Konsthistoria & stilar 1800 - 1900

Arts & Crafts-rörelsen började som en motreaktion till industrialismen och de rådande stilidealen i Storbritannien vid 1800-talets mitt. De grundläggande idéerna hos dess anhängare, bland andra konstkritikern John Ruskin och konstnären William Mor...

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Welcome to Lilla Hyttnäs, home to two of the greatest artists Sweden has ever seen. ¿ When Carl and Karin Larsson moved back to Sweden after several years abroad, they were given a small cabin in Sundborn by Karin's father. The cottage in Dalarna ...

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Välkommen till Lilla Hyttnäs, hem åt två av de största konstnärskapen Sverige någonsin sett.¿ När Carl och Karin Larsson flyttade hem till Sverige efter flera år utomlands, fick de en liten stuga i Sundborn av Karins far. Stugan i Dalarna blev Car...

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A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2...

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I Urshult kunde en fästman vid 1700-talets mitt i trolovningsgåvor ge en vackert arbetad psalmbok, en silverkedja, ett silverbälte eller lista, band eller borda att bära om livet, en silversked med krona och löv på skaftet, åtskilliga band att pry...

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"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. Th...

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Alla känner till Carl Larsson-gården i Sundborn, det världsberömda konstnärshemmet i Dalarna. Alla vet vem Carl Larsson var. Och alla har sett hans Karin på tavlorna. Många vet också att hon i likhet med sin man hade konstnärlig begåvning och en g...

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Meet "the Raphael of flowers," botanical painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté. This book, adapted from our XL edition, gathers the finest engravings from Redouté's most important works, including Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with t...

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Första gången mode-Sverige vaknade till medvetande var när Augusta Lundin öppnade sitt modehus vid Brunkebergstorg på 1870-talet. Runt sekelskiftet 1900 ansågs Mamsell Augusta vara modets okrönta drottning. Det som ger Augusta Lundin en särskild p...

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If you were a consumer of literature in the nineteenth century, chances are the volumes in your library featured the illustrations of Gustave Doré. From the Bible to Shakespeare, Balzac to Milton, Cervantes to Poe, Doré's intricate, romantic, and ...

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A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt's major works alongside au...

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"ett praktverk om fotografiets och fotograferandets historia. Hon har tillsammans med 15 andra experter sammanställt, producerat och redigerat vad som nog bör ses som ett svenskt standardverk för fotohistoria. Betyg 5" BTJ Fotografihistorier skild...

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Konstnärinnan Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) var synnerligen produktiv och mycket uppmärksammad på sin tid, med framgångsrika utställningar i hela världen. Hennes konstnärliga och litterära skapande tog henne långt utanför Sverige - förutom Europa även ti...

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Romantikens bildvärld både lockar och skrämmer. Den öppnar sig mot okända rum av mörker, dimma och ljus. Bagateller förvandlas till poesi. Den stimulerar sökande och längtan, blottar medvetandets djup och kalibrerar vår känslighet. Bilderna spegla...

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Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of do...

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In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanshi...

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Hur Taserudsjugend kom till världen Bröderna Eriksson (Ola, Karl och Elis) övertog sin fars snickeri 1891 och startade Bröderna Erikssons Möbelverkstad i Arvika. De var då alla välutbildade och snickeriet var redo utföra avancerade beställningar. ...

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A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally p...

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The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encom...

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German-english edition The epochal term "New Objectivity" became synonymous with the cultural awakening of the 1920s, and with the rationalism and objective precision to be observed in art as well as architecture, design, photography and literatur...

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Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the re...

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-- Stunning watercolour paintings by one of Sweden's best-loved artists -- Fascinating insight into Swedish rural and artistic life in the late nineteenth century -- Accompanied by an explanatory text giving more detail about his life and techniqu...

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The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into...

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"Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field.¿ Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hier...

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No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the princi...

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A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2...

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Revised edition of the bestselling backlist title. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movemen...

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Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fo...

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This is an illustrated account of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 paintings and drawings. This beautifully illustrated book is essential reading for anyone who would like to learn about the life, work and influence of one o...

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Everyone knows Carl Larsson House in Sundborn, the world-famous artists' home in rural Sweden. Everyone knows who Carl Larsson was. Everyone has seen his wife, Karin, in his paintings. Many people know she had real talent and, like her husband, wa...

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