Rome
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $18.95
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization.
Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he...
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Cezanne
A Life
Written by Alex Danchev
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $40.00
With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age...
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Cezanne
A Life
Written by Alex Danchev
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $19.99
With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age...
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Glittering Images
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Written by Camille Paglia
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $30.00
WIth full-color illustrations throughout
From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.
America’s...
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Glittering Images
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Written by Camille Paglia
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.99
WIth full-color illustrations throughout
From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.
America’s...
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Disarmed
The Story of the Venus de Milo
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
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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Good Living Street
Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Written by Tim Bonyhady
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $35.00
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living Street takes us from the...
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Good Living Street
Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Written by Tim Bonyhady
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $20.99
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living Street takes us from the...
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Rome
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
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Rome
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $14.99
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
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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: $23.99
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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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99
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 Lost Painting
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $16.00
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: $13.99
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: $16.00
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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Also available as an
eBook.
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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