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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. .
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849763561
ISBN
9781849763561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.01

Paperback. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, this title approaches the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. It includes essays which engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalisation, cultural difference and curating. Editor(s): Edwards, Steve; Wood, Paul. Num Pages: 416 pages, 255 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1272.
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849760973
ISBN
9781849760973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.21

Paperback. Offers a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 onwards. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book shows how performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. Editor(s): Wood, Catherine. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AFKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 9. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849760201
ISBN
9781849760201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.72

Hardback. Reissued in the brand new hardback British Artists format, this is an ffordable introduction to one of the most important British painters in history. Includes full colour illustrations of all Turner's best-known work. Series: British Artists Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 60 colour. BIC Classification: ACVC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 248 x 11. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849761918
ISBN
9781849761918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.79

Hardcover. One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Leonardo also advanced numerous artistic techniques, achieving a complex psychology in such paintings as The Last Supper and the enigmatic La Gioconda, or Mona Lisa, which continue to mesmerize visitors from around the world. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836502153
ISBN
9783836502153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. BIC Classification: AC; AGHX; AJCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836540537
ISBN
9783836540537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.23

Hardcover. "Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste .. If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you."-Salvador Dali Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 317 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1992.
Publisher
TASCHEN GmbH
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836508766
ISBN
9783836508766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.06

Hardback. For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. This book examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 colour images + 80 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; ACN; ACQ; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 292 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1540.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300162790
ISBN
9780300162790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality Eup. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AC; APFA; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474403351
ISBN
9781474403351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.03

Hardback. Presents a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. This book features essays that look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects. Series: Cultures of History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 132 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129985
ISBN
9780231129985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.27

Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; ACX; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935973
ISBN
9780813935973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KJ; ACX; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935966
ISBN
9780813935966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.83

Hardcover. A survey of the range of craft disciplines and key practitioners from the pre-World War I years to the 1990s. It shows how the crafts movement emerged in response to generalized anxiety about the production, commodification and consumption of objects in an industrialised society. Num Pages: 496 pages, 284 b/w + 222 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AC; AFT; WF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 316 x 256 x 45. Weight in Grams: 3322.
Publisher
Bard Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
y First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300077803
ISBN
9780300077803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 54.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857228877
ISBN
9788857228877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.33
€ 58.42

Paperback. Provides a portrait of three artists who broke away from artistic tradition to embrace an entirely new way of painting. This book uncovers their legacy: the revolutionary depiction of light and shade, and how it was possible to capture the essence of a place on canvas. Series: The World's Greatest Art. Num Pages: 384 pages, 174 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 650. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KJE0003533
ISBN
9781844512577
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

Hardcover. Presents a fresh approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photography, film, and other technologies. Thsi book challenges some of the most respected and entrenched criticism of the past several decades - and allows us to think about these artists anew. Num Pages: 368 pages, 72 colour plates, 62 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 266 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1428.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226131191
ISBN
9780226131191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.21
€ 44.70

Paperback. Looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France - Degas' representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Series: University of Kansas Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AFC; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 6. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987934
ISBN
9780295987934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Charts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This book focuses on six canonic paintings and how they illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 150 b&w illustrations, 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJC; ACV; ACX; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1615.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300111187
ISBN
9780300111187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.63

Paperback. This book is the first contemporary study of its kind since the 1979 Revolution in Iran, a fascinating and comprehensive account of subversive and mainstream Iranian art and visual culture. Num Pages: 296 pages, 174 illustrations, 164 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FBN; ACXJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 191 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 942.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780232706
ISBN
9781780232706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.43

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 200 Colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 233 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1678.
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847838899
ISBN
9780847838899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.63
€ 67.83

paperback. Editor(s): Brennacher, Julia; Tabor, Jurgen; Nievers, Lena. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 190. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Verlag für moderne Kunst Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9783903131279
ISBN
9783903131279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.93

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACQ; AFW; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714124872
ISBN
9780714124872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A critical examination of Dara Birnbaum's action-packed and riveting video of Wonder Woman's transformations. Series: Afterall. Num Pages: 118 pages, 32 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKV; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 209 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Afterall Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
118
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846380679
ISBN
9781846380679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.45

hardcover. The initial section here covers the monuments of the important Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene, and includes Edessa (Urfa), the capital of a Crusader state, where there are also significant Islamic buildings. Num Pages: 536 pages, 120 pls, 48 maps & plans. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132523
ISBN
9780907132523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 342.09

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