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This title is out of print; to order the Huntington Library Quarterly version of this title for $20, please contact us and request HLQ Vol. 59, Nos. 2 & 3.
See our special page on this title! This handsome gift book tells the stories behind these two famous Huntington paintings. 80 pages, 4-1/2 x 6-1/2, color illus., cloth
British Art, 1740–1820: Essays in Honor of Robert R. Wark This book commemorates the retirement of Robert Wark as Curator of the Huntington Art Collections and reflects his wide interests in the field of British art. Some of the topics covered in this volume include the political and aesthetic connections in William Hogarth's art and verbal/visual relationships in British book illustration. "The volume…offers much that is new and of broad significance…essential for all research libraries."—Choice 256 pages, 7 x 10, color illus., cloth
British Portrait Drawings, 1600–1900: Twenty-five Examples from the Huntington Collection The Huntington collection of British art includes not only the unrivaled full-length, life-size portrait paintings, but also many examples of the less familiar, more informal, but charming side of British portraiture—the drawings. In this book, twenty-five are reproduced, each accompanied by a facing page of commentary. 60 pages, 6 x 9, color illus., paper Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection See our special page on this title More than 500 Rowlandson drawings are reproduced in this book, providing an unrivaled opportunity for the study of this prolific artist's range of interests and the development of his technique. "This introduction is more than a valuable essay; it is the most thoughtful and penetrating assessment of Rowlandson as an artist yet to appear."—Master Drawings 398 pages, 8 x 10-1/2, illus., cloth
Essays on British Narrative Art The authors explore the diverse functions of narrative in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although they take quite distinct approaches to the topic, all four demonstrate the effective use of new sources of information to interpret British narrative art. "Certainly a provocative group of essays."—The Romantic Movement Bibliography 96 pages, 6 x 9, 16 black and white illus., paper The Huntington Art Collections: A Handbook See our special page on this title The Huntington art collections are famous for having a large group of eighteenth-century British portraits. Other art objects of the same period have been assembled around these paintings, particularly drawings and watercolors, French paintings, French and English sculpture, tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and silver. This handbook is a listing of these works of art, and all others in the Huntington collections as of 1986. 196 pages, 8 x 10, illus., paper
This introduction to the treasures of the Huntington features a section on the early history of the residence and its owners and a calendar of color in the gardens. 64 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, 120 color illus.
Isaac Cruikshank and the Politics of Parody: Watercolors in the Huntington Collection An illustrated catalogue of 117 satirical watercolors set in the social and political context of eighteenth-century London. 162 pages, 9 x 12, illus., paper
The Mausoleum of Henry and Arabella Huntington The mausoleum, in its neoclassical simplicity and purity of design, is one of the most beautiful buildings at the Huntington. This extensively illustrated book celebrates the mausoleum's architectural significance and provides interesting information about the lives and marriage of Henry and Arabella Huntington. 36 pages, 9 x 9, illus., paper
Natural Variations: Photographs by Colonel Stuart Wortley This exhibition catalogue features startlingly beautiful and dramatically expressive images from an innovative nineteenth-century British photographer. "The pictures are very special. They come together here as the result of historical serendipity and create another one. A handsome and informative catalogue. . . .Wortley was one of the most daring and accomplished photographers of his era."-Los Angeles Times 48 pages, 8-1/2 x 10, illus., paper
Objects of American Art Education: Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection
Award Winner, 35th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show Objects of American Art Education: Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection, explores the array of scholarly interests that inspired Diana Korzenik to form a collection of art-teaching materials dating from 1770 to 1950—now the richest and most extensive archive of its kind. In the course of gathering these materials, Korzenik, a Professor Emerita of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, traced the methods and materials used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and, by extension, to see the world around them.
48 pages, 6 x 9, 40 color illustrations “The Diana Korzenik Collection, with its trove of drawing books, cards, and three-dimensional teaching aids from two centuries and longer, is the richest and most extensive archive of its kind. In the course of gathering these materials, Korzenik has traced the changing methods used to teach artists and amateurs to draw and, by extension, to see the world around them.” -Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pictorialism in California: Photographs 1900–1940 See our special page on this title This publication describes exhibitions at the Huntington Library and the J. Paul Getty Museum, and includes images by well-known Pictorialists such as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston. "The combination of authors has brought a life to this subject (photography) which I would never have expected."—Linda M. Weston, The Art Newspaper 160 pages, 9 x 11, 100 illus.
To see sample images, click here. Ten representative works of art in the world-renowned Huntington collection illustrate the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Unlike previous periods, artists at this time employed many styles, borrowing from ancient Greece, India and China, from the Byzantine, and from the just-closing rococo period. Nearly 100 color illustrations place the ten primary pictures in artistic context. 144 p., 7 x 10, color illus.
Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy The sky above -- eternal and serene, yet intricate and mysterious -- has piqued human curiosity for at least as long as records survive. Star Struck documents the evolution of humanity's understanding of the cosmos, drawing on some of the most rare and beautiful books in the history of astronomy. Many of these books come from the collections of the Huntington Library, supplemented with illuminated manuscripts from the J. Paul Getty Museum and contemporary snapshots from space supplied by NASA. 168 p., 8 1/2 x 10 1/2, color illus ISBN: 978-0-87328-186-7, cloth $39.95
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