Art Deco Textiles: The French Designers |
Alain-Rene Hardy ISBN: 0500285993 This book provides a complete retrospective of French Art Deco textiles between the two wars, drawn from the fullest of historical sources. By turns sumptuous or minimalist, featuring extravagant floral patterns or simple arrangements of shapes and...(read more) |
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Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde |
Rebecca A. Rabinow et al. ISBN: 0300117795 Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) played a key role in the transformation of the art world in the late nineteenth century. A pioneering Parisian dealer, Vollard introduced many of the era's leading artists to the public. This beautifully illustrated...(read more) |
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Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors: Drawing with Scissors (Smart about the Arts |
Jane O'Connor ISBN: 044842519X Sorry - no summary available. |
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Locker Room Nudes: The French National Rugby Team in the Nude |
Francois Rousseau ISBN: 0789313073 This work contains never before seen images of real "ruggers" in the nude in candid locker room shots. It contains a collection of gorgeous male nudes that has inspired a calendar which sold over 70,000 copies in France alone and has been a...(read more) |
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The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany |
Wendy Davies ISBN: 1891271059 A corpus of inscribed stones from Brittany dating from AD 400 - 1100 with lengthy descriptions, illustrations of the inscriptions themselves and textual analysis. |
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The Ultimate Picasso |
Brigitte Leal, Christine Piot, Marie-Laure Bernadac ISBN: 0810991144 Of all the books on the man many consider the greatest genius of twentieth-century art, this sumptuous work - now available as a compact, affordable paperback - stands out as truly the "ultimate" Picasso. Not only does it cover in one volume...(read more) |
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Tintin: The Complete Companion |
Michael Farr ISBN: 0719555221 This text explains the sources in reality of all the Tintin stories, which still sell four million copies a year worldwide. Politics, people, events and objects are all covered, Tintin, the extraordinary reporter with his immediately recognizable coif...(read more) |
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