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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Hardcover. Illuminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 296 pages, 41 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ACX; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630302
ISBN
9780815630302
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.27

Hardcover. Captures the artist, Grisha Bruskin's experiences as a Jew in Russia, the reality of life in an empire permeated by ideology, and the centrality of family. This book features photographs which create a distinct dialogue between word and image. Translator(s): Nakhimovsky, Alice Stone. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 376 pages, 46 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609018
ISBN
9780815609018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.91

Hardcover. Provides insights into our American psyche. This book shows that an artist's personal imagery can eclipse the graphic potency of a camera in telling a human story. Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 colour & 70 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ACX; AGB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608714
ISBN
9780815608714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.82

hardcover. Editor(s): Craig, Patsy. Num Pages: 528 pages, colour and b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACXJ; AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 191 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Trolley Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Edition
illustrated edition
SKU
V9781904563068
ISBN
9781904563068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACV; ACX; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903470831
ISBN
9781903470831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.74

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

€ 50.99
€ 45.40

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

€ 50.99
€ 49.35

Hardcover. Bak's journey was marked by memories and profound sadness and an awareness of his responsibility to express the spirits of all who were destroyed during the Holocaust. This book aims to pay tribute to the artist's return to his birthplace, to the place of his childhood; to streets of his tenuous survival during World War II. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 907.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pucker Art Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879985179
ISBN
9781879985179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.27

Hardback. At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sostnic energy. This book examines the two movements' engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell's new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and the cinema as a pneumatic machine. Num Pages: 591 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD5; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
591
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771122450
ISBN
9781771122450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.08

hardcover. Evocative works in Tonalism, Impressionism, and Naturalism that offer relief from the urban world Num Pages: 225 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACXD; AFC; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611176759
ISBN
9781611176759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.14

Paperback. Issued in connection with an exhibition held at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Editor(s): Arnold, Sara C. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 240 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611170429
ISBN
9781611170429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.53

Issued in connection with an exhibition held at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Editor(s): Arnold, Sara C. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 240 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1444.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611170412
ISBN
9781611170412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.42

Hardback. An exploration of the life and career of Charles Guernsey Tuthill, who was born in 1871 and produced some of America's finest cut glass art. It discusses the business Tuthill founded, the patterns he created, the techniques he used, and the other artisans and consumers he knew. Num Pages: 256 pages, 161 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACX; AFP; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1229.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585441488
ISBN
9781585441488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.27

Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574412895
ISBN
9781574412895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFCC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 289 x 255 x 12. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570039676
ISBN
9781570039676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.38

Paperback. For the authors discussed in Remarkable Modernisms writing about modern art not only helps to illuminate the work of the artist but also serves as a stimulus to verbal self-portraiture. By revealing as much about their own lives and works as they do about the visual objects reviewed the authors studied extend the scope of their analysis. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 323.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558497788
ISBN
9781558497788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.35

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

€ 20.99
€ 20.59

Hardcover. A study of 34 paintings by Santa Barraza, who depicts the historical, emotional and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. The work includes analyses of the forces that have shaped Barraza as a Chicana artist. Editor(s): Herrera-Sobek, Maria. Series: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 35 colour plates, 24 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; 3JJP; ACXJ; AFC; AGB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 254 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890969069
ISBN
9780890969069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

Hardcover. Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States."" This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 1940s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 130 colour & duotone reproductions. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1429.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Keith Carter
Condition
New
SKU
V9780883601037
ISBN
9780883601037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.51

Hardcover. Jim Harrison is well known for his distinctive paintings of landscapes and seascapes. Throughout his career, he has painted many rural scenes of small-town America, but he has never forgotten that it was his love for the Southern coast that launched his career. This title voices the beauty and nostalgia inherent in Harrison's visions of the coast. Num Pages: 96 pages, 46 color and 33 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 350 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1184.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872494978
ISBN
9780872494978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

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

€ 34.99
€ 34.67

Paperback. Presents examples of contemporary Cuban art drawn from the distinguished collection of Howard and Patty Farber (New York and Miami Beach). Created primarily during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, these works represent the combination of utopian impulses and dystopian realities, the ruptures and new beginnings that have characterized Cuban art. Editor(s): Delson, Susan B. Translator(s): Lizarraga, Felix. Num Pages: 160 pages, 67 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KJC; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976255253
ISBN
9780976255253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.29

Paperback. Peter Timms asks why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality? Why does the market have such power, and how does it dictate the art we are allowed to see? Why are art schools, museums and the media apparently so eager to fall in line with commercial expectations? Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868404073
ISBN
9780868404073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.30

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

€ 43.25

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