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| THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: BODY AND LANDSCAPE IN LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHS By Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector
Item# 9781858944340 WAS $75.00 NOW $37.50 Los Angeles, a sprawling, multi-ethnic city on the edge of a continent, conjures up imagery as seductive and contradictory as the place itself. Equal parts glamour and cataclysm, sunshine and noir, few cities have provoked visual representation as insistently as LA. This Side of Paradise explores the synergistic relationship between the city and photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the key themes of landscape and the body. Eschewing the traditional, chronological approach to the subject, this stunning book encompasses the full spectrum of documentary, commercial and artistic imagery, shedding new light on both LA and the photographic practices within it. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this stimulating and wide-ranging survey includes images by Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Garry Winogrand, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Herb Ritts, John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and many others.
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PRESSED IN TIME: AMERICAN PRINTS 1905 1950 By Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy
88 pages, 70 color illustrations, paperback The skyscraper, for instance, became a prime subject, admired for its roots in American architecture as well as its associations with national power. Prints frequently portrayed the city's inhabitants, often in crowded spaces where the distinctions between public and private life might become uncomfortably blurred. Depictions of the Depression of the 1930s suggest pessimism about the prospects for social justice in a capitalistic economy. Other prints demonstrate a heroic conception of industry and an idealized view of life in the nation's agrarian heartland. |
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SENSATION & SENSIBILITY By Ann Bermingham 208 pages, softcover Item# 0300110022 WAS $39.95 NOW $19.97 Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to reflect the eighteenth-century aesthetic of sensibility. As a way of seeing, sensibility valued nature for its innocence and simplicity, and images, such as Gainsborough’s cottage subjects, for their power to move the viewer. This lovely book brings together the cottage door paintings and essays that discuss Gainsborough’s departure from the more naturalistic style of his earlier career and that place his new concern with sentimentalism and artificiality in the context of sensibility and the growing interest in expressive, even sensational, visual spectacles. To this end, contributors to the volume investigate new viewing practices associated with sensibility, the meaning of the cottage for Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the artist’s creation of affecting landscapes through the use of peasant subjects, and his theatrical treatment of these subjects in order to heighten his viewers’ emotional responses. |
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 A NUT-HATCH (1740) Attributed to George Edwards (British, 1694-1773) Nut-Hatch 5x7 Blank Notecard Item# R601IND $2.95
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FUNCHAL, MORNING SUN By Sir Edward John Poynter (British, 1836-1919) Item# M208PST000 $18.00 Funchal, Morning Sun Print Matted 11x14 (image size 10x6)
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 WILLIAM MORRIS EXHIBIT BANNERS Beautifully designed banners flew above the streets of Pasadena and Los Angeles to announce The Huntington’s exhibit, The Beauty of Life; William Morris & the Art of Design. Morris’s art, ideals, and life’s work paved the way for generation of artists who followed him in the pursuit of what he called “the beauty of life.” In keeping with that tradition, we have recycled the exhibition banners into fashionable bags, preserving their artistry while helping to protect the environment. Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life. |
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 WILLIAM MORRIS BANNER BAG with a zippered pocket inside.Vinyl, 14"W x 14.5"H with a 5.75" gusset. Item# W187GFT $65.00 |
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 THE NEWTONIAN MOMENT: ISAAC NEWTON AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CULTURE By Mordechai Feingold 218 pages, color illustrations throughout Item #0195177347 $22.50 softcover From his optical experiments during the 1660s, to the publication of both the Principia (1687) and Opticks (1704), Isaac Newton's groundbreaking achievements were widely disseminated, inciting tremendous excitement as well as controversy. The Newtonian Moment investigates the effect of Newton's theories and discoveries, not only on the trajectory of science, but on the very shape of modern culture and thought. Beginning with a fresh view of Newton's intellectual development, Mordechai Feingold explores the manner in which Newton's spectacular success in revolutionizing the natural sciences made him a figure to be emulated or rejected, revered or excoriated- but always there to contend with. |
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Item# 0892365579 144 pages, softcover WAS $24.95 NOW $12.47 This book features three essays exploring the life and career of the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) who was renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances. This volume contains fifty-six portraits of Siddons including works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Romney along with a chronology of the actress' life. |
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