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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. Explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centres and artists and the trade in works of art. This book also considers the impact of differing locations on art and artists and some of the economic, political and cultural factors crucial to the emergence of an artistic centre. Editor(s): Richardson, Carol M. Series: Open University: Renaissance Art Reconsidered. Num Pages: 352 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 284 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300121889
ISBN
9780300121889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.64

Hardcover. Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this book reproduces 87 key works by 27 artists that represent a broad panorama of the development of the graphic arts in Europe from the Renaissance to the dawn of the 20th century. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: ACN; ACQ; ACV; AFF; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1490.
Publisher
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781741741087
ISBN
9781741741087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 50.74

Paperback. Lavishly illustrated book on Georgia O'Keeffe's kachina doll paintings and her use of Southwestern architecture and landscape as well as Native subjects in her work. Num Pages: 144 pages, , colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGB; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 282 x 11. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press/Published in association with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135471
ISBN
9780890135471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 32.49

Hardcover. An enticing collection of sixty years of collaboration between the House of Dior and the greats of fashion photography, will appeal to anyone interested in fashion, design, and photography. Accompanies and exhibition of the same name at the Christian Dior Museum in Granville, France Num Pages: 240 pages, 250 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AJ; AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 896.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847843084
ISBN
9780847843084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 43.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 120 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; 3JMC; ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 317 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1056.
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783777424200
ISBN
9783777424200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.54

Hardcover. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. Their artistic beliefs were set out by John Ruskin, the art historian who ardently supported them. Their chief principle was truth to nature: that a painter should draw what he or she sees, and not follow painterly conventions. This book offers a wide range of poetic and literary extracts. Series: Gift Books. Num Pages: 96 pages, 48 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714150666
ISBN
9780714150666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.76

Hardback. Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colourful, and large-scale work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work - all of which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 320 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1614.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791354309
ISBN
9783791354309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 53.63

Paperback. Contains methods useful to embroidery machine users and commercial machine embroiderers, demonstrated in 250 step-by-step colour photographs. This book helps readers identify the tools of modern digitising, and the processes with which to use them. It contains chapters covering artwork, auto-digitising, stitch types, and, mapping and sequencing. Num Pages: 128 pages, 250 colour photos. BIC Classification: ACVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 211 x 11. Weight in Grams: 540. Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro. 128 pages, 250 colour photos. Contains methods useful to embroidery machine users and commercial machine embroiderers, demonstrated in 250 step-by-step colour photographs. This book helps readers identify the tools of modern digitising, and the processes with which to use them. It contains chapters covering artwork, auto-digitising, stitch types, and, mapping and sequencing. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACVN. Dimension: 275 x 211 x 11. Weight: 540.
Publisher
F&W Publications Inc
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Pap/Cdr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896894921
ISBN
9780896894921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.49

Hardcover. Offers an account of the decorative arts of the Art Deco period. This book celebrates the styles rich variety of form and its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite of modern collectors and designers. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1000 colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACXD3; AG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 316 x 248 x 50. Weight in Grams: 3608.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500238554
ISBN
9780500238554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.56
€ 57.06

Paperback. .
Publisher
Wardell Publications Canada
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780919985308
ISBN
9780919985308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.27

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gossel, Peter. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AMB; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836544672
ISBN
9783836544672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.84

Hardcover. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, March 5-June 7, 2015, organized by Sarah J. Montross." Editor(s): Montross, Sarah J. Num Pages: 136 pages, 135 color illus. BIC Classification: 1K; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 303 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1088.
Publisher
Bowdoin College Museum of Art & The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262029025
ISBN
9780262029025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.85

Hardback. .
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783858817747
ISBN
9783858817747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.90

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Ravilious, Eric William. Editor(s): Mainstone, Tim. Num Pages: 48 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 250 x 11. Weight in Grams: 756.
Publisher
The Mainstone Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955277740
ISBN
9780955277740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.40

Paperback. Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity's earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. Often undisturbed for tens of thousands of years, these were among the first visual symbols that humans shared with each other. However, as the author reveals, we have ways of unlocking their secrets. Series: World of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 223 illustrations, 208 in colour. BIC Classification: ACC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500204351
ISBN
9780500204351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.41

paperback. Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the Victorian era. The author has managed to encompass all the different facets of Morris' complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, and as a poet, and novelist. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: ACVN; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1088.
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571255597
ISBN
9780571255597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 32.97

Paperback. Published to accompany exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, this book explores the work of the founders Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Gunther Uecker, alongside international artists who were close to ZERO such as Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana, and such lesser-known artists as Hermann Goepfert, Oskar Holweck and Hans Salentin. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 249 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2140.
Publisher
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783863356972
ISBN
9783863356972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.74
€ 57.19

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 521 color photos. BIC Classification: ACX; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 289 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1582. Sculpture from the Modern Blacksmith and Metalsmith. 256 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACX; AFKB. Dimension: 222 x 289 x 26. Weight: 1584.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764332470
ISBN
9780764332470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.09
€ 38.86

Paperback. Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 115 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Semiotext
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350989
ISBN
9781584350989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.93

Hardback. The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. This book locates the artist's mannequin within the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, dolls and shop window dummies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 220 colour + 50 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 288 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1746.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300208221
ISBN
9780300208221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, Paperback with spine tape, 408 pages; Over 1500 black and white illustrations;. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781452128238
ISBN
9781452128238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.89

Hardback. Investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 438 pages, 22 b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; AC; AVC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition /First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282346
ISBN
9780520282346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Hardback. As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Including essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, this title features art-historical and technical discussions of various works in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington. Series: National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues. Num Pages: 408 pages, 221 color illus. 209 halftones. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 291 x 254 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2482.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148977
ISBN
9780691148977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 88.63

Paperback. In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16 pp coloured plates, 40 integrated line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JB; ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Pimlico
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844139323
ISBN
9781844139323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.29

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