Verlag: Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 1985
ISBN 10: 0907849091 ISBN 13: 9780907849094
Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2018
ISBN 10: 1910807214 ISBN 13: 9781910807217
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand and Arthur Dove navigated European and American avant-garde circles, picking and choosing new ideas and methods. Inspiration ranged from cubism and machine parts to new technologies, and they found ways to bring order to the modern world through extreme simplification. For them, abstraction involved absence and presence - the evacuation of human beings but also the desire to depict something that would not otherwise be visible or to render visible unseen natural processes like the passage of time, sound waves, or weather patterns. Their artworks provide a new context for the precisionist works in the subsequent sections and point to modern ideas about what art could be. How does a crisp painting technique relate to an aesthetic of absence?.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2019
ISBN 10: 1910807338 ISBN 13: 9781910807330
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum holds a world-class collection of over 200 prints made by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). Widely hailed as the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt was also one of the most innovative and experimental printmakers of the seventeenth century. Rembrandt was extraordinary in creating prints not merely as multiples to be distributed but also as artistic expressions by using the etching printmaking technique for the sketchy compositions so typical of him. Almost drawing-like in appearance, these images were created by combining spontaneous lines with his remarkable sense for detail. Rembrandt was a keen observer and this clearly shows in his choice of subjects for his etchings: intense self-portraits with their penetrating gaze; atmospheric views of the Dutch countryside; lifelike beggars seen in the streets of his native Leiden; intimate family portraits as well as portrayals of his wealthy friends in Amsterdam; and biblical stories illustrated with numerous figures. This book presents Rembrandt as an unrivalled storyteller through a selection of over 70 prints from the Ashmolean collection through a variety of subjects ranging from 1630 until the late 1650s. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1989
ISBN 10: 1854440004 ISBN 13: 9781854440006
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2021
ISBN 10: 185444218X ISBN 13: 9781854442185
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The collection of watches in the Ashmolean came to the Museum largely as a result of three major bequests, including the Bentinck Hawkins collection in 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallet in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising 120 watches. Together these make the Ashmolean collection one of the most important outside London. The history and development of watch design and decoration is extremely well-served, with many important examples dating from the sixteenth century to those made in the mid-nineteenth century. This handbook explores thirty of the best from the collection. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1998
ISBN 10: 1854441019 ISBN 13: 9781854441010
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The collection of paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings by Samuel Palmer in the Ashmolean Museum is the most important in the world. It is especially rich in the early works of the Shoreham period, from c. 1824 to 1834, notably the haunting self portrait and the unique group of six sepia drawings of 1825, which represent the 'visionary landscape' at its most intense. This handbook reproduces in colour all but a few of the works by Palmer in the Ashmolean. The book is designed to provide a stimulating introduction for the general reader and a useful and reliable guide for the expert. Colin Harrison is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2022
ISBN 10: 1910807567 ISBN 13: 9781910807569
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In December 2020, spirits were low. The first tentative visitors had only just made it back through the doors of the Ashmolean after months of isolation, only for another lockdown to come crashing into view. The galleries went dark for a second time in a year. There's something uncanny about standing in the Museum when it's empty of visitors. You can sense a million human stories all around you, clamouring to be told to no-one.So, we had to change tack. If we couldn't get people into the building, we could get the stories out. I started calling around curators, asking for their most uplifting tales in the collections. From bedrooms and garden sheds and kitchen tables, the Ashmolean team started recording themselves, sharing stories of joy and resilience to help keep us all going through the dark winter months of quarantine. The result was a podcast, Museum Secrets, which you can find on the Ashmolean's website. This book contains the highlights. These are stories you won't find on the labels. These are stories of the human experiences hidden in the Museum's cases and frames. They are stories that cheered us up when we needed it most, and I hope will continue to do so. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854440020 ISBN 13: 9781854440020
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Michelangelo and Raphael, in spite of their strongly contrasting characters, have many points of contact as draughtsmen. Looking to Leonardo, who had pioneered new techniques, they transformed the practice and status of drawing, using it to achieve the same expressive and affecting ends as painting or sculpture. Both artists raised technical mastery to new heights. In this selection from the Ashmolean Museum's famous collection, Catherine Whistler examines the technique and purpose of these drawings, and what they tell us about the artists' interests, development and working methods. Each picture is accompanied by a detailed commentary, and the whole volume provides an illuminating introduction to Renaissance drawing through the works of two of its greatest masters. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0907849741 ISBN 13: 9780907849742
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In 1875 John Ruskin gave a large collection of drawings to the University of Oxford. These works, now in the Ashmolean Museum, form the basis for this fascinating study. Selecting the finest drawings in the colection, Nicholas Penny traces Ruskin's career as an artist and reveals the elaborate, but unfulfilled, educational programme that lay behind his gift. The Ashmolean's collection of Ruskin's drawings is unrivalled, and this selection includes architectural drawings, landscapes, and studies of trees, flowers and birds. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1993
ISBN 10: 1854440462 ISBN 13: 9781854440464
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford possesses one of the best collections, outside Russia, of panoramic prints of St Petersburg, made between 1716 and 1835, recording the growth of the city from its foundation in 1703 on the banks of the Neva to its emergence in the early 19th century as one of the most beautiful cityscapes in Europe. The collection includes the wonderful series of 16 hand-coloured views made by the Swedish artist, Benamin Paterssen. This text gives an account of the history of Russia through a period of exceptional turbulance during which successive rulers gave visible expression to their political ambitions by adding spectacular buildings to the skyline of St Petersburg and by commissioning prints of exceptional beauty to commemorate their enterprises. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854442473 ISBN 13: 9781854442475
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Hieroglyphic script was used by the inhabitants of Egypt from its introduction in about 3000 BC until its last recorded instance in AD 394. Although hieroglyphs are pictures of people, animals, birds and various objects, they are not mere picture writing. In order to be able to read and understand a text written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, it is necessary to know how each sign was read (pronounced), and to know the language, Egyptian. This publication explains some of the rules of the hieroglyphic script and Egyptian language using illustrated examples from the Ashmolean's Egyptian collection. You can take it to the Museum and read it in front of the monuments described, but it is just as easy to use at home.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854440500 ISBN 13: 9781854440501
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Thanks to its past benefactors, the University of Oxford's collections in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum are very rich in Indian paintings, especially of the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), in which court painting was raised to new levels of naturalistic refinement. The Bodleian has the older and larger collection, dating from Archbishop Laud's donation of an album of Mughal paintings in 1640. As well as some outstanding Mughal and Deccani masterpieces of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Bodleian has extensive holdings of the later provincial schools of the eighteenth century. The Ashmolean collection, formed since the 1950s, complements the Bodleian's in its representation of the Rajput schools of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills. This book presents thirty-eight paintings of the Mughal, Deccani and Rajput schools, from the period c.1560-1800. They include portraits of rulers and nobles, scenes of life at court, illustrations to romances and examples of the popular genre of 'ragamala', the illustration of musical modes. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854440519 ISBN 13: 9781854440518
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Thanks to its past benefactors, the University of Oxford's collections in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum are very rich in Indian paintings, especially of the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), in which court painting was raised to new levels of naturalistic refinement. The Bodleian has the older and larger collection, dating from Archbishop Laud's donation of an album of Mughal paintings in 1640. As well as some outstanding Mughal and Deccani masterpieces of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Bodleian has extensive holdings of the later provincial schools of the eighteenth century. The Ashmolean collection, formed since the 1950s, complements the Bodleian's in its representation of the Rajput schools of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills. This book presents thirty-eight paintings of the Mughal, Deccani and Rajput schools, from the period c.1560-1800. They include portraits of rulers and nobles, scenes of life at court, illustrations to romances and examples of the popular genre of ragamala', the illustration of musical modes. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2011
ISBN 10: 1854442651 ISBN 13: 9781854442659
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Oxford (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), 1988
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
64pp. 47 plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), 1988
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
64pp. 47 plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), 1988
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
64pp. 47 plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), 1992
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
64pp. 47 plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (Ashmolean Museum), 1999
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
48pp. 35 illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (Ashmolean Museum), 1991
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
56pp. 66 illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Oxford (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), 1988
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
64pp. 47 plates. 4to. Wraps.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1999
ISBN 10: 090784975X ISBN 13: 9780907849759
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fine. 2nd impression. Paperback, F. 80pp, 35 colour illustrations, a fine copy. A brief guide to the Marshall collection of 1st period Worcester porcelain held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 250 grams.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1992
ISBN 10: 1854440357 ISBN 13: 9781854440358
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PAPERBACK. First edition. 80pp. b/w illustrations large octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Paperback. Very good 71 pp.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 1854442198 ISBN 13: 9781854442192
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum are largely as a result of three major bequests, including Bentinck Hawkins collection of 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallett in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising of 120 watches. Together these make the Ashmolean collection one of the most important outside London. The history and development of watch design and decoration is extremely well served, with many important examples dating from the 16th century to the mid 19th century. This handbook explores 30 of the best from the collection. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2003
ISBN 10: 1854441760 ISBN 13: 9781854441768
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fine. 2nd edition, enlarged. Paperback, F. 88pp, 38 colour illustrations, a fine copy. A brief guide to the Italian Renaissance Ceramics, commonly called Maiolica which are held at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 250 grams.
Verlag: Oxford (Ashmolean Museum), 1979
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
56pp. 18 plates, 13 figs. Wraps.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2014
ISBN 10: 1854442007 ISBN 13: 9781854442000
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback, from the collection of the late Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery; his bookplate on inside front cover. Light wear to spine foot and some lower page edges. Content is clear throughout. TS. Used.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1953
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, G+. unpaginated 12pp [ including covers ], b/w illustrations, staples rusted. Slim guide to the 1505 painting 'A Forest Fire' by Piero di Cosimo [ 1462 - 1522 ] the Italian Renaissance painter. 100 grams.
Verlag: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1955
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, G+. unpaginated 12pp [ including covers ], b/w illustrations, staples rusted. Slim guide to the 1470 painting 'A Hunt in a Forest' by Paolo Uccello [ 1397 - 1475 ], the Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. 100 grams.