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  • In the Blink of an Eye

    A Cultural History of Spectacles

    by Stefana Sabin ...
    This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched gladiator fights to Benjamin Franklin’s homemade bifocals, and from Marilyn Monroe’s cat-eye glasses to Emma Bovary and Harry Potter.Spectacles are objects that seem commonplace, but this book shows that because they fundamentally changed people’s lives, glasses ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    by Hieronymus Bosch ...
    Series Book 40 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch is considered one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work is renowned for its fantastic imagery, ethereal landscapes, original religious concepts and, most famously, his macabre, nightmarish depictions of Hell. Though almost forgotten for centuries, today he is held as an innovative visionary, whose works offer a ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

    by Caspar David Friedrich, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 30 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Widely regarded as the leading figure of the German Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich produced vast and mysterious landscapes and seascapes that explored the theme of human helplessness against the forces of nature, establishing the idea of the Sublime as a central concern of Romanticism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to ... Read more

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  • This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

    by David Markson ...
    David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Illustrated)

    by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 33 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced innovative landscapes and vigorous, witty scenes of peasant life. He exerted a strong influence on painting in the Low Countries and through his sons Jan and Pieter, he founded a dynasty of painters that survived into the eighteenth century. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e ... Read more

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  • Albrecht Durer:180 Master Drawings

    by Blagoy Kiroff ...
    Although Dürer lived five hundred years ago, today we are happy that many of his works have survived. While he was alive, Dürer has published several hundred engravings on which are appeared his initials. It is impossible today to know how many of his works are lost, but those that have survived, give us a relatively complete view of the range of his work. Dürer as rule spent much of his time as a ... Read more

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • A Face to the World

    On Self-Portraits

    by Laura Cumming ...
    Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world’s museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, ... Read more

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  • Forged

    Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with ... Read more

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  • The Third Tower

    Journeys in Italy

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dürer

    by Klaus Carl ...
    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper ... Read more

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  • Florence

    A Delicate Case

    by David Leavitt ...
    The third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series - in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best - Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily'.Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD