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History of art / art & design styles
Paperback. Provides a portrait of three artists who broke away from artistic tradition to embrace an entirely new way of painting. This book uncovers their legacy: the revolutionary depiction of light and shade, and how it was possible to capture the essence of a place on canvas. Series: The World's Greatest Art. Num Pages: 384 pages, 174 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 650. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Flame Tree Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003533
- ISBN
- 9781844512577
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Hardcover. The English romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was hailed as the painter of light for his brilliantly coloured landscapes and seascapes. This book examines the ways in which Turner consistently strove to confront Claude's achievement and legacy. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 160 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 293 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1126.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- National Gallery Company Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857095371
- ISBN
- 9781857095371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.07
€ 40.99
€ 29.07
Hardcover. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, this book explores and celebrates Turners lifelong fascination with the sea. It sets his work within the context of marine painting in the 19th century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 225 illustrations, 222 in colour. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 243 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1954.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500239056
- ISBN
- 9780500239056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 44.45
€ 53.00
€ 44.45
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Anness Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754820840
- ISBN
- 9780754820840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardcover. This book opens up the paintings of William Turner (1775-1851) for the eye, demonstrating that he was not simply illustrating nature, but that his pictures speak directly to the eye as nature does itself-through a world of light and colour. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- TASCHEN GmbH
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783836504546
- ISBN
- 9783836504546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.03
€ 19.99
€ 16.03
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, b/w & colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QSPS; 3JF; ACBS; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 176 x 29. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Otago University Press New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578175
- ISBN
- 9781877578175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.87
€ 30.99
€ 22.87
Paperback. The book traces the multiple meanings of art to their various sources, and equips the reader to choose between them. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780998411
- ISBN
- 9781780998411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.81
€ 26.99
€ 23.81
Paperback. Chronicles David Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his return to oil painting, around 2005. Num Pages: 272 pages, 100 b/w illustrations, 60 color photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576. Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney. 272 pages, illustrations. Chronicles David Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor - and then his return to oil painting, around 2005. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC. Dimension: 205 x 156 x 21. Weight: 576.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258792
- ISBN
- 9780520258792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.81
€ 35.99
€ 26.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 130 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKP; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 210. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300220124
- ISBN
- 9780300220124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Hardcover. Captures a record of Trimpin's journey and places his work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art Editor(s): Focke, Anne. Num Pages: 208 pages, 110 illus., 100 in color. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991092
- ISBN
- 9780295991092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 40.80
€ 43.99
€ 40.80
Hardback. Editor(s): Fisher, Tom; Gamman, Lorraine. Num Pages: 256 pages, 42 BW illus. BIC Classification: AC; AKP; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474277181
- ISBN
- 9781474277181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.42
€ 160.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACX; AFK; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848846371
- ISBN
- 9781848846371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 412 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347684
- ISBN
- 9780936347684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.77€ 90.75
€ 117.77
€ 90.75
Paperback. The first publication on the Michael Wellby bequest to the Ashmolean, introducing over sixty of the most important items in the collection, and timed to coincide with the opening of the new Wellby Bequest Gallery in the Museum in September 2015. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 colour. BIC Classification: 3J; ACN; AFKG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 265 x 14. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Ashmolean Museum United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910807019
- ISBN
- 9781910807019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.69
€ 19.99
€ 18.69
Hardcover. The British Museum is the most magnificent treasure-house in the world. The wealth and range of its collections is unequalled by any other national museum. This title reveals and delights the reader with the stories behind these treasures and many more. Num Pages: 240 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ACB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1446. 240 pages, 300 colour illustrations. The British Museum is the most magnificent treasure-house in the world. The wealth and range of its collections is unequalled by any other national museum. This title reveals and delights the reader with the stories behind these treasures and many more. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ACB; AGC. Dimension: 284 x 228 x 23. Weight: 1464.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714150628
- ISBN
- 9780714150628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Hardcover. The great river civilization of the Oxus is one of the forgotten jewels of the ancient world. Num Pages: 264 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FC; ACG; HBLA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 289 x 237. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784537722
- ISBN
- 9781784537722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.89€ 56.46
€ 58.89
€ 56.46
Paperback. Series: American Traveler. Num Pages: 48 pages, Col.ill.M. BIC Classification: ACBP; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 102 x 4. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- American Traveler Press United States
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558381292
- ISBN
- 9781558381292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.53
€ 10.99
€ 9.53
Hardback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822360803
- ISBN
- 9780822360803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Paperback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360940
- ISBN
- 9780822360940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.90
€ 35.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. In this exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounter with the foreign. Editor(s): Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen. Series: Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 350 pages, 100 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; AC; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1271.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Paul Mellon Centre BA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300063820
- ISBN
- 9780300063820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 42.58
€ 53.00
€ 42.58
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
€ 58.89€ 46.42
€ 58.89
€ 46.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785706288
- ISBN
- 9781785706288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.71
€ 42.71
hardcover. Num Pages: 376 pages, 91 colour, 114 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; ACQ; ACV; ACX; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 264 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271026909
- ISBN
- 9780271026909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.31€ 106.01
€ 128.31
€ 106.01
Paperback. The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period. Num Pages: 344 pages, 215 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691003023
- ISBN
- 9780691003023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.44€ 64.47
€ 82.44
€ 64.47