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ANCIENT SCULPTURES IN THE ROYAL MUSEUM. The Eighteenth-Century Collection in Stockholm, Vol. 1

Author: Touati, Anne-Marie Leander
Country: Sweden
Code: 3991
Language: English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 219
Illustrations: 7 Color Illustrations. 89 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00

Price: 99.50

This is a beautifully illustrated study of the collection of ancient sculptures in the Royal Museum in Stockholm and the Swedish Institute in Rome, both were closely connected to the life of King Gustav III of Sweden. Not only does this book make the collection and related documents accessible, but it also provides you with the tools and the background to acquire a better understanding of them. Contains a very complete concordance and index of the museum, the Royal museum and a general index - a highly intellectual and very comprehensive study.

ANGSTEN OG DENS SUBLIMERING (The Sublimation of Angst). Billeder af Døden i Europæisk Malerkunst 1780-1830 (Pictures of Death in European Painting 1780-1830)

Author: Alena Marchwinski
Country: Denmark
Code: 1871
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 192
Illustrations: 17 Color Illustrations. 58 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 3.00

Price: 59.50

The enshrinement of death, its aesthetic, erotic and metaphysical sublimation and the recognition of the psychological and political brutality of death are all aspects of the romantic vision. This is a study of a fascinating idea in European art, of Goya, Jacques Francois Joseph, Claude Louis Desrais, Gericault, Delacroix, and the ever mysterious Caspar David Friedrich.

ART OF THE JUBILEES IN THE POPE’S ROME, THE 1500-1750.

Author: Rossi, Sergio, Vuolasto, Johanna, ed
Country: Sweden
Code: 6234
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 159
Illustrations: 53 Color Illustrations. 22 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00

Price: 79.50

The jubilees of the two centuries in question, ranging from 1550 to 1750 and comprising styles extending from the Late Renaissance to the Late Baroque, are not examined in terms of their theological or religious value, but as occasions for renewing and enhancing the image of Rome. This was the objective of the Papal Court, but it also involved fraternities and private religious bodies, as well as artists, collectors, and scholars, both religious and secular, of the most varying backgrounds.

ART OF THE WPA ERA. From Collections of the San Diego Region

Author: Dijkstra, Bram
Country: California
Code: 6678
Language: English
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 16
Illustrations: 15 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00

Price: 19.50

During the 1930’s, American art experienced an unprecedented and still largely unequalled, surge of creative excitement. Thousands of professional artists, some already known, and most new to the scene,men and - for the first time in this country’s history - an almost equally large group of women, equipped with a dizzying mix of ethnic and econimic backgrounds, were working together to create artworks instended for the enjoyment and education of the public. These artists expressed themselves in Murals, sculptures, decorative patterns, bas-reliefs, and almost any other medium they could command.

AT CENTURY’S END: NORWEGIAN WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE FIGURATIVE TRADITION 1880/1990.

Author: Susan Fisher Streling, Anne Wichstrøm, Toril Smit
Country: Washington D.C.
Code: 4939
Language: English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 142
Illustrations: 67 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11” x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00

Price: 19.50

This exhibition is devoted to Norwegian women artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries and their successors in contemporary times. Harriet Backer, Kitty Kielland, Asta Nørregaard, Ida Lorentzen, Hanneline Røgeberg, Marianne Heske and others are among those featured. Their works are very beautiful, from interiors to landscapes and portraits, to the most contemporary installations. An extremely interesting text offers insights into the work of each artist, even as it discusses on a broad scale the emancipation of women and the feminist perspective in art.