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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. Journey through Renaissance art and attain an understanding of the symbolic messages of painters from Leonardo Da Vinci to Sandro Botticelli, as well as sculptors and architects Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 758. Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art. 224 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. Journey through Renaissance art and attain an understanding of the symbolic messages of painters from Leonardo Da Vinci to Sandro Botticelli, as well as sculptors and architects. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACND. Dimension: 234 x 178 x 26. Weight: 758.
Publisher
Duncan Baird Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844839377
ISBN
9781844839377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.14

Paperback. Demonstrates how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established. Num Pages: 328 pages, 510 illustrations, 442 in colour. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 300 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1906.
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500286388
ISBN
9780500286388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 32.96

Hardcover. The volume chronicles how in their poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's work - Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of "Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of Surrealism. Editor(s): Maurer, Christopher. Translator(s): Maurer, Christopher. Num Pages: 220 pages, 24 color plates. BIC Classification: 2ADS; ACXD7; AFC; AGB; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Swan Isle Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780967880884
ISBN
9780967880884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.99

Hardcover. Places Keller's modern treatment of enigmatic subjects within the cultural mileau of fin de siecle Germany Editor(s): Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie; Bott, Gian Casper. Num Pages: 104 pages, 54 illus., 34 in color. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 7459 x 17. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990828
ISBN
9780295990828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.48

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1094.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857227580
ISBN
9788857227580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.52

Hardback. Editor(s): Museum Ludwig Cologne. Num Pages: 200 pages, 180. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 248 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1388.
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9783775739009
ISBN
9783775739009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.55

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
€ 22.95

Hardcover. A catalogue of the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Each entry features a full bibliography and is written for both experts and the general reading public. The introduction offers an overview of sculpture from the archaic period to the end of antiquity. Num Pages: 375 pages, 28 col and 670 b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; AFKB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 310 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892366866
ISBN
9780892366866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 88.94

Hardcover. Explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 colour & 78 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1310.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892369591
ISBN
9780892369591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.21

Hardcover. Based on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber's coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture. Series: Loeb Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; AFKB; AFKG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
270
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674428379
ISBN
9780674428379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.23

Paperback. Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture. Translator(s): Gaiger, Jason. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226327556
ISBN
9780226327556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.27

Hardcover. 200 pages, Photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Dimension: 222 x 236 x 19. Weight: 852.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Protea Boekhuis
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781869194857
ISBN
9781869194857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.35

Paperback. Create innovative and imaginative wooden cane handles in a wide variety of shapes. The 169 clear color photos detail the process and provide examples sure to inspire wood carvers, cane makers, and cane collectors alike. Featured are examples in zebra, Co Num Pages: 64 pages, 169 color photos. BIC Classification: ACVN; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764328237
ISBN
9780764328237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.03

Hardback. The first book to explore the mutual influence of the groundbreaking modernists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp. " BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 321 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1310.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791355924
ISBN
9783791355924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 48.30

Paperback. Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art. Num Pages: 48 pages, 44ill. BIC Classification: ACXD1; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 210 x 4. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486281506
ISBN
9780486281506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.12

Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 210. .
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836504423
ISBN
9783836504423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.66

Hardback. Shows the intensity of authors gaze that explores what the appearance of the world has to offer to a virtuoso colourist for a painting. Num Pages: 336 pages, 970 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 313 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2242.
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783777424378
ISBN
9783777424378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 89.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 41 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFKV; JFD; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816646708
ISBN
9780816646708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen. Num Pages: 294 pages, 107 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: AC; AKL; PDX; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
n
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226731056
ISBN
9780226731056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. A gloriously colourful, dynamic new body of work in glass Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 color illus., 2 gatefolds, DVD. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFP; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991887
ISBN
9780295991887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.73

Hardback. Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. This book opens windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures. Editor(s): Israels, Machtelt. Series: Villa I Tatti Series. Num Pages: 624 pages, 400 color illustrations, 250 halftones. BIC Classification: ACND; AFCL; AGB; AGR; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 333 x 68. Weight in Grams: 4940.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035232
ISBN
9780674035232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.72
€ 110.37

Hardback. This exhibition catalogue presents selections of modern and contemporary art from exceptional collections built by University of Vermont alumni/ae, with essays and short contributions by UVM alumni and associates in the academic, nonprofit, and commercial art worlds Num Pages: 172 pages, 54 colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1315.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Robert Hull Fleming Museum United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934658140
ISBN
9780934658140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.80

Paperback. The first substantial monograph on an artist whose sculptures capture the proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life. Series: Contemporary Artists Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 291 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1054.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714870465
ISBN
9780714870465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.84

Hardcover. The first book about the life, career, and pictures of this pioneering photographic artist (1849-1930), this is a richly illustrated introduction to the beginnings of colour photography, featuring previously unpublished specimens of photographic art, including four unrecorded child portraits by Lewis Carroll. Num Pages: 304 pages, 188 black & white halftones, 124 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 252 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1974.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243723
ISBN
9781851243723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 44.96

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