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Braque: The Late Years

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); John Golding; Isabelle Monod-Fontaine; Sophie Bowness; Tex.) Menil Collection (Houston

Georges Braque is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, yet only a small part of his work is well known. This handsome book sheds new light on the art of this master and shifts the focus from his Cubist work to the great cycles of his mature years -- the Interiors, Billiard Tables, Studios, and late Bird paintings. In Braque's later work, says John Golding, we see that he is able to demonstrate an increased freedom and poetic quality even while remaining truthful to the principles of Cubism. As in his Cubist still lifes, Braque regards the objects in his interiors in a detached manner, using them to define the spatial organization of the paintings, and he treats the figures that occasionally appear in these works in a similar way, totally fusing them with their setting. The artist's palette of darker tones also harks back to the Cubist years. But in the series of Billiard Tables, which dates from 1944 to 1949, Braque manipulates space with unusual boldness, using the table as a device with which to play visual tricks. And the later works also exhibit a poetic content, especially evident in the Bird paintings, with their quiet resonance and with space depicted without formal limits and defined only by the presence of the bird itself. This book will serve as the catalogue of an exhibition of Braque's late works at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in spring 1997 and at the Menil Collection, Houston, in summer 1997.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2007

Rodin

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Catherine Lampert; Auguste Rodin; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain; Kunsthaus Zurich; Francois Blanchetiere

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Matisse Et La Couleur Des Tissus

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Henri Matisse; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Musee Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambresis, France)

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Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Drawing on Life: The Autobiography of Paul Hogarth

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Paul Hogarth

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The Aztecs

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Eduardo Matos MacTezuma; Felipe R. Solis Olguin

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Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Eric De Chassey; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

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Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Catherine Lampert; Norman Rosenthal; Isabel Carlisle; Frank Auerbach

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The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Palazzo Venezia (Rome, Italy)

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001

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Royal Academy Illustrated 2001: A Selection from the 233rd Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Peter Blake

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Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Michael Archer

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Sandro Botticelli: Pittore Della Divina Commedia

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Sandro Botticelli; Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg; Scuderie Papali Al Quirinale; S. Gentile

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Other editions: 2000, 2000

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Monet in the 20th Century

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Claude Monet; Michael Leja; Mary Anne Stevens; George Shackelford; Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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John Soane: Architect Master of Space and Light

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); John Soane; Margaret Richardson; Maryanne Stevens

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Turner: The Great Watercolours

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Eric Shanes; J.M.W. Turner

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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Introduction to Art Techniques

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Ray Smith; Michael Wright; James Horton; Ray Wright

A comprehensive guide for the enthusiastic beginner and the experienced artist alike, An Introduction to Art Techniques embraces seven basic elements of art technique in one comprehensive volume. The subjects included are Drawing, Perspective, Watercolor, Pastels, Oil Painting, Acrylics, and Mixed Media. Easy-to-follow projects -- from drawing natural forms to creating a photo collage -- teach you all the essentials of each subject and inspire you to go on to master more complex techniques.Close-up, step-by-step photogrpahs show artworks being created before your eyes, revaling the secrets of how professional artists produce their work. Art Techniques offers the widest choice of specific subjects -- from mixing watercolors to blockprintmaking, from tonal drawing to oil painting in layers. You will find clear, authoritative text written by artists who specialize in each particular medium.

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Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg; Sandro Botticelli; Horst Bredekamp; Ausstellungshallen Am Kulturforum; Scuderie Papali Al Quirinale

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1900: Art at the Crossroads

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Robert Rosenblum; Mary Anne Stevens; Ann Dumas; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Exactly 100 years ago, art was at a crossroads. Painters such as Sargent, Whistler, Homer, and Rouault were widely acclaimed. Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Munch, Klimt, and other modern masters were in their prime. And the revolutionaries who would go on to change the course of Western art–Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Nolde, among others–were just getting started.
This book, the companion volume to a major international exhibition, provides an eye-opening look at what these and other artists were creating in this watershed year. Organized by subject–from bathers, femmes fatales, and self-portraits to rural scenes, religion, and social comment–and featuring more than 300 colorplates, the book presents both famous and less well-known works. By including a wide range of paintings and sculptures executed at roughly the same time, Robert Rosenblum and MaryAnne Stevens illuminate the cultural crosscurrents that were reshaping Western art–including nationalism, psychology, and technology–and help us see familiar masterworks with a fresh eye.

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Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Helen Valentine; London Royal Academy of Arts

The Victorian age was marked by national self-confidence and stability, as Britain enjoyed peace at home and a rise in its industrial output, population, literacy, and general level of prosperity. These were conditions in which art prospered, and during the 60-year reign of Queen Victoria several generations of painters produced work of immense variety and beauty. This lovely book celebrates the artists and subjects of that period, drawing on paintings and sculpture from the permanent collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The book provides an engaging and accessible overview of the most important artists of the period. Eminent scholars offer insights into their artistic subjects, styles, and techniques, as well as into the role of the Royal Academy in the age of Queen Victoria. More than 70 works of art are catalogued in depth, including many that are reproduced here for the first time. The book also includes biographies of the artists featured, each illustrated with a contemporary photograph. This book will be the catalogue for an exhibition that will be at the Denver Art Museum from 15 May to 15 August 1999, and then travel to the Frye Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, the National Academy Museum in New York, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Saatchi Collection; Brooks Adams; Norman Rosenthal

The younger generation of British artists today have captivated the international art world with their vitality and inventiveness. As a constant and prodigious collector and patron of young British artists, Charles Saatchi has been unique in his commitment to British art as it is now being produced. SENSATION features the work of 42 of the most exciting and radical artists working in Britain today. 179 illustrations, 104 in color.

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Chagall: Love and the Stage 1914-1922

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Marc Chagall; Susan P. Compton; Aleksandra Shatskikh

Unable to leave Russia and return to Paris at the outbreak of World War I, Marc Chagall returned to his roots in his hometown of Vitebsk. "Chagall: Love and the Stage" focuses on this turbulent yet fruitful period in Chagall's artistic development, which culminated in 1920 with a set of monumental murals painted for the State Yiddish Chamber Theater in Moscow. 80 illustrations, 60 in color.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998

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New Urban Environments: British Architecture and Its European Context

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Hiroshima-Shi Gendai Bijutsukan

New Urban Environments features spectacular examples of key urban building types designed by some 50 leading architects and engineers working in Britain and Europe, such as Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, and Zaha Hadid. The book includes approximately 85 cultural buildings, commercial districts, transport interchanges, educational and environmental centers. Each section illustrates key projects with drawings, photographs, models and/or computer renderings and provides an overview of the site's development history. A number of comparative projects by non-British architects are described in brief, putting British architecture in a European context. Descriptive texts explain the selection criteria for each project and include reasons for the new development, design constraints, and a summary of critical comments on the schemes, particular attention being paid to the environmental design aspects of the projects.

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Art Treasures of England: The Regional Collections

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Michael Foster

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The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of eighteenth-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during this period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolours, prints and illustrated books and sculptures.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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Living Bridges: The Inhabited Bridge, Past, Present and Future

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Until 1763 Old London Bridge boasted a famous parade of timber shops and houses on either side of a narrow street. Most of these had survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, but the nineteen piers built to bear the clusters of buildings above restricted the flow of the Thames to such an extent that the water roared through the arches as the tide turned, creating a dangerous weir for the many boats that plied the river. Two hundred years ago entire communities were supported on such habitable bridges throughout Europe. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were demolished in favour of purely vehicular bridges. Living Bridges, the first book ever to be published on the subject, examines the contributions that inhabited bridges have made to city life from the Middle Ages to the present day, and explores the role they could play in the future. The history and construction of major inhabited bridges across Europe and North America are discussed in detail. In Europe these include Old London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Ponte di Rialto, Venice, and the Pont de Notre-Dame in Paris, as well as contemporary projects by Richard Rogers, Alsop and Stormer, SITE, Morphosis, Mario Bellini, Bernard Tschumi and other leading architects. The book is copiously illustrated and contains photographs of some of the specially commissioned large-scale models of twenty of the most notable "living bridges" in history, together with numerous reproductions of period drawings and paintings, as well as photographs of extant bridges.

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