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Art lovers are passionate seekers, but locating the works of the great masters can often present a challenge. In The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide, author Dr. Henry P. Traverso offers a guide to locating the works of the most popular and well-known Western visual artists worldwide. Featuring diverse artists such as Joseph Albers, Picasso, Monet, Francisco de Zurbaran, and a host of others, this comprehensive handbook provides essential biographical information and historical context for more than 250 visual artists. It follows with an orderly list of each artist’s works and where those works are located throughout the world, including museums, galleries, churches, monasteries, athenaeums, universities, parks, and libraries in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Both an easy-to-search database and a crash course in art history, The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide provides an enhanced understanding of the arts along with the tools needed to plan an art history trip and to better navigate museums.
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11th biennale of Sydney: everyday.
What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburn, Walter Peter and Oscar Wilde. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and Albert Moore among others.
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"Over the last 30 years, the sculptor Colin Rose has gone from small scale parodies of daily life to large scale public work, combining natural materials with geometric forms. His acclaimed public works, renowned for their subtlety and humour, are made in dialogue with their surroundings, creating striking interventions into both rural and urban landscapes.Edge to Edge is the first monograph on Colin Rose, providing an extensively illustrated overview of his career from his early conceptual pieces to recent commissions, situating his practice within the traditions of land art and site specific art." (4e de couv.).
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