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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Paperback. Holds up a mirror to our society while charting the story of art in contemporary global culture. This book approaches art from various angles, such as artistic production, display, critical reception and its relationship to society. It builds a framework for students to acquire the general skills of research, and abstract and theoretical thinking. Num Pages: 336 pages, 300 illustrations, 175 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 222 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1826.
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780672809
ISBN
9781780672809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.19
€ 50.33

Hardcover. The most comprehensive overview of the art of Bruce Nauman. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 309 x 245 x 39. Weight in Grams: 2100.
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714849959
ISBN
9780714849959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.89
€ 66.50

Num Pages: 176 pages, 116 colour illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 310 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1532.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764349140
ISBN
9780764349140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.51
€ 39.38

Paperback. .
Publisher
GlobalArt Affairs
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780974514871
ISBN
9780974514871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.76

Paperback. Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is widely regarded as the outstanding English landscape painter of the 20th century. Immediately recognisable by its daring yet subtle use of colour and brushmark to evoke the spirit of place, his work is to be found in public and private collections throughout the world. Newly available in paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Includes 110 colour and 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 275 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848221499
ISBN
9781848221499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.23

Hardback. A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas Editor(s): Brownlee, Peter John; Piccoli, Valeria; Uhlyarik, Georgiana. Num Pages: 280 pages, 260 color illus. BIC Classification: 1K; ACV; ACXD; AFC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 290 x 319. Weight in Grams: 1604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300211504
ISBN
9780300211504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.26
€ 42.55

Paperback. A substantial contribution to American art history. Six writers on art and popular culture survey the western art in the twenty-first century, tracing its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. Their observations support an emerging history of western art that places it in a social, psychological, and political context. Series: Western Passages S. Num Pages: 80 pages, 90 color illus. BIC Classification: ACX; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Denver Art Museum United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914738558
ISBN
9780914738558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.55

Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Dis Voir France
Condition
New
SKU
V9782906571822
ISBN
9782906571822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.84

Paperback. Explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. This title traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: AB; ACV; ACXD2; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 38. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099441960
ISBN
9780099441960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.22

Hardcover. Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPK; ACXJ; AFKP; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137017376
ISBN
9781137017376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.14

Hardcover. Now updated and available in a new price and format, this is the most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig. Num Pages: 432 pages, 400 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 282 x 42. Weight in Grams: 2452.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised, Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847849796
ISBN
9780847849796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.98

Paperback. An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America. Num Pages: 752 pages, 166 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; ACX; AV; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0006766
ISBN
9780500281512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 261 x 11. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408178577
ISBN
9781408178577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 21.76

Paperback. .
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
SKU
V9780789200365
ISBN
9780789200365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.51

Paperback. Editor(s): Carlaftes, Peter; Georges, Kat. Series: Maintenant. Num Pages: 176 pages, 50 color images. BIC Classification: ACX; DCQ; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 244 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941110447
ISBN
9781941110447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.00

Hardcover. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Num Pages: 358 pages, 500 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 310 x 289 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2708.
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
358
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565021
ISBN
9783932565021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.08
€ 45.45

Hardcover. Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. As well as being known as a painter, Blake is renowned for his works on paper and as a leading exponent of collage. This work displays the strong graphic sensibility and the love of popular culture for which the artist has long been renowned. Num Pages: 64 pages, 56 colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 179 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854378163
ISBN
9781854378163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.91

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Lee, Joe. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
For Beginners United States
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934389003
ISBN
9781934389003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.96

hardcover. Editor(s): Weibel, Peter. Num Pages: 500 pages, 500 figures. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
500
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262029667
ISBN
9780262029667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.93
€ 60.87

hardcover. Showcases the author' images of Charlottesville, Virginia - many of them multipanel compositions featuring the University of Virginia and its environs - accompanied by an essay and interview by his wife, the writer Ann Beattie. This book gives us a view of Charlottesville, of place and artistic production. Num Pages: 112 pages, 160 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 241 x 14. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925035
ISBN
9780813925035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.25

Paperback. Shows that any of us can appreciate art. Based on his hugely popular BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this title presents the author's personal journey through the art world that answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but seem too embarrassing to ask. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 181 x 111. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141979618
ISBN
9780141979618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. "This extremely informative guide should prove useful even to those well acquainted with the University of Virginia campus. Other visitors to Charlottesville can rely upon it to guide them on a thoughtful inspection of Jefferson's last great architectural work." -- "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AM; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813911090
ISBN
9780813911090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.05

Hardback. Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. This title shows how artists and critics in Brazil and Japan brought modern painting to a point of crisis that paved the way for the radical experiments of the 1960s generation. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 b/w scattered, 24 color on 16 page insert. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282438
ISBN
9780520282438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.19
€ 50.63

Paperback. Czech action art emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This title explains the various forms of action art, from the actions and happenings of the 1960s; to the actions of land art; to the actions of a new generation of artists, who are using the principles of action art in contemporary postconceptual and participative art. Translator(s): Morgan, Daniel. Num Pages: 200 pages, 200 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 3JJP; ACXJ5; AFKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024623177
ISBN
9788024623177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.09

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