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Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (born 1964)

ceramicist, printmaker, art critic, visual artist, potter

  • University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge

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The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance
The White Road
Letters to Camondo
Bānādo Rīchi saikō
Za︠i︡a︠t︡s s ︠i︡antarnymi glazami
Bernard Leach
20th century ceramics
New Ceramic Design
Edmund De Waal
Japanese Netsuke
Timeless Beauty
The pot book
Ceramics (Design Sourcebook)
Edmund de Waal Library of Exile
Edmund de Waal Letters to Camondo /anglais
John Golding - Working Space. The 1971 Paintings
Quiet Spaces
Modern home
Lerets magi
Objects of Desire
Kehribar Gözlü Tavsan - Sakli Miras
Lettres à Camondo
Gouthiere's Candelabras
Lettres à Camondo
20TH CENTURY CERAMICS
Edmund De Waal at Waddesdon
Elective Affinities
From zero
ha-Arnevet ʻim ʻene ha-ʻinbar
Die weiße Straße
Memoire Retrouvee
Edmund de Waal, Giorgio Morandi
Bai ci zhi lu
Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, mima and elsewhere
Dark Room
Edmund de Waal, Sally Mann - to Light, and Then Return
Blake Gopnik
Blake Gopnik (born 1963)

art critic, journalist

  • McGill University, University of Oxford

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Michel Ragon
Michel Ragon (1924-2020)

art historian, poet, collection manager, editor, art critic, opinion journalist, literary critic

  • University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

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Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933)

poet, art historian, journalist, biographer, art critic, exhibition curator

  • University of Oxford, The King's School Canterbury

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936)

sport cyclist, journalist, biographer, art critic

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The life of James McNeill Whistler
Charles Godfrey Leland
Nights: Rome, Venice, in the aesthetic eighties
Lithography and lithographers
Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Whistler the friend
Nights
The Whistler journal
Charles Godfrey Leland
Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
To gipsyland
French cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys, and sacred sites of France
Our journey to the Hebrides
Our house and London out of our windows
My cookery books
Our house and the people in it
Our Philadelphia
A Guide for the Greedy by a Greedy Woman (Kegan Paul Library of Culinary Arts)
A guide for the greedy by a greedy woman
The lovers
Over the Alps on a bicycle
The feasts of Autolycus
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography
Tantallon Castle
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography V1
The Feasts of Autolycus the Diary of a Greedy Woman
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Pennell V1
The life and letters of Joseph Pennell
French Cathedrals
Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography Part Two
Our house
Italy's garden of Eden
The art of Whistler
Charles Godfrey Leland
A guide for the greedy
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Pennell V2
Joseph Pennell
A guide for the greedy by a greedy woman
Lithography and litographers
London's underground railways
The life of James McNeill Whistler
Around London by bicycle
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Cooking in Old Créole Days: La Cuisine Créole à L'usage Des Petits Ménages
Catalogue of Books Printed by William Bradford and Other Printers in the Middle Colonies ...
The life of James McNeill Whistler
My cookery books
The master of the lithograph. J. McNeill Whistler
Lithography and lithographers
French cathedrals
Joseph Pennell
Some memories of William Morris
Quaint corners in Philadelphia
Mary Wollstonecraft
Josep Yxart
Josep Yxart (1852-1895)

art critic, essayist, translator, literary critic

  • University of Barcelona

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La Descoberta de la gran ciutat, París, 1878
Escrits autobiogràfics, 1872-1889
El arte escénico en España
Angel Guimerà
Crítica dispersa, 1883-1893
El año pasado[1885-1889]
Angel Guimerà
Entorn de la literatura catalana de la restauració
El arte escénico en España
Àngel Guimerà
Novel·listes i narradors
El arte escénico en España ..
El año pasado, 1886-1888
Obra completa de Josep Yxart
El arte escenico en España
Tarragona
El arte escenico en España
John Charles Van Dyke
John Charles Van Dyke (1856-1932)

art historian, historian, journalist, art critic, teacher, librarian

  • Columbia Law School

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The autobiography of John C. Van Dyke
Modern French masters
Modern French masters
The desert
The opal sea [microform]
A text-book of the history of painting
Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
Madrid
The open spaces
Studies in pictures
American painting and its tradition
The mountain
Munich, Frankfort, Cassel
London
St. Petersburg
Brussels, Antwerp: Critical Notes on the Royal Museums at Brussels and Antwerp
What is Art?: Studies in the Technique and Criticism of Painting
Nature for its own sake
How to judge of a picture
Books and how to use them
London
The meaning of pictures
Art for art's sake
Berlin, Dresden
Vienna, Budapest
What is art?
The new New York
Studies in Pictures: An Introduction to the Famous Galleries
The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances
Art for Art's Sake: Seven University Lectures on the Technical Beauties of ..
How to Judge of a Picture: Familiar Talks in the Gallery with the Uncritical Lovers of Art
The Raritan
The secret life of John C. Van Dyke
Rembrandt and his school
Notes on the Sage Library of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick
How to judge of a picture
How to judge a picture
The money god
Desert by John Van Dyke
Brussels, Antwerp
Paris
Principles of art
The Desert
Commemorative tribute to Elihu Vedder
In Egypt
Ramblings among art centres
The meadows
In Java and the neighboring islands of the Dutch East Indies
Art for art's sake
In the West Indies
The meaning of pictures
Florence
Art for art's sake
The Rembrandt drawings and etchings, with critical ressignments to pupils and followers
Nature for its own sake
The Rembrandt drawings and etchings
Nature for its own sake
Syllabus of lectures on old Italian and modern French painting
Rome
Nature for its own sake
St. Petersburg
The Sage Library
Rembrandt
The desert: further stories in natural appearances
Renata Tyršová
Renata Tyršová (1854-1937)

art historian, ethnographer, art critic, social worker

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