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Paperback. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion. Translator(s): Hjort, Mette. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; ABA; ACN; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505350
- ISBN
- 9780226505350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.92
€ 32.99
€ 25.92
Paperback. This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-consciously original, freely and intentionally undermining the traditional, more modest approach to painting in Venice at that time. Num Pages: 336 pages, 170 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 276 x 18. Weight in Grams: 986.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780236742
- ISBN
- 9781780236742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.28
€ 46.99
€ 39.28
Paperback. Titian is acknowledged as the greatest of the sixteenth-century Venetian painters. The author's carefully chosen comparisons of paintings, prints, drawings and details of works by the young Titian, Durer and their contemporaries suggest that Titian was as innovative and as influential in his unique view of nature as he was in portraiture. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 80 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 211 x 4. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- National Gallery Company Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857095449
- ISBN
- 9781857095449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.84
€ 13.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. The life, style and colours of the master of the 16th-century Venetian painting. Tiziano Vecellio was a painter, equally comfortable with a range of genres and subjects. Unlike many artists from history whose work has been appreciated only after their death, Titian enjoyed fame and success throughout his career, which spanned over seven decades. Series: Skira Mini ART Books. Num Pages: 96 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857205397
- ISBN
- 9788857205397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.66
€ 8.66
Paperback. An acclaimed reassessment of Italian master painter Jacopo Tintoretto, now available in compact pocket format, which charts Tintoretto's life and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture of the Cinquecento. Num Pages: 400 pages, 208 illustrations, 116 in colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised, Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780234502
- ISBN
- 9781780234502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.84
€ 40.99
€ 33.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 395 color photos. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; 3JF; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764326066
- ISBN
- 9780764326066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.12
€ 37.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting. Series: The Culture & Civilization of China. Num Pages: 416 pages, 25 b/w + 300 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 303 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1896.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300094473
- ISBN
- 9780300094473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 45.26
€ 53.40
€ 45.26
Hardcover. This collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a range of topics relating to English painter George Romney (1734-1802). The contributors address not only Romney's personality and artistic practice, but also key themes in his work and aspects of its cultural context. Editor(s): Kidson, Alex. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 colour pl 105 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Paul Mellon Centre BA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300094589
- ISBN
- 9780300094589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Hardback. Thomas Sully (1783-1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. This title demonstrates how the artist interpreted the nature of painting as performance, manifested in his dazzling productions. Series: Milwaukee Art Museum. Num Pages: 192 pages, 160 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197419
- ISBN
- 9780300197419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
€ 52.99
€ 37.93
Paperback. Series: MFA Spotlight Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 210 x 7. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878468331
- ISBN
- 9780878468331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Hardback. What is the place of painted pictures? What is their relevance? And what is their reality? Thomas Huber is an internationally acknowledged painter whose cool picture constructions, mostly devoid of humans, circle around these questions. This volume presents the works by the artist, who was born in Zurich and now lives in Berlin. Num Pages: 168 pages, 115 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 304 x 2. Weight in Grams: 1126.
- Publisher
- Hirmer Verlag
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783777426846
- ISBN
- 9783777426846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.92
€ 42.99
€ 35.92
Hardback. Rembrandt van Rijn is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well regarded. His life was one of a dramatic rise and fall, unfolding during the Golden Age of the newly formed Dutch Republic. This book deals with his work. Series: This is. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Laurence King Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780677453
- ISBN
- 9781780677453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 8.33
€ 19.99
€ 8.33
paperback. What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, the author finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction. Illustrator(s): Magritte, Rene. Editor(s): Harkness, James. Translator(s): Harkness, James. Series: Quantum Books. Num Pages: 104 pages, 30 b/w illustrations, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520236943
- ISBN
- 9780520236943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 19.04
€ 29.99
€ 19.04
Hardback. Claude Monet is best known as a leader of the Impressionists, his paintings defining the style that triggered a revolution in art. During the eighty-six years of his life, Monet never rested, and was always driven by the urge to paint. This book tells about Monet's work. Series: This is. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780676234
- ISBN
- 9781780676234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.86
€ 16.99
€ 16.86
Hardback. Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts. This is an introduction to the life of this artist. Series: This is. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780675657
- ISBN
- 9781780675657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.41
€ 9.41
Hardback. Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. He created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colours echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and native cultures he loved. Series: This is. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 illustrations, 25 in colour. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780671895
- ISBN
- 9781780671895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 8.33
€ 19.99
€ 8.33
Hardback. Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous and unpredictable, Caravaggio - as a man, as a character and as an artist - holds dramatic appeal. He spent a large part of his life on the run, leaving a trail of illuminated chaos wherever he passed, most of it recorded in criminal justice records. Series: This is. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQB; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Laurence King Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780677002
- ISBN
- 9781780677002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 8.33
€ 19.99
€ 8.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 107 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 229. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300211931
- ISBN
- 9780300211931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.37€ 44.17
€ 56.37
€ 44.17
Hardcover. By the age of just twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced over 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book offers a study of the artists early career, spanning the eight years between 1613, when the artist was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Editor(s): Vergara, Alejandro; Lammertse, Friso. Num Pages: 416 pages, 278 illustrations, 242 in colour. BIC Classification: ACQB; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 248 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2650.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500970508
- ISBN
- 9780500970508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.96
€ 29.96
paperback. An account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles. It is an exploration of a fragile friendship, art, madness, genius behind a shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141016733
- ISBN
- 9780141016733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. This book presents the artist's writings about art includes public lectures, essays, and interviews. It features an informative introductory essay, rigorous annotation, and illustrations. Editor(s): Ashton, Dore; Banach, Joan. Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. Num Pages: 397 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 816. Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. 397 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. Editor(s): Ashton, Dore; Banach, Joan. Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. This book presents the artist's writings about art includes public lectures, essays, and interviews. It features an informative introductory essay, rigorous annotation, and illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AFC; AGB. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 31. Weight: 820.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 397
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250482
- ISBN
- 9780520250482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.76
€ 44.99
€ 31.76
Hardback. This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman's private collection. Editor(s): Fahy, Everett. Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 320 pages, 180 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 281 x 250 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2706.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300107197
- ISBN
- 9780300107197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.83€ 57.08
€ 68.83
€ 57.08
Paperback. Siena of the 13th and 14th centuries was one of the great cities of Europe, and its artists were among those who reshaped the nature and place of painting. Maginnis' book asks the fundamental questions about the painters' lives and work and shows how Sienese society shaped them. Translator(s): Erasmi, Gabriele. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 colour illustrations, 110 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; ACK; AFC; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271023380
- ISBN
- 9780271023380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.34€ 45.60
€ 53.34
€ 45.60
Hardcover. "Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016." Num Pages: 128 pages, 88 colour images. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 279 x 15. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820348872
- ISBN
- 9780820348872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.47
€ 47.47