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Paperback. Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints. This title explores the many different, often surprising, artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 color plates 129 halftones. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 252 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691009391
- ISBN
- 9780691009391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.30€ 46.67
€ 59.30
€ 46.67
Hardcover. "The Book of Kells" is a masterpiece of medieval art a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting. In this bok, illustrations feature 59 full-size reproductions of complete pages of the manuscript. Num Pages: 256 pages, 250 illustrations, 230 in colour. BIC Classification: ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 337 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500238943
- ISBN
- 9780500238943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.99€ 57.26
€ 89.99
€ 57.26
Paperback. An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It examines the relationship between the artist, the public and the curator, taking the reader into the artist's studio, and then on an international tour of museums, galleries and installations. Series: Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 64 pages, 55 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; GM; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 211 x 6. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500282168
- ISBN
- 9780500282168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Hardcover. Documents commissioned art for display on the Central Line between 2011 and 2012 which included Michael Landy's Acts of Kindness Anna Barham, Alice Channer and Bob and Roberta Smith's art on communication and exchange in the tube and the artworks produced by Hackney youth as part of A Lock is A Gate. Editor(s): Bonham-Carter, Charlotte; Coysh, Louise; Dillon, Tamsin. Num Pages: 88 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 237 x 12. Weight in Grams: 354. Art on the Underground. 88 pages, 80 illustrations. Editor(s): Bonham-Carter, Charlotte; Coysh, Louise; Dillon, Tamsin. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ABA; ACXJ. Dimension: 171 x 237 x 12. Weight: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Black Dog Publishing
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907317903
- ISBN
- 9781907317903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 6. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- S Q Publications,US United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865620100
- ISBN
- 9780865620100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. "The Victorious Youth" is one of very few surviving life-size bronzes from ancient Greece. This book discusses the statue in its ancient context of public memorials, private collectors, market-oriented workshops and long-distance transportation. A complete conservation report is included. Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art. Num Pages: 108 pages, 49 b&w illustrations, 1 colour fold-out. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ABC; ACG; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 192 x 8. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0212666
- ISBN
- 9780892364701
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages, 191 color illus., 410 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBCV; ACXJ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 305 x 45. Weight in Grams: 2304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262016902
- ISBN
- 9780262016902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.29
€ 36.99
€ 29.29
Paperback. Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics. This title emphasizes the futurist's interest in the occult, showing it to be a leitmotif for his life and a foundation for his art of noises. Num Pages: 296 pages, 29 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult. 296 pages, illustrations. Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics. This title emphasizes the futurist's interest in the occult, showing it to be a leitmotif for his life and a foundation for his art of noises. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB; AVH. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270640
- ISBN
- 9780520270640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.11
€ 41.99
€ 30.11
paperback. Editor(s): Fenlon, Jane; Kenny, Ruth; Pegum, Caroline; Rooney, Brendan. Num Pages: 276 pages, 120 colour & b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- 9781911024354
- ISBN
- 9781911024354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.15
€ 29.99
€ 22.15
Paperback. An introduction to the work of Jean Baptiste Chardin. Series: Colour Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, 48 colour and 40 b&w illustrations, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 301 x 227 x 9. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780714833361
- ISBN
- 9780714833361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.41
€ 7.41
Hardcover. Num Pages: 1016 pages, 171 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; ACQ; AFKB; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 188 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1619.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022228
- ISBN
- 9780268022228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.55
€ 81.55
Hardback. Editor(s): Sala, Teresa-M. Num Pages: 196 pages, 192. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801446573
- ISBN
- 9780801446573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51
Paperback. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Rudolph, Conrad. Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History. Num Pages: 704 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DN; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 247 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405198783
- ISBN
- 9781405198783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.53
€ 57.53
Hardcover. Featuring text in English and German, this book presents a selection from all Tesar's creative periods. It includes an essay which introduces the background to this art and its positioning, which not least raises theoretical questions about the relationship between pictorial art and architecture. Num Pages: 188 pages, 272 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 312 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565311
- ISBN
- 9783932565311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.56€ 43.10
€ 54.56
€ 43.10
Hardcover. Presents a collection of Robert Crumb sketches. This title includes over 600 unseen drawings created between 1996 and 2011. Num Pages: 1322 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 90 x 80. Weight in Grams: 9999.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taschen GmbH
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KBS0000378
- ISBN
- 9783836524797
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 1,100.99€ 908.51
€ 1,100.99
€ 908.51
Paperback. Presents an account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, this work explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. It shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Simon Rodriguez. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 364 pages, 85 color and 25 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; ACXJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 257 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716292
- ISBN
- 9780292716292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. This title explores the purposes for which this art may have been made and its relationship to Yoruba ideas about leadership, divinity, gender, and aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 150 illus., 140 in color. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 288 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1076.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945802532
- ISBN
- 9780945802532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.60
€ 42.99
€ 38.60
Hardback. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9788857232393
- ISBN
- 9788857232393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 260.94€ 191.12
€ 260.94
€ 191.12
Hardcover. A stunning look at the work of some of the world's finest lettering and typographic artists. Num Pages: 144 pages, Full-colour thorughout. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 254 x 17. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Instituto Monsa de Ediciones
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788416500321
- ISBN
- 9788416500321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.69
€ 27.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Tantra is a set of beliefs and practices that originates in India and combines eroticism, magic and metaphysics. This book provides an account of a much-misunderstood ancient mystical tradition that has long aroused spiritual and artistic curiosity in the West. Series: Art & Imagination. Num Pages: 128 pages, 186 illustrations, 37 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACBP; HRE; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500810484
- ISBN
- 9780500810484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 6.23
€ 10.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape and portraiture) as against "high" art and abstraction. This is a survey of the personalities of British painting and an assessment of its latest flowering. Series: World of Art S. Num Pages: 256 pages, 183 illustrations, 71 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; AC; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500203491
- ISBN
- 9780500203491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 6.75
€ 10.99
€ 6.75
Hardback. In a world where 'smart' objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design are nothing if not surreal. This book charts the development of this fertile relationship, revealing how these ideas are being put to use by contemporary architects in extraordinary ways. Num Pages: 256 pages, 300 illustrations, 250 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 290 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500343203
- ISBN
- 9780500343203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Hardcover. Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture, Derek Boshier made his name in the 1960s as one of the key proponents of British Pop Art, along with contemporaries David Hockney, Peter Blake and Pauline Boty. This book traces Boshier's formidable career. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 295 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500093887
- ISBN
- 9780500093887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.99
€ 35.99
€ 29.99
Paperback. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. This title surveys developments in digital art from its appearance from 1980s onwards, and looks at what that future may hold. It investigates the emergence and impact of mobile and locative (site-specific) media, social networks and the next generation of virtual worlds. Series: World of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 323 illustrations, 253 in colour. BIC Classification: ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500203989
- ISBN
- 9780500203989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 6.75
€ 11.99
€ 6.75