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Paperback. Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Translator(s): Goodman, John. Num Pages: 396 pages, 116 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226135120
ISBN
9780226135120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe and ending in 1974 with the first 'Impressionist' exhibition, the author plunges into Parisian life during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment with his usual narrative brilliance. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8pp colour plates; app 30 integrated b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844134076
ISBN
9781844134076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. Moving beyond descriptions of what distinguishes American art from other movements and forms, this work explores not only the status of artists and their relationship to their work but also the larger dialogue between the artist and society. It looks to the intensely studied portraits of America's early painters, especially Copley and Eakins. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132978
ISBN
9780231132978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardback. Shows how early American painters transformed themselves from provincial followers of the established traditions of Europe into some of the innovative artists in the world. This book explores not only the status of artists and their personal relationship to their work but also the dialogue between the artist and society. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132961
ISBN
9780231132961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.20
€ 80.02

Hardback. The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). This title surveys the overall tradition of Indian Rajput painting, while developing new methods to ask unprecedented questions about meaning. Num Pages: 352 pages, 175 black-&-white illustrations & 54 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACB; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1814.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300142297
ISBN
9780300142297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.89
€ 64.07

Hardcover. This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of buyers and sellers, and locations of auctions. Num Pages: 583 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; ABQ; ACV; AFC; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
583
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892363957
ISBN
9780892363957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.86
€ 120.64

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754831341
ISBN
9780754831341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.63

Hardcover. In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this title explores the 'nonobject' - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226415307
ISBN
9780226415307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 79.17

Paperback. In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the "nonobject" - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA; ACBP; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226415314
ISBN
9780226415314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. This book gives us an insight into Bacon's genius. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099307815
ISBN
9780099307815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Explores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural "Guernica". The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final painting, represent the visual record of the creative stages of a major work of art. Num Pages: 139 pages, 1 color plate, 72 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 278 x 10. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
139
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520250079
ISBN
9780520250079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more intensely than they? This book presents an interpretation of Pop art through the work of these Pop Five. Num Pages: 352 pages, 77 color illus. 80 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New in Paper
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160986
ISBN
9780691160986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. A biography of the artist Oskar Kokoschka who, despite being badly wounded in the First World War, lived to paint, teach, write, exhibit, and engage the affections of a host of beautiful women. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFA; ACXD1; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 704. Very good copy

First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0303320
ISBN
9780747542070
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

paperback. A court-painter to Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun was rediscovered in the 1970s as part of the "hidden feminist heritage". This text uses her career to explore the position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional and medical debates about women in 18th-century France. Num Pages: 368 pages, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226752822
ISBN
9780226752822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.16

Paperback. The Essential Durer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe. Editor(s): Silver, Larry; Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Num Pages: 312 pages, 88 illus. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221787
ISBN
9780812221787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AC; AFCC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1008. Very nice copy wiith minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Sansom & Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0002386
ISBN
9781904537106
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look. Num Pages: 296 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748001
ISBN
9780804748001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; AC; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Royal Collection Trust United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905686469
ISBN
9781905686469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.49
€ 100.08

Paperback. Hugely popular in their own time, the 'Dutch Italianates' fell out of favour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, for the founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, they were names to mention in the same breath as Rembrandt and Ruisdael. This book celebrates Dutch Italianate vision, and also tells the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Num Pages: 112 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; ACQ; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 242 x 10. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856676574
ISBN
9780856676574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.56

Paperback. Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Dover Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Foxing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486200248
ISBN
9780486200248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Hardback. "In a study of sixty neglected panel paintings from Roman Egypt, the authors present evidence for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; AFC; AGR; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 336 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2134.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606065099
ISBN
9781606065099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 45.56

Paperback. A reprint of the authoritative second edition published by G.K. Hall in 1981. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Editor(s): Motherwell, Robert. Series: Paperbacks in art history. Num Pages: 464 pages, 117 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 195 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674185005
ISBN
9780674185005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.19

Hardback. Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. These four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Translator(s): Smith, James K. A. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733915
ISBN
9780804733915
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.91

Paperback. Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. These four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Translator(s): Smith, James. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733922
ISBN
9780804733922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.09

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