Product Description: Non-fiction: Art History

Product Description: Klaus Gunther Perls (1912-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, where his parents were art dealers. He studied art history in Munich, but after the Nazis came to power moved to Basel, Switzerland and completed his studies. In 1935, Klaus moved to New York and opened the Perls Galleries on East 58th Street near Madison Avenue in New York...read more

A lavish two-volume boxed set is a definitive catalogue of the artist's collection at the National Gallery of Art and is published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition.

The absurdities of modern life are dramatized by a student who forsakes physical love for a conversation with poets about it, a former Czech Communist leader who is officially eliminated from history, and others

Product Description: Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A beautiful book calendar for any year filled with paintings by Master Artists.

Offers a profile of the French photographer and gathers a selection of his works (view table of contents)

Text and photographs chronicle the development of Calder's sculpture, from early wire sculptures and abstract mobiles to his monumental public sculptures

Product Description: Book by National Gallery of Art (U. S.)

Product Description: Claes Oldenburg has become one of America's most influential artists. His subject-matter is the everyday object - food, clothing and mechanical devices - which he reincarnates in provocative sculpture, drawings and performances. This comprehensive volume, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of his works organized jointly by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, spans Oldenburg's entire career, from his earliest work devoted to the street life of New York, to "The Store", an array of painted, plaster sculptures of food and clothing, and to his soft sculptures, drawings for fanciful monuments, and large-scale public projects made with Coosje van Bruggen...read more

Product Description: Book by National Gallery of Art

Product Description: Book by National Gallery of Art (U. S.)