History of art / art & design styles
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History of art / art & design styles
Paperback. An examination of the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. It discusses colour theory and shows the interaction between art and science. Num Pages: 383 pages, 549 b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates, select bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 282 x 254 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1806.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 383
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300052411
- ISBN
- 9780300052411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.55€ 45.04
€ 57.55
€ 45.04
Hardcover. An overview of the sculptures of the Parthenon, presenting interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creation. It focuses on the meanings of the sculptures in the light of classical Athenian knowledge and society, and considers what they reveal about the Greek sense of democracy. Num Pages: 212 pages, 6 colour plates, 51 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; ACG; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300073911
- ISBN
- 9780300073911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 50.63
€ 65.27
€ 50.63
Hardback. During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. This title offers an account of the treasures of the dynasty - including exquisite jades, silver and goldwork, bronzes and ceramics. Editor(s): Lin, James C.S. Num Pages: 376 pages, 350 color + 120 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; ACG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 252 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300184341
- ISBN
- 9780300184341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.13€ 63.27
€ 77.13
€ 63.27
hardcover. Marcel Duchamp left a thousand letters in which he talks of his plans and works in progress. This volume contains his letters in their original language (French or English) with translations where appropriate. The editor focuses on the historical content and introduces each correspondent. Num Pages: 424 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 246 x 53. Weight in Grams: 920. Very good copy showing minor age and shelf wear. Dust jacket intact, shows some wear & tear. Text clean throughout
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025068
- ISBN
- 9780500019580
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Offering a rich and lively history, this is an essential read for all those interested in this most enduringly popular and humane of art forms. Num Pages: 288 pages, 120 illustrations, 109 in colour. BIC Classification: AC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500292112
- ISBN
- 9780500292112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.65
€ 26.99
€ 23.65
Paperback. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: AC; HPN; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157216
- ISBN
- 9780231157216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.36
€ 30.99
€ 22.36
Hardback. Comprehensive study of one of the world's great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art Num Pages: 311 pages, 43 b&w, 24 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; AFW; HRLK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292728769
- ISBN
- 9780292728769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Paperback. A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 144 pages, 35 line illustrations, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 9th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674805705
- ISBN
- 9780674805705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.68
€ 32.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Drawing upon insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, this book deals with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Num Pages: 148 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300100617
- ISBN
- 9780300100617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271033068
- ISBN
- 9780271033068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.49
€ 38.99
€ 30.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FPC; 3JF; ACQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 276 x 21. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606064740
- ISBN
- 9781606064740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.33€ 46.32
€ 59.33
€ 46.32
Paperback. An illustrated 100-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. . Num Pages: 448 pages, 269 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 275 x 203 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1654.
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500275825
- ISBN
- 9780500275825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.09
€ 46.99
€ 33.09
Hardback. This work offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the Scottish Highlands, from Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACVC; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312226541
- ISBN
- 9780312226541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.06
€ 65.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Laurence King Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780679686
- ISBN
- 9781780679686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.07
€ 23.99
€ 17.07
Hardback. Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 267 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2022.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135411
- ISBN
- 9780300135411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 54.42
€ 65.27
€ 54.42
Hardcover. Offers a collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. This title includes discoveries about artists' techniques and practices that have led to many reattributions, and the rescue from anonymity of over twenty paintings. Series: National Gallery London. Num Pages: 900 pages, 700 colour images + 175 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 227 x 76. Weight in Grams: 4810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- National Gallery London
- Edition
- Slp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857093704
- ISBN
- 9781857093704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.73€ 89.81
€ 112.73
€ 89.81
Paperback. This retrospective of Jim's skateboard art bombards the reader with colorful decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos, and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding, from the urethane revolution to the present. Take a ride with an inside view o Num Pages: 205 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1198. 205 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACB. Dimension: 304 x 225 x 17. Weight: 1196.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 205
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764328077
- ISBN
- 9780764328077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.12
€ 32.12
Paperback. 'The Sketchbook War' is not a book about art but the story of war artists, how men who had previously made a comfortable living painting in studios were transformed by military uniforms and experiences that were to shape the rest of their lives and the way in which we view war today. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 30 colour illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; ACXD; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750956154
- ISBN
- 9780750956154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.25
€ 10.25
paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; ABA; ACV; ACX; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271018270
- ISBN
- 9780271018270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.97€ 43.61
€ 50.97
€ 43.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198715825
- ISBN
- 9780198715825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.65
€ 23.99
€ 17.65
paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages, 100 Colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 299 x 9. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Merz
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789490693534
- ISBN
- 9789490693534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.65
€ 26.99
€ 23.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 330 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 78 colour illustrations, 3 maps, 10 black & white tables,. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; ACBP; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522. Weight in Grams: 1112.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999180
- ISBN
- 9780295999180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.56
€ 81.56
Hardcover. Opens readers' eyes to the wonders of Indian painting, and shows them new ways of seeing art. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500239506
- ISBN
- 9780500239506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.11
€ 46.99
€ 33.11
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137569691
- ISBN
- 9781137569691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 154.69
€ 154.69