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History of art / art & design styles

hardcover. States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society. Series: Gender and Archaeology. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBK; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780759100640
ISBN
9780759100640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.79

Paperback. States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society. Series: Gender and Archaeology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBK; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759100657
ISBN
9780759100657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.26

Paperback. Chris Achilleo's science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous. In "Amazona", Achilleos brings together previously uncollected and unseen artwork. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 297 x 240 x 9. Weight in Grams: 621.
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840238938
ISBN
9781840238938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.28

Hardcover. Editor(s): Rosati, Lauren; Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Num Pages: 408 pages, 120 color illus., 30 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; 3JMC; ACXJ; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 204 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262017961
ISBN
9780262017961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

Paperback. Alternate Process in Photography: Technique, History, and Creative Potential offers a unique, practitioner's perspective on the history and practice of photographic processes. The book emphasizes handmade, largely historical photographic techniques, and provides detailed information for both beginning and advanced photographers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 149. BIC Classification: AC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 13. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199390397
ISBN
9780199390397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.34

Hardcover. Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alfonse Mucha was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque poses among the plethora of paintings, posters, advertisements and designs he produced. This title presents a range of his work. Num Pages: 200 pages, 170 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVY; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 300 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1680.
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844517305
ISBN
9781844517305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.07

Hardback. Now available in a new edition, this gorgeous volume surveys the entire breadth of Alphonse Mucha's work - from illustration and decorative arts to his photography and the historical paintings that were his life's passion. Editor(s): Husslein-Arco, Agnes; Gaillemin, Jean-Louis; Hilaire, Michel. Num Pages: 356 pages, 481, 403 colour. BIC Classification: ACVY; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 319 x 246 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2402.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791353975
ISBN
9783791353975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.44

Num Pages: 192 pages, 500 color photos. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; AC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 222 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1354.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764304897
ISBN
9780764304897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.09
€ 38.86

Paperback. A biography of the Colorado artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955). Based on letters, diaries, and contemporary news accounts as well as family history, it describes his artistic evolution from illustrator to easel painter to muralist. Num Pages: 512 pages, 202 illus., 121 in color. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4226 x 6161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Canyon Leap United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981723815
ISBN
9780981723815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.24

Hardback. Presents a study of the two important artists of the twentieth century that links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what it is and where it is. Translator(s): Elliott, Fiona. Num Pages: 342 pages, 37 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; AFKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 688.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
342
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520245419
ISBN
9780520245419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.50
€ 64.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 135 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; ACXJ5; AFKP; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300222609
ISBN
9780300222609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.32

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, over 290 color & b& w photos. BIC Classification: AC; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764308505
ISBN
9780764308505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.58

Paperback. Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Alina Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent her life in France, and created an impressive number of sculptures and drawings that are defined as post-surrealist and proto-feminist. This title presents research on the work of Alina Szapocznikow. Num Pages: 240 pages, 85 colour plates, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVP; ACX; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Poland
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9788392404460
ISBN
9788392404460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.55

Paperback. Explores the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the world rotates and develops the experiment further. This book illustrates the playful exploration of space and time using recent pictures from the Schirn rotunda. Num Pages: 64 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; ACXJ; AFKN; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 208 x 8. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783777424422
ISBN
9783777424422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Alice Aycock emerged onto New York art scene in 1970s and is known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness and to science and cosmology. This book explores her drawings, which include elements of mirage, and science, and evoke both abstract thinking and bodily sensation. Series: Parrish Museum of Art. Num Pages: 160 pages, 102 colour images + 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 251 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300191103
ISBN
9780300191103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Hardcover. A long-overdue monograph on a sculptor who draws not only on minimalism and conceptualism but on a rich web of intellectual and visual sources to create postmodern work that is a "complex" of juxtapositions. Num Pages: 400 pages, 154 illus., black and white and color. BIC Classification: ACX; AFK; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262083393
ISBN
9780262083393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
58461st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486098
ISBN
9780801486098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.60

Paperback. Born in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguin has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. This work reveals Alfredo Arreguin as "a genuinely American painter, in the real, hemispheric sense of this term" - an artist of magic, mystery, and revelation. Series: Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists. Num Pages: 208 pages, 176 illus., 163 in color. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987347
ISBN
9780295987347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.17

Hardcover. Accompanies the first major exhibition of the artist's work, tracing Rockman's artistic development from the mid-1980s to the present. Num Pages: 176 pages, 114 col, 2 b&w. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 299 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1446.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
D Giles Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904832867
ISBN
9781904832867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 31.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
Victoria Miro Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993179839
ISBN
9780993179839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.03

Hardback. The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon Num Pages: 368 pages, 300 color illus. BIC Classification: ACX; AFJD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 322 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2294.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219180
ISBN
9780300219180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 45.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 220 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 299 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9780300225563
ISBN
9780300225563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 1216 pages, 70 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACND; AGB; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 254 x 100. Weight in Grams: 2482.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300210842
ISBN
9780300210842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.13
€ 110.45

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