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History of art / art & design styles

A survey of the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a large collection of pictorial works. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 colour & 148 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; ACQ; ACV; ACX; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815606635
ISBN
9780815606635
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 46.13

paperback. Reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts and political compromises which made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history. Num Pages: 464 pages, col. Illustrations, maps, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099546443
ISBN
9780099546443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 11.29

Hardcover. Aims to convey the relevance of the paintings of the old Flemish master Pieter Bruegel, ""The Elder"" (1520/5-1590) for modern audiences. This work guides the reader through the scenes depicted in these remarkable works of art, including the social context in which they were painted, and how they relate to our lives. Num Pages: 174 pages, 30 colour illustrations containing 37 Bruegel plates. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Chaucer Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781884092121
ISBN
9781884092121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.83

Hardcover. An examination of Samuel Bak's collection of paintings. It describes Bak's art that preserves memory of the twentieth-century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces the creativity of the human spirit. Num Pages: 100 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; AGB; HBTZ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 13. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879985216
ISBN
9781879985216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 43.06

Hardcover. The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Editor(s): Fewell, Danna Nolan; Phillips, Gary A.; Sherwood, Yvonne M. Num Pages: 220 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1111.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pucker Art Publications
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879985186
ISBN
9781879985186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 46.38

Paperback. Documents the work of twelve contemporary sculptors from Texas. This book includes essays that examine formal, conceptual, cultural, and social issues from American and international perspectives. Num Pages: 48 pages, 28 4-colour photos. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Art Galleries at TCU United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9780980161700
ISBN
9780980161700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.45

Hardcover. Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JM; AB; ACXJ; AV; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815634089
ISBN
9780815634089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.84

Hardcover. At a time when nationalism was taking root across Europe and the US, the painted riverscape played an important role in transforming the abstract idea of the nation into a potent visual image. This book explores the significance of painted riverscapes for the creation of national identities in 19th- and early 20th-century Europe and America. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AC; RG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632115
ISBN
9780815632115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.43

Paperback. This monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements. Num Pages: 146 pages, Extensively illustrated with 56 plates, 3 in colour. BIC Classification: ACG; AGR; HD; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 297 x 12. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784910815
ISBN
9781784910815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.69

Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469626369
ISBN
9781469626369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.06

Paperback. Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet - as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African American writer and visual artist. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 black & white images and 17 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ACXJ8; AFC; AGB; BGF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349824
ISBN
9780820349824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.65

Hardcover. "Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016." Num Pages: 128 pages, 88 colour images. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 279 x 15. Weight in Grams: 907.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820348872
ISBN
9780820348872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.84

Paperback. Presenting stunning reproductions of oil paintings by landscape artist Philip Juras, this exhibition catalogue offers a glimpse of the presettlement southern wilderness as late eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram would have experienced it during his famed travels through the region. Illustrator(s): Juras, Philip. Num Pages: 128 pages, maps. BIC Classification: AC; AGB; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 277 x 8. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820347974
ISBN
9780820347974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, colour plates. BIC Classification: ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820347462
ISBN
9780820347462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.64

Paperback. Why did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a white woman? Where did the image of the enchained kneeling slave, ubiquitous in abolitionist visual culture on both sides of the Atlantic, come from? This book attempts to answer these questions. Series: Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900. Num Pages: 516 pages, 24 colour & 147 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820334271
ISBN
9780820334271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.88

Hardcover. This title showcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction. Editor(s): Al-Ali, Nadje; Al-Najjar, Deborah. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633013
ISBN
9780815633013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.96

Hardcover. Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work. Editor(s): Feinstein, Stephen C. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, 69 photographs, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: ACX; AG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630838
ISBN
9780815630838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.65

paperback. Illustrator(s): Pong, Elodie. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
PATRICK FREY Switzerland
Condition
New
SKU
V9783906803012
ISBN
9783906803012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.85

hardcover. The initial section here covers the monuments of the important Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene, and includes Edessa (Urfa), the capital of a Crusader state, where there are also significant Islamic buildings. Num Pages: 536 pages, 120 pls, 48 maps & plans. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132523
ISBN
9780907132523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 331.75

hardcover. In this third volume the regions covered are to the south and east of the Taurus range, beginning with the Upper and Lower Euphrates, which includes the Byzantine and Turkish buildings of Harput, Malatya and the Keban region, where there are also a number of churches and monastic sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, 152 pls, 34 maps & plans. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132349
ISBN
9780907132349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 332.44

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