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Paperback. Exercises and techniques to loosen up, experiment and create expressive mixed-media works in abstraction. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 7700 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 211 x 12. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
North Light Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781440335846
ISBN
9781440335846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.47

Paperback. With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood."A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."--John Barrell, "London Review of Books" Num Pages: 268 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 17. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226262130
ISBN
9780226262130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Hardcover. Learn how to paint 40 exquisite flower portraits in watercolour following Billy Showell's step-by-step instructions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 illustrations, colour. BIC Classification: AFCC; AGNB; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 301 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 874.
Publisher
Search Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844484522
ISBN
9781844484522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Fontanka Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906257170
ISBN
9781906257170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.71

Paperback. In this study an art theorist explores a conception underlying the history of art. His basic idea is that the rigour of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734400
ISBN
9780804734400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardcover. This bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. Num Pages: 544 pages, 8 pages of color; 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 244 x 46. Weight in Grams: 988.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393240016
ISBN
9780393240016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Accompanying a year-long exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, this work explores the distinctiveness of southern landscape painting from the early 19th century through to the 1940s. Num Pages: 84 pages, 31 colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; 3JJ; AFC; AGC; AGN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 241 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882007172
ISBN
9781882007172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.55

Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 130. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 268 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Publisher
Halstar
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906690236
ISBN
9781906690236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.64

paperback. Offers insights into Picasso's life and work. This title reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 186 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9781845951290
ISBN
9781845951290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 31.20

Paperback. An intimate portrait of the life of Eleanor 'Erlund' Hudson (1912-2011), the watercolourist, etcher and designer who was best known for her evocative depictions of women at work during the Second World War. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: AFCC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 218 x 7. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
John Catt Educational Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909717213
ISBN
9781909717213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, Includes 127 colour and 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 279 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1088.
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Ill
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848221703
ISBN
9781848221703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.27

Paperback. The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. In this book, each chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the 'Mona Lisa' beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese and Persian painting? Num Pages: 360 pages, 325 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 289 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2188.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500239490
ISBN
9780500239490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.76

Hardback. Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book studies Whistler and his Impressionist followers and offers an analysis of Whistler's art as well as fresh insights into his modernist project. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 90 b&w illustrations and 40 colour images. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 192 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135459
ISBN
9780300135459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACX; AFC; AGNB; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927330050
ISBN
9781927330050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.63

Hardcover. Focuses on an overlooked strand in British painting of the 1930s. This title reveals a small group of figure painters, situated stylistically between the avant-garde abstractionists and the entrenched Edwardian traditions of belle peinture, who were looking for ways of being both modern and in touch with a wide public. Num Pages: 112 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; AFC; AGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 794.
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856676192
ISBN
9780856676192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.38

paperback. Series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation. Num Pages: 748 pages, 197 black & white illustrations, 1135 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 335 x 255 x 107. Weight in Grams: 4785.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2014th Edition
Number of pages
748
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9789401792547
ISBN
9789401792547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 1,811.58

Hardback. This series isolates authentic works from the great volume of Rembrandt-like paintings produced by his pupils and followers. The fifth volume covers his small-scale history and genre works, revealing fresh understanding of the painter's artistic evolution. Editor(s): Wetering, Ernst van de. Series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation. Num Pages: 674 pages, 269 black & white illustrations, 629 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 406 x 315 x 109. Weight in Grams: 4559.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2011 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402046070
ISBN
9781402046070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 656.13

Paperback. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 80 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146. .
Publisher
National Gallery London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857096163
ISBN
9781857096163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. How faces are captured shows in striking ways the artistic aims of those who painted them. But how can the depiction of a face suggest a personality? This book tackles this and other questions, and introduces such issues as the ideals of beauty and how portrait painters have captured a likeness and convey character. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
National Gallery London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857094640
ISBN
9781857094640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto", a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is unusual in its iconography. This book uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. Translator(s): Goodman, John. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 280. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804734424
ISBN
9780804734424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.14

Hardcover. The amazing story of the life and work of the renowned botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian is told alongside her beautiful illustrations of butterflies in this charming and elegant book. Num Pages: 144 pages, 70 colour. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791381497
ISBN
9783791381497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Offers a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 onwards. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book shows how performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. Editor(s): Wood, Catherine. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AFKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 9. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849760201
ISBN
9781849760201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.19

Paperback. does drawing make one 'see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still', as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media - from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad - have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 181 illustrations, 174 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 269 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500292259
ISBN
9780500292259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.69

Hardback. 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was the artist Francis Bacon's home and studio for over 30 years. On his death in 1992, access was granted to photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this fascinating record of the artist's private space and its contents. Num Pages: 120 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ACX; AFC; AGB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500510346
ISBN
9780500510346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

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