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Hardback. Examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, this title investigates the ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. It brings to life the courts of two global powers that affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam and South Asia. Series Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 456 pages, 45 black-and-white photographs and 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 1QDAR; ACG; ACK; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 906.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257276
ISBN
9780520257276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.15
€ 64.45

Paperback. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, as well as a metaphor that encompasses issues of the body, territory, geopolitics, ecology, trade and the hosting of data. This book addresses the theme of the exhibition: notions of hospitality. Editor(s): Tallant, Sally; Domela, Paul. Num Pages: 320 pages, 243 colour and 65 black and white. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Art / Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908970039
ISBN
9781908970039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.56

Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; ACX; AMKH; BGF; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500518663
ISBN
9780500518663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.04

Paperback. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on medieval textiles and illustrated with many lovely colour reproductions, The Unicorn Tapestries traces the origins of the tapestries as well as possible interpretations of their symbolic meaning. This is an essential book for any lover of medieval art and textiles. Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 128 pages, 14 b&w illustrations, 77 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ACND; AGC; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 304 x 229 x 10. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300106305
ISBN
9780300106305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Janovy, Karen O. Num Pages: 80 pages, 39 color Illus., 2 b/w Illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 228 x 8. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publisher
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780977802876
ISBN
9780977802876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568365206
ISBN
9781568365206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.10

Hardback. Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. This book focuses on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a different interpretation of the artist's life and work. Series: Clark Art Institute. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 b&w illustrations, 225 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AFF; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 230 x 42. Weight in Grams: 2138.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300118629
ISBN
9780300118629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.29

Hardback. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that 'home' is a stable site of belonging. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649828
ISBN
9781442649828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.44

Hardback. Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, this book focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967. Editor(s): Dawsey, Jill. Num Pages: 240 pages, 190 color photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 275 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1318.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520290594
ISBN
9780520290594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.34

Hardcover. A Site management Handbook. The only detailed archaeological site management plan from the Arab world, with wider application to sites worldwide. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; ACG; AJC; AMX; HBLA; HD; KNS; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774166082
ISBN
9789774166082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.75

Paperback. Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. This title discusses the distinctly economic character of early modern subjectivity and how this, too, is implicated in our own modern modes of historical understanding. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; ACND; AGB; CFD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325475
ISBN
9780822325475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Hervol, Anke; Odenthal, Johannes; Herzogenrath, Wulf. Num Pages: 336 pages, 64 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Germany
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9783863357627
ISBN
9783863357627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Hardcover. Concentrating on the use of illustration in Victorian literature - especially novels, poems and children's books - the essays collected in this text address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. Topics include the century's best-known illustrators and the use of words as images. Editor(s): Maxwell, Richard. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 125 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; AKLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920979
ISBN
9780813920979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.64

Paperback. "The Victorious Youth" is one of very few surviving life-size bronzes from ancient Greece. This book discusses the statue in its ancient context of public memorials, private collectors, market-oriented workshops and long-distance transportation. A complete conservation report is included. Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art. Num Pages: 108 pages, 49 b&w illustrations, 1 colour fold-out. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ABC; ACG; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 192 x 8. Weight in Grams: 331.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0212665
ISBN
9780892364701
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. "The Victorious Youth" is one of very few surviving life-size bronzes from ancient Greece. This book discusses the statue in its ancient context of public memorials, private collectors, market-oriented workshops and long-distance transportation. A complete conservation report is included. Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art. Num Pages: 108 pages, 49 b&w illustrations, 1 colour fold-out. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ABC; ACG; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 192 x 8. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0212666
ISBN
9780892364701
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardcover. The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Num Pages: 390 pages, 239ill.261col.ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 222 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892367221
ISBN
9780892367221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.89
€ 72.29

Hardback. A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 180 pages, 400 color + 70 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; ACVT; AFC; AGB; GBGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 201 x 20. Weight in Grams: 704.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300222845
ISBN
9780300222845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.47

Paperback. Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. Num Pages: 306 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; ABA; ACX; AKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226165028
ISBN
9780226165028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.40

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Golgonooza Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780903880756
ISBN
9780903880756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.66

Hardcover. This text is an account of the changing roles of images in German medieval monasticism from the 12th-century to the Reformation. The author explores the interrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the "cura monialium", the pastoral care of nuns. Num Pages: 580 pages, 246 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACK; AGR; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 282 x 190 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
580
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299458
ISBN
9780942299458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.34
€ 42.00

paperback. In The Visual Poetics of Power, Nassos Papalexandrou illuminates the early history of the tripod cauldron, the most sacred symbol of the Greeks. He also explores the performative dimensions of the figurative arts in the preliterate contexts of early Greek sanctuaries. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780739107348
ISBN
9780739107348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.87

Hardcover. A dynamic and far-reaching dialogue with one of Europe's most influential contemporary artists about his vision of unifying art and everyday life. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 184 x 28. Weight in Grams: 954.
Publisher
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847843879
ISBN
9780847843879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.17

Paperback. Iconoclastic study of the meanings of art in which the author designs a new set of categories for the artistic process and views artists and their work from a unique point of view. Translator(s): Gilbert, Stuart. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 664 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 852.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
661
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018218
ISBN
9780691018218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.34
€ 42.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AGR; AMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271050614
ISBN
9780271050614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.98
€ 90.52

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