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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. This book brings overdue recognition to the artistry and craftsmanship of the Plateau Indians by focusing on the remarkable collection amassed by the late Doris Swayze Bounds, an Oregon banker, who grew up among the Native people. Many of the items in her collection came to her as gifts from her Indian friends. 280 illustrations, 48 in color. Editor(s): Harless, Susan E. Num Pages: 176 pages, 280 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; AFTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295976730
ISBN
9780295976730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrated with an 8-page colour plate section. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198114
ISBN
9781845198114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.18

Paperback. Begins with the British public's first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. This book examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226213170
ISBN
9780226213170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Hardcover. Art and mystery collide in this fascinating look at the secrets behind some of the world's most important masterpieces and their creators. Num Pages: 176 pages, 200 colour. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 212 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Prestel
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791349206
ISBN
9783791349206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.05

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18 colour, 54 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271035291
ISBN
9780271035291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.39
€ 80.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 89 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780887483813
ISBN
9780887483813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.20

Hardback. The modern artist strives to be independent of the publicness taste - and yet depends on the public for a living. This book argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. Num Pages: 248 pages, 49 color plates. 88 halftones. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 208 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1214.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126791
ISBN
9780691126791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Hardcover. This beautiful book presents 60 of Claude Monet's original recipes alongside glorious reproductions of his paintings, scenes from his life in Giverny, and stunning photographs of the dishes. Num Pages: 240 pages, 150. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AGB; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 282 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1480.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791382883
ISBN
9783791382883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.21

Paperback. In this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany. Num Pages: 564 pages, 1 colour plate, 223 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACND; AFC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 217 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226449999
ISBN
9780226449999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.79
€ 52.25

Hardback. Presents an account of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) and the artist's revolutionary achievement. This book focuses on the emergence of the full-blown 'gallery picture' in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth. Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 328 pages, 194 color illus. 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ACQB; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 287 x 220 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1748.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147017
ISBN
9780691147017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.67

paperback. A reconstruction of three modernist poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters, this sequel to "Orientalism and Modernism", investigates the ways in which three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; ACBP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921761
ISBN
9780813921761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.62

Hardcover. Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air. Num Pages: 96 pages, 60col ill 30b/w. BIC Classification: AC; AMKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 187 x 16. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
V & A Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851774760
ISBN
9781851774760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.37

Paperback. The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 24 black and white, 10 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715641446
ISBN
9780715641446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 105. BIC Classification: ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474804
ISBN
9780801474804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardback. In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. The author questions what distinguished these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images. Num Pages: 400 pages, 80 colour images + 170 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; AFKB; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1924.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176605
ISBN
9780300176605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 63.27

Paperback. Explores the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature - issues central to the study of medieval art. This book examines the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and more. Editor(s): Hamburger, Jeffrey F.; Bouche, Anne-Marie. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 464 pages, 198 halftones. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR; DSBB; HRCX6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 215 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1292.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124766
ISBN
9780691124766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.32

paperback. Explores the emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject in the world of art, as well as the ways in which the mobilities of our globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. Editor(s): Mathur, Saloni. Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 75 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300134148
ISBN
9780300134148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 6.49

Hardcover. This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1,100 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 348 x 53. Weight in Grams: 4028.
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847846597
ISBN
9780847846597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 55.39

Hardcover. The Walters Art Museum. 208 pages, 200 colour. A narrative-based guide to medieval art, featuring the Walters Art Museum's internationally renowned collection of Medieval European art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACK; AGC. Dimension: 276 x 214 x 23. Weight: 1154.
Publisher
D Giles Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904832966
ISBN
9781904832966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 27.83

Paperback. Presents one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of images accompanied by an informed commentary. This book helps readers to explore and understand different facets of the Middle Ages, an era of breathtaking artistic achievement and of religious faith in a world where life was often coarse and cruel and cut short by war. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 280 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1506.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500283332
ISBN
9780500283332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.75

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