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Hardcover. Focuses on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. This book offers an examination of Tosa Mitsunobu's extensive and underappreciated body of artistic achievements. Num Pages: 320 pages, 180 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; AGB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 285 x 261 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1802.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989020
ISBN
9780295989020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 111 pages, 150+ color photos. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 217 x 10. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764322853
ISBN
9780764322853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 300+ color photos. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 222 x 11. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764322846
ISBN
9780764322846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 300+ color photos. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764323454
ISBN
9780764323454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This comprehensive guide to fireplace design includes over 225 gorgeous color photographs featuring some of the hottest fireplace designs and hearth products available today. An inspiring guide to today's vast assortment of hearth products, this book is sure to spark your imagination. Num Pages: 160 pages, 237 color photos. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 279 x 12. Weight in Grams: 792. Dimension: 219 x 279 x 12. Weight: 792.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764322839
ISBN
9780764322839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. This lavishly illustrated book on one of Japan's preeminent painters focuses on the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places. Num Pages: 232 pages, 64 half-tones 33 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 289 x 222 x 12. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804720885
ISBN
9780804720885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 277 x 14. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922059673
ISBN
9781922059673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.61

Hardcover. Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Though he captured a variety of subjects, he was most famous for landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo", which depicted various scenes of Edo through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards. Num Pages: 584 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; ACBP; ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 209 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1368.
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Multilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836556590
ISBN
9783836556590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.31

Hardcover. Remarkable British artist Merlyn Evans developed a highly personal abstract style, combining plant, crustacean and mechanical forms. His work was fundamentally shaped by his conviction that art should be an engagement with life, reflecting psychological, ethical and political concerns. This monograph focuses on the life and work of Evans. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 271 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1662.
Publisher
Cameron & Hollis United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906506264
ISBN
9780906506264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages, 44. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
Redstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870003995
ISBN
9781870003995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.71

Paperback. Editor(s): Gooding, Mel. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: ACXD7; VXA; WDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 111 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570620843
ISBN
9781570620843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.63

Hardback. Features thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century encyclopaedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic commentaries. Series: Menil Collection. Num Pages: 328 pages, 549 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 76. Weight in Grams: 3916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300204506
ISBN
9780300204506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 59.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, More Than 250 Full-Color Chinese Paintings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 215 x 6. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Shanghai Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602201354
ISBN
9781602201354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DVT; AC; AGB; WCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 220. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Blue Dome Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935295686
ISBN
9781935295686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; AC; WJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 220 x 10. Weight in Grams: 664.
Publisher
Blue Dome Press United States
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935295587
ISBN
9781935295587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.30

Hardcover. German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. This book tells the story of the work produced by the aging, isolated artist under the Nazi regime and during his years in exile. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 color plates, 98 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACXD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 263 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1078.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226085180
ISBN
9780226085180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.61
€ 51.18

Hardback. In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. The author questions what distinguished these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images. Num Pages: 400 pages, 80 colour images + 170 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; AFKB; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1924.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176605
ISBN
9780300176605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 63.27

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Mead, Stu. Editor(s): Mecl, Ivan; Klodova, Lenka. Num Pages: 176 pages, More than 220 drawings and paintings and 10 rare photographs in color on fine heavyweight. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 320 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Divus
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086450896
ISBN
9788086450896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.23
€ 53.72

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719095917
ISBN
9780719095917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.89

Hardback. A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 352 pages, 76 colour illustrations, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACQ; ACV; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087967
ISBN
9780719087967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.80

Paperback. Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso provides an account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. It also reveals his working methods and attitudes. Editor(s): McCully, Marilyn. Num Pages: 288 pages, 55 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD5; AFC; AGB; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691003481
ISBN
9780691003481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Moche civilisation flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left an artistic record of their beliefs and activities on painted ceramic vessels. Illustrating more than 200 painted vessels from San Jose de Moro, this book provides insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 210 pages, 240 col illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; ACG; ACK; AFPC; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 889.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931745383
ISBN
9781931745383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 152 pages, 29 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 263 x 23. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857232003
ISBN
9788857232003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.84

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