3,708円 Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery histo...

10,352円 Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolv...

2,102円 Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodins...

2,122円 Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l’Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l’un des artistes les plus reconnus de l’histoire. Bien qu’il soit considéré comme l’un des fondateurs de la sculpture moderne, Rodin n’a jamais critiqué la tradition classi...

2,122円 Ilya Répine (1844 Chuguyev –1930 Kuokkala) Ilya Répine était le plus doué du groupe que l'on appelait en Russie «Les Ambulants ». Dès l'âge de douze ans, il entre à l'atelier d'Ivan Bounakov pour apprendre le métier de peintre d'icônes. La représentation religieuse restera très importante pour lu...

2,122円 Germain Hilaire Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834 – 1917) Dans le cercle des impressionnistes, c'est de Renoir que Degas fut le plus proche : tous deux préférèrent comme motif de leur peinture le Paris vivant de leur époque. Degas ne passa pas par l'atelier de Gleyre et fit probablement connaissance avec ...

2,122円 Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564) Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. Il porta à leur apothéose le mouvement musculaire et l'effort, équivalents plastiques de la passion,...

3,317円 Media screensーfilm, video, and computer screensーhave increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses this gap, offering ...

1,971円 Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworksーsite-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures, and groundbreaking interventions in public spacesーthat reveal the exciting things that hap...

794円 Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of ...

1,489円 Louisa Young, the best-selling author of MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is also the granddaughter of the celebrated sculptor, Kathleen Scott. In A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott she tells us about an extraordinary woman and a celebrated artist. Kathleen Scott led a remarkable l...

11,275円 On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the...