The full-size plaster models that represented the passage from a preliminary designing phase to the production of the marble sculpture were of great significance to Italian sculptor Antonio Canova's creative process. As the subtitle emphasises, the temporal dimension holds great importance in the neoclassic sculptor's creative and productive phases: the plaster artefact posits a before and an after. Before comes the preparatory study; after is the finished work. Plaster stands in between, it ...

I WANT A PERMANENT WAVE by GERALD VAN DER KAAP

Apart from being a metro station, Europaplein Station in Amsterdam is also an immersive experience. When you enter the station, you find yourself inside a huge dromoscopic underground work of art.

You could say there are two artworks, to paraphrase Virilio, depending on your perception. One is the artwork at the station. You stand on the platform waiting, looking at it, the images, the graphics, the colors, the mirroring effect of silver. The oth...

In this book, internationally recognized artist, Wendy Buiter, shares her personal story with such openness and honesty that it will leave readers both surprised and inspired. Wendy reveals insights into her life and the various stages of her career as an artist, including what she did to develop her signature style, how she makes a living as an artist, and how to run a business while raising two young children; one is a ‘special needs’ child. In addition, Wendy provides tips, ideas, and ...

This book was written in ink

Made out of teardrops

For those who feel devastating grief

I’m here.

During a press conference at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in November 2018, the author of this book revealed that one of the two known photographs of the painter Vincent van Gogh was in fact of his brother Theo. The series of events that led to this unexpected discovery is full of yet- unpublished anecdotes, fascinating encounters and twists worthy of a thriller.

Following this first revelation, Yves Vasseur established contact with the descendants of Samuel Delsaut, who discovered two dr...

Nu verschenen bij Wbooks: The Golden Age Book. Dit boek heeft dezelfde inhoud als The Great Golden Age (uitverkocht), alleen is dit een midprize editie (€ 29,95).

ISBN: 9789462581562

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Het Grote Gouden Eeuw Boek is het nieuwe standaardwerk over de Hollandse schilderkunst in de 17e eeuw. Jeroen Giltaij, oud-hoofdconservator Oude Schilderkunst van het Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, bracht 371 schilderijen uit de collecties van Nederlandse musea b...

This book is the first to recount the complete history of the Mauritshuis, the municipal museum of the city of The Hague. The authors examine its architectural qualities, the original furnishings, the garden, the fire of 1704, the decoration of the Golden Room, the people who resided here, and the premises' recent extension. It is the history of a building whose first owner once proudly described as a 'beautiful, very beautiful and supremely beautiful house'.

The publication Open Field explores and amplifies the work of Raffaella Crispino between research and practice in the eponymous exhibition held at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai, within the framework of the Europalia Arts Festival. In the publication, photographs of the works produced and installed in the museum are presented together with working documents, sketches, notes, historical photos, exchanges with scientists, references and architectural documents. The publication takes t...

Writing poetry is akin to a dance with words.

While others may wonder to whom these poems are addressed, the true importance lies in the emotions that gave rise to them.

Pain, tears, happiness, falling in love, heartbreak, getting angry, feeling sad - aren't these the emotions that define us as human beings?

In this book, you will immerse yourself in the vast sea of these emotions.

-Cigdem Karasahin