GALLEN-KALLELA, AKSELI ART SOUVENIR.
Author: Jones, Shauna Laurel ed
Country: England
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 89
Illustrations: 41 Color Illustrations. 7 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 5 1/2”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781904945635
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 6712
Price: $21.50
Finnish artist Gallen-Kallela’s works are beautifully displayed in full color in this small book.
GALLEN-KALLELA, AKSELI 1865-1931.
Author: Kerttu Karvonen-Kannas, Curator of Gallen-Kallela Museum
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1985
No. of pages: 44
Illustrations: 24 Color Illustrations. 21 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: None
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 0479
Price: $29.50
A concise biographical publication on The National Artist of Finland and his painting.
GALLEN-KALLELA, AKSELI National Artist of Finland.
Author: Timo Martin, Douglas Sivèn
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1985
No. of pages: 256
Illustrations: 257 Color Illustrations. 140 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 11 1/2”x 8”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9519594507
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 1780
Price: $125.00
This gorgeous book on Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1865-1931, traces his development as an artist into a national figure in Finland, but also from a mischievous young man to a captivating man of the world. The realistic paintings of Gallen-Kallela depict Finnish landscapes, customs and the traditional way of life. The Paris paintings tell about the living cultural ties of the Finns. The Kalevala paintings resound with the national romantic pathos, embedded in the Kalevala, the Finnish epic poem, which brought to life the desires of a small nation for independence.This book contains 8 pages of original lithographs in the center of the book. The binding is exquisite, cloth with leather.
GALLEN-KALLELA, AKSELI.
Author: Juha Ilvas, ed
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 408
Illustrations: 309 Color Illustrations. 90 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 14”x 8”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 9515308992
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios. Cat. of exh.
Code: 2802
Price: $95.00
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) is considered Finland’s national artist, a master of Realism and later of Neo-Romanticism, at once the patriotic creator of a vision of mythic Finland - in particular the Kalevala - and an artist with an acclaimed international reputation. A painter and graphic artist, designer and textile artist, architect and illustrator, he was endlessly versatile. This comprehensively researched book features beautiful reproductions of the great body of his work, with catalogue information for each one. Chapters include: The Young Gallen; The Milieu Portraits; Swan Symbolism; Lemminkäinen’s Mother; The Defense of the Sampo; In Africa; The Prints; The First Grand Master of Finnish Design; The Wanderer’s Homes. An exquisitely beautiful book!
GENESIS OF THE ART MUSEUM IN THE 18TH CENTURY, THE.
Author: Bjurström, Per, ed
Country: Sweden
Language: French/ English/ German
Year Published: 1993
No. of pages: 130
Illustrations: 2 Color Illustrations. 33 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 917100475
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 3897
Price: $29.50
This book presents a collection of essays, interspersed with poignant illustrations, drawn from the symposium held at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden on June 26, 1992. The theme of the symposium stresses the special function of art in the museum context and its importance to a wider public. Guided by the tendency of Enlightment thinkers to attribute an educational function to art, these essays analyze the gradual transformation of art from a prestigious luxury commodity available only to princes and patricians to an educational instrument available to the entire population.