History of art Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Dark Art Supernatural
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£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Color Universe
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£15.75
Penguin Publishing Group Dark Art Nightmare
Book SynopsisExplore the darkest depths of the subconscious with forty-six nightmarish illustrations to color. In the fourth book of the Dark Art series, twisted dreams come to life through intricate illustrations of creatures that stalk your sleep. Illustrated by FrançoisGautier, creator of Dimensions, Gothica, and Supernatural, Dark Art Nightmare features disturbing circus scenes, starving rats, fearsome krakens, haunting mummies, and more. With chilling artwork sure to enthrall fans of complex coloring books and lovers of all things dark and macabre, Dark Art Nightmare is the perfect escape into the stuff of nightmares.
£12.41
Penguin Putnam Inc Wondrous Animals
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£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc This Exquisite Loneliness
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£21.75
Penguin Putnam Inc Dickens and Prince
Book Synopsis“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —VogueFrom the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star PrinceEvery so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince.Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries—each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose leg
£15.30
Diversified Publishing The Art Thief
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing.—The New Yorker Enthralling. —The Wall Street JournalIn this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums an
£22.50
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Cloudspotting for Beginners
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated guide to clouds and the sky for inspiring and educating curious minds with meteorological wonder.Renowned journalist, public speaker, and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society Gavin Pretor-Pinney details the key facts and characteristics about each major cloud type. To accompany these scientific tidbits, William Grill’s gorgeous illustrations of vast colorful skies and mesmerizing cloud patterns create a calming, thought-provoking learning experience.From low-lying Stratus to high-flying Cirrus, Cloudspotting for Beginners covers how clouds are formed, the altitudes they prefer, the curious shapes they take, how they affect other meterological events, and more. The book breaks down the life and structure of a cloud on a molecular level, and then even expands on their interesting cross-planetary variations—for example, Jupiter’s clouds are composed of ammonia ice crystals and Saturn’s clouds congregate in an inexplicable hexagon around the planet's North Pole.Clouds require a fascinating amount of chemical precision in order to exist, yet they disappear and form again on a daily basis with ease. Cloudspotting for Beginners is a whimsical lesson on the oft-overlooked extraordinary lives of clouds that will serve as a gentle reminder to be present and observant in the face of impermanence. Just as informative as it is poetic and peaceful, this is the perfect guide for cloud appreciators and sky lovers.
£17.22
Penguin Young Readers El libro del diseño The Design Book
£25.65
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Moda Fashion
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£42.50
National Gallery of Australia Robert Dowling Tasmanian Son of Empire
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£47.45
University of Washington Press Space Invaders Australian Street Stencils
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£47.45
National Gallery of Australia Life Death Magic 2000 Years of Southeast Asian
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£66.02
University of Washington Press Varilaku Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands
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£28.00
University of Washington Press Undisclosed 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial
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£47.45
National Gallery of Australia Out of the West Western Australian Art 1830s to
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£18.95
National Library of Australia Stars of the Tokyo Stage Natori Shunsens Kabuki
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£37.95
National Gallery of Australia Draw with Us
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£17.00
National Gallery of Australia And a Kangaroo Too
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£17.00
University of Washington Press Capital and Country The Federation Years 19001913
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£47.50
University of Washington Press Impressions of Paris Lautrec Degas Daumier
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£33.71
University of Washington Press Arthur Boyd
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£999.99
National Gallery of Australia George W Lambert Retrospective Heroes Icons
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£47.50
National Gallery of Australia Imants Tillers One World Many Visions
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£57.00
National Gallery of Australia Michael Riley Sights Unseen
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£57.00
National Gallery of Australia Papua New Guinea Prints
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£33.30
National Gallery of Australia Richard Larter
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£42.75
University of Washington Press Printed Images in Colonial Australia 18011901
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£76.00
National Gallery of Australia Printed Images by Australian Artists 18851955 v 2
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£75.55
National Gallery of Australia Culture Warriors National Indigenous Art
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£57.00
National Gallery of Australia An Artist Abroad The Prints of James McNeill
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£18.95
Kelsey Museum Publications Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum USA Fascicule 3
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£26.96
Random House USA Inc Factory Made
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£36.00
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Candice Lin A Hard White Body
Book SynopsisThis publication showcases A Hard White Body, an evolving project by Candice Lin presented at B tonsalon--Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris; at Portikus, Frankfurt/Main; and at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. A Hard White Body weaves together material and nonhuman histories alongside the life and work of three historical figures: American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987); French explorer and global traveler Jeanne Baret (1740-1807); and artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Lin uses porcelain, a material whose history includes nineteenth-century imperial and scientific uses, to highlight fantasies surrounding whiteness and purity, only to subject her porcelain assemblages to pungent organic materials. She thus stages processes of contamination between organic and inorganic materials, creating an unstable sculptural ecosystem. In addition to an essay by curator Lotte Arndt that discusses the various iterations of Lin's project, th
£999.99
Northwest Watercolor Society A Fluid Tradition
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£26.59
Quarto Publishing PLC Colors of Film
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£18.04
Quarto Publishing PLC Colors of Art
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£22.79
Quarto Publishing PLC Colors of London
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£32.00
British Museum Press The Queen of the Night
Book SynopsisA concise and beautifully designed book exploring the symbolism behind an exquisite Ancient Babylonian plaque found in southern Iraq. This spectacular terracotta plaque was the principal acquisition for the British Museum''s 250th anniversary, and in 2004 was exhibited in various museums around the UK. Made between 1800 and 1859 BC, it is made from baked straw-tempered clay and modelled in high relief. It probably stood in a shrine and could represent the demoness Lilitu, known in the Bible as Lilith, or a Mesopotamian goddess. The figure wears the horned headdress characteristic of a Mesopotamian deity, and holds a rod and ring of justice, symbols of her divinity. Her long multi-coloured wings hang downwards, indicating that she is a goddess of the Underworld. The book explores the history and symbolism behind this beautiful and highly unusual relief.
£13.08
British Museum Press PreRaphaelites Gift Books
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£16.56
Phaidon Press Neoclassicism
Book SynopsisAn insight into the richness and variety of this dynamic style.
£28.45
Phaidon Press Ltd Victorian Painting
Book SynopsisA scholarly and entertaining survey of painting during the Victorian era.Trade Review"There has not been anything as comprehensive as this for the general reader for a long time."—Bookseller "Authoritative and carefully researched... An extraordinarily vivid account of a fascinating time of change and reform Lambourne will always find the quote from the artist that makes the text come alive and his book, hefty though it is, makes for light and hugely enjoyable reading."—Guardian "Handsomely designed... Furnished with remarkable pictures, many of them unfamiliar the text is excellent."—The Sunday Times "A dream of an art book, combining fabulous illustrations, clear captions, and a text that is fascinatingly informative."—Observer "After [a] long decline the reputation of Victorian artists is probably higher now than it has ever been and this splendid book celebrates this fact in no uncertain terms... Without being overly scholarly this is an excellent guide to the art of an era that above all celebrated wealth, creativity, energy and self-confidence."—Country Landowner "Anyone entranced by the Lloyd Webber show at the Royal Academy should acquire this massive paperback... Reproductions are excellent, and the text is quirkily informative."—The Independent, 50 Best Books for ChristmasTable of ContentsThe Victorian art establishment; the fresco revival - mural painting; the good and the great - portrait painting; oils versus watercolours - landscape painting; the narrative impulse - genre painting; "Virtual Reality" - the panorama; childhood and sentiment; fairy painting; sporting and animal painting; the pre-Raphaelites; "All Human Life is Here" - cross-sections of society; the nude and classicism; women artists; sombre schools of art - social realism; parting - emigration and war; the frailer sex and the fallen woman; a transatlantic exchange; colonial ties - painters in a wider world; aesthetes and symbolists - the last romantics; impressionism in Britain; the end of an era.
£56.95
ESP CONSTABLE
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£999.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Solado Rojo de Las Noticias
£34.71
Phaidon Press Ltd Land Art Y Arte Medioambiental Land and
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£48.50
Phaidon Press Ltd Egipto 4000 Aos de Arte Egypt 4000 Years of Art
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£35.98
James Clarke & Co Ltd Graham Sutherland Life Work and Ideas
Book SynopsisExtensively illustrated and thoroughly researched, this is a valuable new study of the life and work of one of the major figures in 20th century British art, revealing the background and context of many of his greatest works.Trade Review"Letters from friends; images of stunning pictures from private collections in Italy; memories and photographs of the author (in a wonderful red skirt) with Sutherland in Pembrokeshire - make this a unique and intimate publication. It is entirely due to the trust and affection which the author evokes that has made it possible for her to gather so much that is personal or hitherto unseen. What a treat and an honour that we too can now glimpse 'behind the scenes'." -Sally Moss, Lecturer and Curator at the Graham Sutherland Gallery "This book is for anyone wanting to appreciate Sutherland as an artist. It bears witness to an artist deeply influenced by the world around him and its relationships; it is also a striking memorial to a thoughtful friendship." -Revd Neil Thorogood, Reform, September 2015 "Perhaps the major selling-point of Thuiller's book, parts of which are compendium-like, is the amount of primary material she has assembled: there are archive items from a range of sources including correspondence and interviews, newspaper articles, reviews and reminiscences, many quoted in full." -Stephen Laird, Art and Christianity, Issue 83, 2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Biographical Timeline Acknowledgements Preface Prolegomenon 1 A Walk with Graham Sutherland in Pembrokeshire 2 In Pursuit of Colour 3 The Early Years 4 First Pembrokeshire 5 A Taste of Conflict 6 Religious Subjects 7 The South of France 1947-1980 8 Portraits 9 Return to Pembrokeshire and much else in Italy, France and Kent 10 Conclusion Postscript Selected Bibliography Selected Exhibitions Selected Publications Index
£68.76
Peter Owen Publishers Finding Nemon
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£19.11
