History of art / art & design styles
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History of art / art & design styles
paperback. Editor(s): Turner, Jane. Series: Grove Art S. Num Pages: 389 pages, 32pp colour plates, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- OUP USA United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 389
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195169003
- ISBN
- 9780195169003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.22
€ 86.22
Hardcover. A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century Num Pages: 368 pages, 500 color illus. BIC Classification: 1K; ACBK; AGC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 229. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300214833
- ISBN
- 9780300214833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.64
€ 92.64
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304704248
- ISBN
- 9780304704248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.98
€ 71.98
Paperback. Orientalism, the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in European thought, is a controversial and a problematic concept. This book provides a concise text on the evolution and development of the theory of orientalism, the practice of orientalism in history, and its persistence and reformulation. Series: Concepts in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index,. BIC Classification: ACV; JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Open University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780335202065
- ISBN
- 9780335202065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Paperback. A comprehensive survey discuses the genre's major subjects and issues, citing the works of such contributors as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Miguel Calder n while discussing how their achievements reflect current movements as well as the politics, society, and art of their periods. Original. Series: World of Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 178 illustrations, 45 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500203569
- ISBN
- 9780500203569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.16
€ 28.16
hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; ACXJ; AGC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KJH0000174
- ISBN
- 9780226131054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.31
€ 8.31
hardcover. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 789. Weight in Grams: 1497.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804750622
- ISBN
- 9780804750622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.18
€ 198.18
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- PRESTEL
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788434312876
- ISBN
- 9788434312876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.31
€ 76.31
hardcover. Presents a comprehensive exploration of the Proportioned Script, an Arabic writing system attributed to the Abbasid wazir (minister) Ibn Muqla and the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab that has dominated the art of Arabic and Islamic penmanship from the 10th century to the present day. Num Pages: 724 pages, 430 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; AKD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 356 x 296 x 87. Weight in Grams: 7220.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KJH0000357
- ISBN
- 9780500517666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.69
€ 22.69
Hardcover. Num Pages: 84 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 266 x 213 x 12. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574160291
- ISBN
- 9781574160291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.87
€ 20.99
€ 15.87
hardcover. An examination of Irish Gothic art from the years 1169 to 1550. It looks at what survives of Gothic art in Ireland and discusses such wide-ranging topics as the historiography of the style, its metalwork, iconography and forms. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 208 pages, 35 colour pl 170 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3H; 3JB; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 275 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300094350
- ISBN
- 9780300094350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 28.78
€ 39.99
€ 28.78
Contemporary artists discuss the avant-garde movement and how the Great War influenced art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 150 colour, 50 b&w. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 290 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1800.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Lannoo Belgium
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401437660
- ISBN
- 9789401437660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.43
€ 52.99
€ 44.43
Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1H; AC; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 639.
- Publication date
- 1910
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099600
- ISBN
- 9780802099600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
hardcover. Through a balanced reading of the historical period and James' artistic production, Ronald W. Hawker argues that James' shift to contemporary art forms allowed the artist to make a critical statement about the vitality of Kwakwaka'wakw culture Num Pages: 264 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; AGB; BGF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781442649408
- ISBN
- 9781442649408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.80
€ 89.80
Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face-book and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. The author shows us the very meaning of the arts in the process of transformation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226772196
- ISBN
- 9780226772196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.86
€ 36.99
€ 29.86
Series: College Art Association Monograph. Num Pages: 176 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC; AGB; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 286 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271009445
- ISBN
- 9780271009445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.11€ 132.79
€ 160.11
€ 132.79
The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent, and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Num Pages: 530 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2ADL; 2AHA; AC; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 30. Weight in Grams: 988.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155496
- ISBN
- 9781405155496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.61
€ 135.61
Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. This title explores our collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes our individual and national identity, and why we make portraits and more. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGHF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1318.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688924
- ISBN
- 9781611688924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.30
€ 54.99
€ 43.30
Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 colour/25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACQB; AFC; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 265 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271029634
- ISBN
- 9780271029634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.56€ 70.97
€ 83.56
€ 70.97
An interdisciplinary collection exploring how creative practices broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, and performance art, continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. Editor(s): Biron, Rebecca. Num Pages: 288 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; ACX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822344551
- ISBN
- 9780822344551
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.62€ 111.23
€ 136.62
€ 111.23