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Ranging over a vast and fascinating spectrum of world art, each article in this invaluable work of reference is the work of a specialist writer. All are illustrated with superb color reproductions. In addition the book also contains some special features which are of two kinds: "Gallery Studies" which explore and illustrate themes such as Mochica effigy vases in pre-Columbian art, or Romantic landscape painting in Europe; and "Close Studies" which...

This volume presents a survey of the art and history of Mexico. It is the author's intent to recount the history of Mexico through the creations of Mexican artists. It is presented as a sketchbook of history, with its details chosen to evoke the spirit of Mexican life from prehistoric times until 1940. Included are 270 works of art that enable the reader to find their way through the various periods of Mexican history.

"Here, in more than 550 superb full-color illustrations, many never before published, is a glorious array of sun-related works of art from major museums, libraries, archaeological sites, and sun temples throughout the globe."--Jacket.

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,...

A history of Texas artists who painted Texas out of a love for Texas.

"Abandoned New England focuses on five modern American visual artists and poets - Winslow Homer, Robert Frost, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Elizabeth Bishop - who portrayed the stark traditional beauty of New England landscape. According to Priscilla Paton, their paintings and poetry of abandoned terrain ask: What does a landscape represent? What meaning can it have when nature's power appears supplanted by urban or technological forces and when...

It is a land of contrast, of far-spreading plains and high-reaching canyon walls, and of air stretched thin - a land made for painting, not, perhaps, for living. Intrigued by the danger, the drama and the savage light of this land of geological upheaval and downcutting, artists have long been drawn to the far west of Texas. The forty-nine paintings selected for this volume display the variety, the majesty, the glory of this vast region.

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