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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Num Pages: 144 pages, 200 color & b/w photos. BIC Classification: ACVY; ACXD3; AFK; WFA; WFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 980.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887409943
ISBN
9780887409943
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 30.50

Hardcover. Showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. With artists' biographies and details of manufacturers, a full glossary and a thematic index, this volume is suitable for all those interested in the Art Deco style. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 321 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2754.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500239483
ISBN
9780500239483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.89
€ 71.43

Num Pages: 2 pages, 475 color photos. BIC Classification: ACXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1600.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
2
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764321788
ISBN
9780764321788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.51
€ 39.25

hardcover. Beginning with a fresh and thoughtful introduction to the Art Deco movement and its influences on fashion, Art Deco Fashion: Masterpieces of Art showcases these luxurious and progressive works in all their glory. Series: Masterpieces of Art. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AKL; AKTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Flame Tree Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9781783612918
ISBN
9781783612918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 5.12

Hardcover. Offers an account of the decorative arts of the Art Deco period. This book celebrates the styles rich variety of form and its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite of modern collectors and designers. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1000 colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACXD3; AG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 316 x 248 x 50. Weight in Grams: 3608.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500238554
ISBN
9780500238554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.12
€ 58.24

Paperback. More than 700 streamlined, Art Deco chrome wares presented in 600 photos and illustrations, including table decorations, drinking and buffet items, smoking articles, and lamps, all products of firms such as Chase, Manning-Bowman, Kensington, and Revere. Histories of the firms and their industrial designers appear with patent and design information. Num Pages: 192 pages, 484 color & 117 b/w photos. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764307447
ISBN
9780764307447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 332 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1924.
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791382418
ISBN
9783791382418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, 110 colour and b&w photographs and still films. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 187 x 23. Weight in Grams: 706.
Publisher
21 Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901785081
ISBN
9781901785081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.69

Hardback. Art is expanding into urban development and the design and tourism industries. Art practices based on objects are displaced by practices based on contexts. Aesthetic distinctions dissolve as artworks are inserted into the media, urban spaces, digital networks, and social forums. This book deals with this topic. Translator(s): Frye, David. Num Pages: 240 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356097
ISBN
9780822356097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

hardcover. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Back in Print
SKU
V9781442647923
ISBN
9781442647923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.47

Paperback. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442616042
ISBN
9781442616042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 83 b&w photos, 8 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; ACXJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 182 x 255 x 24. Weight in Grams: 790.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816650026
ISBN
9780816650026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. Covering the period from the late 1940s to 1990s , Walker provides a detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised. Num Pages: 288 pages, 51 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACX; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745313542
ISBN
9780745313542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Talks about the work of 20th-century artists, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Here, the author argues that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating. Series: Art and Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845112356
ISBN
9781845112356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.97

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, over 100 photographs, full-colour silkscreened edges. BIC Classification: ACX; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 294 x 339 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2174.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781452138695
ISBN
9781452138695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.04

Hardcover. Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, this book traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 48 bw integrated, 32 colour in 2x8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACXD2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Sew
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784531096
ISBN
9781784531096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.66

Hardback. Focuses on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership. This book argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Editor(s): Shengtian, Zheng. Series: Asia Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 black & white illustrations + 150 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1919.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300140644
ISBN
9780300140644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.97
€ 67.69

Hardback. Catalogue of an exhibition held October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016 at the Tacoma Art Museum; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Ga.: February 20-May 22, 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: June 23-September 11, 2016. Num Pages: 288 pages, 200 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6782 x 5334 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295994949
ISBN
9780295994949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.70

Paperback. Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s. Editor(s): Alberro, Alexander; Buchmann, Sabeth. Num Pages: 240 pages, 55 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ5. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262511957
ISBN
9780262511957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.34
€ 41.47

Paperback. Offers an overview of the art being made at the scientific research. This title shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technological advances. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1130.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500289952
ISBN
9780500289952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.13

Paperback. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, this title approaches the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. It includes essays which engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalisation, cultural difference and curating. Editor(s): Edwards, Steve; Wood, Paul. Num Pages: 416 pages, 255 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1272.
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849760973
ISBN
9781849760973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.21

Hardback. Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of conceptual art collective Art & Language to show how its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics between 1969 and 1977 laid the foundation for global contemporary art, all while highlighting how conceptual art exceeds the visual to impact the philosophical and political. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361497
ISBN
9780822361497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Paperback. Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of conceptual art collective Art & Language to show how its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics between 1969 and 1977 laid the foundation for global contemporary art, all while highlighting how conceptual art exceeds the visual to impact the philosophical and political. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361688
ISBN
9780822361688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardcover. Published to accompany the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this book examines the work of the celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reveron. Num Pages: 240 pages, 205 illustrations, 164 in colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 259 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870707117
ISBN
9780870707117
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.36

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