"The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the sixteen incisive chapters, focusing on a single book, is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the promising scholars of today. In bringing these cross-generational contributions together, the book presents a varied and invaluable ..."
Sisley(2nd Edition) Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library) by RichardShone Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1998 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3051-3, ISBN: 0-7148-3051-8
"Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist. English-born, he lived all his life in France, and the 61 colour illustrations in this book include the celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly, and his paintings and colourful regattas on the Thames with Kenneth Clark described as embodying "the pe ..."
"The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead, and G. E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artist ..."
Head first portraits from the Arts Council Collection. by RichardShone Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1999 by South Bank Centre ISBN-13: 978-1-85332-173-3, ISBN: 1-85332-173-7
Sisley(Updated) Color Library (Phaidon Colour Library) by RichardShone, Alfred Sisley Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1994 by Phaidon Inc Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3231-9, ISBN: 0-7148-3231-6
"5); Johnson 1976, pp. 165 (no. 5), 202 (figs. 27, 28); Spies 1971, pp. 17-18, [35] (
fig. 4), 301 (no. 4); Spies 2000, pp. 23 — 24, [27] (pl- 4, color), 334 (1111 63-65),
335 (Im- 74-77), 346 (fig- 4), 394 (no- 4)Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 35. Head ofa
Jester, cast ca. 1925 after composition of 1905 Head of a Jester is one of the
earliest and most obviously traditional of Picasso's sculptures: modeled in clay
and later cast in bronze ..."
"The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience. And now you can buy the guide before your visit. Authoritative texts and superb illustrations illuminate the history of the place and tell the stories of the people who hav ..."
Sickert Pages Torn from the Book of Life - An Exhibition of Prints 1883-1929 by RichardShone, Gordon Cooke, Walter Sickert Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Fine Art Society ISBN-13: 978-0-905062-08-2, ISBN: 0-905062-08-6
"The Fine Art Society PLC at C.G. Boerner Inc., New York. Preface written by Gordon Cooke."
"An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth century Written by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first published in 1898, to Hans Belting’s provo ..."
The Post-impressionists by RichardShone Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1984 by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8317-7111-9, ISBN: 0-8317-7111-9
"The influence of Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne on late nineteenth-century art is examined."
The Post-impressionists(1st Edition) by RichardShone Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1979 by Octopus Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7064-1093-8, ISBN: 0-7064-1093-9
"One of the aims of this book is to show the pervasive influence Post-Impressionists exercised on a host of other painters in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century."
"The French Impressionist paintings collected by Janice H. Levin and her husband, Philip, graced the walls of their Fifth Avenue apartment until her death in 2001. Among them were views by Claude Monet of his garden at Argenteuil and the cliffs at Pourville; works by Edgar Degas (the pastel Portraits at the Stock Exchange and a pastel and two bronzes of ballerinas); lush landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Eugene Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Camill ..."
Sisley(1st Edition) by RichardShone Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-2687-5, ISBN: 0-7148-2687-1
"Alfred Sisley (1839-99) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the nineteenth century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. His celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Pont-Marly and the colourful regattas on the Thames achieve a superb tonal balance and poetry of mood, while also giving a lively depiction of their subjects. Richard Shone brings a fresh eye and an intimate know ..."
"First published to accompany the exhibition From Omega to Charleston: The Art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, 1910-1934, this fully illustrated publication explores the life and works of two of the most innovative and influential British artists of the twentieth century. With a substantial essay and catalogue entries by Richard Shone (author of Bloomsbury Portraits, 1993 and curator of The Art of Bloomsbury, Tate, 1999), the catalogue ..."
"An elegant compilation of Cézanne's drawings and prints from the collection of the late Karsten SchubertIn honor of the generous bequest by the late Karsten Schubert, founder of Ridinghouse, to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, this luxurious book, featuring a tipped-on cover drawing, focuses exclusively on Paul Cézanne’s (1839–1906) drawings and prints of diverse subjects: from portraits and bather scenes to landscapes and copie ..."
Bloomsbury Portraits(Updated) Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle by RichardShone, Vanessa Bell, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1993 by Phaidon Press Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-2961-6, ISBN: 0-7148-2961-7
"Few groups of artists and writers have been the object of as much study as the Bloomsbury group. This book, originally published in 1976, was the first to look at the contribution of the painters of the group, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and Duncan Grant (1885-1978), not only within the context of Bloomsbury but also from the wider perspective of modern British art. In a vivid narrative, Richard Shone weaves together the artists' private l ..."
Toulouse-Lautrec(Reprint) by RichardShone Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 1985 by Olympic Marketing Corp ISBN-13: 978-0-917923-05-0, ISBN: 0-917923-05-7
"Born into a noble French family, but cut off from his own class by an accident which left him with the stunted legs of a child, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec threw himself into the bohemian life of fin-de-siecle Paris. Through the intensity of his artistic vision, this world lives on."
Sisley(1st Edition) (Colour Plate Books) by RichardShone, Alfred Sisley, E. H. Ramsden Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1979 by Phaidon Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-1962-4, ISBN: 0-7148-1962-X
"Alfred Sisley (1839-99) was one of the most prominent and historically significant landscape painters of the nineteenth century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. His celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, and his views of the flooded Seine at Pont-Marly and the colourful regattas on the Thames achieve a superb tonal balance and poetic resonance, while also giving a lively depiction of their subjects. Richard Shon ..."
"The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead, and G. E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artist ..."
""Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) is one of the great figures of British painting. He is perhaps most famous for his depictions of the music hall, its artistes, audience and elaborate interiors; and for his vibrant views of Venice and Dieppe. In recent years his later works - portraits and scenes from contemporary theatre - have gained him new admirers." "Sickert's range of subject was enormous and his technical achievement both searc ..."