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Bally Since 1851 (Skira) Editor Moreno Gentili tells the story of Swiss shoemaker Bally, one of the first global luxury brands. More than 100 photographs show the evolution of shoe models from the mid--19th century to the early 1960s...
Cartier 1899-1949: The Journey of a Style (Skira) Photographs of 230 dazzling jewels?including delicate floral motifs and earthy acanthus scrolls?capture 50 years of Cartier's history. Additional essays by museum curators offer a surprising new view of the French jeweler...
...were to apply the Big Bang theory to art, the explosion could be said to have occurred during World Wars I and II. Avant-gardism-aggressive, impish, savage and wildly varied-still resounds throughout European and American culture. Jean-Luc Daval's Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite...
Impressionists and Impressionism by Maria and Godfrey Blunden. 238 pages. Skira...
American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show by Jules David Prown; The Twentieth Century by Barbara Rose. 269 pages. 2 vols. Skira. $50. How and why American art developed from West and Copley through Homer and Ryder to Pollock, De Kooning and Warhol. With anecdotes about each painter, these companion volumes provide a wieldy and informative analysis of art technique in relation to the nation's history...