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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages, c. 70 black and white line illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199299027
ISBN
9780199299027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Translator(s): De Sanctis, Sarah. Num Pages: 134 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Lantern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590564899
ISBN
9781590564899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.50

paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Lyons Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781493009398
ISBN
9781493009398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.72

Hardcover. Editor(s): Marcus, Leonard S. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), photographs. BIC Classification: AC; DSB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 240 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 859.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Candlewick ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780763635060
ISBN
9780763635060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACN; AK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 143 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Imperfect Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981484600
ISBN
9780981484600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.58

Hardback. Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the Piet, and the dome of St Peter's. He not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, composed his own words. This book examines this interplay of words and images, providing insight into his life and work. Num Pages: 384 pages, 165 color illus. 40 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: ACND; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 262 x 215 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1590.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147666
ISBN
9780691147666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.68

Paperback. Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967. Series: Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACX; AVGC6; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
354
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226521435
ISBN
9780226521435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Fresh attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its political power through phenomenological attention to art and embodied experience, the senses and perception, affectivity and the emotions. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 45, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ABA; ACX; AF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781384176
ISBN
9781781384176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. Alberti`s "Della Pittura" was the first modern analytical study of painting. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. Translator(s): Grayson, Cecil. Num Pages: 112 pages, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACN; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004793
ISBN
9780140433319
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. A fresh look at the multiplicity of meanings in Leonardo's Last Supper. Num Pages: 312 pages, 187 illus., fold-out color insert. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 272 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951184
ISBN
9781890951184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.14

Paperback. Comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. Num Pages: 448 pages, 295 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226771854
ISBN
9780226771854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 50.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 450 pages, colour illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763540681
ISBN
9788763540681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.72
€ 52.54

This reprint of an important work details the authors' groundbreaking work in Arts & Crafts era projects created with concrete. Projects include majolica and mosaic tiles, bowls and vases, flower boxes and garden pottery, and architectural applications. T Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 b/w photos & illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 732.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764328336
ISBN
9780764328336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.20

hardcover. Editor(s): Raiford, Leigh; Raphael-Hernandez, Heike. Num Pages: 392 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 21 colour plates, 64 b&w illus., 21 color plates. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; AGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295999562
ISBN
9780295999562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Paperback. Editor(s): Raiford, Leigh; Raphael-Hernandez, Heike. Num Pages: 392 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 21 colour plates, 64 b&w illus., 21 color plates. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; AGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295999579
ISBN
9780295999579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 180 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 271 x 14. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588395719
ISBN
9781588395719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.44

"A long-overdue look at a newly popular art form, this book explores 79 North American and international artists' feelings about their work in encaustic and how they use it to express their inner worlds and the world around them."--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 288 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1800.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764350238
ISBN
9780764350238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 46.69

Hardback. A transfixing account of some of the most spectacular works of art on paper ever created. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606064825
ISBN
9781606064825
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Booth-Clibborn Editions United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861543363
ISBN
9781861543363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.51

Hardcover. In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. This title casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico and the United States, and examines the intersection of art-making and radical politics in the 1930s. Num Pages: 148 pages, 129 illustrations, 84 in colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 970.
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
148
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870708176
ISBN
9780870708176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

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