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Art Explained

The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained

By: Robert Cumming

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Art Explained

The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained

By: Robert Cumming

Taking an original photographic approach to look in detail at certain topics, these four fascinating books provide deeper understanding and richer enjoyment of the worlds of architecture, art, famous artists, and myths and legends. Features detailed annotation of 45 works from the world''s greatest artists Decode the mysterious symbolism of the world’s most familiar paintings Contains biographical notes on each artistRobert Cumming has been the chairman of Christie''s Education, London, studied art history at Cambridge University, and his books have won several internationalawards and include Just Look, Just Imagine, and Looking into Paintings.

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0756643252

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Masterpieces of Western Art

A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day

By: Robert Suckale

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Masterpieces of Western Art

A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day

By: Robert Suckale

This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to modern times with a focus on each era and its major artists. This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to modern times with a focus on each era and its major artists.

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3822818259

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The World of Art

By: Robert Payne

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The World of Art

By: Robert Payne

Very few books try to capture a subject as vast as the world of art, and even fewer succeed. But Robert Payne has succeeded, and in this book he portrays, in vivid, fresh, nontechnical language, the entire history and achievement of the world’s artists—from the original caveman painters who decorated their homes with animal paintings to contemporary artists, who fill their canvases with often bewildering abstract forms. Payne approaches each artistic period and each great artist with sympathetic understanding and an appreciation of the values and aesthetic ideals of the time. Through carefully chosen illustrations woven into his text, moreover, he shows exactly what makes a work of art great. WORLD OF ART casts its view over all the types of art: not only the Western tradition, but the contributions of Egypt, Persia, India, China, Japan, and other important cultures as well. Yet the book is more than a mere survey, for Robert Payne's special brilliance lies in showing the common spirit and aspiration that have united all the world's great artists. “The main value of this book is spontaneity. There is nothing pedantic about it. Although it ranges all over the world art from its earliest beginnings to the present, the author keeps the flow of his account moving at a rapid pace. Its importance is to offer a fast-paced critical reassessment of the history of art in terms of today’s outlook. Mr. Payne relies chiefly on a beautiful use of language, which enables him to telescope the essence of a culture or period into a few well-turned paragraphs. He gives the reader a dynamic reevaluation based on critical judgments and first-hand observations rather than a rehash of conventional academic views... “Rather than the pedantic accuracy of an encyclopedia approach, Mr. Payne’s book possesses the rare quality of persuasiveness and enthusiasm, and it will send the reader off to go and look.” —Henry A. La Farge, Senior Editor, Art News

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1899694781

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An Epicurean Odyssey: Sommelier Stories

By: Robert Giorgione

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An Epicurean Odyssey: Sommelier Stories

By: Robert Giorgione

An Epicurean Odyssey: Sommelier Stories is Robert Giorgione's second book. It is a personalised journey through food and wine embellished with mouth-watering anecdotes and experiences. Think of an exciting blend of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," a Quentin Tarantino movie, a hint of Keith Floyd, a large portion of wonderfully-evocative memories, a splash of "Sideways" and a dash of controversy thrown in for good measure and you have "Sommelier Stories." It also features more than 90 recipes from family, friends and well-known chefs all with bespoke wine pairings. "Sommelier Stories" also includes links to hundreds of websites, blog articles, videos, interviews, tasting notes, reviews and great food and wine matching ideas. Robert Giorgione has been a highly respected sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the most high profile restaurants in the UK. In 2009 he established his independent wine consultancy. Connect with Robert at www.robertgiorgione.com Twitter @rovingsommelier

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Lulu.com

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1291234888

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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art

By: Robert E. Innis

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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art

By: Robert E. Innis

We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad manifestations, exemplify these luring and repelling qualities and potencies. Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of "method of rotation" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art.

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State University of New York Press

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1438488262

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9781438488264

Pinocchio in Venice

By: Robert Coover

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Pinocchio in Venice

By: Robert Coover

Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.

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Grove Press

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0802134858

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9780802134851

"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

By: Robert Williams

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"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

By: Robert Williams

The most important art historian of his generation? is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall?s work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970s, ?80s and ?90s. While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall?s achievement, and in particular to address the issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of Baxandall?s work to date, while drawing upon the archive of Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University Library and the Warburg Institute.

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Routledge

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1351558374

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The Copernican Question

Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

By: Robert Westman

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The Copernican Question

Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

By: Robert Westman

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.

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University of California Press

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0520355695

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9780520355699

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

By: Robert M. Edsel

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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

By: Robert M. Edsel

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240452

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9780393240450

Renaissance psychologies

Spenser and Shakespeare

By: Robert Lanier Reid

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Renaissance psychologies

Spenser and Shakespeare

By: Robert Lanier Reid

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more. Renaissance psychologies examines the distinct and polarised emphasis of these two towering intellects and writers of the early modern period. It demonstrates how pervasive was the influence of Spenser on Shakespeare, as in the "playful metamorphosis of Gloriana into Titania" in A Midsummer Night's Dream and its return from Spenser's moralizing allegory to the Ovidian spirit of Shakespeare's comedy. It will appeal to students and lecturers in Spenser studies, Renaissance poetry and the wider fields of British literature, social and cultural history, ethics and theology.

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Manchester University Press

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1526109204

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9781526109200

Masques & Phases

By: Robert Ross

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Masques & Phases

By: Robert Ross

Reproduction of the original: Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

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3732670988

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Leonardo, His Life and Works

By: Robert Payne

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Leonardo, His Life and Works

By: Robert Payne

“... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic.” —Book Reviewer Based on entirely fresh primary research. Leonardo presents important new information and perspectives on one of the most interesting men and greatest geniuses of all time. The following are only a few of the new and controversial findings offered by Payne in this highly readable book. The portrait of a bearded man universally accepted as a self-portrait is actually a drawing of Leonardo’s father. The subject of the Mona Lisa was not the wife of a merchant but the Duchess of Milan. (Among the illustrations in the book are two earlier, seldom-seen Mona Lisas.) Leonardo was not the son of a peasant woman, as it is generally thought he was, but of a high-born woman. Payne paints an extraordinarily convincing Picture of Leonardo not only as a giant of his age, but also as a man, human, real, simple and natural. Besides dispelling many myths about him, the author places his subject realistically in his own time—the summit of the Italian Renaissance with its wars and sudden upheavals, its unsurpassed artists and architects, its ambitious and often warring princes. Leonardo is a meticulously accurate book and it reads like a swiftly paced novel.

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1883283965

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The Shock of the New

The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

By: Robert Hughes

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The Shock of the New

The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

By: Robert Hughes

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

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0307815552

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Italian Art, 1500-1600

Sources and Documents

By: Robert Klein,Henri Zerner

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Italian Art, 1500-1600

Sources and Documents

By: Robert Klein,Henri Zerner

Art and the cultured public - Documents on art and artists - Mid-century Venetian art criticism - Vasari - Art theory in the second half of the century - The Counter-Reformation - Artists, amateurs and collectors - On beauty.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810108526

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The Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ethnic Eating in New York City

By: Robert Sietsema

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The Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ethnic Eating in New York City

By: Robert Sietsema

This unique guidebook is definitely for those interested in experiencing new tastes on an affordable budget. In this authoritative restaurant guide to New York City, eminent food historian, critic, and culinary anthropologist Robert Sietsema offers more than 600 places in 80 national and cultural groupings, personally selected by him, that reflect the culinary tastes of the entire world. Sietsema, who updates his research each year, has zeroed in on restaurants big and small-holes in the wall and off-the-beaten-track eateries-where inevitably delicious and innovative cuisine is enjoyed daily by a local and faithful clientele. He introduces you to exotic places you didn't know existed. Each ethnic restaurant is explained, as is the food you are about to experience. With only a short subway ride, readers can expand their gastronomic knowledge with the rich cuisines of Malaysia, Pakistan, Armenia, New Guinea, Surinam, Haiti, Ecuador, Poland, Bulgaria, Central Asia, West Africa, and many more-not to mention regional American cooking-all within the boundaries of New York City.

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155970716X

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The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

A History of Colour, Form and Iconography

By: Robert Byron,David Talbot Rice

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The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

A History of Colour, Form and Iconography

By: Robert Byron,David Talbot Rice

First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, combined with the increasing humanisation of religious emotion, culminated, not only in Duccio and Giotto, but in the equally important work of their contemporaries at Mistra and Mount Athos. A detailed account of these works is given and in the last part of the book, the mystery of El Greco is finally resolved. The book is based, not only on extensive research but on personal observation of nearly all the works mentioned, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication. The book includes 94 black and white plates.

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1136752471

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Art Explained

Art Explained

Masterpieces of Western Art

Masterpieces of Western Art

The World of Art

The World of Art

An Epicurean Odyssey: Sommelier Stories

An Epicurean Odyssey: Sommelier Stories

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters

Pinocchio in Venice

Pinocchio in Venice

"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

"Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words "

The Copernican Question

The Copernican Question

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Renaissance psychologies

Renaissance psychologies

Masques & Phases

Masques & Phases

Leonardo, His Life and Works

Leonardo, His Life and Works

The Shock of the New

The Shock of the New

Italian Art, 1500-1600

Italian Art, 1500-1600

The Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ethnic Eating in New York City

The Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ethnic Eating in New York City

The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

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