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50 American Artists You Should Know by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art and Design
Accessible and informative, this book is a gorgeous introduction to great American artists. While the history of American art is as varied as the fifty states the country is comprised of, it tells a story of a uniquely American aesthetic: bold, innovative, and uncompromising. Starting with the portraits ...Show more
Danger! Women Artists at Work by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art and Design
The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a role, often working behind the scenes, out of sight or in resistance to prevailing attitudes and practices. And it ...Show more
Face: Our Human Story by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Exhibition Catalogues
The face is not only central to identity, but is also the primary vehicle for human expression, emotion, and character. It signifies intellect and power, is often regarded as a window into the soul, and is the focus of attention when individuals meet. How have different cultures depicted faces--whether ...Show more
Fashion Muse: The Inspiration Behind Iconic Design by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Fashion and Textiles
Lavishly illustrated and thematically arranged, Fashion Muse looks at the many iterations a muse can take: Greek goddess, fairy-tale princess, wife, lover, supermodel, celebrity, and artist. A prominent art historian with a profound knowledge of the culture of fashion, Debra N. Mancoff delves far and wi ...Show more
Fashion in Impressionist Paris by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Fashion
Even before the advent of haute couture, Paris was a great centre of fashion. During the second half of the nineteenth century, when the capital was transformed by an ambitious urban plan, its residents responded in kind, wearing styles as polished and modern as the city itself in order to participate i ...Show more
How Art Is Made - The Craft Behind the Masterpieces by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art
How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question - how were these works actually made?
Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art and Design
A behind-the-scenes look at the most famous works of art in the world.
Monet's Garden in Art by Debra N Mancoff
Category: Art and Design
This book focuses on Monet's garden at Giverny as seen through his paintings, offering a revealing insight into the artist and his work. Monet's garden was a private haven where domestic pleasure, artistic vision and aesthetic delight converged. It became as powerful a passion in his life as painting - ...Show more
Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers by DEBRA N. MANCOFF
Category: Art
This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvellously the Pre-Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victorian passion for all things botanical. Short-lived but highly influential, the Pre-Raphaelite movement was fuelled by a rejection of academic artistic conven ...Show more
The Garden in Art by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art and Photography
Rich in symbolism and metaphor, and blessed with its own varied and dramatic palette, the garden has proved to be an extremely fertile source of artistic inspiration. In The Garden in Art, acclaimed art historian Debra N. Mancoff reveals the many different ways in which artists from all periods of histo ...Show more
The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art and Design
Containing a stunning array of romantic paintings, this book brings together two important aspects of Victorian culture--the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the meaning of flowers. Few artistic movements capture classic notions of beauty as romantically as the Pre-Raphaelites--a group of nineteenth-cent ...Show more
The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers by Debra N. Mancoff
Category: Art
Few artistic movements capture classic notions of beauty as romantically as the Pre-Raphaelites - a group of nineteenth-century painters and poets who aimed to revive the purer art of the late medieval period. In this beautiful volume, Debra N. Mancoff, an expert on Pre-Raphaelite art and the floral le ...Show more