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Comprising the finest plates from the great illustrator's work, this collection features outstanding engravings from such literary classics as Milton's Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Sue's The Wandering Jew, and many others. Captions.
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xi, 169 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
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"His novel, The Art Thief, was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His The Art of Forgery, Stealing the Mystic Lamb and Slovenology were international bestsellers. His book Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Charney is now a professor at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where Charney has lived for many years"--
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320 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
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Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world-renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty year journey with the work of the world's most famous artist. We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions...
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xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school -- in her sixties -- to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance...
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272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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English
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This comprehensive and critical history of pop art charts its international development, and describes and illustrates the work of over 130 artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein.
100) Art: a new history
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x, 777 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
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English
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