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Goya
Dali’s Optical Illusions
Edited by Dawn Ades
“Enthusiasts of the famous melting
watches of The Persistence of Memory, or
any of the other surreal effects the artist
produced over 60 years of work, will
find Dali’s Optical Illusions a great way
of approaching the paintings and
drawings.”—Publishers Weekly
Published in association with the
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2000 196 pp. 60 b/w + 60 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08177-4 $55.00/$44.00
Picasso and the Invention
of Cubism
Images of Women
Edited by Janis A. Tomlinson
Pepe Karmel
“These essays . . . explore Goya’s use of
satire, sympathy, and affection in his
“Essential reading.”—James Hall,
RA Magazine
renditions of the female subject. A
beautiful and important book.”
—Virginia Quarterly Review
This groundbreaking book is the first
This important book transforms our
understanding of Cubism, showing how
it emerged in Picasso’s work and tracing
its roots in nineteenth-century
to examine Goya’s representations of philosophy and linguistics. Linking
women, shedding light on the evolution well-known paintings and sculptures to
of the artist’s creativity as well as on
women’s roles in late eighteenth- and
early nineteenth-century Spain.
the previously ignored drawings that
accompanied them, Karmel demonstrates
how Picasso’s quest to depict the human
Published in association with the National body with greater solidity led,
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
paradoxically, to its fragmentation.
2002 324 pp. 50 b/w + 130 color illus. 2002 324 pp. 50 b/w + 130 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09493-0 $65.00
Cloth ISBN 09436-1 $60.00/$48.00
Picasso
The Artist’s Studio
Michael FitzGerald
This stunning book focuses on Picasso’s
depictions of the artist’s studio in
paintings, drawings, and prints at
every stage of his career.
Published in association with the
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2001 192 pp. 12 b/w + 90 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08941-4 $50.00/$40.00
A Sum of Destructions
Picasso’s Cultures and the Creation
of Cubism
Natasha Staller
“Staller’s contribution is eminently
original, scholarly impressive, deftly
organized, and beautifully written. . . .
Well-produced, reasonably priced, and
of great importance to the Picasso
literature. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
2001 438 pp. 195 b/w + 133 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 07242-2 $50.00/$40.00
Pablo Picasso
The Communist Years
Gertje R. Utley
“Utley relates with unblinking clarity the
story of Picasso’s close association with
the French Communist Party in the
decade after World War II. . . . Quietly
devastating.”—Jed Perl, New Republic
2000 280 pp. 175 b/w + 40 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08251-7 $60.00/$48.00
Velázquez
The Technique of Genius
Jonathan Brown
New in
paper
“A ravishingly beautiful, highly
informative book. Brown and Garrido
work well together, interweaving the
artistic/historical background with the
messy forensic facts effortlessly; the
detail is stunning.”—George Crisp,
Art Review
“This is the book for all students of
Velazquez who want to know more about
his materials and how he used them.”
—Choice
“Velázquez: The Technique of Genius is an
illuminating introduction to what can be
learnt from the surface of the pictures.
. . . It is built round illustrations of
details, nearly all from paintings in the
Prado.”—Peter Campbell, London
Review of Books
In this engaging book, an art historian
and a conservation scientist discuss the
techniques Velázquez created in order to
realize his artistic vision. Examining
thirty works by Velázquez that span his
entire career, the authors show how his
technical achievement developed over
time.
2003 216 pp. 30 b/w + 210 color illus.
Paper ISBN 10124-4 $40.00
A Palace for a King
New
The Buen Retiro and the
Court of Philip IV; Revised
and expanded edition
Jonathan Brown and John H. Elliott
The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and
pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV
on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s.
With its superb display of paintings by
Velázquez and other contemporary artists,
the palace became a showcase for the art
and culture of Spain’s Golden Age. A
Palace for a King, first published to wide
acclaim in 1980, provided a pioneering
total history of the construction,
decoration, and uses of a major royal
palace, emphasizing the relationship of
art and politics at a critical moment in
European history. In this extensively
revised edition, the authors review the
scholarship produced on different aspects
of the history of the palace and its
decoration over the past quarter century.
A number of new, previously
unpublished illustrations have been
added, and many of the plates are now
reproduced in color.
2003 316 pp. 100 b/w + 75 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10185-6 $65.00
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