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Paperback. FAUXLOSOPHY by Ron English, is a compelling collection of the artist's sayings with his accompanying iconic images. It is a light read with indelible images bringing to life wit and wisdom to live by through art, humor and ironic inspiration. Num Pages: 196 pages, 98 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Carpet Bombing Culture
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908211453
ISBN
9781908211453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.18

Paperback. A guide to the art, architecture and timeless human passion of Rome. It focuses on famous and forgotten monuments, and the artists and patrons who brought them into being. For Judith Testa, the ancient wordplay on "Roma" and "amor" holds the key to unravelling some fascinating cultural puzzles. Num Pages: 304 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; AC; AM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875805764
ISBN
9780875805764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.62

Hardcover. Mary Schmidt Campbell offers an enlightening analysis of Bearden's influences and the thematic focus of his work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 50 halftones, 16 pp 4-color plates. BIC Classification: ACXD; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203. .
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195059090
ISBN
9780195059090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.42

Paperback. * Compiled as a cutting--edge critical companion to the major anthology. * Contains 18 key essays on Romanticism written in the last 10 years. * Represents a wide range of theoretical approaches. * Major contributors include Edward Said, Jerome J. McGann, Marilyn Butler, Tom Paulin and others. . Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 496 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACVC; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631195047
ISBN
9780631195047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 53.85

Hardcover. An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Editor(s): Connell, Philip; Leask, Nigel. Num Pages: 332 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSBD; DSBF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 61.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521880121
ISBN
9780521880121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.12

Paperback. A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; ACVC; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828656
ISBN
9780753828656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 712. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761512
ISBN
9780804761512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.15

Paperback. The Romanesque churches in the northern half of Spain rival those of France for their distinctiveness and originality and for their remarkable sculpture. Built mainly between about 1000 and 1200, their styles vary greatly. 120 churches in Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre and the Basque Country, Cantabria, Castile, Leon, Asturias and Galicia are covered. Num Pages: 400 pages, 262 black & white and 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACK; AMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900357319
ISBN
9781900357319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.91

hardcover. Two volumes collating updated versions of Professor Sauerlander's written work on Romanesque art. Subjects include: structures, problems of classification, the geography of Romanesque art, and its development in Italy and the Empire. Num Pages: 526 pages. BIC Classification: ACK; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
526
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899828999
ISBN
9781899828999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.83

Hardback. Volumes I and II bring together Professor Sauerlander's papers on Romanesque art, and complement his two previously published volumes in this series on Gothic art. Num Pages: 474 pages, 320 illus. BIC Classification: ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 246 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899828289
ISBN
9781899828289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.20

Paperback. Mann examines how the financial patronage of newly empowered local rulers allowed Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration to significantly redefine the cultural identities of those who lived in the frontier kingdoms of Christian Spain. Num Pages: 296 pages, 78. BIC Classification: 1DS; ACK; AM; HBG; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Number of pages
296
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442628939
ISBN
9781442628939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 40.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Conrads, Margaret C. Num Pages: 136 pages, 91 illus., 90 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 281 x 17. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780615351711
ISBN
9780615351711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.64

Hardback. This volume is the first full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, the largest group of ancient Roman sarcophagi to survive. Manufactured from the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, covering a critical period in Rome, they provide a rich historical source for exploring the social and cultural life of ancient Rome. Num Pages: 368 pages, 87 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; HBJD; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199203246
ISBN
9780199203246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 204.11

Paperback. Discusses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as well as many less well-known monuments in the capital and elsewhere in the empire. Kleiner examines art commissioned by the imperial elite as well as by private patrons, including freedmen and slaves. Series: Yale Publications in the History of Art. Num Pages: 489 pages, 421 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1640.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
490
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300059489
ISBN
9780300059489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Paperback. Accompanying an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery and the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, this book offers material that is chronologically and geographically distant from imperial Rome, the better to characterize and understand local responses and identities within the provinces as they were expressed through material culture. Editor(s): Brody, Lisa R.; Hoffman, Gail L. Num Pages: 300 pages, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 254 x 26. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Mcmullen Museum Of Art, Boston College
Condition
New
SKU
V9781892850225
ISBN
9781892850225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 37.97

Hardback. Argues that "bad air" (mal'aria) is a neglected aspect of thinking about the city's history and as a destination for artists, visitors, and Romans both ancient and modern. This title invites alternative perspective on the city and its countryside, revisiting the history of Rome in terms of ideas about climate and the role of the environment. Num Pages: 270 pages, 50 colour images + 65 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300190212
ISBN
9780300190212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 7.28

Paperback. This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 266 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 211 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
British School at Rome United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780904152449
ISBN
9780904152449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 39.61

Paperback. Offers fresh insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. The author offers a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the messages that these images carried, and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire. Num Pages: 216 pages, 60 full-colour & 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 174 x 19. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606061015
ISBN
9781606061015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.57

Paperback. Representing 40 years of work with modern French art and formalistic theory, these essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, from Fry's influential promotion of post-Impressionism to art education, museums, architecture, decorative art, literature and dance. Num Pages: 452 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: AB; ACX; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226266428
ISBN
9780226266428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. The authoritative reference for Rodin's Mouvements de danse series, with which he tried to capture the essence of the body in movement, pushing the boundaries of sculpture and the limits of human anatomy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 colour illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 260 x 20. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907372995
ISBN
9781907372995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.44

Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 210. .
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836555043
ISBN
9783836555043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, hundreds of color posters. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKLP; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1158. 207 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKLP; AVGP. Dimension: 302 x 223 x 19. Weight: 1162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764325311
ISBN
9780764325311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 25.01

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Falcon Guides United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781493017072
ISBN
9781493017072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.71

Paperback. Framing Images from and of the Landscape. 104 pages, Illustrations (some col.). From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country and Unconquerable Spirit, comes a smaller but equally handsome volume on rock art copies made by the great German ethnologist, Leo Frobenius. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACBK. Dimension: 213 x 218 x 13. Weight: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Jacana Media
Edition
Har/Cdr
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431400805
ISBN
9781431400805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.28

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