Hugh Honour
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This book examines European artwork of America from the 15th to 20th centuries. An extensive and eclectic selection of artists' works appear here, including works by Jan Mostaert, Lodovico Buti, Carpaccio, Christoph Weiditz, John White, Albert Eckhout, Bonaventura Peeters, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan van Kessel, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Toile de Jouy, James Barry, Henri Rousseau, Ferdinand Bellermann, Frederick Catherwood, Frank Buchser, Edgar Degas,...
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Generously illustrated with over 1,370 photographs, architectural plans, and color maps, this highly regarded survey encompasses the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-covering painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography, and ranging from a statuette carved in central Europe some 30,000 years ago to video art of the 1990s. It delves into the purpose and meaning of art to show readers how art...
5) Romanticism
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'This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable New-classicism ... The text is supported by a useful selection of illustrations ... Excellent footnotes and a good index.
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"This dictionary contains biographies of architects and landscape architects, ancient and modern; surveys of architecture and landscape architecture by country; history of urban design, including parks and motorways; definitions of styles and movements; accounts of structural and technical innovations; new terminology and contemporary topics; building types and building materials; and clear and detailed drawings where appropriate."--Jacket.