RODIN: THE MAN AND HIS ART   Compiled by Judith Cladel    'P' A new edition of a collection of pieces about the French sculptor Auguste Rodin,  one of the great masters of modern art, which was first published in 1917. It is fully illustrated with works by Rodin, from each stage in his long career.   'P' Includes an introduction and biography by James Huneker, a study of Rodin’s art, and a generous selection from Rodin’s notebooks.   'P' Fully illustrated. 244 pages. www.crmoon.com

MINIMAL ART AND ARTISTS This book is is a study of Minimal art and artists, particularly painters, sculptors, 3-D, installation and land artists. All of the key practitioners and theoreticians of the still-influential 1960s Minimal art movement and style are studied here: Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Brice Marden, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and many land artists (such as Robert Smithson, Christo, James Turrell and Michael Heizer). Chapters include: Minimal aesthetics; Minimal painting ...

THE MADONNA IN ART   By Estelle M. Hurll    'P' A book about representations of the Virgin Mary in art. The book (first published in 1898) is illustrated by works of the many incarnations of the Madonna in art history, including mother and child, the pastoral Madonna, the Madonna in adoration, and the Madonna enthroned. As Hurll explains, the book ‘ is a study of Madonna art as a revelation of motherhood’.  'P' Paperback edition, with a full colour cover.   'P'Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Includes ...

THE ART OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY This is the most comprehensive and detailed study of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, and is the only full-length exploration of Goldsworthy and his art available anywhere. The book has been completely rewritten and brought up to date for this new edition. Andy Goldsworthy makes land or earth art out of, among other materials, stacks of rocks, or stalks tied together, or mud thrown into rivers or poppy petals wrapped around boulders. His art is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons ...

THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980s A survey of the series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series' long-running duration. This new book from Thomas A. Christie takes a look at all of the James Bond movies produced during the 1980s, and investigates the series' changing approach to its subject matter during this most socially turbulent of decades. Moving from the East-West ...

RICHARD LONG: POCKET GUIDE by WILLIAM MALPASThe central fact and act of Richard Long's art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as act, as experience. His walks become 'artwalks', artwalks which become artworks. •••For Richard Long, (art)walking is (art)working. As he walks he works. Art-walking and art-working become interchangeable. 'I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking ...

THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE CHARLES PERRAULT Translated by Charles Wels Illustrated by Gustave Doré A wonderful collection of classic fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the most famous author of French conte de fées, translated into English by Charles Welsh in the 19th century and illustrated by the French genius artist Gustave Doré. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty, Puss In Boots, Bluebeard, and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in this new edition of the 19th century book. Includes an introduction ...

YOU BURN ME: POEMS by SAPPHO Translated by J.M. Edmonds Edited by Louise Cooper A book of poems by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, including a new gallery of images of Sappho's art (featuring Greek art and paintings). Sappho has become one of the touchstones of Western poetry, an icon and heroine for poets of any gender. For the simple reason that her poetry is very, very good. Well, not just good, it's genius, the real thing. Sappho has been cited by many many poets, including Lord Byron, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Addison, ...

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella' is one of the major Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted here in an attractive new edition. 'Astrophel and Stella' is a sonnet cycle of love poetry, and some of the finest verse in the English language. The book includes a note on Sir Philip Sidney, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading. Each poem has a page to itself. It's a useful edition for students. Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most well-known of Elizabethan ...

EARLY NETHERLANDISH PAINTING A fully illustrated survey of Early Netherlandish painting, featuring all of the major artists, and many lesser-known painters. Early Netherlandish painting, also known as Flemish painting, is characterized by figurative realism, its incredible sense of domestic interiors and details, luminous light, its 'realist' faces, and its fusions of a micro- and macro- cosmic vision. We concentrate here on painters such as Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464), Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441, commonly described as the founder of ...