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History of art / art & design styles
Hardback. A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century Series: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Num Pages: 352 pages, 177 colour images + 37 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; ACV; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 321 x 263 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2584.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300187335
- ISBN
- 9780300187335
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Condition: New
€ 50.37€ 43.37
€ 50.37
€ 43.37
Hardback. The story of a bittersweet, impromptu art exhibition for President and Mrs. Kennedy Num Pages: 112 pages, 120 colour + b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJPK; ACB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300187564
- ISBN
- 9780300187564
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€ 25.99€ 19.55
€ 25.99
€ 19.55
Paperback. Offers a series of case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, this volume comprises twelve illustrated essays from leading academics and museum specialists. Editor(s): MacDonald, Heather. Series: Dallas Museum of Art Publications. Num Pages: 176 pages, 150 color illus. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300187571
- ISBN
- 9780300187571
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
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Hardback. Published in celebration of the Renwick Gallery's fortieth anniversary, this title highlights forty artists (all under the age of forty) actively engaged in creating objects that are transforming contemporary crafts. It also investigates evolving notions of craft within traditional media such as ceramics and metalwork. Series: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Num Pages: 256 pages, 220 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AFT; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1737.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300187977
- ISBN
- 9780300187977
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.93
€ 46.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. Well-written and eminently accessible, this book explores and celebrates the Upper Palaeolithic art of the Dordogne, admirably conveying the author's enthusiasm for her subject. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 b/w + 8 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACBK; ACC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300188028
- ISBN
- 9780300188028
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Hardback. An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 colour + 136 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACXJ; AGB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300188431
- ISBN
- 9780300188431
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Condition: New
€ 68.15€ 53.16
€ 68.15
€ 53.16
Paperback. Alice Aycock emerged onto New York art scene in 1970s and is known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness and to science and cosmology. This book explores her drawings, which include elements of mirage, and science, and evoke both abstract thinking and bodily sensation. Series: Parrish Museum of Art. Num Pages: 160 pages, 102 colour images + 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 251 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191103
- ISBN
- 9780300191103
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
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Hardback. Showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries. This title features works in a variety of media and from far-flung places, including paintings, silver, and furniture from South America and sculptures in ivory from the Spanish Philippines and from Portuguese territories in India. Editor(s): Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L. Series: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Num Pages: 225 pages, 198 colour images + 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 3JD; 3JF; ACBS; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 313 x 262 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1718.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191769
- ISBN
- 9780300191769
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Condition: New
€ 65.19€ 50.63
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Paperback. Explores three performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater"; "loft performance"; and "new psychodrama". By tracing the paths of such artists as Stuart Sherman, Julia Heyward, Jared Bark and Jill Kroesen, this title makes visible a critical period in the development of performance art. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 176 pages, 140 colour images + 30 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300195866
- ISBN
- 9780300195866
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.56
€ 26.99
€ 20.56
Hardback. Explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In this text, the author considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur's fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 55 colour images + 101 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; ACQ; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 262 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300196351
- ISBN
- 9780300196351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Hardback. In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. This book explores the responses of key artists of the period to Boydell's venture. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 colour images + 95 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1180.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300196689
- ISBN
- 9780300196689
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Condition: New
€ 53.34€ 42.00
€ 53.34
€ 42.00
Hardback. Thomas Sully (1783-1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. This title demonstrates how the artist interpreted the nature of painting as performance, manifested in his dazzling productions. Series: Milwaukee Art Museum. Num Pages: 192 pages, 160 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197419
- ISBN
- 9780300197419
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
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Hardback. Features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 245 colour images + black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; ACV; ACXD; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 256 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197433
- ISBN
- 9780300197433
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Condition: New
€ 53.34€ 42.00
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Hardback. In 1957-58, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". This title features Cleas Oldenburg's eighteen collages that were first shown in their entirety at the Menil Collection in 2012. Series: Menil Collection. Num Pages: 56 pages, 18 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFJD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 342 x 273 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197853
- ISBN
- 9780300197853
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Focusing on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), this book considers: the aesthetic autonomy of works of art, the gender of the subject, and the efficacy of marble as an imitative medium. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 colour images + 30 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197891
- ISBN
- 9780300197891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.37€ 39.85
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€ 39.85
Hardback. Rembrandt van Rjin (1606-1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. This study explores some of the central themes of Rembrandt's paintings, drawings and etchings: grand - love, sin, repentance and forgiveness, adultery, fatherhood, and the conflict between the generations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 colour images + 170 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300201536
- ISBN
- 9780300201536
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.91
€ 36.99
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Hardback. Describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony - a work by late 19th-century Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) that is composed of fifty-one sheets of paper collaged into a hallucinatory social critique and artist's manifesto. Series: Art Institute of Chicago. Num Pages: 144 pages, 98 colour illustrations, with foldout. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 291 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1258.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Har/Pstr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300203912
- ISBN
- 9780300203912
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.49
€ 26.99
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Hardback. The first survey of more than fifty years of drawing by a legendary sculptor and draftswoman Series: Menil Collection. Num Pages: 120 pages, 82 colour images + 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 287 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1052.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300204131
- ISBN
- 9780300204131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
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€ 33.72
Hardback. Exploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 420 pages, 100 color + 300 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 284 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2130.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300204346
- ISBN
- 9780300204346
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Condition: New
€ 59.26€ 50.00
€ 59.26
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Hardback. The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of World War I. Beginning with the Trojan War and weaving a cross-cultural narrative that ends in the 21st-century Middle East, this title explores how cultural treasures often became silent victims of armed conflict. Editor(s): Tollebeek, Jo; Van Assche, Eline. Series: Mercatorfonds. Num Pages: 352 pages, 230 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AMX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 286 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300204476
- ISBN
- 9780300204476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.19€ 50.63
€ 65.19
€ 50.63