by Juliette Wilson-Bareau and David Degener


On the 19th June 1864, the United States warship Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg in one of the most celebrated naval engagements of the American Civil War. Manet’s paintings of the naval engagement and his portrait of the victorious Kearsarge belonged to a group of his seascapes of Boulogne whose unorthodox perspective and composition would profoundly influence the course of French painting. His paintings and watercolours are then considered alongside numerous prints, lithographs, letters and photographs and archival illustrations. A final chapter touches on Old Master paintings to Chinese woodblock prints. 86 large pages, softback. ONLY £5


76126 SCHOOL OF GENIUS: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts by James Fenton


For all visitors to Burlington House, we can now better appreciate the collections of paintings, sculptures and drawings in this most elegant exhibition space be it to visit a Van Dyck show or to experience African or Aztec art, or the annual Summer Exhibition. Charles West Cope RA’s ‘The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition’ 1876 has been chosen together with John Constable’s The Leaping Horse 1825 and John William Waterhouse RA’s A Mermaid for the opening double page spreads of this weighty and substantial history of the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768. James Fenton delights in colourful Academy characters, interweaving intrigue with hard fact, charting changes in direction that anticipate or respond to events of the time and focuses on the many storms weathered, successes and failure and hopes for the future. Posters, cartoons, archive and new photos. 320pp, 26.5 x 21cm. Rare April 2006 publication. £35 NOW £15


Masterpieces of Lasting Beauty


76526 STORY OF BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE


by Claudia Zanlungo and Daniela Tarabra


Originating in the late 16th century and continuing to the early 1900s, Baroque swept the globe, from Europe to South America. The period is distinguished by complex architectural shapes designed to heighten emotion and dramatize


experience. This accessibly written and generously illustrated volume features the Baroque style’s most important buildings and cities and their architects - among them Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Guarino Guarini and Michelangelo, who was later to be recognised as the father of Baroque architecture. It was a time when those who held the reins of power devoted vast amounts of energy and resources to the display of their authority, whether royal or papal. Art and architecture were seen as the most effective means to display presumed superiority. Artists sought to communicate the truth of faith and the power of Rome. Baroque architecture stood out prominently as being a wonderfully innovative fusion of science and art to create a harmonious blend of grandiose rhetoric and rational clarity. From the magnificent canopy over the main altar in St Peter’s Church at the Vatican to the spectacular and theatrical Transparente in Toledo Cathedral in Spain, this gorgeous book will capture readers’ minds and hearts. 160 pages very lavishly illustrated with beautiful interior and exterior colour photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans and index of places. Paperback. £14.99 NOW £5


76529 STORY OF ROMANESQUE


ARCHITECTURE by Francesca Prina


The primary characteristics of the Romanesque style of architecture are its clearly defined forms and its deceptive overall appearance of simplicity. As will be seen from this splendid review, however, Romanesque architecture produced


some magnificent, complex and large-scale edifices from Britain, Germany, France and Spain to Italy and even Scandinavia. Glorious examples of this are Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Durham Cathedral in England and Mont Saint-Michel in France. In fact, its robustness - based on sculptural forms and principles of the styles of antiquity - aimed to provide a sense of security, solidity and power. The buildings embodied the ideas and aspirations of the Holy Roman Empire, the Church and the city, the three main elements on which European history hinged at the start of the second millennium. From the prestigious fortified Valentré Bridge at Cahors in France to the resplendent forms, light and colours of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, Italy, the masterpieces shown and


described in this superb volume have a lasting beauty all their own. 144 pages furnished with glorious colour and b/w photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans as well as index of places. Paperback. £14.99 NOW £5


76091 DALI: Great Artists Collection: Book and Prints by Jessica Toyne


This splendid large 64 page softback reproduces in glossy colour many of his most famous etchings, sculptures and surreal oil paintings. Dalí was the Spanish Surrealist painter, also a highly skilled draughtsman made famous by his bizarre images. His most popular work The Persistence of Memory (1931) led him to critical acclaim and he was also well known for his work in sculpture, photography, fashion, cinema and books. The Enigma of William Tell, the impossibly elongated figure with its right buttock propped up by a crutch, Lace Maker After Vermeer are included. Six colour 8" x 10" and ready-to- frame prints. ONLY £4


76092 GAUGUIN: Great Artists Collection:


Book and Prints by Sara Haynes The Yellow Christ 1889, The Swine Herd 1888, The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch 1892, Still Life with Puppies 1888, Night Café at Arles, Hail Mary 1891 and Four Breton Girls 1886 are among the beautifully produced colour reproductions in this rather special gift pack. The 64 page softback provides an excellent introduction with a biography, the paintings, self portraits and legacy of Gauguin in the 21st century. His search for a more primitive existence would lead him to the South Pacific and Tahiti. Book and 6 ready-to-frame 8" x 10" colour prints. ONLY £3


76115 VAN GOGH IN BLOOM: An Objet d’art Book by Edward Leffingwell


This Accordion Book comes in an attractive slipcase reproducing Van Gogh’s Sunflowers from 1889. The large colour reproductions appear on one side of the fold out book, and an essay along with reproductions of additional works are enjoyed on the other side. Against


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ARCHITECTURE by Francesca Prina


Part of a new, accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this volume features the Gothic period’s most important architects, buildings and cities, with interior and exterior photos, detailed images, drawings and plans. A


hallmark of the medieval period, Gothic architecture originated in 12th century France and lasted until the 16th century. Some of the world’s most famous castles, universities, churches and cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey in London and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, were designed according to Gothic principles. This superb volume traces its origins to the Ile de France and follows the development of the style through Cistercian architecture and the first English Gothic such as Canterbury Cathedral, through High Gothic, which influenced Germany, France, Italy and Venice to name but a few, right to the final years of the Middle Ages, when Gothic buildings were to be found in Prague, Poland, Spain, Portugal and many English cities. Revelling in these pictures, it is not difficult to see why the style was so popular and why its remaining buildings attract so many tourists to view and wonder at them. 144 paperback pages packed with glorious colour photographs and index of places. £14.99 NOW £5


76762 THE STORY OF ARCHITECTURE: Set of Three


Buy all three and save even more. £44.97 NOW £12


76347 AN OUTLINE OF EUROPEAN


ARCHITECTURE by Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was considered to be the most influential writer on the history of architecture in the first half of the 20th century. He established his reputation with this book, regarded as a seminal work,


which has inspired countless students, though he is probably best known for his celebrated series of guides The Buildings of England, published between 1951 and 1974. He was also the founder of The Pelican History of Art and Architecture, the most comprehensive history of art ever published in English. Pevsner believed that the history of architecture was primarily a history of man shaping space. With this as his starting point, he reviewed the most beautiful and dramatic structures that represent the styles and cultures of Europe from the 4th century onwards. His grand tour of Romanesque basilicas, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance villas and Baroque churches eloquently defines ‘the changing spirits of changing ages’. In later chapters, he considers the revival of medieval forms in the age of Romanticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement through to the radical and unsparing geometry of 20th century Modernism. His survey concludes in the post- war years and the start of the redefinition of many devastated cityscapes. In a new preface, Michael Forsyth brings the review right up to the present day. 256 pages with over 200 gorgeous colour photographs and new plans, notes, some technical terms explained, index of people and index of places. 21.6 x 27.9cm. $60 NOW £15


an intense blue sky, here is a lone pink-blossomed peach tree, rustic apricot orchards, iris blossoms and sunflowers. Together they are a passionate celebration of the Provençal countryside which Vincent Van Gogh enjoyed from 1888 when he left Paris for Arles. £7.99 NOW £4.25


75993 VISIONS OF SPLENDOUR IN ISLAMIC


ART AND CULTURE by Nasser D. Khalili A spectacular gatefold timeline following the history of the Islamic nations runs the whole length of the chart and the dates are usefully presented according to both the Western and the Islamic calendars. The history of Islam stretches from the 7th century to the present, and


encompasses an area from Spain to Indonesia, North Africa to the Steppes. Over 50 of the world’s 193 countries are of the Muslim faith, with a total population of approximately 1.3 billion, and the material culture of the Muslim peoples is richly varied, taking in both architectural projects on a vast scale and minutely detailed miniature paintings, exquisitely patterned silk textiles and bold yet sophisticated calligraphy. Individual chapters are devoted to Qur’ans, bookbinding, lacquer- painting, silk textiles, calligraphy, pottery and ceramics, glass and rock crystal, metalwork, jewellery, carpets, textiles, coins and many more. An exquisite 189 pages 32cm x 22cm very lavishly illustrated in magnificently detailed colour with gatefold map, major Islamic dynasties, timeline of Islamic art and architecture, glossary, list of museums and major private collections, rotating wheel of landmark achievements of Islamic art, and quick reference chart to today’s Islamic nations. £14.99 NOW £6.50


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