"Gold medal winner at the 5th World Biennale of Architecture and recipient of the AIA Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Books, these two volumes form a survey of the formative years of Chicago's modern architecture and design from 1872-1993."
"Stay in touch, enclose a photo, or send invitations to a soiree with a card reproducing a charming dancing couple painted by Pierre-August Renoir. This City Dance, Country Dance set of portfolio notes from Galison features two paintings that were commissioned by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel. The oil on canvas paintings were exhibited in Renoir's first-ever one-man show in 1883. Today, our two couples continue their dance at the Musée d ..."
"An Impressionist postcard book from Galison is a great gift to keep and enjoy or use and spread the enjoyment. Enjoy details of paintings by Impressionist and Impressionist-influenced painters including Degas, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Seurat and Monet. Thirty full-colour postcards and are bound into a paperback book."
"Galison's lovely Impressionists by the Water cards reproduce details of four different painters working on the shore: a woman in white gazing over the ocean in Childe Hassam's 1913 The South Ledges, Appledore; bathers frolicking on the beach at The Captain's Pier, by William Glackens; the red boats in Monet's Argenteuil from 1875 and a Renoir painting of figures on the beach with red-roofed houses and hills in the background. Includes 1 ..."
""This volume is the first to explore fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressionism, starting in the 1860s and continuing through the next two decades, when ..."
"From the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s two artistic legends, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, executed numerous paintings side by side as they worked in Pontoise and Auvers. This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition of 74 paintings and 8 drawings that embody the core of the two artists' collaboration and explores their artistic relationship in detail. The artists' dynamic interaction began with their first meeting at the ..."
"As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficien ..."
"After an exhausting trip to Madrid to see paintings by Diego Velásquez, Édouard Manet declared in a letter that the seventeenth-century master was "the greatest artist," He was also the greatest influence on Manet, whose bold handling of color and space had revolutionized figure painting. Manet/Velásquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting accompanied an landmark exhibition that opened in Paris in 2002 and traveled to the Metropolita ..."
"The French artist Édouard Manet was delighted when a client who purchased his painting of a bunch of asparagus paid more than the asking price. So he sent a special thank-you--a tiny image of a single pale spear of the prized vegetable. These and other lushly painted still lifes of flowers, fruits, and other foodstuffs, isolated or in groups, form one of the most beguiling aspects of Manet's output from the 1860s through the early '80s. ..."
"Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins - the first in twenty years - presen ..."
"One hundred years apart, the Japanophile and contemporary crafts- person were
influenced by the concepts that art and craft as well as artist and craftsperson
could be one and the same, and that ... In particular, they were drawn to so-called
primitive cultures found in Peru, Mexico, India, Afghanistan. Indonesia, and Africa
.18 Some traveled under the umbrella of the Peace Corps with the intention ol
making practical and humanitari ..."
"Many of Alfred Sisley's wistful, lyrical landscapes radiate with beauty, originality, and technical brilliance, but his reclusive nature and the uneven quality of his output have made him the least known of the major Impressionists. In this handsome book, an international team of scholars presents a broad-ranging analysis of Sisley and his work. By focusing on sixty-five of his best paintings, the book allows us to appreciate Sisley's c ..."
"Impressionism Postimpressiionism 2011 Wall Calendar: Impressionism Postimpressiionism Wall Calendar: The Muse dOrsay, in Paris, France, is the worlds largest repository of Impressionist and Postimpressionist art and home to many of the most important works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century masters of these genres. This calendar presents thirteen paintings featured in the museums landmark exhibitions Birth of Impressionism: Masterpiec ..."
"After an exhausting trip to Madrid to see paintings by Diego Velázquez, Edouard Manet declared in a letter that the 17th-century master was "the greatest artist". He was also the greatest influence on Manet, whose bold handling of colour and space had revolutionised figure painting. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting accompanied a landmark exhibition that opened in Paris in 2002 and travelled to the Metropolitan Muse ..."
"Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins - the first in twenty years - presen ..."
"This publication is issued in conjunction with the 1998 exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and scheduled for venues in England and France."
"Nadar (1820-1910), whose real name was Felix Tournachon, was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in 19th-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over--as a bohemian writer, journalist, romantic utopian, caricaturist, photographer, and scientific innovator. This book catalogues nearly 200 of his finest works, 98 of them in color."
"Folio. 141 (3) pp, L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune by Jean-Michel Nectoux, including L'Apres-Midi d"un Faune by Stphane Mallarme; Portrait of the Artist As a Faun by Jean-Michel Nectoux; Testaments: texts by Vaslav Nijinsky, Oskar Kokoschka, Gaston Calmette, Odilon Redon, Auguste Redon, Hugo von Hoffmansthal; Nijinsky and De Meyer by Phillipe Neagu; the De Meyer Album; "A Simple and Logical Means``: Nijinsky, The Spirit of the Times and Faun by ..."