Konsthistoria & stilar 1800 - 1900

The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a spectacular collection of more than 1,400 works in watercolor, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk, and charcoal. This beautifully produced catalogue, the fi...

Läs mer »

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...

Läs mer »

"This luxurious Japanese-bound, boxed publication transcends the coffee table cliche by combining beauty with information." -ARTnews Magazine, New York Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e refers to the f...

Läs mer »

SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains...

Läs mer »

An exhibition catalogue in full colour of some 350 masterpieces from the Meiji Period. Exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon in 2002.

Läs mer »

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The dar...

Läs mer »

En fantastisk anteckningsbok med lyxig kvalitet och legendarisk design. 176 gräddvita och linjerade sidor, 2st sidmarkörer. Längst bak en praktisk ficka att lägga kvitton, bilder eller annat viktigt i. Boken stängs med magnet så att den håller iho...

Läs mer »

Finns det bara tolkningar och åter tolkningar, men inga egentliga fakta? Existerar det inte någon värld utanför texten? Är allt beroende av våra begrepp? I detta Manifest för en ny realism , som fått stor uppmärksamhet i Italien, vänder sig filoso...

Läs mer »

"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand," wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature." One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty a...

Läs mer »

From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned practitioners, ...

Läs mer »

Accompanying a major retrospective of Anders Zorn's work, this is the first volume in English to explore the Swedish Impressionist's entire career in depth. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) is one of Sweden's most accomplished and beloved artists. Renowned...

Läs mer »

A lively thematic survey of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture and its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdoll traces key themes the role of changing theories of history in a...

Läs mer »

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires to the ideals of personal, spiritual and creative liberty. His heroic story has inspired and invigora...

Läs mer »

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corb...

Läs mer »

New edition of this key guide to art history, which takes a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries, including the most important new writing on the most recent work in a variety of new media.

Läs mer »

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was one of a generation of artists that helped transform painting during the first half of the twentieth century. As a painter, he preferred to work from memory - imaginatively capturing the spirit of a moment and expres...

Läs mer »

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and ...

Läs mer »

Why does Gustave Flaubert point out that the soap in Félicité"s bedroom is blue? Why does George Eliot say that the brink of the river Floss is tinged with a soft purple hue? Why does Theodor Fontane dwell on the belt Effi Briest is wearing? ...

Läs mer »

Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around 120 of the most significant examples of Victor Hugo's works on paper. It features previously unpublished drawings and insightful texts that reveal Hugo's extraordinary talents as a ...

Läs mer »

John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolour was unconventional. Disregarding late-nineteenth-century aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense str...

Läs mer »

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet-painter, was an untiring craftsman who repeatedly edited his poems-partly due to the influence of advice from family and friends. He refrained from publishing any volume of his own work until he was past forty alth...

Läs mer »

Vid mitten av 1800-talet skapade en grupp unga konstnärer i England en ny bildvärld som med sina klara färger, sitt allvar och sin utmanande skönhet skakade om det samtida viktorianska konstlivet. De kallade sig prerafaeliter och namnet pekade ut ...

Läs mer »

William Morris Textiles was the first comprehensivesurvey of the many hundreds of original, colourful textilesproduced by William Morris and the two commercialcompanies he founded and managed. To this day it remainsthe authority in the field, and ...

Läs mer »

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualisa...

Läs mer »

"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 se...

Läs mer »

This brilliant book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather than...

Läs mer »

William Bouguereau, the most popular artist in nineteenth-century France, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular realist artists of all time. This book is an exploration of the four main types of paintings that were most prevalent throughout ...

Läs mer »

As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the...

Läs mer »

"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'" A...

Läs mer »

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...

Läs mer »