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History of art / art & design styles

Hardcover. The golden age of ocean liners is inextricably linked with the key decorative trends of the 20th century Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism. This lavish visual feast explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural, and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel. Editor(s): Finamore, Daniel; Wood, Ghislaine. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACVY; ACXD3; HBTB; JFCK; WTHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 247. .
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851779062
ISBN
9781851779062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 35.33

Paperback. Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. This book gives us an insight into Bacon's genius. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099307815
ISBN
9780099307815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. A catalog of the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum for T2 - the second Torino Triennale. It brings together works by fifty young international artists and presents two special projects by Paul Chan and Olafur Eliasson. Editor(s): Birnbaum, Daniel. Num Pages: 480 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 946.
Publisher
Skira Italy
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9788861302679
ISBN
9788861302679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.69

Paperback. A history of the postwar avant-garde in America. The book integrates diverse moments in American culture, such as bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, beat poetry, Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and argues that all of these movements have a unifying theme: spontaneous improvization. Num Pages: 356 pages, 8 colour plates, 30 halftones, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; ABA; ACX; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041902
ISBN
9780226041902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 636 pages, 367. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 298 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2140.
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783775740920
ISBN
9783775740920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.73
€ 85.96

Paperback. Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art. Translator(s): Grabar, Terry. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 color plates 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACN; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691029306
ISBN
9780691029306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Paperback. Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. This title analyses Kiefer's education, influences, philosophy and art, while demonstrating the unity and continuity of his work. Num Pages: 344 pages, 409 illustrations, 394 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 173 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500291610
ISBN
9780500291610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.50

Hardback. Going beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 47, 47 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACB; AFC; AV; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781421416434
ISBN
9781421416434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.57
€ 54.89

Paperback. From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles, Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In this text Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration. Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 halftones, 12 line drawings, 60 musical examples. BIC Classification: AB; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226012544
ISBN
9780226012544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.61

Paperback. Going beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 47, 47 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACB; AFC; AV; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416441
ISBN
9781421416441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.14

Hardback. An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Num Pages: 232 pages, 180 color + 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 315 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1966.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300221862
ISBN
9780300221862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 44.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854379078
ISBN
9781854379078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.79

Paperback. Over the last two decades, British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Corbett, Professor David Peters. Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119170112
ISBN
9781119170112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 47.60

Paperback. Tells the global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day. This book contextualizes the crucial modern period within the art forms broader history and offers a description of the more fluid, international and digital scene that is the mediums likely future. Num Pages: 320 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; ACXJ; AKLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1118.
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500290965
ISBN
9780500290965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.91

Paperback. An illustrated study of Hanne Darboven's masterwork, the massive Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983). Series: Afterall. Num Pages: 112 pages, 32 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKN; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Afterall Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846380501
ISBN
9781846380501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.01

hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 305 x 22. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894974752
ISBN
9781894974752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.90
€ 51.05

Hardcover. Introductions by Dice Tsutsumi and Gaerald Guerlais. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 305 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1238. 192 pages, Illustrations. Introductions by Dice Tsutsumi and Gaerald Guerlais. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF. Dimension: 213 x 305 x 22. Weight: 1246.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781452112459
ISBN
9781452112459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.18

Hardcover. MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture traces the inexorable rise of collage, montage, sampling and the cut-up. Num Pages: 368 pages, 267. BIC Classification: ACX; AFJD; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 230. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing London UK United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910433393
ISBN
9781910433393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 47.46

Hardcover. This book presents theoretical engagements with Dada - the cultural formation routinely characterised as 'revolutionary' - in order to contest perpetuated assumptions that underlie the popular myth. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380208
ISBN
9781781380208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.06

Paperback. A comprehensive, systematic approach to the subject. Written for the philosophical novice. Includes an appendix containing the texts referred to in the book as well as further reading suggestions and a comprehensive glossary. Series: Introducing Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557867315
ISBN
9781557867315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.42

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