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Paperback. Images of celebrities, acquaintances, and friends - in the news, on social networking sites, on the street - are constantly changing. Portraits, on the other hand, slow us down. This title shows the use of portraiture or self-portraiture to explore the complex issues of identity, while also testing the boundaries of figurative art. Num Pages: 79 pages, 56 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989716
ISBN
9780295989716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

Paperback. The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. This richly illustrated book casts an entirely new light on its history. Num Pages: 224 pages, 71 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACK; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 192 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243105
ISBN
9781851243105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardcover. This book provides the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Palestinian art to date while exploring in depth the relationship between art and nationalism in the context of conflict. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 269 pages, 97 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319525
ISBN
9781846319525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.46

Hardback. Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? This title deals with these questions. Series: The Rostovtzeff Lectures. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 halftones. 23 line illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDA; ACC; ACG; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 259 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159041
ISBN
9780691159041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.15

Hardback. Delivered three times between 1898 and 1902 and subsequently revised with an eye towards publication, Alois Riegl's lectures on the origins of Baroque art in Rome broke new ground in its field. This English translation brings Riegl's compelling vision of the Baroque to life and amply illustrates his celebrated magnetism as a lecturer. Num Pages: 292 pages, 47 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 884.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606060414
ISBN
9781606060414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.15

Paperback. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, Rosalind Krauss explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Num Pages: 319 pages, 162. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 175 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
319
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262610469
ISBN
9780262610469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.62

Paperback. Provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative and collective art practices Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illustrations, including 15 in colour, 1 table. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496. Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. 320 pages, 29 illustrations, incl. 15 in colour, 1 table. Provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative and collective art practices. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 20. Weight: 462.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349877
ISBN
9780822349877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form. Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 583 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 190 x 29. Weight in Grams: 913.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
583
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780691017884
ISBN
9780691017884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Printed in the style of a school composition book. Editor(s): Warsh, Larry. Num Pages: 304 pages, 160 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691167893
ISBN
9780691167893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is an illustrated collection of commissioned essays that attempt to anticipate, through current artistic productions, the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. Num Pages: 214 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 43 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474510
ISBN
9781611474510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.80

Hardback. Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science Translator(s): Lantz, Lori. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 320 pages, 45 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; ACXD; AFJD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087028
ISBN
9780719087028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.23

Paperback. With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s. Num Pages: 246 pages, 52 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; ACXD9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press Berkeley, CA
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520081062
ISBN
9780520081062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.69

Hardback. A survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art - the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. It explores developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 400 pages, 200 colour images + 150 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; ACV; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 297 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300175677
ISBN
9780300175677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 50.00

Paperback. Features authentic weapons and weapon cases, horse gear, tools, stone pipes, and ceremonial items; also trade goods such as Hudson's Bay collectibles, trade beads, cloth, and blankets; and contemporary replicas of traditional Indian clothing, blankets, pouches and bags, parfleches, and more. All values reflect actual auction estimates and results. Num Pages: 176 pages, 676 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACBK; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 269 x 15. Weight in Grams: 892.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764326349
ISBN
9780764326349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 168 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 273 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hayward Gallery Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853323287
ISBN
9781853323287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 39.37

Paperback. The New Art History explores the fundamental changes which have occurred both in the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415230087
ISBN
9780415230087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.51

Hardcover. Num Pages: 2096 pages, 2051 illustrations, 934 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACXD; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 240 x 292. Weight in Grams: 12900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Skira Italy
Edition
Slp
Number of pages
2096
Condition
New
SKU
V9788861300729
ISBN
9788861300729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.67
€ 215.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 63 b/w illustrations, 13 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; ACX; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816678259
ISBN
9780816678259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Sandpainting has its origin in the religious tradition and practice of the Navajo people. Over 400 sandpaintings, from the most traditional to the newest forms, are illustrated here in full color. The sandpaintings are organized by artist, making this an important reference for collectors. Num Pages: 64 pages, 346 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; AFJ; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Edition
2 Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764308109
ISBN
9780764308109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. The first facsimile of Ruskin's epoch-making 'Nature of Gothic' as printed by his disciple William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Essays by specialist contributors enlarge on the great significance of this book. Editor(s): Hewison, Robert; Pinkney, Tony; Brownell, Robert. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ACVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 162. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pallas Athene Publishers United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843681014
ISBN
9781843681014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

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