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  • Frans Hals or not Frans Hals

    Connoisseurship, Technical Analysis and Digital Tools

    by Anna Tummers, Robert G. Erdmann ...
    Series series Cultural Heritage Science
    Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Frans Hals is also the most controversial in as far as the exact scope of his oeuvre is concerned. Hals’s popularity, the lack of technical reference material as well as the differing views among experts as to the exact scope of ... Read more

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  • Mondrian

    by Jp. A. Calosse ...
    Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artist´s career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When ... Read more

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  • Architects' Drawings

    by Kendra Schank Smith ...
    The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to ... Read more

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  • Art Market and Connoisseurship

    A Closer Look at Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Their Contemporaries

    Edited by Anna Tummers, Koenraad Jonckheere ...
    Series series Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
    The question whether or not seventeenth century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens created the paintings which were later sold under their names, has caused many a heated debate. Much is still unknown about the ways in which paintings were produced, assessed, priced, and marketed. For example, did contemporary connoisseurs expect masters such as Rembrandt to paint their works entirely by their ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Notes on Participatory Art

    Toward a Manifesto Differentiating It from Open Work, Interactive Art and Relational Art.

    by Gustaf Almenberg ...
    We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors?In this book the author traces the roots of Participatory Art from Duchamp, Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy via less ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Chromorama

    How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing

    by Riccardo Falcinelli ...
    **The new colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer'One of the best books on colour I've read. A layered tapestry of stories, insights and ideas, each beautifully and clearly written. For anyone interested in colour, it's a must' Marion Deuchars**Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? ... Read more

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  • The Body of the Artisan

    Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

    by Pamela H. Smith ...
    Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Architecture

    An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    by Colin Davies ...
    In order to understand architecture in all its cultural complexity it is necessary to grasp such basic concepts as representation, form and space. The aim of this book is to provide teachers, students, practising architects and general readers with a set of ideas that will enrich their conversation, their writing, and above all their thinking about architecture.The book is divided into eight ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Jan van Eyck within His Art

    by Alfred Acres ...
    Series Book 31 - Renaissance Lives
    Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers in a world accustomed to high-resolution images. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and absorbing. Unlike any earlier artist, Van Eyck infused his paintings with himself. In addition to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Traces of Vermeer

    by Jane Jelley ...
    Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment of time; and we feel it to be real. We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are ... Read more

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  • Art and Science (Second Edition)

    by Eliane Strosberg ...
    An abundantly illustrated history of the dynamic interaction between the arts and sciences, and how it has shaped our world.Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD