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History of art / art & design styles

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History of art / art & design styles

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

€ 42.99
€ 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

€ 42.99
€ 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

€ 42.99
€ 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

€ 77.07
€ 64.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 175 x 14. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779346079
ISBN
9788779346079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 100 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACND; AFWH; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 296 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1262.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300181999
ISBN
9780300181999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.37
€ 44.33

Hardcover. Offers a collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. This title includes discoveries about artists' techniques and practices that have led to many reattributions, and the rescue from anonymity of over twenty paintings. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 900 pages, 700 colour images + 175 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 227 x 76. Weight in Grams: 4810.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
National Gallery London
Edition
Slp
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857093704
ISBN
9781857093704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.73
€ 89.81

Hardcover. Encompasses the neoclassicism of Jacques-Louis David as well as the naturalism of the Barbizon painters. This title also illustrates Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's verdant landscapes, Honore Daumier's political satires, and Jean-Francois Millet's realism. Num Pages: 416 pages, 67 color, 175 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 292 x 233 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2108.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780894682278
ISBN
9780894682278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.31
€ 78.31

Paperback. Deals with the Renaissance Florence and sheds light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. This title incorporates insights from the scholarship, including gender studies, and focuses on the artists' social status, and innovations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 178 color illustrations, 7 black-and-white photographs, and 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 202 x 16. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257740
ISBN
9780520257740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.22

Paperback. Chronicling the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and journeying from the Piazza San Marco to the villas of the Veneto, this book presents the survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting that offers a rich perspective on the history and artistic achievements of Renaissance Venice. Num Pages: 372 pages, 274. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3J; 3JB; ACND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 206 x 255 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281806
ISBN
9780520281806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.61

Paperback. Following an analysis of the theories and poetics that traversed the historical avant-gardes and the neo-avant-gardes of the twentieth century, the author explains the principal artistic phenomena that starting in 1980, marked the period defined as post-modern, which was characterised by performance and a system of economic-financial art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 213 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Skira Italy
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857214085
ISBN
9788857214085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.89

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; ACXJ; AN; HBJK; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 43. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559364096
ISBN
9781559364096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.10

Hardcover. Editor(s): Rudnick, Lois Palken; Wilson-Powell, MaLin. Num Pages: 296 pages, 120 colour & 50 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ8; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 302 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press/Published in association with the Harwood Museum of Art
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890136140
ISBN
9780890136140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.57
€ 42.86

Paperback. The advent of the internal combustion engine brought many changes to society, the most neglected of which is arguably the garages built throughout Britain to serve motor vehicles, which revolutionised rural life. This book offers a reminder of those days and of those men and women who held the tools to the motor industry's success. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 150 x 3. Weight in Grams: 84. New.
Publisher
Shire
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
illustrated edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780852637111
ISBN
9780852637111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.59

Paperback. The Lacock Cup is a rare object with a unique English history. Made in the 1430s, it is one of a handful of pieces of secular silver from the Middle Ages, which both survived the changing culture of Tudor fashion and the turmoil of the Reformation. This title tells the remarkable story of this special cup. Series: Objects in Focus. Num Pages: 64 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACK; AFKG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
British Museum Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714150819
ISBN
9780714150819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.43

Paperback. Envisaged as visually rich and elegantly designed book. Editor(s): Wylie, Liz. Num Pages: 192 pages, 211. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910433607
ISBN
9781910433607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.53

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