This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Leger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Helion and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in this important book include radical new evaluations of Derain, Leger, and Dufy, and penetrating studies of the final works of Picasso and Braque. Paris Without End, Jed Perl's first book, is now celebrating its twenty-fifth...
History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, CA. 150 Bce - 100 Ce
by S Rhie Quintanilla
This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jai...
Dai Palazzi Assiri Immagini Di Potere Da Assurnasirpal II Ad Assurbanipal (IX-VII SEC Ac) (Studia Archaeologica, #76)
Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this book. The distinctive formal and technical conventions of archaic art, especially Greek art, particularly affected sculptors—some frankly modernist, others staunchly conservative, and a few who, like American Paul Manship, negotiated the distance between tradition and modernity. Susan Rather considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twen...
Greek Personality in Archaic Sculpture (Martin Classical Lectures, #11)
by George Karo
This book aims to provide a wealth of visual imagery for ideas and inspiration. This collection of amazing images has been gathered over the last 10 years, showing details of surface textures of everything from rust and wood to lichen and old sails, and has been divided up into themes to make it more accessible. The author has captured fascinating aspects of both natural and man-made things otherwise overlooked, showing the reader their hidden qualities. Elements of skips, old paint, driftwood a...