Vienna secession puns4/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Picturing People: The New State of the Artīy Charlotte Mullins. One delightful surprise is the plan for a traditional Islamic garden to be built in, of all places, Edmonton, Alberta. Though abused and neglected over the past 150 years, some key Mogul sites are being restored by the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, whose work this book handsomely documents. In that relatively peaceful and prosperous era, exquisite gardens, lavishly tiled temples and gilded marble tombs fused Hindu architecture with Islamic symbolism. Originating in what is now Afghanistan, the Mogul Empire ruled much of the Indian subcontinent for 300 years, from 1526-1857. Now updated and redesigned, it is a definitive survey of the interplay of art, architecture, music, literature and the design of everything from fabric to type and teapots that gave Vienna its febrile sizzle at the beginning of the 20th century.Įdited by Philip Jodidio. Luxurious, decadent and highly erotic, the paintings and drawings of the Vienna Secession era - especially those of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele - are enormously more popular now than when this book was first published 40 years ago. His is an idealized, austere and meditative Japan that may exist only in his mind and camera, but every image is a tranquil benediction.īy Peter Vergo. No neon signs, crammed trains or jostling crowds disfigure his minimalist landscapes of fenceposts in snow, raked gravel, lanterns in a forest, a single tree in a sea of white. ![]() Having spent decades photographing Japan, Michael Kenna presents the country’s sea, land, trees, sky and “spirit” in this handsome collection of elegant black-and-white photos. (Prestel, 304 pages, 240 black and white illus. "Florence: The Paintings and Frescoes," by Ross King and Anja Grebeīy Michael Kenna and Yvonne Meyer-Lohr. Could it have been a Minnesota winter that prompted John Berryman to pen a few lines about Pieter Bruegel’s “Hunters in the Snow”? Perhaps. The poets flow from Shakespeare to William Carlos Williams and Rainer Maria Rilke. Art ranges from Vermeer to Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko and Larry Rivers. This novel book would make a charming gift for a literary sort with an eye for art, or vice versa. Sunlight on the River: Poems about Paintings, Paintings about Poemsīy Scott Gutterman. (MIA/University of Minnesota, 164 pages, lavish color, $25.)Ī perfect gift book, this attractively priced volume celebrates the Minneapolis museum’s centennial with invitingly personal responses to the museum, including photos of the galleries at night, a comic-style story and essays by staff and unexpected people, including hip-hop artist Dessa, late New York Times writer David Carr and photographer Alec Soth. The Art of Wonder: Inspiration, Creativity and the Minneapolis Institute of Art The lively text explains Florentine politics, patronage, street life, banking, international trade and the effect of its wars, plagues and religious squabbles. ![]() In vivid essays and more than 2,000 lush images, this glorious book covers the great collections of the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace, the Accademia and the Duomo, plus key works in 28 of the city’s additional museums and churches. $75.)įor 800 years Florence, Italy, has been a sacred city whose very walls breathe beauty. (Black Dog & Leventhal/Hachette, 708 pages, 2,000 color illus. Florence: The Paintings and Frescoes (1250-1743)īy Ross King and Anja Grebe. ![]()
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