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History of art / art & design styles

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History of art / art & design styles

Num Pages: 205 pages, 378 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: AC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 313 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1772.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764318078
ISBN
9780764318078
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 46.30

Paperback. Provides an exploration of the relationship between art and video games. This title underlines how the video game (an interactive multimedia work) is an art form that has yet to be understood by the world of culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 230 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 708.
Publisher
Skira Italy
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857211640
ISBN
9788857211640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.60

Hardcover. Featuring artists such as Leger, Ernst, Picasso, Mattisse, Dali, Fontana, Beuys, Oldenberg, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, This book focuses on art, history and culture from 1948 to 1986. Num Pages: 328 pages, 900 colour, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 295 x 247 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2244.
Publisher
Skira Italy
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788876247446
ISBN
9788876247446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.55

Hardback. Starts with the astonishing corpus of figural works and culminates in the artists original invention of spatial art, which led to the creation and development of the highly individual holes, environments and slashes. Num Pages: 1186 pages, 6224 illustrations, 339 in colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 360 x 270 x 130. Weight in Grams: 8310.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857204826
ISBN
9788857204826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 398.10
€ 357.03

Hardcover. On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece - but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, the author describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. Translator(s): O'Donnell, Joseph. Num Pages: 384 pages, 87 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1074.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226297651
ISBN
9780226297651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 60.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 184 illustrations, 62 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 240. .
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857232737
ISBN
9788857232737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 63.96

Hardback. Translator(s): Levie, Alison. Num Pages: 160 pages, 200 illus. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AFH; AKTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 314 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1360.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764304743
ISBN
9780764304743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.65
€ 39.38

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 265 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Merrell Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781858946412
ISBN
9781858946412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.86

paperback. Explores the visualization of geometry and geometrical forms through history with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art. This work visual journey that records not only the commonalities of human perception throughout the ages and in different cultures, but also the continuing dialogue of vanguard art from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Num Pages: 128 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cleveland Museum of Art United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780940717862
ISBN
9780940717862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.10

Hardcover. The story of five rare Buddhist sculptures and their extraordinary histories are the subject of this book. The author became fascinated by them when working as the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum (1996-2003) and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery, which opened in 2005. Series: Museums and Collections. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFKB; AGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857452382
ISBN
9780857452382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.55

Hardcover. Presents one hundred great works from the National Gallery Collection, each by a different artist. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 208 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 252 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1344.
Publisher
National Gallery Company Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857094930
ISBN
9781857094930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Hardcover. Features pinks, purples, reds and blues that describe bodies comprising swollen bellies, heavy breasts, engorged phalluses and stooped torsos. Num Pages: 76 pages, 24 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 313 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 836.
Publisher
Violette Editions United Kingdom
Number of pages
76
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900828369
ISBN
9781900828369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.06

Hardcover. Features approximately 80 writings by Louise Bourgeois, which, combined with eight extensive scholarly essays turns our critical understanding of Bourgeois work on its head. This title shows the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in her life and work. Num Pages: 504 pages, 123 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 190 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1962.
Publisher
Violette Editions United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Box
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900828376
ISBN
9781900828376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.91

Paperback. A remarkable group of seven bronze figures was unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. This book celebrates the collaborative efforts of the Cambodian and US museums to restore and interpret these important images, and also the accomplishments of Khmer bronze casters from the fourth century BCE to the fourteenth century CE. Editor(s): Cort, Louise Allison; Jett, Paul. Num Pages: 160 pages, 150 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FMC; ACBP; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 300 x 194 x 16. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295990422
ISBN
9780295990422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Narrates the history of a single object - a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries - and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. Num Pages: 208 pages, , colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; AFPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 277 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1096.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934686259
ISBN
9780934686259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.62

Paperback. As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. This title illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction. It is suitable for historians, literary scholars, and art historians of the period. Num Pages: 352 pages, 51 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; ACN; AG; HBJD1; HBLH; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534756
ISBN
9780226534756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

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

Paperback. Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a fresh approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work - an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3810 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315926
ISBN
9780822315926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 428 colour photos. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFJG; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 315 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1358.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764351853
ISBN
9780764351853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 28.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 89 duotones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; ACV; AKC; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 249 x 20. Weight in Grams: 910.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271032030
ISBN
9780271032030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.18
€ 64.53

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