Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 208 pp. with 81 reproductions in full color.

Arab Painting (Treasures of Asia)

Literature & Fiction

Ettinghausen, Richard

Literary

Skira/Rizzoli

Chinese Painting.

Arts & Photography

Cahill, James

History & Criticism

Prints: History of an Art

Richard S. Field

Michel Melot

Anthony Griffiths

Andre Beguin

Graphic Design

Symbolists and Symbolism

Robert L. Delevoy

Renaissance Painting: From Brueghel to El Greco

Venturi, Lionello

In front of a painting the spectator is continually being deceived. A fixed image has to convey an action or a mood; a canvas or a wall, two-dimensional surfaces, have to suggest a three-dimensional space. So that to establish the relation between the picture and its viewer a certain, complicity must be created. Only by delimiting its extent can we define what is meant by realism, illusionism, and lastly trompe-l'oeil. In its many shapes trompe-l'oeil painting has always been intended to mystify, to transcend and replace the illusion of reality by its certainty. To achieve its purpose, this form of art has been led to observe set rule and use a vocabulary of its own. Standing on the ill-defined borderline between reality and fiction, between art and artefact, trompe-l'oeil painting has often been regarded with some condescension. But it is rich in a conceptual content which has continually changed; it is a mirror full of suggestive reflections, visually fascinating, both moralizing and indiscreet, provocative and ironical, strange and full of hidden meanings.

Trompe-L'Oeil Painting (The Illusions of Reality)

Milman, Miriam

Reproduces many of the artist's most celebrated and popular works, as well as a number of less familiar paintings and drawings, to create a representative collection of Renoir's oeuvre

Renoir

Denis Rouart

"Through a series of startling analyses, France Borel draws on a broad knowledge of the history of art to produce an approach that moves freely in time and space, from antiquity to the present, from Italy to Germany, in order to observe what takes place within the privacy of the studio. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographers abundantly illustrate the many surprising facets of the artist's relationship to his model, a theme where Eros and Thanatos are constantly drawn together." From front flap of the book.

The Seduction of Venus: Artists and Models

France Borel

Architecture

When photographer Nan Goldin appeared on the art scene in the late 1970s, her tough, autobiographical frankness quickly established her in the all-male field of diaristic photographers. The beaten down and beaten up personages that populate Goldin’s work are icons now deeply inscribed in our collective memory. Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin compiles the still photographs Goldin created for director Bette Gordon’s now-infamous 1983 independent film, Variety, and offers a rare glimpse into this artist’s symbiotic working process. Hallmarks of Goldin’s early work and the influence of filmmaking on Goldin’s prolific career are on display in this project. Hovering unsettlingly between fiction and reality, "documentary style" and art photography, Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin reveals a curious and previously unexamined aspect of Goldin’s iconic career, and provides a window into the collision of music, club life, and art production that colored the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This is an important addition to Nan Goldin’s oeuvre.

Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin

James Crump

Individual Artists

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward features a lifetime of achievement by this titan of American architecture through newly commissioned contemporary photography, archival photography, and wonderfully detailed drawings of more than 200 projects, including such masterworks as the S. C. Johnson &amp; Sons Administration Building in Wisconsin, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Taliesin West, Wright’s desert home in Arizona, as well as less-known projects designed for Baghdad, Iraq, and beyond. The book is richly accompanied by authoritative text from some of the most important Frank Lloyd Wright scholars and writers at work today, and presents a timely reevaluation of the work and life of Frank Lloyd Wright within the context of social spaces, in the spirit of the exhibition.

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward

Cleary, Richard

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