History of art Books
Thames & Hudson Ltd The History of Asian Art A Global View
Book SynopsisA highly illustrated history of the diverse visual art produced across East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, written by two specialist art historians. Asia is home to more than half the worldâs population, and learning about the art of its many cultures helps readers understand the visual world that surrounds us. This book tells the story of the simultaneous development of artistic techniques, styles and ideas across East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, exploring the ways these regions were often dynamically interconnected with each other, and with places beyond Asia. It covers the full breadth of Asian art history, with almost 500 artworks from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia and Southeast Asia; including areas often under-represented in other books on the subject, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Tibet, Nepal and Mongolia. Authors Lee and Hutton are active teachers, writers and speakers who engage with art hiTrade Review'Covering a vast array of visual and material art practices spanning prehistoric to present times, this volume is a timely addition to the growing field of Asian art' - Charlotte Horlyck, SOAS University of London
£66.50
Missys Clan Tokuriki Tomiki 40 Prints
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism 19401960
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Alfred A. Knopf The Art Thief
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Houghton Mifflin Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Faber & Faber High Victorian Design A Study of the Exhibits of 1851
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LIGHTNING SOURCE INC Theres Light
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Missys Clan Fujimori Shizuo
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Penguin Putnam Inc Colormorphia Celebrating Kerby Rosaness Coloring
Book SynopsisTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sensational compilation of the most striking images taken from the Morphia series has been gathered together in a celebration of Kerby Rosanes''s talent.Colormorphia is a selection of Kerby Rosanes''s most remarkable artwork, featuring a stunning, full-color sixteen-page section at the beginning of the book that displays some of the most accomplished completed artworks produced by Kerby''s fans. These demonstrate the range of approaches colorists can experiment with when coloring. Kerby comments on the styles and the results, describing why they work so well.The artwork displayed in the color section are included in the black-and-white section of the book, too, giving the reader the opportunity to duplicate the approach should they wish. In addition, there are a variety of images to color featuring the very best from Kerby''s Morphia portfolio. These include show-stopping spreads, such as the tiger from Animorphia and the camel from Imagimorphia, among others.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Worlds Within Worlds
Book SynopsisTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling artist that brought you the Morphia series, this incredible coloring book includes 96 double-sided pages of pure imagination in an all-new Kerby Rosanes universe. A new fantastic and super-detailed adult coloring book, in an entirely new world, from the prodigious bestselling illustrator. Colorists will find Kerby Rosanes''s new creations to be hypnotic, with spread after dizzying spread featuring creatures, people, animals, and landscapes that blur the line between familiar and magical, between reality and imagination. Fans will be thrilled to see Kerby return with this 96-page book, providing an apparently endless coloring challenge for even his most dedicated and enthusiastic fans.
£13.50
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Medieval Cats
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iUniverse Jade
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iUniverse The Everyday Work of Art Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life
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iUniverse The Highly Opinionated Newsletter A Sometimes JudiciousSometimes Injudicious DISSENT From the Majority Opinion on the Current Art Scene
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£18.07
iUniverse THE VIRTUES UNVEILED
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iUniverse The Unauthorized Autobiography of Micah Pearson Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sheep
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iUniverse Defining Art Messages from God
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iUniverse the finest small museum in the country A History of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
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iUniverse A VISUAL PALETTE A Philosophy of the Natural Principles of Painting
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iUniverse The Unauthorized Autobiography of Micah Pearson Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sheep
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iUniverse the finest small museum In the country A History of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
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iUniverse The Virtues Unveiled
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Claitor's Pub Division University Acres Highland School
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Free Mind Publications This is not Leonardo da Vinci The untold history of Leonardo and the Renaissance
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Creative Shell Australian Beaks
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American 80s God Willing How to survive expat life in Qatar
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StoryBridge Press The Art of Gold Embroidery in Uzbekistan A Study of an Aspect of Traditional Uzbek Material Culture in Transition
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bob Ross New Joy of Painting
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Nature and Aesthetics of Design
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Phaidon Press Ltd Early Christian Byzantine Art
Book SynopsisAn authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art.
£33.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Greek Art
Book SynopsisA study of Greek art from the 8th-2nd century BC.
£33.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Romanticism
Book SynopsisA comprehensive volume giving a clear understanding of a complex movement.
£33.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Indian Art
Book SynopsisA full and up-to-date history of the subcontinent's artistic heritage.
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Phaidon Press Ltd Aboriginal Art
Book SynopsisA survey of the great variety of Aboriginal art.
£33.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) From Plato to Postmodernism
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between what is taught in schools and the cultural knowledge required at university, this book gathers together the cultural history of the West into one concise volumeTable of ContentsIntroduction: To the Man with a Hammer 1. The Roots of Western Culture: Greece and Rome 2. The Roots of Western Culture: Christianity 3. From Catacombs to Cathedrals: The Middle Ages 4. Man the Measure of All Things: The Renaissance 5. Into the Modern Age: Religious Reformation and Scientific Revolution 6. Reason and its Limits: The Enlightenment and Romanticism 7. Old Certainties, New Crises: The Death of God, Modernism and Existentialism 8. Evolving Ideas of Humanity: Darwin, Marx, Freud and Feminism 9. What Comes After the New? Postmodernism and Postmodernity Concluding Thoughts Glossary Further Reading Index
£41.99
Duckworth Books Young Michelangelo The Path To The Sistine
Book SynopsisA reinterpretation of the early life and career of Michelangelo, arguably the greatest artist in history. It explores Michelangelo's involvement in the most troubling controversies of his age, and recreates Florence and Rome with sketches of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo, Julius II and Machiavelli.Trade Review'Spike crystallizes historical detail into vivid , memorable imagery... Alternating between accounts of the turbulent political atmosphere and details of Michelangelo's most private moments in the sculpture studio, Spike creates a rich narrative that promises more intrigue than the best adventure novel' Publishers Weekly'Michelangelo is a difficult man to like, but impossible to resist. Spike captures his magnetism, his drive and the sheer scale of his ambition' Sarah Bakewell, Sunday Times'No art historian has got closer to Michelangelo than John T. Spike' Sunday Telegraph 'Tense and agile as an early sculpture, Young Michelangelo is a compelling portrait of the artist as a young man in a dangerous time' Peter Robb, author of M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio'A crisply thorough biography' Christopher Bray, Daily Express
£18.00
Hachette Australia Blue Poles
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Llewellyn Publications Golden Art Nouveau Tarot Grand Trumps
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Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Incantations Divinations
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Lexington Books Movement Manifesto Melee
Book SynopsisThe years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose boundaries were permeable and freely changing. While these individual groups_including the Futurists, Imagists, Blue Rider, and the Second Vienna School_have been thoroughly studied, scholars of the period have often neglected the formative and pervasive interactions of these groups across geographic and artistic boundaries. Providing a historical taxonomy of this influential milieu, Milton Cohen demonstrates how these groups were largely responsible for the artistic innovation and nearly all the avant-garde agitation and major events of these years. With concluding appendices intended for scholars and specialists, this engagingly written book will be useful not only for classroom use aTrade ReviewMilton Cohen has written a fascinating book....A terrifically engaging and useful book. * European History, January 2009 *This beautifully written study defines pre-World-War-I European modernism as an essentially group-driven phenomenon and takes us deep into the movement's social dynamics. How does one define a modernist group? Who emerged as leaders within these groups and why? What role did nationalism play in the desire of so many modernist artists to band together? The first four chapters of Movement, Manifesto, Melee answer these questions (and many more) and offer a fresh perspective on a subject too commonly approached in terms of isolated figures. -- Steven Trout, Fort Hays State UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Prologue: The Futurist Traveling Exhibition of 1912 3 Chapter 1: The Modernist Group: A Taxonomy and Rationale 4 Chapter 2: Leaders 5 Chapter 3: Manifesto 6 Chapter 4: Melee: Group Performances, Hostile Responses 7 Epilogue: Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and World War I 8 Appendix 1: Time Line: 1910-1914 9 Appendix 2: Modernist Groups 1910-1914: A Listing 10 Appendix 3: Modernist Casualties of World War I
£42.00
Lexington Books Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening
Book SynopsisArtistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000sarguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists' endeavours to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity.Despite the prevalence of artists engaged in social issues in today's world and the undeniable contributions of artistic residency to contemporary art practice, little literature or scholarly research has been conducted on the practical, conceptual, and ideological aspects of artist residency. Very often, it is perceived in very narrow terms, overlooking explicit or hidden issues of localism, nationalism and globalization. If artistic residence did indeed emerge from the raTrade ReviewWei Hsiu Tung’s Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening: An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan offers insightful perspectives on Taiwan’s democratization and globalization through the lens of the visual arts, specifically artists’ engagement with society through artistic residences. ... Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening is both fascinating and well worth reading. * Taiwan Review *Wei Hsiu Tung’s innovative new tome deftly explores how the “artistic residence” or “artist-in-residence” in Taiwan is no longer confined in large part to reflecting on Taiwanese culture and society but instead serves as a key contributor to cultural interpretation, awakening, and change. Employing a vital cross-cultural perspective, comparing the artistic residence in Taiwan with that in Britain, Tung adds important perspectives to this global phenomenon. Interviews with painters, photographers, sculptors, and other artists who have created art not for museums or galleries but instead to “speak to mass audiences,” add significantly to the depth and breadth of this study. Examining as well the concrete implications for artists-in-residence endeavors in Taiwan, especially as concerns how artists integrate the pulls of the local and the global, Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening represents an important contribution to Asian studies. -- Karen L. Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard UniversityThis book examines the practice of artists-in-residence in Taiwan, via an engaging treatment of art and artists as seen from the perspective of the embodied eye of anthropology and through juxtaposition with Britain. The volume sheds new light on Taiwan since the lifting of martial law, exploring not only governmental support for art and artists but also processes of democracy and identity as they have unfolded in a cultural and aesthetic history that is both Asian and European, indigenous and Chinese, modern and post-modern. The book is accessible and original, and should be essential reading for all those interested in Taiwanese culture and society since the transition to democracy. Particularly striking is the way the author weaves together identity and art as the unfinished, mutable, and invented productions of relational rather than egoistic complexes. -- Fang-long Shih, Co-Director, LSE Taiwan Research ProgrammeWei-Hsui Tung’s Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening marks a significant advance in East-Asian cultural studies. While much has been said about relational and interventionist art in Western and trans-national contexts, this is the first major book-length study to address similar forms of artistic practice in Taiwan. Tung’s extended anthropological meditation on artistic residency is indispensable reading not only for those with a specific interest in contemporary Taiwanese art, but also anyone concerned with the wider implications of the relationship between culture and globalization. -- Paul Gladston, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory, University of NottinghamThis is an atypical study in art…it focuses on artists in residence as a community…engaged in the shaping of currents and values reflective of changing times. The author emphasizes in particular the ongoing importance of cultural identity in these deeper introspections and debates. By invoking an anthropological approach, the emphasis is really on the experiential aspects of artistic production. The practice of residential communities is perhaps not unlike the seminal role that Jürgen Habermas attributed to salons in the structural transformation of the public sphere. For all these reasons, this monograph should be of interest to scholars not only in art but also cultural studies in general and critically minded students of all kinds working on contemporary Asia and elsewhere. -- Allen Chun, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, TaiwanTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Art as Sociocultural Representation Chapter 2: Concepts and Practices in Artistic Residence Chapter 3: Art in Taiwan: The Quest for Identity Chapter 4: Artistic Residence in Taiwan Chapter 5: Towards a New Genre of Artistic Residence Conclusion Bibliography About the Authors
£43.00
DK The Illustrated Ramayana
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Be More Japan
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Polity Press Raphael
Book Synopsis* A major new biography on one of the greatest artists of all time, Raphael Sanzio, written by a leading Renaissance expert. * Retraces Raphael s career by re-examining contemporary documents and accounts and interpreting the artist s works with the eye of an expert restorer.Trade Review"A brilliant and lyrical biography ... The masterful quality of Forcellino’s account lies not only in the beauty of its language, translated impeccably from Italian into English, but in the seamlessness and self-assurance with which he himself works across northern Italy, its paintings, its politics."The Spectator"An excellent introduction to the workshop of the Renaissance artist, and to the careful and patient techniques employed in the making of timeless art works … Forcellino has done a very creditable service in his re-examination of the life of an artist who, more than any other, embodied the spirit of the Italian Renaissance."Irish Examiner"Antonio Forcellino has now celebrated Raphael's life and career by writing this ebullient book, elegantly translated by Lucinda Byatt ... [Forcellino] is ingenious and fastidious in describing Raphael's works, and his book will give pleasure to those coming to them for the first time; it even highlights a few things connoisseurs may have missed."Literary Review"Written in a lively and entertaining style, ForcellinoÉ demonstrates his skills as a passionate and consummate storyteller revealing the life of a challenging and unique artist who introduced a new conception of Renaissance art combining sublimity and sensuality, within an Italian epoch of violence, wealth and eroticism."European Journal of History"A detailed biography that explains Raphael's achievements during his short life, while also showing how his social skills and affable temperament helped him to advance his career … This informative book is also a rich treasury of information about the artistic developments and techniques of the period."Historical Novel Society"Forcellino seeks to liberate his subject from later cultural and art-historical associations. Challenging post-Romantic conventions of the solitary genius, he presents Raphael as fully engaged with his society: a man whose eroticism and talent for friendship flowed naturally into his art ... Forcellino's Raphael is a lover, not a fighter."The Art Newspaper"Written in his usual lively style, Forcellino's new book combines fast-moving narrative, a vivid portrait of Raphael the man, and a perceptive analysis of his art."Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "The last century saw the development of the legend that depicts the life of the artist as one of torment and desperation: Raphael demolishes every trace of this romantic myth and demonstrates on the contrary that it is in fact complete happiness and the gratification of desires that can lead to the conquering of the highest peaks of creativity."Corriere della Sera "Beyond simply recounting the biographical journey, Antonio Forcellino also seamlessly incorporates analyses of Raphael’s works in this lively study. Painter, architect, set designer: all facets of Raphael are discussed with the consummate art of the storyteller."Tout pour les femmesTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Giovanni�s Son1 A Well-To-Do Household2 A Sophisticated Court3 Home and Workshop4 Assistants and Masters5 A Precocious Master2 From Urbino to Umbria1 The First Test2 Recognition3 Challenging the Masters4 Turbulent Landscapes5 The End of the Terror3 The Florentine Period1 In the City of Titans2 A New World3 The Way Up4 Chronicle of a Tragedy5 A Sudden Departure4 In Rome1 The Half-Hidden Ruins2 From Chalices to Helmets3 The War of Images4 The Rise to Primacy5 The School of Raphael5. The Pope and his Banker1 The Pope�s Beard2 The Stanza of Heliodorus3 Through the Streets of Rome4 The Pope�s Banker5 Amor Vincit Omnia6 Venus Emerges from the Water7 Death of a Warrior Pope6 The Years of Triumph1 A New Era2 One Long Party3 Serving the Dream4 Raven Black Hair and Eyes5 State Portraits7 The Discovery of Architecture1 Devout Women2 Storming the Fortress3 The Flight of Icarus 4 Private Pleasures5 Between The Tiber and Monte Mario8 A New Artist1 The Inaccessible Palace2 A Web of Jealousies 3 Venus Returns4 Vila Madama5 The Star that Fell from HeavenNotesIndex
£41.25
AuthorHouse The Pleasure of Art and Baking
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AuthorHouse The Pleasure of Art and Baking
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Workman Publishing You Are Doing a Freaking Great Job.
Book Synopsis“We are made of star stuff.”—Carl Sagan Give someone you know a pat on the back. A special thank-you. A big thumbs-up! In dozens of inspiring, uplifting quotes rendered as beautiful hand-lettered art by more than 30 popular graphic designers and artists, this little book of great thoughts is motivation and affirmation made timeless. Plus there are playlists, book and movie recommendations, upbeat activities—even recipes for sweet pick-me-ups.
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