Through his representation of modern subjects such as ballet dancers and race horses, his constant questioning of traditional artistic practices, and his vital engagement with Parisian society, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) helped to define the beginnings of modernism in visual culture at the end of the 19th century. This manual presents scholarship on ...
London's Grosvenor Gallery opened in 1877 as an alternative to the Royal Academy. Although it only existed until 1890, it advanced the careers of many progressive artists. This work comprises essays exploring critical aspects of the gallery, such as the significance of its social ambience.
Artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have taken small everyday objects and displayed them in monumental size. Color photographs accompany the text.
A new revisionist approach to Pre-Raphaelitism is offered in this book, which attempts to evaluate the subject not in isolation as a solely British phenomenon but rather in terms of its larger Continental contexts in the nineteenth century.
The pre-Raphaelite artists, especially John Everett Millais, Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are presented from the perspective of the popular and critical response of American audiences to their work. Complemented by more than one hundred photographs, the study also delineates the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites on American artists.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mint Museum of Art
Date Published: 1999
Description: First edition, VG+ lg. format, 151pp, beautiful color & b/w reproductions illustrated, text is bright, clean and fresh-in VG++ cond. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Paper wrappers (paperback).
Publisher: Yale Univ. Art Gallery, (
Date Published: 1974)
Description: Foreword by Alan Shestack. A crisp near fine copy. 36 pp. Bibliography. Checklist. Sm. 4to. Illus. with 6 blue halftones. Casteras' long article covers the history of this famous work from installation, vandalization, and eventual restoration and return. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: JB Speed Museum
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 79 pp. , 14 /51 illus in color. Essay by Casteras, catalogue entries for each work. Slight soiling (pale red marks). Tight, clean copy; no marks or tears. read more
Description: Victorian narrative paintings from the Forbes Magazine collection. Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina/ 1999. Coordinated with an exhibition. Many color reproductions of paintings by various artists. Tall softcover. Near Fine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mint Museum of Art
Date Published: 1999
Description: Fine with no dust jacket. 151 p. : ill. (most col. ); 31 cm.; Exhibition schedule, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C. Jan. 15-April 2, 2000 and others; Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-150); Excellent copy, near new; Clean inside and out; Softcover; No dust jacket.; Folio-over 12"-15" tall. read more
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Art and artist; creative urge and personality development.
