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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. Editor(s): Patin, Thomas. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816651467
ISBN
9780816651467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Osservazioni" is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of Ancient Greece. This is an English translation of Piranesi's three-part polemical work. Translator(s): Beamish, Caroline; Britt, David. Series: Texts & Documents. Num Pages: 168 pages, 43 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; ACG; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892366361
ISBN
9780892366361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages, 79. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; ACX; JFF; JKS; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Minor Compositions
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570273032
ISBN
9781570273032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.08

Hardcover. The golden age of ocean liners is inextricably linked with the key decorative trends of the 20th century Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism. This lavish visual feast explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural, and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel. Editor(s): Finamore, Daniel; Wood, Ghislaine. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACVY; ACXD3; HBTB; JFCK; WTHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 247. .
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851779062
ISBN
9781851779062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 35.33

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 140 colour illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Publisher
Edition Olms Switzerland
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9783283012120
ISBN
9783283012120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 30.38

Paperback. Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon. She shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted. Series: Getty Research Institute Texts & Documents. Num Pages: 299 pages, 4 colour and 127 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 180 x 13. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892367283
ISBN
9780892367283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Kennedy, Brian. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 145. Weight in Grams: 227. Keywords: "Subjects - Art, Architecture & Photography - History of Art & Architecture - By Chronology - General,Subjects - Art, Architecture & Photography - General"
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Coracle
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0178706
ISBN
9780906630167
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of the American painter's fifty-year career, this book reassesses De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely West Coast context. Num Pages: 200 pages, 185 color images, 25 black/white photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; ACXJ; AGB; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292208
ISBN
9780520292208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.08

Hardback. A fascinating cross-section of current research in modernist art history, at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship. Editor(s): Miller, C. F. B. Num Pages: 240 pages, 100 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 268. .
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911300137
ISBN
9781911300137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.01

Hardcover. Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief. Num Pages: 264 pages, 28 colour plates, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226035789
ISBN
9780226035789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.44
€ 63.42

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
None ed.
SKU
V9780813536972
ISBN
9780813536972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. This is a monograph in English on the Lettrists. Num Pages: 192 pages, 90 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPG; ACXJ; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 11. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226174594
ISBN
9780226174594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.52

Paperback. One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience. This title documents the artist's first project in Berlin, where he has lived for many years. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 241 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1956.
Publisher
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Germany
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783865607652
ISBN
9783865607652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 52.59

Hardcover. Old Cuba presents an insider s view of the splendid colonial-era sites of the storied island nation, from the grand apartments and magnificent cathedral of Old Havana to the plantation homes of Pinar del Rio. Num Pages: 208 pages, 180 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJC; ACN; ACQ; ACV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 229. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847858477
ISBN
9780847858477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.74
€ 52.90

Paperback. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. The author follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. He writes of the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACV; AFC; AGB; BGH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437253
ISBN
9780099437253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. In the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan the Chinese and Japanese arts flourished side by side. Kodojin, the "Old Taoist" (1865-1944), was the last of these great poet-painters in Japan. This book brings together 150 of Kodojin's Chinese poems (introduced and translated by Jonathan Chaves). Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 halftones, 8 color plates. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 2GDC; 2GJ; ACBP; DCF; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116572
ISBN
9780231116572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.62

Hardcover. This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873 1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Native American art educator, and social reformer." Num Pages: 292 pages, 95 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 1778.
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890136201
ISBN
9780890136201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.28

Hardcover. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AMC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138698840
ISBN
9781138698840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.85

hardcover. Translator(s): Gertraud, Hechl. Num Pages: 224 pages, 414 photos. BIC Classification: ACX; TDPB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. United States
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764300585
ISBN
9780764300585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.67
€ 45.92

Paperback. Comprehensive survey of the artist Christian Marclay's ideas and practice in his own words and those of the foremost writers engaged with his work. Editor(s): Criqui, Jean-Pierre. Series: ON&BY. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Whitechapel Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780854882304
ISBN
9780854882304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 9.74

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