Книги издательства Abbeville Press

This one-of-a-kind photo book offers evocative portraits of New York bars after closing time. “Daniel Root’s photos of New York bars at dawn are a perfect blend of beauty and melancholia. Everything about them is just right.” &md...

It seems familiar because it was everyone's dream of America; and it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. This was, perhaps, an America that never existed, but it was an America the public wanted to ex...

It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of hol...

This fascinating full-length study examines all works by the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel within the wider setting of art during his lifetime. The recent rediscovery in Spain of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s lost painting, The Wine of S...

The definitive monograph on one of the world's best-loved artists, sumptuously illustrated in full color. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) stands out among the great artists for his willingness to paint pictures that are straightforwardly pre...

Discover the esoteric insights and enchanting imagery of the Baroque emblem book, a long-lost cousin of the tarot. The emblem book, which reached the peak of its popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries, presented mysterious allegorical images &m...

A dazzling successor to Abbeville's The Art of Florence, this two-volume tour de force sweeps through the entire history of the arts in Paris, from the Stone Age to the pyramid at the Louvre. Contains Vol 1 and Vol 2, slipcased. All ...

The essential guide for the collector of mechanical wristwatches, with complete information on over 1,400 models from 130 international brands. With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from to...

An expanded and revised edition of this elegant and definitive volume, which helped establish the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. With brilliant scholarship and a wealth of stunning illustrations, American Impressionism provides a...

A dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book tells the story of the world’s most famous family of jewelers, goldsmiths, and silversmiths, and the pieces that made their name. New photography and archival pictures t...

Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than 20 years of research by a leading authority on the artist. In an engaging and informed text, John T. Spike explores in...

1270 illustrations, most in full color Updated every two years, Classic Wristwatches deals solely with vintage watches, that is, watches no longer in current production. This easy-to-use guide fully describes and illustrates each timepiece feature...

Tuiga, Mariquita, Cambria, Shamrock, Eleonora, Zaca, Moonbeam, Lulworth, Sunshine, Partridge, Altair, Nan, Marilee, and Bona Fide: these are the sailing yachts of legend. Restored in the last ten years, the original splendor of these superb boats is ...

When Gustave Courbet (1819—1877) began his career in the late 1840s, French painting was dominated by two competing styles: neoclassicism, exemplified by Ingres, and romanticism, exemplified by Delacroix. Courbet, a dynamic and boundlessly selfconfid...