The Bauhaus Group
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography).
The Alberses told him their own stories...
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The Bauhaus Group
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography).
The Alberses told him their own stories...
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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around...
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The Celtic Quest
An Anthology from Merlin to Van Morrison
Edited by Jane Lahr
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2008
Price: $29.95
A lavish feast for the eye and spirit, this magnificently illustrated volume features classic works from Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Wales, winding the finest poetry, fables, fairy tales, folklore, and lyrics into a magical and mesmerizing Celtic weave. Each section resonates with the mystical ideas of the Celts and the traditions...
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The Lost Painting
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $15.00
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a...
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The Lost Painting
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $15.00
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a...
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Disarmed
The Story of the Venus de Milo
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually...
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The Angel of the Left Bank
The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork,
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way.
With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated
The Black...
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