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History of art / art & design styles
Paperback. Offers a framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States. From the visionary museums of Boullee in the eighteenth century to the new Guggenheim in Bilbao and beyond, this book explores various aspects of museum theory and practice: ideals and mission; architecture; the public and commercialism. Num Pages: 364 pages, 112 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AC; GM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1018. 364 pages, Illustrations. Offers a framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States. From the visionary museums of Boullee in the eighteenth century to the new Guggenheim in Bilbao and beyond, this book explores various aspects of museum theory and practice: ideals and mission; architecture; the public and commercialism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AC; GM; JFC. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 24. Weight: 986.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 364
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251267
- ISBN
- 9780520251267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.69
€ 44.99
€ 31.69
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848221833
- ISBN
- 9781848221833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 37.19
€ 49.99
€ 37.19
Hardcover. What did it mean to be Russian as the imperial era gave way to Soviet rule? The author turns to a unique art form produced in the village of Palekh to investigate how artists and craftsmen helped to reshape Russian national identity. This book follows the development of Palekh art as it adapted to dramatic changes in the Russian nation. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JH; 3JJ; ACB; AFT; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803395
- ISBN
- 9780875803395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29
€ 53.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACN; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804834827
- ISBN
- 9780804834827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.07
€ 15.99
€ 14.07
Paperback. This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627052
- ISBN
- 9780745627052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.77
€ 25.77
Hardback. This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627045
- ISBN
- 9780745627045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.18
€ 73.18
Paperback. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio's pictures, which show how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. BIC Classification: ACQB; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241954645
- ISBN
- 9780241954645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.94
€ 19.99
€ 14.94
Hardcover. Cultural modernity has habitually been defined as a focus on the means of representation themselves, as opposed to art that imitates external reality or expresses its maker's inner life. This study in cultural history explores how Spanish culture took a radical turn toward the medium of representation itself in the 1850s and early 1860s. Num Pages: 364 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; ACV; AFC; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911137
- ISBN
- 9781575911137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.92
€ 155.92
Paperback. Andrew Fekete - a painter, architect, poet and writer, who died in 1986 from an Aids-related illness. Andrew, flaneur, walked the city; he was a man whose writings, to adapt the words of Baudelaire, serve as a mirror as vast as the crowd itself. This anthology deals with his development as an artist. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781383315
- ISBN
- 9781781383315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.15
€ 29.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Eschelbacher, Andrew. Num Pages: 200 pages, 170 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD2; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 289 x 248. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300226218
- ISBN
- 9780300226218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.31
€ 58.31
hardcover. Num Pages: 88 pages, 60 plates, 43 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QDAG; ACG; AFPC; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 323 x 247 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bk&Pictrs
- SKU
- V9780892361342
- ISBN
- 9780892361342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.09
€ 143.09
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848221468
- ISBN
- 9781848221468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.28€ 52.65
€ 53.28
€ 52.65
Paperback. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, a look at innovative and avant-garde sculpture in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions and the changing functions of museums. Explores Anti-form, minimalism, Earth Art, Performance Art and other forms, presenting a holistic picture of post-war sculpture which will stimulate future debate. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, colour and black and white halftones throughout. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACX; AFKB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192842053
- ISBN
- 9780192842053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.41
€ 31.99
€ 23.41
Hardcover. Translator(s): Bednarski, Andrew. Num Pages: 315 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; ACG; HDDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 210 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1716.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166167
- ISBN
- 9789774166167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.96
€ 68.96
Paperback. A handbook for practical living in posthuman world - all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V I Lenin, the daddy of communism. Series: The Public Square. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD7; D; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 107 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137780
- ISBN
- 9780691137780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.27
€ 20.99
€ 20.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 240 colour. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 303 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2104.
- Publisher
- Hirmer Verlag
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783777422473
- ISBN
- 9783777422473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.46€ 62.28
€ 69.46
€ 62.28
Hardcover. The contributors to this volume study the huge woodcut generated by the artists Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige an Kunisada titled "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road." Editor(s): Marks, Andreas. Translator(s): Allen, Laura; Wehmeyer, Ann. Series: Cofrin Asian Art Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; ACBP; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813060217
- ISBN
- 9780813060217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.35
€ 103.35
Hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages, 200 woodblock prints. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Hardcover with Jacket
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784805313107
- ISBN
- 9784805313107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.58
€ 24.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. This book presents classic-era Hopi and Zuni carved dolls made between the 1880s and 1940s that have been rarely seen. Num Pages: 186 pages, 84 colour & 31 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 255 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890135969
- ISBN
- 9780890135969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.57
€ 53.99
€ 38.57
Paperback. A comprehensive discussion of materials, techniques and condition issues in Western easel paintings from mediaeval times to the present. Series: Materials & Meaning in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 colour plates 217 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 200 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1246.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300094084
- ISBN
- 9780300094084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Frida Kahlo's (1907-1954) arresting pictures were in many ways expressions of trauma. This richly illustrated Basic Art book offers a both accessible and informed introduction to Kahlo's life and work, looking at the artist's dramatic, colourful canvases which combined religious Mexican tradition with Surrealist elements. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- TASCHEN GmbH
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783836500852
- ISBN
- 9783836500852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.94
€ 19.99
€ 14.94
Hardcover. Diego Rivera's historical paintings expressed his interpretation of the revolution and its ideals, in a style that showed him returning to the pre-Columbian roots of Mexican culture, re-inventing a colourfully realistic visual idiom that could appeal directly to a largely illiterate people. This study presents the work of this extraordinary artist. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783836504133
- ISBN
- 9783836504133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.95
€ 19.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. The isolation of the Peron era was over, the economy was doing well, and the arts were invigorated. This book presents an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics organized to promote an international identity for Argentina's visual arts. Translator(s): Kahn, Dr. Peter. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 432 pages, 63 illustrations (22 color/16 pg insert, 41 b&w). BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJPK; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338932
- ISBN
- 9780822338932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.66
€ 46.99
€ 41.66
Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1H; AC; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 639.
- Publication date
- 1910
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099600
- ISBN
- 9780802099600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98