Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A traveler's guide to key works by the greatest Neoclassical sculptor, on the 200th anniversary of his deathOften regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, Antonio Canova (17571822) combined Greek and Roman sculptural idioms with a nascent Romanticism to forge a new vocabulary for Neoclassicism. Even within in his own lifetime, Canovas works could be found in major collections across the world, from the United States to Russia.Marking the 200th anniversary of the artists death, this guidebook offers a series of itineraries to guide the visitor on an exploration of the many works left by the sculptor, painter and architect in his home region of the Veneto, with which he always maintained close ties. The museums, palazzi and churches of Possagno, Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Padua, Verona and Venice are filled with Canovas works, and with sites relevant to his life. Canova in the Veneto thus offers a fresh way to discover the Veneto region. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Discover the city of canals through the magic of pop-upsVenice is a magical city suspended like a dream between water and sky. For children, it is a wunderkammer in the literal sense of the term: full of surprises. As they venture into this world of magica dream suspended between water and skywe watch their eyes fill with wonder. The Treasures of Venice is the first attempt in the world to reproduce Venice in a pop-up book for children, taking them on a fascinating tour of its most famous monuments, described in simple but never banal words. The monuments illustrated in the book include the Rialto Bridge, St. Marks Basilica, Ca dOro, Doges Palace, Santa Maria della Salute and Gran Teatro la Fenice. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Dario Cestaros spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the citys history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florences most celebrated landmarks will help even younger children to recognize the main buildings: the cathedral with its famous ogival dome; the Palazzo Vecchio with its great tower and crenellated walls; the Palazzo Pitti, once the Medicis majestic ducal residence; the Ponte Vecchio, the iconic bridge over the Arno with its historic craft shops; the Church of Santa Croce, which contains tombs and monuments to many illustrious persons (Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo). The first pop-up book on Florence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Children's book author and illustrator extraordinaire Dario Cestaro (born 1971) presents the beauty of Paris through the spectacular paper architecture of a pop-up book. Cestaro takes young and young at heart readers through a fascinating journey through Paris's most famous buildings: the Eiffel Tower, the Bourse de Commerce, the Louvre, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, the Centre Pompidou and the Arc de Triomphe. This lively tour through Cestaro's colorful pages is enlivened by short texts and sweet anecdotes that tell a history of the city through its most iconic buildings. Readers will learn about the construction of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World's Fair, designed by the well-known architect of iron after whom it is named; the pre- and post-Revolutionary histories of the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries, given first to princes and then to the people; Tadao Ando's painstaking restoration of the 18th-century Bourse de Commerce to turn it into a contemporary art gallery, and much more. Cestaro's tour through Paris follows the publication of similar volumes on other great European cities: Venice, Florence, Milan and Rome. Cestaro's captivating drawings will help even the youngest readers to recognize the main features of the city, and offers a special glimpse of the city's landscape and its history. Children's book author and illustrator extraordinaire Cestaro presents the beauty of Paris through the spectacular paper architecture of a pop-up book. This lively tour is enlivened by short texts and sweet anecdotes that tell a history of the city through its most iconic buildings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the work Tintoretto (151994) accomplished at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, home to the monumental library and medical museum of Venice's Ospedale Civile, and thus a fitting backdrop to Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto's Venice, a volume that explores the representation of the human body in artistic and medical traditions in an effort to understand the role of idealized and nonidealized bodies in Renaissance culture. This book draws on archival documents, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, prints, medals, drawings and paintings to examine the interconnection between art and medicine, anatomical studies and devotional belief. Special topics such as medical care for the monks of the Scuola further enliven this central theme. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Rightly or wrongly, its designer is credited with the idea of having associated the construction with a symbolic and imaginative calendar: 365 meters in length, the number of days in a year, four courtyards, like the seasons, fifty-two doors, and seven stories.Urban myth or the truth? What is certain is that esoteric symbolism and a taste for numbers were often the prerogative of master builders and architects and undoubtedly fascinate the Italians Alfonso Femia and Gianluca Peluffo of 5+1AA. Their renowned ability to bring together the know-how of artisans, artists, contractors, and suppliers of materials has produced a remarkable aesthetic result, in which color and material articulate the internal spaces, animated by stores, restaurants, and offices. The large building, today known as Les Docks, designed by Gustave Desplaces and constructed between 1858 and 1864 on the model of the warehouses in the docklands of London, looks like a stone ship looming over the wharves of the port of Marseille. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Video installations and a tapestry showcase the artist's research into dying Indigenous languages and botanical knowledge One of the winning projects of the 12th edition of the Italian Council, The Extinct Desinence brings together artwork by Lucia Veronesi with writings by Manfredi Bortoluzzi, Marco Senaldi and Solveig Lonmo, exploring the relationship between the history of science, botany and language. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Beverly Barkat s painting is rooted in a profound and ongoing dialogue with art history. Her study and observation of the figurative and realistic tradition in Western art has resulted in her accumulating a body of knowledge that she draws on directly in her artistic practice. To achieve her aim of capturing the essence of the body in motion, Barkat has begun working on a large scale, using broad gestures that recall action painting. The best of her production, together with her latest works (large-scale painted PVC sheets), is illustrated in this book, her first. A fascinating volume that offers an overview of Barkat s career. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An up-to-date reading of the ways in which the public image of a Venetian prelate came to be defined through his portraitureThis exquisite, richly illustrated catalog documents a dossier exhibition held at Venice's Museo di Palazzo Grimani, presenting three portraits of the Venetian prelate Giovanni Grimani, a collector of antiquities and patron of important 16th-century artists. The first, already in the collection at Palazzo Grimani, is the work of Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635) and depicts the patriarch in old age in an iconography that can be found in earlier portraits, including the Portrait of the Patriarch Giovanni Grimani in the Schorr Collection (London), and a small oil on panel representing the same subject, now in a private collection, both painted by his father, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-94). This unprecedented comparison, in addition to bearing witness to the iconographic evolution of effigies of the Venetian prelate over the course of several decades, helps to outline a history of Venetian portraits during that period. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclersThe lagoon city of Venice was home to some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Among them was Vittore Carpaccio (c. 14651525), whose body of work largely remains to this day in the city in which he lived and died. Influenced by Early Netherlandish art and resistant to Humanist trends, Carpaccio is today known for having developed a style that set him apart from his peers. He worked primarily under the patronage of various scuole, or confraternities, to illustrate Christian anecdotes. Replete with illustrative detail and an earthy color palette, Carpaccios paintings are uniquely emotive in their depictions of saintly miracles.This new publication invites readers from around the world to tour Venice through Carpaccios masterpieces and discover the artist who was exceptionally adept at fusing the real Venice and the myth of Venice into a single vision. Carpaccio in Venice: A Guide presents all of the artists works conserved in the city, providing updated scholarship for both the paintings and their original locations in light of recent restoration efforts. Sites include the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, the Doges Palace, the Museo Correr, the Gallerie dellAccademia, along with many other locations. Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclers Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A heroic long-term project to reunite panels of allegorical figures made for the ceiling of a Renaissance palace's grand roomPublished to coincide with their extraordinary reassembly, this volume recounts the intricate story of the reconstruction and remounting of ceiling panels painted by the celebrated Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian and biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) for Venice's Palazzo Corner Spinelli. Realized in a 1542 commission, Vasari completed a series of panels of allegorical figures for the ceiling of the palace's grand room. Various elements of the decorative structure were removed from their original location over the course of the 18th century, and by the 19th century the works were completely dispersed. This lavishly illustrated publication retraces the critical fortunes and history of the panels up until their reunion and mounting in their current location, explores the restoration of the work, discusses the iconological interpretation of the ceiling and takes a close look at the preparatory drawings of the panels. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A dazzling, interactive light display in a Renaissance courtyard connects the history of art with the age of technologyThe Dutch duo Lonneke Gordijn (born 1980) and Ralph Nauta (born 1978), working together as DRIFT, have gained an international reputation at the head of a multidisciplinary team of 64 artists and designers who create works able to transform and choreograph space. After interventions at Burning Man in the Nevada desert, NASA and the Victoria & Albert Museum, the duo proposes a performance in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi that is a breathtaking blend of art and technology. Fusing installation, sculpture and music, Shy Society turns the Renaissance courtyard into an enveloping stage, setting up a dialogue between nature and technology, knowledge and intuition, and science and poetry. The work is an invitation to look again at the historical context of the building as a new and evocative venue and setting, where each visitor becomes the protagonist of a multisensory experience that prompts a reconsideration of the space that surrounds us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Emblematic and recent projects by Italian architect Alfonso FemiaItalian architect Alfonso Femia (born 1966) is known for his experimental designs and "emotional architecture"--projects centered around interpersonal relationships and generosity. Written by historian and art critic Paul Ardenne and featuring photographs by Lub Boegly, this volume focuses on recent projects, including the Iguzzini showroom in Milan. Emblematic and recent projects by Italian architect Alfonso Femia Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mohri makes noise from the invisible, drawing sound out of nothingness through her carefully constructed and recorded installationsDrawing from the legacies of Fluxus and avant-garde music, Japanese artist Yuko Mohri (born 1980) captures imperceptible movements which she then generates into sounds. For her largest institutional exhibition in Europe, Mohri reconfigures three of her major installations, presenting a singular visual and sonic scenography. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Part autobiography, part monograph, part catalogue raisonne the story of Cattelan's 40-year career as told solely by the artist himselfCovering almost 40 years of work from Italian artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960), this volume falls somewhere between a catalogue raisonne, a monograph sui generis, an autobiography and a sourcebook. Chapters in which Cattelan discusses recurrent concepts, processes and questions in his practice alternate with specific focuses on works and series of works, exhibitions or special projects, grouped together and arranged as possible trajectories toward a deeper understanding.Also included are nine essays by Cattelan, written between 1989 and the present day, presented here in their full-length versions with indications of their original contexts. The experience of reading the book is continually renewed through groups of works presented in chronological order, making it possible to trace the evolution of the themes and the course of Cattelan's development as an artist.Beware of Yourself is not just the reconstruction of an artistic career but also an invitation to ask ourselves questions about appearances, about roles, about the very meaning of art and life: a continual play of mirrors in which the critical view of the other inevitably becomes an invitation to reflect on ourselves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. French photograffeur JRs tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19Throughout the pandemic, cultural institutions have been forced to shut their doors to the public. Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has commissioned street artist JR (born 1983) to address this unfortunate reality. He has done so by transforming the facade of the Palazzo into a towering photographic collage installation that functions like an anamorphosis: when viewed from a particular vantage point, the distorted image reveals a courtyard, exhibition hall and library.In this volume, JR offers the public a look inside that which, for now, is inaccessible. The Wound (La Ferita) is a poignant reflection on the wound endured by cultural institutions during the pandemic. The book includes a conversation between the artist and curator Arturo Galansino, in which they delve into the genesis and realization of this singular piece. The Wound. French photograffeur JRs tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Through immersive installations, Masbedo re-energizes a Milanese electronic music studio from the '50sItalian artist duo MASBEDO dedicate their new work to the Studio di Fonologia RAI in Milan: a facility for experimental electronic music that first opened in 1955. Their reenactment through a video performance provides a contemporary look at an institution that was fundamental to the creation of a new cultural language. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A svelte showcase of KAWS' monumental installation that connects Fra Angelico's Annunciation (1443) with the immediacy of contemporary lifePublished with Palazzo Strozzi. This special publication documents a site-specific installation created by American artist KAWS (born 1974) for the Renaissance courtyard of the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. The installation stages a surprising and constructive dialogue between the contemporary giant--famed for his cartoon- and graffiti-inspired sculptures, paintings and collectible toys--and the Strozzi's concurrent exhibition on Italian Renaissance-era painter Fra Angelico. Reworking the theme of the Annunciation--the subject of Fra Angelico's most celebrated painting--through a monumental installation, KAWS offers an unprecedented encounter between eras, forms and visions, bridging traditional iconography from Western visual culture with the immediacy and hyper-connection of contemporary life. In his work, aptly titled The Message, the mobile phone figures as the central element of the scene. KAWS imbues this object of prolific daily use with a sacred quality, likening it to the miraculous message delivered by angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A catalogue raisonne of Corvino + Multari's three decades of urban and rural regeneration projects across ItalyFounded in Naples in 1995, Corvino + Multari received international acclaim for its restoration of Gio Ponti and Pierluigi Nervi's Pirelli Tower in Milan. Its subsequent projects have mainly focused on the restoration, reuse or completion of existing structures, rooted in a critical interpretation of their environmental setting. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Picasso's little-known Ovid illustrations amid the splendor of a Mannerist palazzoA painter, draftsman and sculptor, but also a photographer, engraver, set designer and ceramist, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) excelled in every genre. He was one of the most prolific and polymorphic artists, and a poet who was passionate about Greek and Latin literature. Throughout his career, he illustrated countless books by poets such as Apollinaire, Jacob and Reverdy. In 1930 he illustrated the Metamorphoses by Ovid, a series of engravings that, with the great frescoes by painter and architect Giulio Romano (1499-1546), is the perfect echo of Romano's Palazzo Te, a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy, itself a magnificent example of the Mannerist style of architecture. The superb catalog Picasso a Palazzo Te: Poetry and Salvation displays the close relationship that links the artistic practice of Picasso and poetry, revealing a little-known aspect of his work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Totemic figures and forms made through a ritualistic assembly of organic materialItalian artist Chiara Camoni's (born 1974) practice spans drawing, video, sculpture and ceramics. Her works are distinguished by the use of organic materials, where the brown and green tones of earth and vegetation create works that are both spiritual and artisanal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel, Israeli artist Beverly Barkat (born 1966) presents her site-specific work, After the Tribes, at the Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome. The work is made up of a four-meter-high metal tower divided into twelve painted panels that represent the twelve tribes of Israel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A tribute to 33 women who merged science and spirituality to healing ends, as commemorated through Kiefer's monumental painting seriesPublished with Palazzo Reale. This volume examines the gestation and realization of one of the German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer's most conceptually innovative projects to date. Featuring 30-plus large-scale paintings, created by applying multiple layers of varnish, the series offers a poetic reflection on the role of female alchemists in the history of Western thought. Through esoteric symbols, ancestral materials and mythological references, Kiefer invokes 33 historical figures in his exploratory account, including Caterina Sforza, Mary Anne Atwood, Sophie Brahe and Isabella of Aragon. Rebellious mystics and scientists, these women form a lineage of protagonists in possession of an occult body of knowledge employed to heal and nurture others. Featuring several contextualizing and critical essays by curators and scholars, Women Alchemists evinces Kiefer's mighty effort to lend expression and substance to a realm of understanding historically relegated to the margins.Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) developed his signature style of multimedia impasto painting through the influence of Neo-Expressionism and artists such as Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz. His art incorporates global religious traditions and occult teachings, while also reckoning with the legacy of the Third Reich. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. With an alchemical mix of precious metals, stones and mysterious symbols, Codognato jewelry is as elegant as it is morbidTucked behind St. Mark's Square since 1866, the family-run Codognato jewelry shop has been crafting exquisite, enticing pieces from a vortex of eccentric motifs--Byzantine, Roman and Renaissance-inspired serpent bracelets, cameos and, most famously, skull rings and earrings inspired by 17th-century memento mori images. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheims two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North American art with which she is usually associatedIn the 1950s and 60s, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) began to turn her attentions as a collector toward the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Migrating Objects focuses on this lesser-known but crucial episode in her life and activities. In these years, Guggenheim acquired works created by artists from cultures worldwide, including early 20th-century sculpture from Mali, the Ivory Coast and New Guinea, and ancient examples from Mexico and Peru.Migrating Objects emerges from an extended period of research and discussion on this largely ignored area of Guggenheims collection by a curatorial advisory committee, which has yielded exciting results, including the reattribution of individual works, among them the Nigerian headdress (Ago Egungun) produced by the workshop of Oniyide Adugbologeillustrated here alongside other pieces that will greatly expand understanding of Guggenheims collecting. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Atoui's sculptural instruments invite participants to conduct sonic experiments with natural materialsLebanese artist and composer Tarek Atoui (born 1980) explores the medium of sound and how it shapes perception through dynamic installations and collaborative performances. He tests the unique ways in which elements such as bronze, water, glass and stone reflect sound. Through a series of images unfolding as a visual narration, the volume portrays the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, along with Atoui's previous solo shows at Kunsthaus Bregenz, S.M.A.K Ghent (2024) and the Institute Institut d'art contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes (2023). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Departing from his earlier figurative works and engagement with Futurist ideals, Italian painter Osvaldo Licini (18941958) turned away from realism in 1940 and painted only abstract works from then on. His paintings from that fruitful decision engage in a surrealist language of precise lines, solid colors and pregnant signs; colors and signs that Licini viewed as expressions of energy, willpower, ideas and magic. This catalog of Licini's show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the most comprehensive monograph of his work, marks the 60th anniversary of his death. That same year, Licini won the National Grand Prize for Painting at the 29th Venice Biennale, where he had shown 53 worksexecuted between 1925 and 1958in a room of his own, mounted by Carlo Scarpa. This catalog gathers his complete works, including those displayed in that same venue 60 years prior to this 2018 show. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Two new series from the great champion of European figurative paintingDuring 2020, German artist Georg Baselitz (born 1938) created two bodies of work, documented here: the first series is a tribute to his departed friend and Italian icon of Arte Informale, Emilio Vedova; the other is dedicated to, and named for, his wife, Elke. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstractionCelebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler played a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Active for more than six decades, Frankenthaler emerged on the American art scene with a no-rules approach to painting, protean imagination and improvisational skills that reshaped the narrative not only for women artists but for the genre itself. With her innovative soak-stain technique, Frankenthaler explored a new relationship between color and form, expanding the potential of abstract painting in ways that continue to inspire artists today. Working with color, space, abstraction and poetry, Frankenthaler distinguished herself through her unique ability to combine technique, imagination, research and improvisation, expanding her practice beyond established canons in the pursuit of a new freedom in painting.Painting without Rules is an ambitious presentation of the poetic abstractions of one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. It examines Frankenthaler's artistic affinities, influences and friendships by interweaving paintings created between 1953 and 2002 with select works by some of her contemporaries including Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Anne Truitt.Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was born in New York. She studied art under Rufino Tamayo, Paul Feeley and Hans Hofmann. Her first critical success was with Mountains and Sea (1952), which was emblematic of her soak-stain technique in which paint was absorbed directly into the canvas. She was included in Clement Greenberg's landmark 1964 exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction. The term "Color Field painting" was first coined to describe her work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Schaller's analog and digitally processed black-and-white photographs of Venetian architecture emphasize the city's unique connection to its waterwaysOriginally published by Steidl in 2008, this updated edition of the Controfacciata project by German photographer Matthias Schaller (born 1965) features new images from his series documenting the portegos of Venetian palazzi from the medieval and early modern eras. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.