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The Paintings Of Alice Dalton Brown
April Kingsley
Hudson Hills Press
PO Box 205, Manchester, VT 05254
1555952070 $50.00 hudsonhills.com
The Paintings Of Alice Dalton Brown is a truly gorgeous, 131-page coffee-table
artbook depicting the immensely popular and vibrant paintings of a truly
talented female artist. Some black-and-white images as well as numerous
full-color renditions of timeless paintings of homes, emptiness, natural beauty
seen through windows, and more are accompanied by thoughtful commentary and
informing insights into the depths of the presented works. A distinctive,
domicile-oriented presentation, The Paintings Of Alice Dalton Brown is a very
highly recommended and significant addition to academic and community library
Art History collections.
The Abuse Of Beauty
Arthur C. Danto
Open Court Publishing Company
332 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60604
0812695402 $19.95 opencourtbooks.com
Expertly written by Arthur C. Danto (art critic of "The Nation" magazine and
Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Column University), The Abuse Of
Beauty: Aesthetics And The Concept Of Art is an intriguing and thoughtful study
of the role of beauty in art. A century ago, art strived for beauty above all;
yet in the modern day, an overly beautiful work of art may even be downgraded
by critics for that very reason. Individual chapters cogently address the
issues of internal and external beauty in art; the intersection of beauty and
politics; the beautiful and the sublime within the concept and execution of
art, and a great deal more in this intellectually stimulating and
enthusiastically recommended discourse as to how art is viewed within the
contexts of the past, the present, and the future.
The Spitz Master
Gregory T. Clark
Getty Publications
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682
0892367121 $19.95 www.getty.edu
The Spitz Master: A Parisian Book Of Hours examines a classic work of literary
art, created in Paris around 1420 by a team of illuminators including one
inventive soul now called "The Spitz Master". Art history professor and scholar
Gregory T. Clark informatively introduces and provides a "reader friendly"
examination of the history and significance of this work, while black-and-white
as well as color photographs showcase pages drawn from the classic work in all
their individual and collective glory. The Spitz Master is especially
recommended for academic Art History collections
Nine Famous Artists Your Children Will Love
Michael Napoliello Jr.
Literary Press
c/o Seven Locks Press
PO Box 25689, Santa Ana, CA 92799
0971695849 $19.95 1-800-354-5348
Written in collaboration with the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Michael
Napoliello's Nine Famous Artists Your Children Will Love: An Art Discovery
Primer & Handbook For Parents And Their Children is an engaging and informed
introduction to appreciating wonderful abstract and modern artworks by
distinguished creators. The nine artists presented are Alexander Calder, Red
Grooms, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miro, Claes
Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, and David Smith. Full-color photographs of
memorable pieces are presented with biographical notes on the artists, ideas
for activities to share with children, questions to ask and discuss, insights
into the heart and soul of the creations, and more. An excellent art
appreciation guide, Nine Famous Artists Your Children Will Love is most
especially commended to the attention of parents and grandparents wanting to
instill an appreciation of modern art into the minds and lives of their
children and grandchildren.
Audubon Art Prints
Bill Steiner
University of South Carolina Press
937 Assembly St, Carolina Plaza, 8th Fl, Columbia, SC 29208
1570035032 $59.95 1-800-768-2500
Compiled by field ecologist and veteran bird-watcher Bill Steiner, Audubon Art
Prints: A Collector's Guide To Every Edition is a first-rate guide to the many
distinctive avian prints and paintings of John James Audubon (1785-1851). The
informative and scholarly text definitively recounts what these great works of
art have sold for, as well as the stories behind the creation of the individual
artworks. A superb resource for collectors and an indispensable addition to
academic American Art History reference collections, Audubon Art Prints is a
superbly organized and very strongly recommended presentation enhanced with
twenty-two color illustrations and fifty-five halftones.
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