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| Traces the evolution of artistic development period by period, with the illustrated, in-depth text covering every genre of art, from painting and scul |
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| The 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. New artists have been incorpor |
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| Traces the evolution of artistic development period by period, with the illustrated, in-depth text covering every genre of art, from painting and scul |
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| Unique in its approach, by applying the different theories used in art history to one painting, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon An ideal text for |
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| An illustrated guide to modern and contemporary art sites outside the confines of museums and galleries. It profiles more than 200 of the most importa |
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| Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. This title includes poems that ce |
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| Closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, alte |
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| An introduction to Andean art and architecture that describes the varied artistic achievements of the Chavin, Paracas, Moche, Nasca, Chimu and Inca cu |
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| This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour p |
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| This is an updated and newly revised edition of the classic book The Art of Photography (originally published in 1994), which has often been described |
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| Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence. |
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| Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. This title describes how art and architecture are being tra |
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| Introduces the homes that people fell in love with in the 1930s, and the fixtures and fittings that went in them. This book features illustrations and |
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| A two-sided photographic tour of the world of modern American burlesque and fetish includes in the first part a cultural history of burlesque compleme |
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| A comprehensive guide to the buildings of Cheshire in their variety, from Pennine villages to coastal plains and seaside resorts. |
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| Catalog of an exhibition held at Trout Gallery. |
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| A profusion of black-and-white timber-framed houses testifies to the prosperity of earlier centuries, as do the many and varied parish churches. In th |
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| Sets out the author's ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. |
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| A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day's most pressing questions about representations of violence in art. |
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| This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. |
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| Comprehensively illustrated with many images in colour and supported by an extensive bibliography, this clear and concise text should enable all those |
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| This provocative book brings back to life forty wonders of the art world that will never be seen. |
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| In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopaedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, "De ar |
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| A guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world. It helps you to bring a gallery of more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings |
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| In Cross Country photographer and author Peter Ashley unleashes his passion for Blightly. He takes us on an enlightening jaunt that encompasses Englan |
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| The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here for the first time. |
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| Takes you on your own personal gallery tour of over 60 of the world's best-loved paintings. From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and |
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| How books of church drawings marketed taste and status alongside social change |
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| How books of church drawings marketed taste and status alongside social change |
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| The Art of Taxidermy is a contemporary look at an historical and controversial subject - a sumptuous photographic led exploration of the genre's histo |
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| For the past 500 years Britain, and British art, have been shaped by successive waves of migration. Including artist interviews, texts by leading cura |
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| Features one hundred of the most important and influential architect-designed houses from around the world. This book presents an array of buildings o |
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| Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence. |
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| Brings together essays about architecture written since the Renaissance. From Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, this title gathers to |
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| An illustrated celebration of the work of the Turenscape Landscape Architects and the new environmental ethic in Chinese architecture. |
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| An explanation of how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the |
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| Hull is one of the great historic trading centres of northeast England. Severely hit by industrial decline, it has recently begun to see substantial r |
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| Illustrated gift book giving the history behind some of Britain's best-loved follies and garden buildings. |
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| The Pictish School of Celtic art from pagan symbols to monumental sculptures, thoroughly covered and illustrated. |
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| Elkins's intimate history of art demonstrates persuasively that there can never be one story of art. The story of art is the story of different cultur |
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| Discusses the art's importance in viewing the world in which we live. This title looks at the relationship between art and social reality, arguing tha |
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| What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? This book considers such questions. It discusses dancing bronze figures |
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| Celebrates established icons, newly discovered gems and contemporary masterworks that represent the highest expression of Scandinavian design and resp |
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| Responsible for the creation of Regent Street, Regent's Park, the Brighton Pavilion and Buckingham Palace, John Nash is universally recognised as one |
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| A new, expanded edition of the first western study of the renowned Russian 19th century landscapes painter Issak Levitan. |
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| The classic international bestseller -- a marvellously exciting and stimulating look at the emergence and development of Western civilisation |
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| Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be |
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| An introduction to the life and work of Canaletto, which includes some of his most celebrated and admired views of Venice and London. Other work by th |
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| With snatched shots of children cheekily mugging to the camera, pictures of the more grandiose members of society at the local hunt, photos of the ble |
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| Since its introduction nearly 200 years ago, photography has become part of everyday life. Outlining the history of photography and explaining the bod |
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| Dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm. |
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| From the 40000-years-old painted caves at Lascaux and the medieval cloth trade to the synthetic chemistry of modern times, colour making has been cent |
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| On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay |
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| Featuring 100 of the contemporary artists, this title also includes color images which illustrate their works. |
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| Deals with Prada, one of the world's most influential fashion houses over the years. This title features thousands of images documenting years of fash |
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| Featuring the work of American and European artists, this book traces the history of conceptual art from its origins in the Dada movement through to i |
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| Suitable for scholars, students, collectors with an interest in Asian art and artists, this title offers a comprehensive study of modern Chinese art h |
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| An art-historical exploration of how digital art has developed in the post-war era. It examines art, technology, science and culture as fundamentally |
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| Vital new finds at the heart of the Aztec capital are still astounding students of Mexico, even as the meaning of works from the Early Colonial period |
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| Surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the millennium. This title explains how a medium on |
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| Pop art is one of the most recognisable, and recent artistic movements in art history. Pop Art explores the most important works and artists of this e |
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| Presents a collection of antiquities from medieval Europe. This title features 150 important objects, including the most famous such as the Lewis ches |
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| The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 4001100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every |
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| A compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning |
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| Discusses the role of the workshop in the creation of African art |
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| Through the use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts, this volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hi |
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| * Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars* Includes new research data and color plates with imagery |
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| Engages the reader in the heady world of the 1920s and 1930s when Art Deco style was all the rage. Covering architecture, jewellery, textiles, fine ar |
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| Pop Art was one of the most revolutionary art movements of the 20th century. This book examines the formation and growth of the movement with selected |
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| A compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning |
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| A rare reference that encapsulates the masterpieces of Indian Art over 5000 years - collected from museums, galleries and private collections worldwid |
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| This story of modern art unfolds like a timeline of watershed events that decisively influenced popular opinion and paved the way for further artistic |
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| Helps readers trace the development of Greek art in the immensely creative period from the eighth to the fourth century BC - the period between the co |
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| Discusses the role of the workshop in the creation of African art |
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| An book which showcases Japanese outsider art. |
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| This sumptuous volume explores key aspects of Art Nouveau-decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising, and more-with an in-depth approa |
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| A collection of 150 vintage educational charts that celebrates the art of education. Complete with a brief introduction surveying the history of educa |
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| This deluxe reconsideration of mid-nineteenth century painting casts a newly appreciative eye on Salon Painting - whose "masterpieces" have been large |
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| Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artw |
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| Contemporary art is incresingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political |
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| An art-historical exploration of how digital art has developed in the post-war era. It examines art, technology, science and culture as fundamentally |
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| Offers an account of the works that matter most in modern art. This title concentrates on individual works, each piece breaking some amount of new gro |
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| In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist |
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| In Art Theft Sandy Nairne gives a vivid, first-hand account of the theft of two important and highly valuable J.M.W. Turner paintings, the eight-year |
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| This is the first ever comprehensive review of punk art/design ever published. |
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| 'Masterpieces of Orientalist Art' showcases the The Shafik Gabr Collection of art. |
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| A journey into Aboriginal art collection. |
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| The story of art nouveau, from its inception in the 1890s to the modern resurgence of interest. It introduces the main personalities, such as Galle, L |
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| Covering a vast terrain-from Ladakh and other Himalayan locations, to central India including the Vindhyas, the Satpuras, and the Chhota Nagpur Platea |
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| New edition of this key guide to art history, which takes a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two ce |
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| The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists. This title turns this time line for the postwar N |
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| Offers insight into the studios and inspirations of nearly 120 of Britains greatest living artists working today, both in Britain and abroad. This lar |
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| Suitable for scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, this title explores the work of three generations of Germ |
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| Adventurous new thinking about a visual approach that has captivated both artists and viewers for more than a century. |
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| Documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z. This title presents a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm's |
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| Brugge Plus vzw and Musea Brugge have organised 'Kamarama', an international art project in the city of Bruges. |
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| Offers a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 onwards. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video |
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| Through interviews with artists and the presentation of their work, this book puts the charm of contemporary oriental tattoo art on full display. It c |
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