Santiago Calatrava: Structure and expression

Arts & Photography

McQuaid, Matilda

Architecture

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This lively, illustrated book about Victorian costume during the first part of Queen Victoria's reign is a delightful introduction to a particularly rich era in costume history. From Queen to Empress vividly evokes fashionable society in Victorian England and America through paintings of the period, contemporary illustrations and photographs, and striking costume photographs taken especially for this volume.In separate chapters devoted to royal influence, underdress, evening and day wear, mourning attire, wedding clothes, and court dress, the author, a member of the staff of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a highly readable account of the ways in which fashion influenced the dress of all but the very poorest sections of the population.By 1837, the year of Victoria's accession to the throne, the simple silhouette and printed cottons of the early nineteenth century had already begun to give way to a more elaborate style of dress. Luxurious silks and an extraordinary diversity of shapes—including huge domed skirts and elaborately molded corsets made possible by new dressmaking techniques—marked the fashionable Victorian woman by the time Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India.From Queen to Empress accompanies an exhibition that opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 1988. [This book was originally published in 1989 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

From Queen to Empress: Victorian dress 1837-1877: An exhibition at the Costume Institute, December 15, 1988-April 16, 1989

History

Goldthorpe, Caroline

Europe

<p>Chronicles the origins of the Rococo style in furniture and traces its development in the New World.</p>

American rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in ornament

Heckscher, Morrison H.

History & Criticism

A volume which celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jusepe de Ribera by bringing together 60 of the artist's greatest paintings, including The Clubfooted Boy, The Drunken Silenus, The Martyrdom of Saint Philip and The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria.

Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652

Sanchez, Alfonso E. Perez & Nicola Spinosa

Terry Winters

This catalogue contextualizes the painting of American artist Terry Winters (born 1949) within the scientific collections of Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria. Winters’ abstract paintings, which often resemble cells, spores and seeds, explore biological processes, mathematical fields and information technologies.

Phillips, LIsa

Now available in a new format, this opulent book presents Vasily Kandinsky’s major paintings from all phases of his artistic career and celebrates the artist and his groundbreaking work. This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky’s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world’s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; his attraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; the formation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music on his painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work in Paris. The book’s design allows for a thorough examination of Kandinsky’s most important works in all their extraordinary detail. Accessible, impeccably researched, and wide-ranging, this important volume offers an indispensable overview of the artist’s seminal works and a tribute to the beauty and power of Kandinsky’s vision.

Vasily Kandinsky: A colorful life : the collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich

Barnett, Vivian Endicott

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