Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries
Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their wispy veils and vapourous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and fog with the passage of time, the vagaries of memory and feelings of uncertainty. Mist and fog ......
A stunning collection of photographs capturing 45 different dog breeds across 65 portraits, each canine is complete with facts about their breed and personality.
Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America
Examines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804-1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New England.
A Journey Through the Innovative Images of Acclaimed Photographer G.B. S
G.B. Smith's book, PATHWAYS takes the viewer through a journey of each image, using light to illuminate patterns and distilling the subject down to its uncluttered form. This innovative approach transcends a wide range of subjects and genres and reflects his traditional photographic heritage of plate cameras and exclusively ......
Animals, as Lévi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain.Taking as its starting point the ......
Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine different genres of art in the USSR, covering the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the Union in 1991.
"With a moonless sky this early morning, it is eerily dark out here, and I can feel the weight of the hot and humid South Florida air. As I head toward the sound of the rolling ocean surf ahead of me, the soft beach sand shifts beneath my feet, making it hard for me to walk while balancing my two cameras and a heavy tripod. Even though I go out ......
Why do we not know more of Susie Barstow? A prolific artist, Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923) was committed to expressing the majesty she found in the national landscape. She captured on canvas and paper the larger American landscape experience as it evolved across the nineteenth century. A notable figure in the field of American landscape painting, ......
This magnificent book of C. D. Clarke's work features 200 paintings, tableaus of color, light, motion, and possibility, created over the course of forty years fishing, hunting, and painting in the world's most coveted destinations.