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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Paperback. The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor ranged from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans. This book presents a fresh view of Hawksmoor's built and planned work. It explains why his buildings look the way they do, what contemporary events influenced his work, and how such ancient buildings as Solomon's temple inspired him. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 316 pages, 212 b&w illustrations + 144 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 281 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135404
ISBN
9780300135404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

Hardback. Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 267 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2022.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135411
ISBN
9780300135411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 54.42

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135435
ISBN
9780300135435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Hardback. During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, 'whore', celebrity, muse, and creative agent. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135442
ISBN
9780300135442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135466
ISBN
9780300135466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.22

Hardback. Examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith. Num Pages: 125 pages, 25 black & white illustrations + 100 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; ACXD; AGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition (US) First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135862
ISBN
9780300135862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.91

Hardback. The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. This book documents over 200 items and sheds lights on the trends in taste, style, and modes of entertaining, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Series: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Num Pages: 91 pages, 6 b&w illustrations + 94 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFP; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 241 x 13. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
91
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135930
ISBN
9780300135930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.59

Paperback. Presenting a historical overview of vocal performance practice and style, this title provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 368 pages, 84 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVG; AVS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300136326
ISBN
9780300136326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.66

Hardback. The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically. This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and reveals significant discoveries from this visual storehouse. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 400 pages, 270 black-&-white illustrations & 20 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; ACN; ACQ; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 256 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300136975
ISBN
9780300136975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 45.57

Hardback. Philip de Lszl (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work. Num Pages: 448 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations + 45 colour images. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 168 x 33. Weight in Grams: 956.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300137163
ISBN
9780300137163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.26

Hardback. Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting. Series: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGP; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 279 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
Hardcover Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300138788
ISBN
9780300138788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 38.94

Hardback. Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. This book deploys quotation to effect multiple perspectives and points of view. Series: Dia Foundation. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300138948
ISBN
9780300138948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.54

Hardback. Focuses on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership. This book argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Editor(s): Shengtian, Zheng. Series: Asia Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 black & white illustrations + 150 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1919.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300140644
ISBN
9780300140644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 67.69

Hardback. Examines the addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano; this expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, adds galleries for modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, as well as for photography, film and video, and architecture and design. Series: Art Institute of Chicago. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 duotone illustrations + 120 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AGC; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300141122
ISBN
9780300141122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Explores the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture - a feeling of psychological breakdown - in the work of one of America's contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 80 pages, 5 black & white illustrations + 25 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300141382
ISBN
9780300141382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.64

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

€ 83.18
€ 63.58

Hardback. Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. This book explains how Boulton, a Birmingham 'toy'-maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. Editor(s): Mason, Shena. Num Pages: 304 pages, 300 colour images + 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; AKP; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1860.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300143584
ISBN
9780300143584
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.51
€ 39.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144932
ISBN
9780300144932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum's own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterranean from about 700 BC to around 1950. Series: Kimbell Art Museum. Num Pages: 344 pages, 25 black-&-white illustrations + 200 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 3324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144949
ISBN
9780300144949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 50.00

Hardback. Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This book focuses on the wealthy elite of that immigrant population. Num Pages: 256 pages, 140 black-&-white illustrations & 60 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DST; ABQ; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300148817
ISBN
9780300148817
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. This book offers an account on various aspects of Ingres' achievement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations + 40 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 201 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1934.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300148831
ISBN
9780300148831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 63.27

Hardback. Surveys a fresh chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 144 pages, 11 b/w + 88 color illus. BIC Classification: 3JMC; ACXJ5; AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300149289
ISBN
9780300149289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. This book addresses both the artist's representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on his artistic practice. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 136 pages, 6 black-&-white illustrations + 87 colour images. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300149296
ISBN
9780300149296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Includes essays that examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years. This title explores nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, thematic portfolios, journalistic photo features, and documentations of performance art. Editor(s): Smith, Joel. Series: Princeton University Art Museum Monographs S. Num Pages: 120 pages, 32 black-&-white illustrations + 61 colour images. BIC Classification: ACB; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300149302
ISBN
9780300149302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.26

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