From the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, people have decorated their homes with still lifes of fruit, flowers and common objects. This 4study of the Western still life, from antiquity to the present, contains information on artists such as Leonardo, Brueghel, Caravaggio, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Lichtenstein, Hockney and many others, together with illustrations of their works. The text discusses not only the still lifes themselves, but also their historical and social context in all periods and countries of ...
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From the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, people have decorated their homes with still lifes of fruit, flowers and common objects. This 4study of the Western still life, from antiquity to the present, contains information on artists such as Leonardo, Brueghel, Caravaggio, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Lichtenstein, Hockney and many others, together with illustrations of their works. The text discusses not only the still lifes themselves, but also their historical and social context in all periods and countries of origin.
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Add this copy of Still Life: a History to cart. $134.65, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Harry N. Abrams.
Add this copy of Still Life: a History to cart. $224.23, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Harry N. Abrams.
Add this copy of Still Life a History to cart. $515.11, like new condition, Sold by Gene W. Baade Books on West rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Renton, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Harry N. Abrams.
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Fine in As New jacket. Translated from the German by Russell Stockman. 4to bright red cloth. 420pp. Stunningly illustrated, one of the very best that Abrams produced, and that's saying a lot because their art books are sumptuous. General Bibliography. Artist Bibliographies. Index, Photo Credits. The art reproductions are brilliant & the "author's sparkling text" make this book a treasure for the mind & a visual bacchanalia. A big art book, but published in quarto rather than folio or oblong, it will rest in your lap easily for hours while you read & look at it. The author has a solid résumé as a scholar of the fine arts & as a museum director. Lovers of fine art are attracted, at one time or another, to one style or another of still life painting. This book comes as close to having "it all" as anything published on the subject. Sections: "The Legacy of Antiquity", "Precursors of the Autonomous Still Life", "The First Modern Still Lifes, Around 1600", "The Flowering of the Still Life: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", "The United States: Still Life as the Mirror of a Young Nation", "From the Early Nineteenth Century to the End of the First World War: the Triumph of the 'How' over the 'What'", "The Twentieth Century". Fine copy in dj. Both in highly collectible condition.
Add this copy of Still Life: a History to cart. $1,976.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Abrams.
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New. 0810941902. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--with a bonus offer--
