Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context |
 Amy F. Ogata
ISBN: 0521643287
Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living considers the roles of primitivism and nationalism in Belgian Art Nouveau architecture and design. Best known for the urban projects and structural innovations, Belgian designers adapted the vernacular...(read more) |
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Brussels |
 Philippe Roberts-Jones
ISBN: 3822870234
Europe at the end of the 19th century was a time of upheaval and tension, particularly in art and culture. Art nouveau, symbolism and decadent art were an assault on the traditional, and Brussels found itself at the core of these innovations. This book...(read more) |
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Brussels: the Art of Living |
 Piet Swimberghe
ISBN: 1556707355
This beautifully illustrated travel guide/coffee-table book highlights the history and architecture of Brussels as well as its shops, restaurants, public sculpture, and private residences. Like similarly- themed magazines, many of its articles detail...(read more) |
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Early Flemish Painting |
 Jean-Claude Frere
ISBN: 2879391202
Introduces the reader to an innovating, realistic style which at times approaches "super-realism". Echoing the painters themselves and their taste for meticulous detail, the reader is invited to contemplate background landscapes, abundant...(read more) |
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Flanders: the Art of Living |
 Piet Swimberghe
ISBN: 1556704348
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Flemish Tapestry |
 Guy Delmarcel
ISBN: 050001972X
An overview of Flemish tapestry history, spanning the period from the 15th century when pieces of late medieval work were used anew, to shortly before the French Revolution. Each chapter discusses the different production centres and documents...(read more) |
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Jan Breugel the Elder: The Entry of Animals into Noah's Ark |
 Arianne Faber Kolb
ISBN: 0892367709
Born in Brussels and trained by his grandmother, Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was called "Velvet Brueghel" for his skill at painting rich and delicate textures. The biblical story of Noah's ark provided a subject well suited to...(read more) |
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Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism |
 Craig Harbison
ISBN: 0948462795
Van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstaking detailed oil-paintings of great verisimilitude. Aiming to recover the neglected human dimension present in these works, this book investigates the personal histories of the worldly participants...(read more) |
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Luc Tuymans |
 Ulrich Loock, Juan Vicente Aliaga, Nancy Spector
ISBN: 0714842982
Tuymans' monochromatic palette and choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects or family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of other images on his canvases give his work a...(read more) |
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Magritte |
 Suzi Gablik
ISBN: 0500201994
A study of Rene Magritte's basic philosophy and art, and particularly the development of his Surrealist style....(read more) |
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Paul Delvaux: Surrealizing the Nude |
 David Scott
ISBN: 0948462396
Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Although Delvaux (born 1897) is an artist of international standing, his work is relatively little known in the Anglo-Saxon world. This study places Delvaux's work in the tradition of European figurative...(read more) |
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Rubens |
 Paul Oppenheimer
ISBN: 0815412096
Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, according to his biographer Oppenheimer, did more that create remarkable baroque paintings and pictures of 'Rubenesque' nudes; he originated a powerful new idea of beauty that originates to this day. |
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Rubens (Art & Ideas) |
 Kristin Lohse Belkin
ISBN: 0714834122
One of the most versatile and influential artists of northern Europe in the 7th century, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) had a remarkable ability to bring his paintings intensely and joyfully alive. He was a successful businessman who ran an efficient...(read more) |
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Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship |
 Anne Woolett (Editor)
ISBN: 0892368470
Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual co-productions, are rare in the history of art. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent...(read more) |
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Rubens and His Women |
 Markus Kersting
ISBN: 379133316X
More than thirty colour reproductions of Rubens’ portraits are united by the theme of women: the faces and bodies of his wives figure prominently in each. From paintings of his first and second wives Isabella and Helene, to scenes depicting...(read more) |
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Sit!: Dog Portraits of Thierry Poncelet |
 Bruce McCall, Thierry Poncelet (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1563053802
A collection of the work of Belgian artist Thierry Poncelet who combs flea markets, antique shops and private homes for ancestral portraits, restores them stroke by stroke, and then paints a dog's head over that of the original subject. |
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So Many Brilliant Talents: Art and Craft in the Age of Rubens |
 Ronni Baer
ISBN: 1928917003
This volume brings together superb 17th-century paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the Southern Netherlands, the area now known as Belgium. Representing one of the greatest periods in the history of European art, the book...(read more) |
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Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese |
 Marc Treib
ISBN: 0691021376
The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier for the Philips Company at the 1958 Brussels World's fair broadcasted a landmark multimedia production. The nearly two million visitors who entered the pavilion were treated not to the usual display of consumer...(read more) |
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The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and His Contemporaries |
 Martin Royalton-Kisch
ISBN: 0714126217
Published to accompany a special exhibition in Antwerp and at the British Museum, celebrating the 400th anniversary of van Dyck's birth, this book traces the rapid growth in the practice of sketching during the 1620s and 1630s. |
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