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Harris, Robert
Pompeii: A Novel
New York Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005 0812974611 / 9780812974614 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine
278 pp., map; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line - somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius - decent, practical, and incorruptible - promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work - both natural and man-made - threatening to destroy him. With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster. / Robert Harris is the author of Enigma, Fatherland, and Archangel. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times. His novels have sold more than six million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and three children." - Publisher.
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Herbert, Robert L.; Harris, Neil (Essay by), and Druick, Douglas W., et al. (Contributions by)
Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte
Chicago and Berkeley, CA Art Institute of Chicago in association with the University of California Press 2004 0520242114 / 9780520242111 First paperback edition Soft Cover NEW Exhibition Catalogue
288 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 27 x 30 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented June 16-Sept. 19, 2004. BRAND NEW. Stated "First Edition." OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "'Bedlam,' 'scandal,' and 'hilarity' were among the epithets used to describe the effect of what is now considered Georges Seurat's greatest work, and one of the most remarkable paintings of the nineteenth century, when it was first exhibited in Paris in 1886. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884, an extensive landscape peopled with over forty figures, took the artist almost two years to complete. Inspired by research in optical and color theory, Seurat juxtaposed tiny dots of colors on the canvas that form a single and more brilliantly luminous hue in the viewer's eye. This sumptuous book, created to accompany a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, provides a fascinating, in-depth examination of the gestation, execution, and influence of Seurat's masterpiece. La Grande Jatte has been part of the Art Institute of Chicago's collection since 1926. Bringing together all known studies and drawings directly related to the painting, this volume provides a visual and contextual survey of Seurat's working methods and aesthetic priorities, as well as the evolutionary process that culminated in his singular achievement. Included are more than fifty-five prepartory works, ranging from rich conte crayon drawings to oil sketches on small wood panels to larger studies painted on canvas. In their quantity, intricacy, and variety, these works reveal a compositional process that harks back to Old Master traditions and methods, which had been largely abandoned by Seurat's immediate predecessors, the Impressionists. The many studies attest to the artist's ambitions for his masterpiece and open up a broader context for understanding the painting. Robert L. Herbert, who has written extensively on the artist, traces Seurat's beginnings in the context of Barbizon painting and Impressionism. Works by Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir are included, as well as a discussion of La Grande Jatte's influence on contemporary art and Seurat's impact on twentieth-century artists such as Leger and others from the School of Paris. An accompanying essay by Neil Harris assesses La Grande Jatte's iconic status in Chicago and beyond, considering a history of the painting's promotion, presentation, and exhibition. A landmark publication, this book provides dazzling proof of why La Grande Jatte is among the most frequently reproduced paintings in the world and why it continues to fascinate scholars and art lovers today. / Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. Among his publications are Seurat's Drawings (1962), Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1988), Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting (1994), Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts (2000), and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings (2001). Neil Harris is Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Among his publications is Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993 (1993)." - Publisher.
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