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Hardback. Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open an interpretive view of Western European history. Num Pages: 196 pages, 12 color illustrations, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253483
ISBN
9780520253483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.58

Hardback. In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 color illustrations and 65 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AGB; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 214 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1252.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition /First Printing
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257450
ISBN
9780520257450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 64.18

Hardback. A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259522
ISBN
9780520259522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.89

Hardback. Focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. This title argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 color illustrations and 63 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 262 x 19. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520262126
ISBN
9780520262126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 64.15

Hardback. David Park (1911-1960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Art - a daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. This biography traces Park's resolute search for a fresh kind of figuration. Num Pages: 368 pages, 41 color illustrations, 75 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 189 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1046. A Painter's Life. 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). David Park (1911-1960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Art - a daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. This biography traces Park's resolute search for a fresh kind of figuration. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 30. Weight: 1034.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268418
ISBN
9780520268418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, this title portrays the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. Num Pages: 224 pages, 134 black / white photographs. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AGC; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 222 x 12. Weight in Grams: 672. Surrealism and Paris. 224 pages, Illustrations. Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, this title portrays the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXD7; AGC; AJC. Dimension: 222 x 222 x 12. Weight: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271272
ISBN
9780520271272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.08

Hardback. Offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 956. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.). Offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 23. Weight: 956.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273399
ISBN
9780520273399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.58

Hardback. Tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. This title shows how Robert Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Num Pages: 270 pages, 220 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1364. The Art of Robert Arneson. 270 pages, illustrations. Tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. This title shows how Robert Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Dimension: 286 x 224 x 25. Weight: 1364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273832
ISBN
9780520273832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 46.13

Hardback. Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was reviled by the art world's critical elite. This book reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his work. Editor(s): Cateforis, David. Num Pages: 248 pages, 110 color illsutrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280298
ISBN
9780520280298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 45.72

Hardback. Examines the life and work of George Grosz after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and sought to re-establish his artistic career under changed circumstances in New York. This book situates Grosz's American production specifically within the cultural politics of German exile in the United States during World War II and the Cold War. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 Color, scattered. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 996.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition /First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281943
ISBN
9780520281943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.94

Hardback. Shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped to shape public perceptions about World War I. This book considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917, and contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who lost their faces on the battlefield. Series: Franklin D. Murphy Lectures. Num Pages: 124 pages, 41 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; ACXD; AG; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283633
ISBN
9780520283633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Hardback. Features contemporary artists who mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition. Num Pages: 160 pages, 107 color. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AGC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1268.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285699
ISBN
9780520285699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 32.09

Hardback. Celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression and the devotional practice, or puja, in the three native religions of the Indian subcontinent. This title presents 150 objects created over the past two millennia for temples, home worship, festivals, and more. Editor(s): Pal, Pratapaditya. Num Pages: 256 pages, 220 color photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: ACBP; AGC; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288478
ISBN
9780520288478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.81

Hardback. Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of the American painter's fifty-year career, this book reassesses De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely West Coast context. Num Pages: 200 pages, 185 color images, 25 black/white photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; ACXJ; AGB; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292208
ISBN
9780520292208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.08

Paperback. A cross--section of current state of the art Ingres scholarship. The book includes the work of established authors and new researchers. The book contains a rich and unusual range of illustrations from the Ingres corpus. Editor(s): Siegfried, Susan (University of Leeds); Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 247 x 11. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225263
ISBN
9780631225263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.60

Paperback. Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. Editor(s): Camille, Michael; Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 3J; AB; AC; AGC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631233619
ISBN
9780631233619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.07

Hardback. Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. This book opens windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures. Editor(s): Israels, Machtelt. Series: Villa I Tatti Series. Num Pages: 624 pages, 400 color illustrations, 250 halftones. BIC Classification: ACND; AFCL; AGB; AGR; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 333 x 68. Weight in Grams: 4940.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035232
ISBN
9780674035232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.72
€ 110.37

Hardback. The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery's apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established. Editor(s): Bindman, David; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Num Pages: 400 pages, 254 color illustrations, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JF; ACQ; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 286 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2144.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052635
ISBN
9780674052635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.61
€ 97.47

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060692
ISBN
9780674060692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.74
€ 70.47

Hardback. In the Leipzig Mahzor, one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time, Kogman-Appel has discovered a fascinating portal into the life of the fourteenth century Jewish community in Worms. A prayer book used only during holidays, it brings to life the religious culture and customs of medieval Ashkenazi Jews. Num Pages: 308 pages, 21 color illustrations, 1 map, 3 tables. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064546
ISBN
9780674064546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.45
€ 57.42

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