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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $6.07
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francisco Goya
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 769.92
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Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: A stunning gallery of Goya's later works, this lavish volume presents prints from The Proverbs, La Tauromaquia, and The Bulls of Bordeaux. Its 78 etchings recapture the incomparable grandeur of Goya's art as well as the major themes of his works — the Bible, human folly, and the brutal pageantry of bullfighting.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $17.99
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Hughes
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Publisher: Knopf
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2006-11-07
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history’s most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.
With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goya’s development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life.
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya’s work.
Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughes’s own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about another—and the result is truly spectacular.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.38
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Manufacturer: Scala Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Juan Jose Junquera
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Publisher: Scala Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2008-06-25
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: The Spanish master-painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) is revered not only for the delicate and sensitive treatment of his subjects but also for his radical political stance and modern sensibility. Towards the end of his life, embittered by the appalling cruelty of the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, Goya decorated the walls of his house outside Madrid with a series of 14 terrifying murals that depicted the underbelly of life and the remorselessness of human existence. Known as the Black Paintings, this series of murals is recognized as one of Goya's greatest masterpieces and now hangs in the Prado. Fully illustrated, this is the only book on the Black Paintings currently in print in English. A controversial narrative gives new interpretations of the artist's intention behind these grotesque works and shows how this period of Goya's work anticipated Surrealism and other aspects of 20th century artistic vision.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $58.90
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Fred Licht::Francisco Goya
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Publisher: Abbeville Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.6
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Publication Date: 2001-11
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: Newly revised and lavishly illustrated, this acclaimed study of Spanish master Francisco Goya reveals the artist as a pioneer of modern art and culture. Stunning color reproductions comprehensively survey Goya's paintings and prints in this essential study of his art and its impact on the modern world. Fred Licht's masterful text, revised and updated for this edition, has been hailed as "brilliant" and "profound," one of the most original and illuminating studies of a modern European artist. Born in 1746 in a small Aragonese town, Goya rose to prominence in Madrid in the period around 1780, being named court painter in 1786. The atrocities of the Napoleonic period and the repressions of the restored Bourbon regime led Goya to paint his greatest works, now recognized as harbingers of modern art. Goya died in exile in France in 1828. Organized according to the mediums and genres in which the artist worked, Goya is a series of investigations of those aspects of Goya's art that make it especially relevant today. By focusing closely on the work, Licht also illuminates, as few before him have done, the enigmatic personality of this artist, who, as the author affirms, "first fixed the courage and the despair of our modern age." Other Details:
297 illustrations, 276 in full color. 360 pages. 11 x 13" trim size. Published in 2001.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $0.01
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Manufacturer: Counterpoint
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Evan Connell
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Publisher: Counterpoint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2005-02-23
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! , a biography that breaks the mold--recounting with stunning immediacy the dark genius behind the renowned Spanish painter. Goya's protean talent sends connoisseurs barking in various directions. He was a master whose image of Saturn bloodily devouring his son is as unforgettable as his peerless rendering of the gentle light caught in the white satin gown of a countess. Most critics agree that Goya changed Western art forever, although the nature of his influence has been widely interpreted. Degas, for one, lamented that because of Goya he was condemned to painting a housewife in her bathtub. This enigmatic artist is a brilliant choice of subject for Evan S. Connell, whose literary histories and penetrating novels have placed him amongst our greatest writers. With his famous wit, erudition and prodigious research, this biography brings to life an artist whose imagination is unsurpassed, and his brutal times--Spain in the clutches of the Inquisition. In a colloquial, wry style, Connell introduces a wealth of detail and a comic cast of weird and eccentric characters--dukes, duchesses, royalty, politicians and artists; as lewd and incorrigible a group as history has ever produced. As he charts the arc of Goya's career, he keeps pace with the tumultuous times as well as shrewdly sifting through two centuries of commentary, from Claudel's shock and dismay that he sought to avoid the eyes and the image of God, to Baudelaire's deadly accurate comment that "he painted the black magic of our civilization." Connell has conjured Goya, his art, and his times with fierce originality and imagination. This is an unforgettable biography from an American master.
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Price: $59.00
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Sale: $16.86
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Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dagmar Feghelm::Goya
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Publisher: Prestel Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.6
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Publication Date: 2004-09-30
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Reading Level: 159
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Description: Goya's own words enhance this multi-faceted celebration of his life and work, and lend his uncompromising vision an eloquent immediacy. I, Goya is the second volume in Prestel's series of monographs intricately linking the artists' words with their works. Like the tremendously successful I, Michelangelo, this study of the famous Spanish painter uses numerous illustrations, color reproductions, maps, and timelines to create a comprehensive portrayal of the world that informed and inspired Goya's multifarious oeuvre. From his early tapestries and horrific depictions of the Napoleonic invasion to his seductive, often charming, portraits, and acerbic, politically charged etchings, the reader can trace the development of Goya's bold technique, as well as appreciate his keen eye for the realities and absurdities of everyday life. Visually captivating, and interspersed throughout with illuminating quotations from the artist, this is an absorbing glimpse into the life and times of an artist whose work - two centuries later - remains hauntingly prescient.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $41.39
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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Werner Hofmann::Francisco Goya
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2003-11-24
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: Hofmann places Goya's paintings, drawings and prints in a biographical context, revealing the specific character of each phase of the artist's life and work. He discusses the "glory and the pain of faith" evinced by Goya's early work, the artist's parabolic representation of the threat posed by the French Revolution, his dramatic documentation of the French occupation of Spain, his variations on cruelty in the "Disasters of War" etchings, and the religious faith apparent in his late work. Hofmann also relates the artist and his work to contemporary intellectual developments, drawing comparison with writers, critics and philosophers from Goethe to William Blake to the Marquis de Sade.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $5.50
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rose-Marie Hagen::Rainer Hagen
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Publisher: Taschen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: An informative introduction to one of Spain's most renowned artists. Goya (1746-1828) was the most original artist of his time and this work touches upon his versatility in differing media and portayal of emotions.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $5.99
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Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Julia Blackburn
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Publisher: Pantheon
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Edition: 1 Amer ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 760.092
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Publication Date: 2002-04-30
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness that left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book, Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence, and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw around him into visionary paintings, drawings, and etchings. These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who accompanied him to the end.
Blackburn’s singular distinction as a biographer is her uncanny ability to create a kaleidoscope of biography, memoir, history, and meditation—to think herself into another world. In Goya she has found the perfect subject. Visiting the towns Goya frequented, reading the revelatory letters that he wrote for years to a boyhood friend, investigating the subjects he portrayed, Julia Blackburn writes about the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head.
With unprecedented immediacy and illumination, Old Man Goya gives us an unparalleled portrait of the artist.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $27.06
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Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Janis Tomlinson
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Publisher: Phaidon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 760.092
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Publication Date: 1999-04-22
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This paperback edition of the award-winning study of the life and work of Goya is filled with the same fine reproductions as the original 1994 hardcover. Goya was one of Spain's greatest and most controversial painters, famous for incisive portraits and the "black" paintings of his later years. Scholars have often attributed Goya's progression from producing light-hearted court paintings to creating somber images of the Napoleonic wars to the artist's serious illness of 1792, which left him deaf. Writer Janis Tomlinson's aim here is to show a continuity in his work before and after the illness. She sees in Goya's vast output--at least 1,800 works--a vital drive to explore and exploit his personal creativity, which was strengthened by the deafness that cut him off from all but visual communication with the world. With detail supported by formidable research, Tomlinson presents Goya's life chronologically, analyzing his work from icons like the Naked Maya to his Los Caprichos series of etchings with their biting social satire and supernatural imaginings of a world turned upside down. The demonic intensity of Saturn Devouring His Son and Witches Sabbath, painted on the walls of his "Country House of a Deaf Man" at the end of his life, suggest to some the work of an embittered madman. Rather, these disturbing paintings reflect Goya's profound empathy for the victims of a predatory and unjust society--empathy that a modern audience readily shares. --John Stevenson
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