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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 11x1x13; 1999 Harry N. Abrams (New York), a massive 11 1/4 x 13 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick red cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, grey endpapers, copiously illustrated with mostly full color photographs and reproductions of artwork, index, 419 pp. Very slight bumping to the lower tip of the rear cover. Otherwise, a near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP32~ [8.5P] Full of new information and beautiful illustrations, this fascinating history of the European still life from the ancient world to the twentieth century is a pleasure to read and a joy to look at. Readers will learn about the still life's origin in Greco-Roman images of xenia, or 'hospitality gifts, ' and how these evocative pictures evolved into the superb trompe l'oeil still-life paintings of the Roman Empire. The book continues with the still life's re-emergence in sixteenth-century Europe and its new associations with the cycles of nature and with Christian moralism, and follows its development to the pure still lifes of the eighteenth century and later. This astonishing pageant encompasses the meticulous realism of the Old Masters and the powerful forms of Courbet and his fellow Realists. It continues with the gorgeous visions of Monet and Renoir, the dynamic compositions of Cezanne and Picasso, and the Pop witticisms of Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein. Taken together it is one of the great epic stories of Western art history.
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Fine in As New jacket. Translated from the German by Russell Stockman. 4to bright red cloth. 420pp. Stunningly illustrated, one of the very best that Abrams produced, and that's saying a lot because their art books are sumptuous. General Bibliography. Artist Bibliographies. Index, Photo Credits. The art reproductions are brilliant & the "author's sparkling text" make this book a treasure for the mind & a visual bacchanalia. A big art book, but published in quarto rather than folio or oblong, it will rest in your lap easily for hours while you read & look at it. The author has a solid résumé as a scholar of the fine arts & as a museum director. Lovers of fine art are attracted, at one time or another, to one style or another of still life painting. This book comes as close to having "it all" as anything published on the subject. Sections: "The Legacy of Antiquity", "Precursors of the Autonomous Still Life", "The First Modern Still Lifes, Around 1600", "The Flowering of the Still Life: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", "The United States: Still Life as the Mirror of a Young Nation", "From the Early Nineteenth Century to the End of the First World War: the Triumph of the 'How' over the 'What'", "The Twentieth Century". Fine copy in dj. Both in highly collectible condition.
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New. 0810941902. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--with a bonus offer--
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