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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Burlington Magazine
Apollo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
The magazine of the arts for connoisseurs and collectors.
Chats on Old Miniatures
Author: Joshua James FosterPublisher:
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Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Ellsworth Kelly
Author: Ellsworth KellyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783775732178
Category : Black in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The paintings of Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) are famous for their hard edges, minimalist abstraction and above all, their bright, vibrant colors. Less known are the black-and-white drawings, collages and paintings that preceded or accompanied many of them, despite the fact that they make up roughly 20 percent of his total output. Ellsworth Kelly: Black & White and the exhibition it accompanies bring together the artist's color-free work for the first time, and offer a fresh take on his long career, emphasizing his use of shape, contrast, texture and his incorporation of such everyday objects as a broken windowpane, a handrail shadow or the leaf of a plant into his abstraction. This catalogue makes clear that the scale of contrast between black and white was key to Kelly's artistic self-discovery and subsequent development, and is crucial to any proper understanding of his oeuvre.
Oxford and Its Story
Author: Cecil HeadlamPublisher: London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company
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Category : Oxford
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayFonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Europe 1450 to 1789
Author: Jonathan DewaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780684312002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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