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History of art / art & design styles

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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526118851
ISBN
9781526118851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.79

Hardback. Published to accompany a major exhibition originating at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this volume illuminates Picasso's radical reformulation of human physiognomy. Containing eighty-two color illustrations and sixty-eight duotones, this catalogue explores the Fernande portraits and related works as a single oeuvre. Num Pages: 192 pages, 82 color plates. 68 duotones. BIC Classification: ACXD5; AFC; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1285.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117416
ISBN
9780691117416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.97
€ 61.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Truman State University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931112437
ISBN
9781931112437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.54

Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 303 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Graffeg
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905582891
ISBN
9781905582891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.77

Paperback. Editor(s): King, Jennifer. Series: October Files. Num Pages: 200 pages, 60 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262528795
ISBN
9780262528795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

Hardback. Looks at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profound role humor played in determining the course of culture in the Gilded Age. This title examines how ambitious artists like Winslow Homer and Augustus Saint-Gaudens rethought the place of humor in their work. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 color illustrations and 92 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272453
ISBN
9780520272453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 63.58

Paperback. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, February 12-June 7, 2015. Editor(s): Chi, Jennifer Y.; Azara, Pedro. Num Pages: 168 pages, 125 color illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: AC; HBLA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 270 x 22. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691166469
ISBN
9780691166469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.15

Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: ACQB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810861831
ISBN
9780810861831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.73

Paperback. In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. Num Pages: 232 pages, 45 illustrations, including 17 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353133
ISBN
9780822353133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.10

Hardback. Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar period. Highlighting 130 works, this title presents the complete history of Baker's collection. Series: Yale University Art Gallery. Num Pages: 261 pages, 185 colour images + 35 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2070.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300153026
ISBN
9780300153026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.29

Hardback. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world - the sheer bulk and weight of artworks, the long delays inherent in long-distance reception, the uneasy mingling of artworks with other kinds of things in transit, the author forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 color, 50 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 19. Weight in Grams: 808.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251847
ISBN
9780520251847
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 45.72

Paperback. In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 112 illustrations, incl. 20 in color. BIC Classification: 1M; ACBS; HBJM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360711
ISBN
9780822360711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.39

Hardback. In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 280 pages, 112 illustrations, incl. 20 in color. BIC Classification: 1M; ACBS; HBJM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360551
ISBN
9780822360551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Hardcover. American-born artist R B Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most controversial artists of the second-half of the twentieth century. His distinctive, highly personal and often challenging works drew on many influences ranging from literature to politics and film. This book offers a collection of the artists graphic works. Num Pages: 256 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 253 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1602.
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714126852
ISBN
9780714126852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF; AGB; AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
powerHouse Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781576877265
ISBN
9781576877265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.67

Hardback. This is the first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life. It both recounts her life and analyzes her complex writings and images, making them available to a wide audience. Num Pages: 256 pages, 180 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; ACX; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 190. .
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780237282
ISBN
9781780237282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 43.93

Hardcover. The art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. This book draws on colourful examples from the Pacifics major cultural regions: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, beginning with an introduction asking What is Pacific art? Series: Art in Detail. Num Pages: 144 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1M; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714125909
ISBN
9780714125909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.38

Paperback. William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn, comic, vulnerable man. Num Pages: 816 pages, 8pp colour & 190 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACV; AFC; AFH; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 233 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571193769
ISBN
9780571193769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Fleischer, Jens; Hannestad, Niels; Lund, John; Nielsen, Marjatta. Series: Acta Hyperborea. Num Pages: 385 pages, illus. BIC Classification: ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 17. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
385
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772896397
ISBN
9788772896397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Hoffmann, Jens. Num Pages: 184 pages, 55 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 219. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219340
ISBN
9780300219340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery's Education of the Virgin - depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read - was long considered to be a work by an unknown Spanish artist. In this title, the extraordinary narrative of this painting and its reattribution is chronicled. Series: Yale University Art Gallery. Num Pages: 96 pages, 46 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQB; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300207866
ISBN
9780300207866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 306 illus. BIC Classification: ACV; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138253
ISBN
9780231138253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Hardback. Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in the United States. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
First Edition /First Printing
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421403649
ISBN
9781421403649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 40.84

Paperback. Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in the United States. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409627
ISBN
9781421409627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.31

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