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Architecture since 1400 / 1st edition
2014 || Paperback || Kathleen James-Chakraborty || University of Minnesota Press
The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan's Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown's suburban tract housing and the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world's most celebrated structures and spaces along with many examples of more humble vernacular buildings. Lavishl...
A Cultural Symbiosis
Patrician Art Patronage and Medicean Cultural Politics in Florence (1530-1610)
2022 || Paperback || Klazina Botke e.a. || Leuven University Press
Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de’ Medici in 1532. Proud and self-confident patricians did not become subservient courtiers overnight, but remained significantly influential for a long period. They retained their urban identity and longstanding family traditions, while acquiring noble titles, estates, and villas at the same time. The mark that these patricians continued to leave on the cit...
Phoebus Focus V:The Mere-Monster of Lake Tagua Tagua
Monster Mania and Court Intrigues in the Eighteenth Century
Paperback || Katharina Van Cauteren || Uitgeverij Kannibaal
Vis-à-vis Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland
Word, Image and Institutional Critique
2017 || Paperback || Thomas McEvilley e.a. || Valiz
Deze essaybundel onderzoekt het werk van Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland: zijn beeldende kunstpraktijk, kunstkritiek, institutioneel leiderschap en institutionele kritiek, en zijn literaire werk. De groep internationale auteurs geven een vers perspectief op zijn oeuvre, dat aan beide kanten van de Atlantische Oceaan een grote bijdrage aan de kunsten heeft geleverd.
In Nederland is Brian O'Doherty vooral bekend geworden dankzij zijn invloedrijke boek Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the...
John Constable
The Leaping Horse
2018 || Paperback || Richard Humphreys || Royal Academy (ACC)
An engaging examination of one of the Royal Academy's most important treasures, the painting described by Lucian Freud as 'the greatest painting in the world'Each year between 1819 and 1825, John Constable (1776-1837) submitted a monumental canvas to the Royal Academy of Arts in London for display in the annual Exhibition. These so-called six-footers vividly captured the life of the River Stour in Suffolk, where Constable grew up and where he returned to paint each year. The Leaping Horse, th...
Picasso and Paper
2022 || Paperback || Ann Dumas e.a. || Exhibitions International
Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome new publication examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper.
How to create beauty + cd-rom / druk 1
de Lairesse on the theory and practice of making art
2011 || Paperback || Lyckle de Vries || Primavera Pers
Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William iii of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him ‘undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting’.After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. In an international exhibition (Cologne, Cassel, Dordrecht 2007) he was presented a...
For Study and Delight
drawings and prints from Leiden University
2016 || Paperback || Jef Schaeps e.a. || Leiden Publications
200 years have passed since the founding of the Leiden Print Room, incorporated today into Leiden University Libraries. In celebration of that long, rich history this wide-ranging new publication presents a complete and varied survey of the Leiden collections, starting with rare drawings from the early sixteenth century and ending with recent acquisitions from just this past decade. From Jan Gossart and Barend van Orley to Carel Visser and Emo Verkerk, this work encompasses the history of two...
14/18 – Rupture or Continuity
Paperback || Inga Rossi-Schrimpf || Leuven University Press
The impact of the Great War and its aftermath on Belgian artistic life.World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 - Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this...
A Gust of Photo-Philia
Photography in the Art Museum
Paperback || Alexandra Moschovi || Leuven University Press
Photography was long regarded as a “middlebrow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, an...