Search Results: Authors starting with R from Thomas Heneage Art Books

1973. Cloth

Milan: Rizzoli, 1968. 128pp with 64 colour plates and c.200 monochrome illustrations in the text. Cloth 31.5x24.5cms. Text in Italian.

2003. 110pp with 12 colour plates and 71 colour and 20 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 31.2x20cms. ISBN: 8809032640. Celebrates the recent restoration of this famous bronze which revealed extensive gilding in the hair, eyes and armoured tunic. With essays on aspects of the sculpture, its place in Florentine art and technical details of the restoration. Text in English.

Belgrade: 1977. Boards Text in Serbo-Croat with summary in French.

London: Cacklegoose Press, 1997. 424 pages with 60 colour plates and 1350 black and white illustrations. Cloth in a slipcase 32.5x25cms. ISBN: 0952658402. Commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great [1773-4], the Green Frog Service was one of the finest dinner services designed by Josiah Wedgwood and is a unique pictorial record of 18th-century houses, gardens and landscapes of Britain.

Barcelona: 2024. 251 pages, fully illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback 22.5x17cms. ISBN: 978841216237. An exploration of Picasso's early years in Barcelona. Eight chapters guide through the places Picasso frequented and the friendships and works of art produced from these encounters in theatres, artists’s studios, and family homes. Text in English.

Paris: Arnaud, 1962. 93 pages. From a special numbered edition of 25, this no. 13 with loose drawing on 'papier pur fil Johannot', signed and dated 1968. Wrappers 18 x 21cms. Text in French & English.

Exhibition: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2010. 223pp, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback ISBN: 9783852565583. Text in German.

H. Floury, 1896. Number 169 of an edition limited to 250 copies, one of 200 printed on papier vélin. With 6 lithographic plates including self-portrait frontispiece. 114 pages, numerous engraved and half-tone illustrations in text. Half red morocco with marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. Half bound in leather 28 x 19cms. Important study of Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand (1863-1951), pupil of the Belgian printmaker Felicien Rops. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). Over 112 works are presented in seven sections: les Rustiques, les Feminines, les Fantaisistes, les Danseuses, les Mystiques, Illustrations et Vignettes Diverses and. Text in French.

2007. 416pp with 225 colour illustrations. Paperback 28.9x25cms. ISBN: 9781854376985. Combining his innovative use of colour with music, rhythm and performance emphasising the visual and tactile sensation, this volume is an exploration of the artist's complete oeuvre. Text in English.

London: 2024. 160 pages, colour illustrations throughout. Hardback 28x23cms. ISBN: 9781911397618. An exploration of landscape and the male body in Wilfred Avery’s oeuvre. Ten chapters trace Avery’s life and career. Discussions include: Adrien de Menasce’s influence, Avery's relationship to abstract expressionism in Paris, a queer reading of his collages, and his blurring of figuration and abstraction. Avery's own writing interspersed throughout. Text in English.

London: Phaidon, 1981. 263pp with 20 colour plates and 176 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 29x26cms. ISBN: 0714814172. With catalogue of works, biography of Michael and genealogical notes on Michael and Friedrich, bibliography, indices. Text in English.

1979. 191pp illustrated in colour and black & white. Wrappers

1984. 207pp with 16 colour plates and 48 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers 22x17cms. Chronological, locational catalogue, with extensive chronology, bibliography. Text in Italian.

London: James Tassie, 1791. lxxiv, 800, 12, 50, 16 pages plus 58 engraved plates. This one of only 21 subscribers copies on large paper, this copy for George Douglas of Carvers with his book plate to each front pastedown. Bound in period rolled calf, with gilt spined; vol I rebacked preserving much of the original spine. 29x23cms. Raspe's monumental catalogue of Tassie's casts of cameos and intaglios is still, after 220 years, an essential tool for establishing the history and provenance of engraved gems. Text in English and French.

2008. Loosely inserted is a folded poster and separate 26 page stapled booklet, as issued. Paperback 23 x 29cms. ISBN: 1932598626. Passstueck: A term used by Franz West since the late 1970s to describe an artwork that needs to be held, adapted and moved against the human body. This is often translated as 'adaptive'.

Venice: Giunta Provinciale, 1994. 294 pages with 24 colour plates and 478 monochrome figures. Hardback 22.5x22.5cms. ISBN: 8885673244. This is the first volume of the series, presenting a systematic survey of 478 ancient glass objects in this important collection. With index, glossary, general bibliography. Text in Italian.

Umberto Allemandi, 1998. 207 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback in a slipcase 24.5x32.6cms.

1995. 463 pages with 420 colour and 310 monochrome illustrations. Hardback, a nice new copy in publishers' shrinkwrap. 27.6x21.9cms. ISBN: 0714114693. Fully illustrated catalogue based on over 300 Chinese jades from the Joseph Hotung collection, organized chronologically (then by shape or function) into four main parts: Jades of the neolithic period; Ornaments and other small jades of the neolithic, Shang and Western Zhou periods; Jades of the Eastern Zhou and Han periods; Jades of the Han and post-Han periods. With a detailed history of Chinese jades, full bibliography of sources, index.

2023. 160 pages, 131 colour and black and white illustrations. Hardback 27x21.6cms. ISBN: 9780300270518. An exploration of Andy Warhol’s commercial textile designs made during the 1950s. Two introductory texts precede a catalogue of thirty-three textiles. Each pattern is illustrated and described. Some are accompanied by examples of Warhol’s commercial illustrations and garments made from the textiles. Text in English.