Folio - Böcker

The greatest masterpiece of bird art in the palm of your hand. John James Audubon's Birds of America (originally published 1827-1838) is one of the landmarks of American art, and of natural history illustration. This miniature book presents exquis...

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This miniature bestiary contains some 250 illustrations of more than 100 mythical beings: fire-breathing dragons, sinuous sea serpents, mischievous leprechauns, high-spirited unicorns, the lumbering Golem, fluttering fairies, and many other wondro...

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At the outset of his career, Norman Rockwell was not the most likely candidate for long-term celebrity; he was just one of many skilful illustrators working within the conventions of the day.¿But there was something tenacious about his vision, and...

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First published as an oversized clothbound volume in 2009, Botanica Magnifica has received widespread acclaim from the scientific and artistic communities.¿ In the words of an ARTnews critic, Singer's flowers and plants, photographed "in large sca...

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Existing copies of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) were surveyed and counted a hundred years ago, in Sidney Lee's Census of 1902. Since then, some seventy copies have come to light, some of which are only now identified as First Folios. This ne...

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The Shakespeare First Folio is arguably the greatest book ever written in the English language, and it is the only source for half the plays (including Macbeth and The Tempest). Vast amounts have been written on it up to its publication - for exam...

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The authors also discuss the makers of the textiles, how ideas travelled across the continent and the significance of pattern and symbolism.

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This is the first time the British Museum's major collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles is being published as a group. Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date fr...

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Encompasses paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, stained glass, tapestries and mosaics from the past 1,500 years to provide an overview of the sources and symbolism of biblical accounts of the Apocalypse, with chapters on specific imager...

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Glorious works of art as well as documents of bygone eras, painted illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the greatest and by far the best-preserved evidence of daily life during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This Tiny Folio draws on one of the...

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This diminutive survey features all aspects of Wright's art, from lowslung Prairie houses to the dramatic, seminal Fallingwater, to larger projects such as his two homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, culminating in that icon of modernism, New York'...

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This volume explores the Musee d'Orsay's collection of 19th-century art. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, decorative arts, architecture and photography. Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass" and Van Gogh's "Dr. Gahet" are two of the painting...

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When it opened on November 19, 1819, The Museo del Prado, in Madrid, consisted entirely of works from the Spanish royal collections. Numerous treasures have been added since opening day, but the unique strengths of the Prado's collection can still...

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As one of the Tiny Folio Great Museum series, this book is designed as a tour of the National Gallery's collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. Visitors to the National Gallery in Washington us...

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