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ISBN 13 : 9780890901984
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Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Modern and Contemporary Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans den Hartog Jager
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ISBN 13 : 9780500239971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Hockney-Van Gogh written by Hans den Hartog Jager and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parallel look at Hockney and Van Gogh's love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings
Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collecting African American Art written by John Hope Franklin and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrating an important aspect of cultural history, this book showcases the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston during the 20th and 21st centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alice Neel
Publisher : Yale University Press
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alice Neel written by Alice Neel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316121800
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Cleopatra written by Stacy Schiff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and -- after his murder -- three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
Author : Susan Jaques
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781681778693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The Caesar of Paris written by Susan Jaques and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental cultural history of Napoleon Bonaparte’s fascination with antiquity and how it shaped Paris’ artistic landscape. Napoleon is one of history’s most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome—both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts with the Pope and Holy See—have undergone little examination. In The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques reveals how Napoleon’s dueling fascination and rivalry informed his effort to turn Paris into “the new Rome”— Europe’s cultural capital—through architectural and artistic commissions around the city. His initiatives and his aggressive pursuit of antiquities and classical treasures from Italy gave Paris much of the classical beauty we know and adore today. Napoleon had a tradition of appropriating from past military greats to legitimize his regime—Alexander the Great during his invasion of Egypt, Charlemagne during his coronation as emperor, even Frederick the Great when he occupied Berlin. But it was ancient Rome and the Caesars that held the most artistic and political influence and would remain his lodestars. Whether it was the Arc de Triopmhe, the Venus de Medici in the Louvre, or the gorgeous works of Antonio Canova, Susan Jaques brings Napoleon to life as never before.
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publisher : Abradale Press
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Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Texas written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first assessment of the artists who have shaped the rich history of art in Texas, from its 19th-century origins to the diversity of the present scene.
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 : 9780300175950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Glassell Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Masterworks of Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and African Gold explores two hundred dazzling works donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, by collector and philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913-2008). The book offers fresh insights into the enduring appeal of gold and its artistic manifestations in diverse cultures"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Héctor Olea Galaviz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102690
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Inverted Utopias written by Héctor Olea Galaviz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for
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Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 : 9780890901786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Thorne
Publisher : Axel Menges
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rafael Moneo, Audrey Jones Beck Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston written by Martha Thorne and published by Axel Menges. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston is a unique collection of buildings by famous architects. The most recent one is the Audrey Jones Beck Building by Rafael Moneo.
Author : Jacques Barsac
Publisher : Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783858817464
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Charlotte Perriand written by Jacques Barsac and published by Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she created many pieces of furniture we now consider classics, including the instantly recognizable LC4 chaise. Her pioneering work with metal was particularly instrumental in paving the way for the machine-age aesthetic popular throughout the 1920s and '30s. The first volume in a planned three-part series, this lavishly book looks at Perriand's early life: her education, her work in photography, her early interest in pre-fab residential architecture, and her years spent working with Le Corbusier at his studio on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris. While most are familiar with Perriand's game-changing design work, the book also documents her less widely known involvement with leftist groups and her desire for social change that drove her to create affordable and appealing furniture for the masses. Influenced by this and her participation in the International Congresses of Modern Architecture, Perriand turned in the 1930s to more inexpensive natural materials like cane and wood. Complete with annotations and a bibliography for further research, Charlotte Perriand offers the first comprehensive book in English on this key figure.
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821217634
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Czech Modernism, 1900-1945 written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.
Author : Sasha Nicholas
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847866211
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Richard Diebenkorn written by Sasha Nicholas and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential book on the beloved California artist reveals new scholarly research and firsthand reflections by fellow artists and friends and relatives. A fresh and new overview of this treasured West Coast artist, with hundreds of his paintings, drawings, and prints covering five decades of his illustrious career. The book surveys the extraordinary achievements of Diebenkorn, who successfully explored both abstract and figurative painting. Produced in a slipcase box, this is the ultimate source for art enthusiasts, from his early work of the mid-1940s to his Berkeley and Ocean Park series. The book includes not only his iconic paintings of the California landscape and interior figures but also many of his less-well-known and rarely published works. Art historian Sasha Nicholas discusses Diebenkorn's place in postwar American painting and his independence from the art-world trends. Steven Nash conducts an interview with close friend Wayne Thiebaud, giving an artist's point of view. The two artists shared the inspiration of California and experimented with perspective to capture their surroundings.
Author : Thomas Mellins
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ISBN 13 : 9780989114967
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Sculpted in Steel written by Thomas Mellins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Museum of Fine Arts, Houston written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mari Carmen Ramírez
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 : 9780300214819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Contingent Beauty written by Mari Carmen Ramírez and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same title presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 22, 2015 - February 28, 2016.
