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History of art / art & design styles

Imari, Satsuma, Banko and Sumida wares, the best known of the old Japanese export ceramics, are shown here in 600 photos of variations by skilled decorators. Makers' and decorators' marks, unusual shapes, design variations, and hard-to-find examples appear with identifying captions and concise text. Num Pages: 204 pages, 600 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1446. 204 pages, 600col.ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; WCN. Dimension: 287 x 225 x 24. Weight: 1404.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764309908
ISBN
9780764309908
Condition: New

€ 54.71
€ 48.38

Paperback. More than 300 historic fabric samples from the mid-1920s and 1930s provide a visual textbook of design ideas prevalent during the Art Deco era. These were the everyday fabrics used for housedresses and curtains that is an invaluable reference for costume historians and a treasure trove of inspiration for designers. Num Pages: 112 pages, 317 color photos. BIC Classification: ACVY; ACXD3; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 576. 112 pages, 317col.ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACVY; ACXD3; WFB. Dimension: 217 x 279 x 10. Weight: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764306501
ISBN
9780764306501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.28

Hardcover. Editor(s): Marcus, Leonard S. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), photographs. BIC Classification: AC; DSB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 240 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 859.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Candlewick ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780763635060
ISBN
9780763635060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718830595
ISBN
9780718830595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.14

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718829421
ISBN
9780718829421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.48

Paperback. Explores the 19th century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. This book shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike. Num Pages: 248 pages, 17 color plates. 55 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2AB; 2ADF; ACQ; AFC; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143231
ISBN
9780691143231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Paperback. Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. This book features essays that highlight some of the research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been renowned. Editor(s): Hourihane, Colum. Series: Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ACK; AGR; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 971.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691099910
ISBN
9780691099910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.24

Paperback. Brings together thirteen critics and scholars to explore children's art and its documented influence on the evolution of modern art. This book shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art, served as central metaphors for artistic spontaneity and honesty, and provided a window into the fundamental human qualities. Editor(s): Fineberg, Jonathan. Num Pages: 296 pages, 161 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691086828
ISBN
9780691086828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.27
€ 64.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; ACX; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 989.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780522853773
ISBN
9780522853773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.17

Hardcover. This text examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, showing how both in print materials and extra-literary artifacts her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333695807
ISBN
9780333695807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.20

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

€ 67.40

Hardcover. Captures a record of Trimpin's journey and places his work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art Editor(s): Focke, Anne. Num Pages: 208 pages, 110 illus., 100 in color. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1174.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991092
ISBN
9780295991092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 40.80

Paperback. Examines the ways in which Indians and their cultures have been represented by museums and presents new directions. Num Pages: 119 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACBK; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
119
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984599
ISBN
9780295984599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.50

Paperback. This book is a companion to the catalogue for California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, an exhibition on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from October 1, 2011, through June 3, 2012. Editor(s): Tigerman, Bobbye. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 color illus., 140 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; ACXJ8; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262518383
ISBN
9780262518383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. Develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. This book presents an argument which is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573734
ISBN
9780230573734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

Hardcover. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Editor(s): Denham, Alison. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: ACG; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230314405
ISBN
9780230314405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.89

Hardcover. Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACND; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219977
ISBN
9780230219977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AC; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103207
ISBN
9780230103207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

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. Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body. Editor(s): Thompson, Barbara. Num Pages: 376 pages, 250 illus., 212 in color. BIC Classification: 1H; ACBK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 304 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987712
ISBN
9780295987712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 46.64

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