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History of art / art & design styles

Paperback. Examines many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques. This unabridged compact edition of a critically acclaimed book, features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat's work. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: ACXJ8; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publisher
Merrell Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781858945194
ISBN
9781858945194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.23

Hardcover. From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF; AFJG; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 266 x 14. Weight in Grams: 584.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836559799
ISBN
9783836559799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.03

Hardcover. Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. Editor(s): Buchhart, Dieter. Num Pages: 240 pages, 280 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 255 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1750.
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847845828
ISBN
9780847845828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.72
€ 39.06

Hardcover. Offers a generational perspective on the 20th century's most influential experiment in artistic education. This book brings together works in a broad range of mediums, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and costume design, and painting and sculpture. Editor(s): Bergdoll, Barry; Dickerman, Leah. Num Pages: 344 pages, 510 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; ACXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 251 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2422.
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870707582
ISBN
9780870707582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62
€ 55.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, 10 colour plates. BIC Classification: AC; AK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 205 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816687244
ISBN
9780816687244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Num Pages: 304 pages, 231 illustrations, 109 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXD; AMX; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 135. .
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791382531
ISBN
9783791382531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.31

Hardcover. This book tells the story of Great Bardfield and its artists, and their famous 'open house' exhibitions, showing how the village and neighbouring landscape nurtured a distinctive style of art, design and illustration from the 1930s to the 1970s and beyond. Editor(s): Yorke, Malcolm; Saunders, Gill. Num Pages: 208 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; 3JJ; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 287 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1312.
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851778522
ISBN
9781851778522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.21

Paperback. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. This study of the movement as a whole offers an account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists. Num Pages: 250 pages, 43 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 957.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Softcover Printing
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520068421
ISBN
9780520068421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. The beach hut is an integral part of the British seaside, and is no less popular now than it has ever been. This is the story of these quirky buildings. Num Pages: 64 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; ACX; AMK; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445665740
ISBN
9781445665740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.47

Paperback. This is the first major book on the more than 20-year history of Beaconsfield, an important artists association in Canada founded by two trained painters David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin. Their story of curatorial innovation and experimentation over the years will inspire any burgeoning artist or curator. Num Pages: 144 pages, 75 colour and b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908966575
ISBN
9781908966575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.27

Hardcover. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) poet, painter, novelist, explorer, mountaineer, chess master, classical scholar and drug addict was the founder of a religion called thelema, which, he claimed, had superceded Christianity. Num Pages: 618 pages, 12ill.(2col.). BIC Classification: ACX; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pindar Press
Number of pages
618
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899828210
ISBN
9781899828210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.97

Hardback. Art meets science in Ramon y Cajal's remarkable drawings of the brain Num Pages: 208 pages, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFF; AGB; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 287 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1334.
Publisher
Abrams
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781419722271
ISBN
9781419722271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.14

Paperback. What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? This title explores these questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. It charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, numerous colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192801609
ISBN
9780192801609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.37

Hardcover. A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACK; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230007154
ISBN
9780230007154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. The Australian Aboriginal art is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past. This title provides an analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ACBK; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845206574
ISBN
9781845206574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696987
ISBN
9780816696987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This book focuses on the wealthy elite of that immigrant population. Num Pages: 256 pages, 140 black-&-white illustrations & 60 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DST; ABQ; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300148817
ISBN
9780300148817
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.65
€ 51.34

Hardcover. Num Pages: 76 pages, 69 Colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847839247
ISBN
9780847839247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.96

Paperback. Features the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s. This exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section as well as information of performance-based actions and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists. Editor(s): Noorthoorn, Victoria. Series: David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies, Art Catalogs. Num Pages: 150 pages, 50 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; ACX; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879128347
ISBN
9781879128347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.82

Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, 166 colour photos. BIC Classification: 3JMG; ACXJ; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 310 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2346.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764347474
ISBN
9780764347474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.42
€ 50.64

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