Ilaria Rattazzi, Author, Priscilla Rattazzi, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $30 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1498-5
Nearly 100 photographs, 79 in color, capture the diverse moods of childhood, from the glee of a boy swung by his ankles from his father's neck to the rapt attention of preschoolers at story time and the pensiveness of a girl seated alone, her arms...
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Nally Bellati, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (203p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1258-5
Milan-based journalist and photographer Bellati here surveys experimental design in Italy from the 1980s to the present, vaunting the merits of some 50 young designers--among them only seven women--and displaying their work in 300 stylish photos,...
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Ann Percy, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Ettore Sottsass, Jr., With Rizzoli International Publications $45 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1297-4
One of the most imaginative figurative artists of his generation, Francesco Clemente gives concrete form to psychic states, febrile projects of his relentless quest for unity. In Hunger , a bent, apparently nude man bites down bloodily on the trunk...
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Charles Sullivan, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $15.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1377-3
This latest entry into the crowded field of ABC books is a contemplative trip through the animal kingdom as depicted through fine art. Illustrated with paintings, photographs and sculptures that represent a fair, broad cross-section of time periods...
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Malcolm Haslam, Author, Rizzoli, Author, David Black, Foreword by Rizzoli International Publications $65 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1388-9
Haslam's ( The Real World of the Surrealists ) attractively illustrated volume focuses on Britain's late-19th- and early-20th-century arts and crafts movement, highlighting prominent designers and styles of handmade carpets. Much of the text is...
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Richard Powell, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Martin Puryear, Introduction by Rizzoli International Publications $45 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1421-3
This distinctive volume focuses on the memorable paintings of a major African American modernist. Born and raised in a segregated South Carolina town, William Henry Johnson (1901-1970) became an expatriate experimental painter in Paris, then...
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Walter Battistessa, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1481-7
An Italian photographer best known for his socially conscious work here turns to the subject of fabric, primarily clothing, as it asserts the human presence in otherwise impersonal spaces and provides a splash of brightness against mundane backdrops.
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Colin Bailey, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Carrie A. Hamilton, With Rizzoli International Publications $75 (587p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1521-0
The amorous exploits of the gods and their mortal lovers provided 18th-century French painters with an opportunity to depict the female nude and please their wealthy Parisian patrons. Aside from their technical mastery and sheer beauty, the pictures
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Virginia Spate, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (348p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1571-5
Serving as both an indispensable critical analysis of Monet's paintings and a stunning album, this ravishingly illustrated study presents Monet (1840-1926) as an artist who tried to fashion a personal wholeness within a fragmented, rapidly changing...
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Jose De La Colina, Author, Raymond Durgnat, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-941419-68-0
Only serious cineastes will seek out this collection of conversations with Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), but their efforts will be amply repaid with a wealth of information about the Spanish filmmaker's techniques. Mexican film scholars de la Colina and...
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Abolala Soudavar, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Milo Cleveland Beach, With Rizzoli International Publications $75 (423p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1660-6
From wildly imaginative fantasy to rapt religious contemplation to ineffable nature poetry, Persian art has sounded the chords of human emotion in works of consummate subtlety and refinement. This splendidly illustrated volume, which accompanies a...
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Fernand Beaucour, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Chantal Orgogozo, With Flammarion-Pere Castor $50 (0p) ISBN 978-2-08-013506-3
This jewellike album affords an unparalleled glimpse of Egypt as it was experienced by the artists, scientists and scholars who accompanied Napoleon on his expedition of the Nile valley (1798-1801) and by later archeologists and explorers. Bonaparte'
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Constance W. Glenn, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1709-2
In many of his prints, James Rosenquist aims to pack the same power found in his billboard-size Pop paintings. Dense with multiple associations, spiked with surreal humor, his graphics reveal a virtuoso colorist and witty social satirist. In works...
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Jacques Thuillier, Author, Rizzoli, Author Flammarion-Pere Castor $90 (320p) ISBN 978-2-08-013524-7
One of the grand masters of French painting, Georges de la Tour (1593-1652) paradoxically evolved a highly contrived style to accommodate his uncompromising realist vision. Seeking to reveal inner character through outward appearance alone, he pared
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Clotilde Bacri, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1668-2
The Daum glassworks, an early champion of art nouveau and art deco, has continually changed its stylistic direction to stay fresh and creative. The 238 color photographs here portray the glassworks' output from its beginnings in Nancy, France, in...
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John Hollander, Author, Giuliano Briganti, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (195p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1345-2
Bailey's contemporary still-lifes typically show crockery, eggs and utensils stretched out on a table against a wall; but that bald description scarcely conveys the luminous intensity of these paintings. Objects of great diversity huddle, couple,...
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Susan Sully, Author, Tom Sully, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1852-5
A husband-and-wife team debuts with this idiosyncratic tale of two overgrown goldfish that crash a society party. After young Henry Higginbotham doses his fish Glenda and George with Mephisto's Magic Grow Food, they expand to human scale and decide...
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Cindy Sherman, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $17.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1567-8
Inventive, provocative tableaux have made Sherman a star among color photographers, but unless the elementary-school set shares a pronounced taste for the decadent, the artist's considerable talents are misdirected here. An adaptation of a tale by...
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Jorge Castillo, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Maria L. Borras, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $85 (341p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1416-9
Spanish figurative painter Jorge Castillo takes as his theme human existence in all its precariousness, absurdity, beauty and solitariness. His haunting paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures unfold an ironic fable of humanity, a world of...
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Francisco Calvo Serraller, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Edward J. Sullivan, With Rizzoli International Publications $150 (357p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1249-3
Spanish realist painter-sculptor Antonio Lopez Garcia, born in 1936, taps the secrets latent in everyday scenes or objects--a backyard, a subway, a woman in a bathtub, a factory. An artist of many moods and styles, he depicts photorealistic street...
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Roger Tory Peterson, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Rudy Hoglund, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $50 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1816-7
This dazzling volume of 150 illustrations, 100 in color, celebrates Roger Tory Peterson's career in all the media in which he worked-writing, painting, drawing and photography. Zinsser (On Writing Well) contributes a biographical sketch and an...
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Woods, Author, May Woods, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0906-6
The glass house (greenhouse, orangery, conservatory) is a unique incorporation of horticultural necessity into architecture. Woods (a British gardening enthusiast) and art historian Warren here document the history of the glass house from early...
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Daniela Mascetti, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Amanda Triossi, With Rizzoli International Publications $50 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1230-1
The styles and value of earrings, whether shaped like starbursts, beetles or baskets, may have changed since this accessory's beginnings in 3000 B.C. But what has remained constant is the willingness of women to subject themselves, for the sake of...
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Judith Turner, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $29.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0823-6
Turner isolates and frames fragments of buildings to produce elegant compositions that at times seem like abstractions, at times recognizable objects. The many variations possible on a given theme, as in the ""Columns'' section, emphasize the grace...
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Author, Vincent Scully, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (22p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0687-4
A facsimile of the treatise that secured Wright's reputation in Europe, this elegant volume includes plans and drawings of all his projects up to 1910. In the ""Prairie houses,'' vaguely preColumbian forms, adaptations of Japan's light-paneled...
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David T. Suzuki, Author, Freeman Patterson, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1302-5
This urgent appeal for ecological preservation focuses on Canada's last outposts of unspoiled wilderness, using spectacular images, brief text and captions to remind readers of that country's natural resources and their potential for damage from...
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D. Ed. Wolf, Author, Angela Terzani, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $55 (8p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0867-0
This slipcased volume lays a feast of Japanese foods that are meticulous works of art as surely as they are sources of nourishment. The desire for freshness approaches the obsessive when the flesh of a plaice is removed from the bones while the fish
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Rizzoli, Author, Jack Rennert, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (1p) ISBN 978-0-918076-75-5
Sheer delight for art lovers and Francophiles, this array of 220 French posters simultaneously traces the flowering of pictorial advertising art and delineates the mores of belle epoque Paris. The posters, from the collection of Marvin Shanken,...
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Rizzoli, Author, Jocelyn De Noblet, Editor, Terence Conran, Foreword by Flammarion-Pere Castor $65 (432p) ISBN 978-2-08-013539-1
Sweeping from the 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London to today's computer-aided design, this big, jazzy album explores the role of designed objects in our daily lives. Its 600 plates (about half in color) and 30 historical and analytical essays
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Rizzoli, Author, Karen Hearn, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $60 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1940-9
The title of this elegant catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London, refers mainly to the great ruling families in Britain during the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts, but it also alludes to family...
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Rizzoli, Author, Mario Campi, Other Rizzoli International Publications $27.5 (127p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0799-4
This is a catalogue of work by a team of Swiss-Italian architects from the Ticino region of Switzerland who are members of a group sometimes referred to as ""La Tendenza,'' which counts Mario Botta as its best-known practitioner. Campi and Pessina's
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Rizzoli, Author, Terry Fenton, Author Rizzoli International Publications $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0728-4
Caro's metallic sculpture is sometimes compared to abstract painting or architecture. This attractively priced showcase, the latest in Rizzoli's small-format (8 11) series, justifies the comparison, particularly with Hop Scotch, reminiscent of...
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Rizzoli, Author, Klaus-Jurgen Sembach, Editor, Steichen, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $29.95 (15p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0688-1
Sembach's introduction offers reverential musings and a superficial chronicling of events in Garbo's life already familiar to most readers. It's best to skip this section and go right to the pictures, taken by 12 photographers, including Cecil...
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Rizzoli, Author, Richard McGuire, Author Rizzoli International Publications $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1465-7
As this retro-look counting book opens, 14 oranges sit in a tree, standing out against a blue pencil background. One by one their fates are revealed. In a busy diner, ``Four was squeezed for the juice''; ``Seven was divided among the crew'' on a...
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Rizzoli, Author, Henry A. Millon, Editor, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $85 (731p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1828-0
Renaissance architects Michelangelo, Filippo Brunelleschi and Giovanni de'Medici used scale models--mostly in wood, but also in clay, cardboard and metal--to analyze project designs, for presentation purposes and as guides to construction. This...
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Bordeau, Author, Andre Soriano, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (172p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0679-9
The mechanical dolls depicted here, collected by a Monaco resident named Madeleine de Galea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are on display at the National Museum of Monte Carlo. Bordeau, the museum's curator, and Battaini, Monaco's...
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Pedretti, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Carlo Pedretti, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (364p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0646-1
Most of Leonardo da Vinci's architectural projects were never constructed, and practically nothing remains of the few that were realized. Pedretti's close examination of sketches from the Codex Atlanticus and other da Vinci notebooks combines fact...
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Daval, Author, Jean Luc Daval, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $37.5 (126p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0628-7
A feast for the eye, this technical survey shows how oil painting techniques were adapted to artists' changing needs to represent light, color, space and emotion. The album is so lovely to look at, with many excellent color reproductions and...
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Roche, Author, Serge Roche, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (63p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0605-8
This import is an ""enlarged edition'' of a 1956 French title, published here now with the original black-and-white photos, most of which are of lackluster quality. The excellent color plates, however, are new and the text has been revised to...
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Koichi Ed. S. Ed. Koichi Ed. S. Suzuki, Author, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0649-2
Illustrated by more than 600 photographs and plans, this survey looks at the schools and styles of Japanese architecture, their cross-fertilization with Western architects, and the way that Japanese building design has preserved its uniqueness...
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Satur Borras, Jr., Author, Maria Lluisa Borras, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (549p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0603-4
A founder of the Dada movement, Francis Picabia was a maverick, an out-and-out individualist who mocked even his fellow-travelers. He participated in Surrealism but was reviled by the Surrealists. His entries in the New York Armory Show of 1913 made
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Gregoire, Author, Reginald Gregoire, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (287p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0664-5
No Christian monastic order ever proclaimed arts and letters to be a path to spirituality. Yet the monks of the early Middle Ages created enduring architecture, invented literary forms, transmitted ancient pagan culture and kept alive learning that...
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Joanna Sullam, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Charlie Waite, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $27.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0927-1
An unobtrusive, informative text accompanies photographs of small, definitively quaint French villages. Waite (Long Walks in France, etc.) and travel writer Sullam offer ``an unashamedly personal selection,'' of old and unspoiled enclaves...
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Martin Friedman, Author, Walker Art Center, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (568p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1267-7
With an incredibly comprehensive collection, the Walker art museum in Minneapolis enables visitors to follow trends and movements from the dawn of modernism onward, this mammoth catalogue makes clear. For example, one can trace biomorphism from Arp's
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Claude Roy, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0630-0
Amadeo Modigliani abandoned his career as a sculptor for purely economic reasons, yet his experience with hammer and chisel enabled him to discover his true means of expression as a painter. The smoldering sensuality of his nudes, writes Roy, puts...
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Mouron, Author, Henri Mouron, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (315p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0651-5
For Cassandre, designing a poster meant telling a story. He would take an objectthe Normandie ocean liner, a locomotive, a record, a wine bottle, or whateverand make it the center of attraction through bold geometry and witty pictorial drama. Aside...
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Abraham J. Karp, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1450-3
The Library of Congress has one of the world's great collections of Judaica, as this catalogue of a recent exhibition makes abundantly clear. Combining a highly readable text with wondrous illustrations, this revelatory volume offers glimpses of...
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Serra, Author, Pere A. Serra, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (293p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0661-4
In painting joyful, biomorphic fantasies abuzz with gnomes, stars, moons, sex symbols and snails, Spanish artist Joan Miro drew inspiration from the island of Mallorca (or Majorca) with its open spaces and luminous skies, its folk art and ancient...
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Et Al Rosenblum, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $40 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0717-8
Hovering uneasily between realism and pop art, Katz's gigantic portraits strike detractors as slick and lifeless, while admirers praise their energy, style and optimism. An exhibition now at New York's Whitney Museum may help viewers decide whether...
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John Camp, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Frank H. Goodyear, Introduction by Rizzoli International Publications $30 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0888-5
At first glance, Ingle's lavishly detailed still lifes look as though they might have been painted by a 17th century Dutch master. But look again, and his meticulous, oversize renditions of toy trains, crystal bowls, ripened pears and oriental...
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Langdale, Author, Cecily Langdale, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $19.95 (94p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0681-2
This is an intriguing biography of the early 20th century English painter of female subjects, interiors and still lifes. John, a sort of Emily Dickinson of modern painting, showed her art only once during her lifetime. Despite her cultivation of...
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Wallace, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0819-9
Four digressively anecdotal but entertaining essays here examine dance and high society, but, in this companion volume to an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the lavish illustrations are the real treatfrom color reproductions of works by...
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Crespi, Author, Gabriele Crespi, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (334p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0707-9
When Arab soldiers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to enter Spain in A.D. 711, Spanish Jews offered the invaders wholehearted support. The Muslim conquerors were tolerant, allowing subjects to follow their own faiths. Christian communities...
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Daniels, Author, Ger Daniels, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1070-3
Dutch artist Daniels here adopts a refreshingly different approach to folk art: surveying ethnic jewelry of past and present from around the globe, he invokes a delicate vision in over 200 paintings, displaying finery ranging from that adorning an...
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Ewing, Author, Rizzoli, Author, William A. Ewing, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0718-5
From unpublished memoirs and other sources, Ewing (Style and Motion, etc.) offers a comprehensive picture biography of Geoge Hoyningen-Huene, who was born into Russia's aristocracy and in the Paris of the '20s and '30s became a quintessential...
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Permanyer, Author, Luis Permanyer, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0724-6
The abstract paintings of Antoni Tapies blend calligraphic gestures, surrealist juxtapositions and a deliberate surface ambiguity arising out of the Catalan artist's immersion in Zen and Taoism. His work is largely cerebral, its calculated control...
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Luis Permanyer, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Melba Levick, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $65 (299p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1554-8
Barcelona, as the title of this magnificent album implies, is a veritable open-air sculpture gallery. Pieces by Antoni Tapies, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Beverly Pepper and Anthony Caro play an integral role in the urban design. With 321 color...
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Grow, Author, Lawrence Grow, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $35 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0742-0
Using such techniques as stenciling, marbleizing, graining and gilding, decorative painters can lend high style to a glitzy Manhattan clothing store or imbue a country house's interior with domestic warmth. Architectural painting has definitely made
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Ketchum, Author, William C. Ketchum, Jr., Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0765-9
A child's sled with an American flag painted on it, the Penn Fire Insurance Company's cast-iron bust of William Penn, a lithograph of the Statue of Liberty on a cookie boxall are examples of familiar American symbols reworked into daily objects....
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Bonafoux, Author, Pascal Bonafoux, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0732-1
The French impressionists gave each other advice and help despite their rivalries and disputes. The portraits they made of each other and of themselves crystallized their common ways of seeing. Renoir painted Sisley; Manet sketched Monet; Cezanne...
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Anati, Author, Emmanuel Anati, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (360p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0723-9
Klein, a business tycoon who loves football, realized an ambition when he bought the San Diego Chargers in 1966. Here, with the aid of Fisher, who has coauthored books with umpire Ron Luciano and Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda, he takes a lighthearted,
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Nory Miller, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0561-7
Miller begins on a frivolous note, celebrating Jahn's apparent charisma, including his jet-set lifestyle and fine taste in clothing. But when she turns her attention to the Chicago architect's work, the text improves considerably. Miller emphasizes...
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Chris Sutton, Author, Denys Sutton, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (343p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0733-8
Degas' pictures of bathers and ballerinas leave no doubt that he appreciated feminine beauty, but, according to friends, he disliked women and was impotent. This fastidious bachelor was one of the most reticent of artists. Sutton, a British art...
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Michelangelo Muraro, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Paolo Marton, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $95 (513p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0762-8
This is a comprehensive, well-organized and highly readable manual by two tax specialists, coauthors of Strassels' Year-Round Tax Savers for Retirement, etc. Geared to the new tax law, it offers readers a systematic plan of budgetary and...
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Scolari, Author, Massimo Scolari, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $21 (94p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0791-8
Italian architect and painter Scolari creates hallucinatory architectural plans and paintings that critique modernist representation while establishing their own design and spatial conundrums. Scolari is fascinated by the role of architecture as a...
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Stanislaus Von Moos, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0743-7
The members of this distinguished Philadelphia architectural firm are noted for their writings as well as their projects, and von Moos, who teaches art history in Switzerland and England, discusses both their theories and designs. Analyzing the...
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Nash, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $40 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0800-7
This catalogue not only provides specific examples from the Nashers' well-known collection of modern sculpture but also offers several essays that give an informative, condensed history of the development of modern sculpture. In ""Early Modern...
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Mervyn Levy, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0697-3
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Liberty & Co. of London employed a team of artists to create designs, distinguished by simplicity and functionality, which came to be known as the Liberty Style. This book's abundant illustrations depict...
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Tilly, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0696-6
The drawing occupies a central place in Western erotic artpaintings were long considered too ""public'' for fantasies of this nature. The book opens with an ``after Michelangelo'' Rape of Ganymede, and proceeds from this brief homosexual note to...
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Seebohm, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $65 (275p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0811-3
In this lavish tribute, six Viennese describe their opera house in terms that seem nearly as concerned with public relations as with music drama. Seebohm, who describes herself as a ""former musicologist,'' tells the story of opera in Vienna before...
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Storr, Author, Chuck Close, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0808-3
Close's enormous, head-on portraits make us acutely aware that objectivity is a pose. Recently, this photo-realist painter has branched out in different directions. His Polaroid photographs of nudesover-lifesize, multipanel assemblagesare...
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Boris Podrecca, Author, Wilfried Wang, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $15 (68p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0836-6
Architect Podrecca, a native of Vienna, has rejected modernism's drive toward a unified style and instead opts for individual solutions that combine the old and the new. Influenced by the mid-19th century Viennese architect Gottfried Semper, known...
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Jonathan Eastland, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Derecktor Robert, With Rizzoli International Publications $45 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0828-1
""Looking at yachts is much like looking at a gallery full of paintings,'' muses the yachting correspondent and marine photographer for London's Associated Press. ``One goes to look to gain inspiration, to admire technique, to have one's memory...
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Fok, Author, Pat Fok, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (134p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0859-5
""My adult life has been a search for harmony,'' explains the author of Faces of China, and her gentle new volume eschews the ``highrises of Beijing, the super highways of Guangzhou, the industrial buildings of Shanghai.'' Poetic images of Fok's ``dr
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Michel Beurdeley, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $150 (315p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0737-6
In the vast outpouring of Chinese porcelain from the Qing (pronounced ""ching'') or Manchu dynasty (1644-1912), the two styles highlighted here set standards for poetic charm and lyrical virtuosity. Dubbed famille verte and famille rose by French...
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Rodimzeva, Author, Irina Aleksandrovna Rodimtseva, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0856-4
The Kremlin houses the largest Soviet museum as well as the seat of government, and with glasnost comes this singular volume produced by the U.S.S.R. that reveals a panoply of artistic masterpieces from a period spanning 15 centuries. Superior color
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Hoog, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Michel Hoog, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (332p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0843-4
Gauguin's flight to Tahiti was more than a dreamer's quest for paradise; his life was a continual search for a simpler, cheaper place to live and work. This superb, levelheaded study by the chief curator of the Orangerie in Paris challenges many...
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Willemijn Stokvis, Author, William Stokvis, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0925-7
In the years immediately following World War II, the short-lived Cobra movement, comprising mainly Dutch, Belgian and Danish artists, unleashed a torrent of primal imagery and violent color. The best-known Cobra paintersKarel Appel, Pierre...
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Puig, Author, Arnau Puig, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $65 (379p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0834-2
The tapestries of Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga interweave disquieting rags and bunches of cords that emerge from torn surfaces. His is an art of tragic tatters, noble gestures, festering eroticism. This Catalan weaver achieves his effects by...
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Michel Leiris, Author, Rizzoli, Author, John Weightman, Translator Rizzoli International Publications $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0904-2
Bacon's menacing pictures of twisted human torsos, rabid dogs and dismembered men stranded amid carcasses made him a fashionable painter in the 1960s. But what has he been doing in the '80s? As this concise retrospective reveals, the British painter'
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E. Knight, Author, Christopher Knight, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0916-5
A catalogue of the art collection of Milanese businessman and collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, this glitzy showcase concentrates on minimalist sculpture, conceptual and installation art, and abstract expressionism. In a lengthy interview with...
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Liz McQuiston, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0944-8
Only in the last 10 years have women entered the various fields of design in substantial numbers. This international survey is a celebration of their influence, pioneering and innovation, especially in areas not traditionally associated with females,
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Dell'arco, Author, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'arco, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $30 (151p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0919-6
Dell'Arco, author of other books on the futurists, writes with simplicity and insight on one of the movement's leaders. With almost 300 illustrations, this handsome monograph concentrates on Giacomo Balla's (1871-1958) art and successes and lets the
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Colombo, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $29.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8478-5517-9
This is the companion volume to the exhibit that inaugurated Florence's Fratelli Alinari Museum of Photography and currently is traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada under Smithsonian auspices. Sontag notes that the book's title ``announces a...
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Rouart, Author, Denis Rouart, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (139p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0949-3
Since its publication in Paris in 1945, the late art historian and museum curator's monograph has become a classic reference. This first English translation coincides with a Degas exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rouart...
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A. Gozak, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $65 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0951-6
It is sad that the vast majority of sketchbook plans and competition entries reproduced in this album were never built. Ivan Leonidov (1902-1959) was surely one of the most innovative and humanistic architects to come out of early Russian modernism.
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Solomon, Author, Holly Solomon, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $37.5 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0960-8
This book offers a seductive but ultimately narrow view of the countless ways owners of art can make their collections feel, literally, at home. Collector and gallery owner Solomon and critic Anderson profile 22 significant private collections said...
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Zhadova, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (533p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0827-4
Best remembered as a visionary architect who worked in industrial design, Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) based his famous model for the Monument to the Third International on the centuries-old Russian tradition of erecting a monument in the form of a...
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Constantin Boyn, Author, Constantin Boym, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1613-2
After dreary decades of a single, government-imposed style, pluralism has blossomed in the design world of the former Soviet Union. Posters, packaging, graphics, built environments for restaurants and stores, utopian architectural drawings,...
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Susan Stronge, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Nima Smith, With Rizzoli International Publications $37.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1012-3
Primarily a catalogue, this heavily illustrated volume, published in association with London's Victoria & Albert Museum, cursorily documents four eras of Indian jewelry-making: ``early'' Indian gold; the jewelry and coins of ancient India; the...
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Priscilla Rattazzi, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Priscilla Rattazzi, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $30 (122p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1058-1
These 64 black-and-white photographs of dogs and their masters by freelance photographer Rattazzi take an ingratiating look at man's best friend. Many begin and end with a celebrity hug: in Oyster Bay, Long Island, Geoffrey Beene enfolds dachshunds...
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Jiri Mucha, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (300p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1019-2
Best known for his posters of Sarah Bernhardt and his Art Nouveau-ish nymphs, Czech-born Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) has been unjustly pigeonholed as a decorative artist. Certain to raise Mucha's reputation, this engrossing, profusely illustrated...
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Anne Kraatz, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $65 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1029-1
This survey of lace styles from the 16th century to the present balances intelligent, accessible text with detailed photographs of lace pieces and paintings that show how fashion has depended on the lacemaker's art. From the ethereal lace ruffs--waft
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Willy Rotzler, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (332p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1024-6
First published in 1977 and now reissued in a revised and enlarged edition, Swiss art critic Rotzler's cosmopolitan tour explores the divergent directions which the geometrical/abstract impulse can take. For Russian constructivists like Kasimir...
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Yglesias, Author, Helen Yglesias, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0976-9
Like her close friend Reginald Marsh, realist painter Isabel Bishop set down city street scenes in a quick, reportorial style. Her sketches and oils of working women from the 1930s and '40s can be read almost as a feminist statement. In her ``Union...
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Laurence Liu, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (297p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1082-6
From cave temples bedecked with intricate carvings and giant Buddhas, to Han wood-frame houses whose courtyard centers embody Confucian ethical principles, this magnificent volume gauges the breadth and depth of Chinese architecture over the past...
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Jean-Yves Bosseur, Author, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1427-5
This handsomely illustrated but virtually unreadable book attempts to give insight into the correspondence between music and the visual arts from antiquity to the present. In short passages accompanying fine color reproductions of art works...
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Aleksandr Kamensky, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $100 (376p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1080-2
Marc Chagall was peculiarly Russian in his transformation of sordid reality into supreme beauty, his ``impassioned search for a new organization of the world,'' suggests Soviet art historian Kamensky. Although most Western critics maintain that...
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Charles H. Traub, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Charles Kuralt, Introduction by Rizzoli International Publications $50 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1256-1
In order ``to create an unexpected view of angling and its aspects,'' Traub ( Italy Observed in Photography and Literature ) matches quotes by writers as diverse as Plutarch and Norman Maclean, John Donne and James Dickey to fishing-related photos....
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Tatla Dar Singh, Author, Madanjeet Singh, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (156p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1153-3
Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Nehru's birth, this volume of photographs taken in the 1940s is a study in contrasts: haunting pictures of refugees give way to shots of smiling children, farmers, miners and fishermen at work, or...
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Helen Taylor, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1016-1
More than 60 articles here address a myriad of topics on the overall theme of housing. Various scholars, editors, architects and social reformers cover subjects as diverse as homelessness, retirement havens, underground living, homemaking, shelter...
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Perucchi-Petri, Author, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1203-5
Prominent Italian artist Enzo Cucci evokes a strange, apocalyptic world in his small drawings. In one, a quasi-human figure is caught in a whirlwind that razes everything to the ground; the vortex itself takes the form of a horrific face. In another,
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Leslie Lindsey, Author, Leslie Linsley, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $40 (228p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1165-6
This lackluster valentine takes the reader on a tour of the architecture and interior design of Nantucket, Mass., homes, with 300 photographs, 200 of which are in color. The black-and-white pictures fail to illustrate the text adequately: they are...
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Dachy, Author, Marc Dachy, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (230p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1110-6
Dada art was not a nihilistic negation of culture, contends French art historian Dachy. Rather, the movement's provocation and humor were an affirmation of new freedoms as dadaists liberated materials (object-sculptures, pasted papers), words (automa
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Marvin S. Weingarten, Author, Louis H. Sullivan, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $200 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1109-0
Sullivan (1856-1924) forever changed American architecture with his designs for Chicago's Auditorium Building, the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Mo., and many other public structures. Part of his pioneering effort was his unique use of...
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Judi Freeman, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1800-6
Picasso made nearly 60 wrenching pictures of weeping women, mostly during 1937, the same year he painted Guernica , his protest against the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. On one level, these weeping women represented the victims of bombed...
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Woodham, Author, Jonathan M. Woodham, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $65 (335p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1221-9
A smorgasbord for browsers, a repository of images for designers and craftspeople in all fields, this delightful, inclusive survey deciphers the visual culture of everyday life. Ornament is taken in its widest context, including everything from...
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Bernard Cooperman, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Roberta Curiel, With Rizzoli International Publications $43.2 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1236-3
In 1516, fearful that the ``sworn enemies of Christ'' would pollute their religion, but practical enough to protect the health of their economy, the city fathers of Venice established a segregated Jewish section. Named ``Campo de Ghetto,'' it was...
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Victoria Ginn, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Keri Hulme, Foreword by Rizzoli International Publications $60 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1167-0
Ginn, a New Zealander who spent three years traveling through the regions covered here, depicts in photographs and explains in brief captions dance traditions in her own country, Australia, the Solomon Islands, India, Burma, Thailand, Nepal and...
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Madeleine-Perdri, Author, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $69.2 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1286-8
Son of a one-armed, misanthropic bailiff, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was an intensely private person. Just two days before he died of diphtheria, the painter presented his companion, Madeleine Knobloch, and their 13-month-old son to his mother....
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Vladimir Tolstoi, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $125 (439p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1242-4
Though richly illustrated, this survey by a director of the Russian Institute for Science and Art in Moscow is marred by a didactic text and artworks of uneven quality. A broad spectrum of decorative arts is encompassed: film posters, theater...
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David Mitchinson, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Julian Stallabrass, With Rizzoli International Publications $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1559-3
Affording a rounded view of the English sculptor's output and career, this concise, handsomely illustrated survey joins 203 plates (182 in color) with two introductory essays by staff members of the Henry Moore Foundation. Mitchinson briefly reviews
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Eddie Arcaro, Author, Nancy Stout, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1382-7
Architectural historian Scott's 300 photos are crisp and clear, depicting not only grandstands and paddocks, but also the barns, training tracks, parking lots, entrance gates and landscape architecture of 12 American racetracks. The author covers...
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Susan Train, Paris, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Herbert R. Lottman, With Rizzoli International Publications $45 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1340-7
As the final spring of WW II approached, the glamour and culture that traditionally festooned the City of Light was dimmed by lack of food, transportation, utilities and clothing; the French art de vivre seemed to have disappeared behind ration...
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Perrois, Author, Louis Perrois, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (177p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1275-2
The Fang tribes of Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea carved polished wooden statues, used in ancestor worship, that are fiercely enigmatic and were said to possess certain powers. Manipulation of these naked female and male figures was believed...
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Jack Parsons, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Christina Mather, Introduction by Rizzoli International Publications $37.5 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1333-9
This volume, featuring 128 color photos, is a follow-up to Santa Fe Style , for which Parsons was principle photographer and Mather coauthor. Here Mather combines enthusiasm for New Mexico's sensual geographic features and vast skies with a simple,...
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Martin Kazmaier, Author, Horst, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (279p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1389-6
Celebrated Vogue fashion photographer Horst P. Horst defines an attitude, a genre, with his studies of women--icons of elegance, unattainable goddesses--captured with calm detachment. This tony tribute to the work of the German-born, New York-based...
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Jacqueline Demornex, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Patricia Chapsel, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $150 (305p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1387-2
Beginning as a seamstress's apprentice at age 12, Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) would help define Parisian fashion in the 1920s and '30s. Her simple yet elegant dresses were multidimensional structures that moved and flowed. Sensuous silks, Greek-ins
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Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, Author, Illya Sandra Perlingieri, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (223p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1544-9
Refuting the Renaissance-era belief that women lacked creativity and intelligence, Italian Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) became a first-rate painter hailed by Vasari, Michelangelo and Van Dyck. This profusely illustrated biographical-critical...
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Steven Stellingwerf, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1414-5
Where's the Christmas celebrant who hasn't harbored thoughts of cooking up an edible cottage? In this beautifully illustrated book, sugarcraftsman and teacher Stellingwerf tells readers how to create a number of apparently exquisite gingerbread...
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David Hickey, Author, Susan Rothenberg, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1595-1
Rothenberg's austere yet psychologically charged depictions of horses, painted in the 1970s, are justly celebrated. More problematic are her abstract figures of the 1980s and early 1990s, a melange of animals, surreal landscapes, frenetic dancers...
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Jean Sutherland Boggs, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (371p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1561-6
Picasso's still lifes, though less dramatic than his highly charged figurative pictures, include some of his most original, daring and emotionally complex work. This lavish catalogue of a traveling exhibition combines sensitive connoisseurship and...
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Harmer Johnson, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Gillett Griffin, With Rizzoli International Publications $60 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1597-5
Here, finally, is a shopper's guide to pre-Columbian and North American Indian art that will facilitate the aesthetic appreciation, connoisseurship and accumulation of these objects. Unabashedly defending the controversial practice of collecting...
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Giulio Carlo Argan, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $25 (137p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1061-1
First published in Switzerland in 1964, this survey retains its freshness in expounding the thesis that the character of the Baroque culture in 17th-century Europe was ``consciously irrational, always controlled and deliberate.'' Further countering...
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Wallace E. Keller, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1471-8
Distorted shapes, exaggerated angles and a somewhat garish palette that is virtually free of primary colors are the hallmarks of Keller's odd, topsy-turvy illustrations of what ensues when ``little Mott Turner'' quite literally gets up on the wrong...
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Douglas Collins, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Joint Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1615-6
Collins ( The Story of Kodak ) entertainingly traces business and social history in this first full-length account of a famed American photography studio, founded by a German-born immigrant who recorded Lincoln at Gettysburg in 1863 and whose...
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Laurinda Spear, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $17.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1370-4
Perhaps it was the succession of buildings--from hut to palace--for which the fisherman wishes that lured this architect into children's book illustration. The story varies only slightly from the original. A fisherman in a motorboat hooks a dolphin,
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John McEwen, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $55 (239p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1593-7
Born in Portugal in 1935, her girlhood spent under the dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, London-based painter Paula Rego fiercely expressed her revulsion at a repressive patriarchal regime in Salazar Vomiting the Homeland. Her continually
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Judith Zilczer, Author, Rizzoli, Author, James T. Demetrion, Foreword by Rizzoli International Publications $60 (218p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1769-6
This well-illustrated catalogue of a traveling exhibit now at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., charts Dutch-born American expressionist Willem de Kooning's evolution from his early explorations of cubist and surrealist sources to his late...
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Peter Der Manuelian, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1701-6
A disappointing, downscale version of Fun with Hieroglyphs , this picture book cum abecedary cum code book cum Egyptology seminar tries in vain to be all things to all readers. ``A is an archer who carries a bow,'' for example, suggests a very young
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Joan Weisman, Author, Rizzoli, Author, David Bradley, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $15.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1742-9
A Pueblo girl develops an appreciation for friendship and tradition in this intergenerational story. Nine-year-old Rama's family has moved to the city to be closer to her hospitalized father. Four young siblings, a harried mother and sweet memories...
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Catherine Lampert, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1775-7
British figurative painter Lucian Freud's jolting, unsparingly candid portraits bear superficial resemblances to photorealism or to Francis Bacon's distortions, yet his people, at once vulnerable and potent, inhabit a world all their own. Born in...
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Charles F. Stuckey, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Raymond Foye, Editor Rizzoli International Publications $35 (143p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1620-0
In his foreword to this volume, Warhol's longtime associate Fremont contends that the years preceding the pop artist's unexpected death in 1987 saw a resurgence in the quality of his creative output. The 80-odd pages of illustrations that follow...
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Francesco Gurrieri, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Stefano Giraldi, Photographer Rizzoli International Publications $85 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1965-2
Art Publications In 1977, the Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane was founded to help preserve the the historic homes of Italy. nowhere are these historic homes more in evidence than in Florence. In 450 color photographs by Stefano Giraldi and...
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John Zukowsky, Author, Robbe P. Stimson, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0613-3
Devotees of architecture, photography and regional history will enjoy this magnificently illustrated book documenting 123 residences built along the Hudson River Valley over the last 300 years. The authors present a complete textual history of each...
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John Zukowsky, Author, Rizzoli International Publications, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $27.5 (172p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0771-0
Here leading contemporary architects reexamine the career of Mies van der Rohe from a rewarding variety of critical stances. Dal Co discusses Mies's notebooks and ideas as well as possible influences on him. Eisenman ""reads'' the Barcelona Pavilion
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Kenneth Woodbridge, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0684-3
Woodbridge is popular as a book author and writer in British garden journals; he contributed the France section in the Oxford Companion to Gardens, a subject he further explores in this comprehensive volume. Scholars as well as general readers who...
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Adriano A. Novello, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $75 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0731-4
A collective Armenian biography coexists here with a relatively extensive analysis of Armenian art, although Novello only scantly relates the two in this disjointed volume. In a verbose but picturesque narrative, motley art forms, many recently...
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Francoise Giroud, Author, Rizzoli, Author, Sacha Van Dorssen, Photographer Rizzoli International Publications $110 (325p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0860-1
Dior ""loved his dresses as though they were people: they were his creatures until the day when they left his house,'' writes Giroud, former French minister of culture, in the brief but informative biographical essay that forms the first part of...
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Naumovna Yablonskaya, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $55 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1090-1
For their roles in the birth of modernism, most of the 14 Russian women artists profiled in this profusely illustrated monograph by a Soviet art historian came from far-flung provinces to challenge the overrefined European conventions of Moscow and...
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Agnes De Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $35 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0943-1
Turn-of-the-century French ``Pictorialist'' photographers posed sensuous models in the style of academic painting; then came early documentary pioneers like Eugene Atget and Andre Kertesz, opening the floodgates of reality. Brassai's macabre,...
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Bernard Zurcher, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (319p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0986-8
In the collaboration of Braque and Picasso that spawned cubism, Braque's contribution was greater than is generally assumed, suggests Zurcher in this lavishly illustrated monograph. He notes that Braque's intuitive and analytical faculties had been...
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Heidi Wever, Author, Heidi Weber, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $175 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1062-8
Le Corbusier painted or sketched nearly every day. The oils, watercolors, drawings and sculptures reproduced in this lavish album reveal a less well-known side of the coolly rational architect. A severed, screaming head, large mechanical women a la...
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