James Hall on the Self-Portrait (Pocket Perspectives)
James Hall on the Self-Portrait (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: James Hall

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 050077949X

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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, focusing on artists including Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

E. H. Gombrich on Fresco Painting (Pocket Perspectives)
E. H. Gombrich on Fresco Painting (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: Ernst Gombrich

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 050077966X

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An interpretation of the history of mural painting from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century by one of most eminent art historians of all time, a writer who wielded huge influence over both his professional peers and a vast popular readership. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

Julian Bell on Painting (Pocket Perspectives)
Julian Bell on Painting (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: Julian Bell

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0500779511

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Respected painter and writer Julian Bell offers original insights into the art, practice, and ongoing importance of painting. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

John Boardman on the Parthenon (Pocket Perspectives)
John Boardman on the Parthenon (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: John Boardman

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 0500779503

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Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of fifth-century BCE Athens. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art (Pocket Perspectives)
Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: Lucy Lippard

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-10-22

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0500780242

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Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

T. J. Clark on Bruegel (Pocket Perspectives)
T. J. Clark on Bruegel (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: T. J. Clark

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-10-22

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0500780226

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T. J. Clark offers profound insights into Bruegel's art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belief and disbelief. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

Griselda Pollock on Gauguin (Pocket Perspectives)
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: Griselda Pollock

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0500779481

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Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist, and imperialist underpinnings of works created by Gauguin and others as they competed for preeminence in the European artistic avant-garde of the 1880s and '90s. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

Linda Nochlin on the Body (Pocket Perspectives)
Linda Nochlin on the Body (Pocket Perspectives)

Author: Linda Nochlin

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0500779643

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Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable little books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.

John Boardman on The Parthenon
John Boardman on The Parthenon

Author: John Boardman

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 0500779279

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Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

James Hall on the Self-Portrait
James Hall on the Self-Portrait

Author: James Hall

Publisher: On... Series

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500027271

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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, focusing on artists including Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo.