Michelangelo: Gemalde, Skulpturen, Architekturen

GOLDSCHEIDER, LUDWIG

Phaidon

Klabund Literaturgeschichte

Ludwig Goldschneider

Art of the American Indian Frontier examines an incomparable collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains. The collection resulted from the efforts of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt, whose early childhood fascination with the Indian frontier past evolved into a deep and comprehensive interest in Native American ceremonies, beliefs, and art. Though neither was wealthy or enjoyed the sponsorship of a museum, they traveled extensively early in the twentieth century, buying or trading for objects they could not resist.This volume presents the Detroit Institute of Art's Chandler-Pohrt collection with detailed documentation and commentary. Clothing and accessories of porcupine quill and buckskin, woven textiles, bags, beadwork, necklaces, rawhide paintings, smoking pipes, tools, vessels and utensils, pictographs, and visionary paintings are portrayed in 220 stunning color plates. Complementing the illustrations are essays dealing with historical context, ethnographic issues, and the lives and philosophies of the collectors.

Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection

Arts & Photography

Penney, David W.

History & Criticism

<p>The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar objects are altered or juxtaposed in 'impossible' combinations in order to create a sense of disorientation and the absurd. Many of his most memorable paintings date from his three prolific years 1927-30, when he lived near Paris and was in close touch with the writer Andre Breton and other French Surrealists. In his pre-war painting, stylistic concerns were of secondary importance to Magritte, whose main interest was in ideas or propositions about the world; for example, many of his paintings explore the relation between objects and words or between the image of an object and the object itself. He deliberately cultivated a cold, unemotive, 'style-less' style. This quality renders the images of violence and macabre sexuality in some of his works all the more disturbing. His own 'impressionist' and vache (ugly, crude) pictures of the 1940s have been rediscovered in the last few years by a younger generation of painters and critics keenly responsive to the later work of other masters of parody and allusion such as Picabia and de Chirico. Richard Calvocoressi's highly successful introduction to Magritte was first published in 1979 and revised and enlarged by the addition of notes to the colour plates and many black-and-white illustrations.</p>

Magritte

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. TWO VOLUMES. Vol 1. The Text, Vol 2: The Plates. Review copy. May have some light pencil marking to text. With loose typed letter & compliments slip from The Connoisseur, dated 9th June 1959, to reviewer, Proff. Luke Herrmann from L.G.G. Ramsey. BooksBoth volumes in original acrylic sleeves, showing some cracking and breaking up at head & tail of spines. Vol 2 has acrylic tear along back top. Books in very good condition probably never read.

Rubens: Selected Drawings

Julius S. Held

Fashionable Contrasts: 100 Caricatures By James Gillray

Gillray, James

Introduction and Notes By Draper Hill

Olympia

Ashmole, Bernard, & Nicholas Yalouris

Two volumes. First Edition 1967 Phaidon. 462 pages of text, 845 illustrations including 12 in colour, a catalogue raisonne, bibliography and index

French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (2 Volumes - Text and Plate)

Meiss, Millard

Leonardo da Vinci: paintings and drawings

Ludwig Goldscheider

Paintings by old masters at Christ Church, Oxford;

Christ Church (University of Oxford)

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