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  • Lesley Anne Ivory: Blossom (Foiled Journal)

    Flame Tree Publishing Lesley Anne Ivory: Blossom (Foiled Journal)

    Book SynopsisPart of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Lesley Anne Ivory's Blossom.Lesley Anne Ivory is one of the most prolific and prestigious painters of cats in the world today. Her meticulous attention to detail is legendary; she spends many hours researching for her pictures, including countless hours in the British Museum or the Victoria and Albert Museum, researching patterns and fabrics.

    £11.47

  • Inspirational Colouring: Animals and Nature

    Bonnier Books Ltd Inspirational Colouring: Animals and Nature

    Book SynopsisStep into the wild with wonderful illustrations of creatures from around the world

    £9.49

  • Phaidon Press Vida de Perros

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    £28.29

  • The Lilliput Press Ltd Annaghmakerrig

    Book SynopsisThe Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, ‘Annaghmakerrig‘. The Centre is an artists’ retreat set amid the lakes and drumlins of County Monaghan. An eclectic and varied list of poets, musicians, actors, directors and visual artists use the space to develop what we see on stages, pages and gallery walls throughout the country. The book is a collection and a collage that captures the essence and history of the centre, as well as the stories of its fascinating and somewhat eccentric families, not to mention the creativity of the five thousand artists who have spent time there since it was opened by Brian Friel in 1981. In the book. Eugene McCabe remembers Tony Guthrie the theatre director, while Joseph Hone provides a touching and powerful childhood memoir. Other contributors include Colm Toibin, John Banville, Gerald Barry, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Connor, Paul Muldoon, Patrick Scott, Alice Maher, Rosita Boland, Tim Robinson and Claire Keegan. The book is edited by SHEILA PRATSCHKE, Director of Annaghmakerrig, with works selected by RUAIRI O CUIV (visual art) and EVELYN CONLON (literature).

    £28.50

  • Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York

    D Giles Ltd Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisHerbert Katzman's lyrical representations of contemporary New York are a stunning tribute to the artist's fascination with the skyline of his adopted city. 'Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York' highlights a selection of his paintings and drawings produced over half a century, during which he worked largely outside the abstract art movement that dominated the mid-20th century. Included in the 1952 'Fifteen Americans' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Katzman went on to become an influential teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts and continued to work and exhibit until his death in 2004. This vibrant new volume traces his career from his arrival in New York in 1950 through the more abstract "New York School" paintings of the early sixties, to his later work which, with its emphasis on mood and muted colour, shows the influence of Turner, Whistler and the Hudson River School.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York Acknowledgements by Julia Blaut Remembering Herbert Katzman by Alison Lurie Herbert Katzman and MOMA's Fifteen Americans: Abstraction and Figuration in the Post-War Art World of New York by Julia Blaut Katzman and the Tradition of the Cityscape in American Art by Katherine Manthorne Paintings Drawings Sources Illustrated Chronology of the Artist's Life by Jillian Russo Exhibition History and Bibliography

    1 in stock

    £25.50

  • Global Book Sales The Cloud Factory

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    £54.00

  • Frameables: Great Outdoors: 21 Prints for a

    Editions Flammarion Frameables: Great Outdoors: 21 Prints for a

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £6.98

  • Die Seebilder Des Jacob Van Ruisdael

    Peter Lang AG Die Seebilder Des Jacob Van Ruisdael

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIm Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung steht die umfassende Analyse der Seebilder Jacob van Ruisdaels. Dabei wird die künstlerische Leistung Ruisdaels unter dem Einfluss sowohl der Natur- und Kunstauffassung als auch der gesellschaftspolitischen Entwicklungen des Goldenen Jahrhunderts (der Niederlande des 17. Jh.) berücksichtigt. Gleichzeitig bietet diese Betrachtung einen Lösungsansatz für die Interpretation bestimmter Bildmotive auf feste Sinnbilder, die in den Meereslandschaften anzutreffen sind. Die Gemälde enthalten emblematische Motive, ähnlich einem Gleichnis, so dass die Bildinhalte und ihre Bedeutung auf vielfältige Weise interpretiert werden können. Darüber hinaus werden weitere spezifische Charakteristika der ruisdaelschen Marinen an den Gemälden selbst exemplarisch herausgearbeitet.

    1 in stock

    £72.91

  • Golden Eagles: Legendary Birds of Prey

    Benteli Verlag Golden Eagles: Legendary Birds of Prey

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £47.96

  • Flowers & Mushrooms

    Hirmer Verlag Flowers & Mushrooms

    Book SynopsisFlowers and mushrooms run the risk of being considered trivial subjects for contemporary art. However, in recent years they have experienced a revival as complex subjects as presented by contemporary artists, including Peter Fischli and David Weiss, David LaChapelle and Robert Mapplethorpe.

    £31.96

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Und die Erhabenheit der

    Hirmer Verlag Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Und die Erhabenheit der

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisErnst Ludwig Kirchner spent his last years between 1917 and 1938 recovering from a mental breakdown in Davos. The overwhelming impression of the Alps moved him to create colourful, visionary landscapes and paint the daily lives of the peasants. The publication shows vividly the significance of the mountain world as inspiration for Kirchner’s late works. After the artistic caesura during the years of the First World War, Kirchner regained new creative powers in Davos. Over a period of some twenty years he achieved a radical re-invention of his art. Starting from the painting Returning Herd of Goats from 1920 in the Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia and by means of selected works from the Kirchner Museum Davos, the volume traces the artistic and personal development that Kirchner underwent as a result of his experience of the Alpine landscape and its inhabitants. Exhibition: Lugano Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia Languages: English, Italian, German

    1 in stock

    £31.96

  • Jürgen Schilling: Nature as Landscape

    Hirmer Verlag Jürgen Schilling: Nature as Landscape

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor the past forty years, Jurgen Schilling (b. 1954) has been drawing the landscape of southern France. The art historian Wilhelm Schlink has accompanied his career from the beginning as a friend and collaborative thinker. Schlink describes in lively manner the artist’s approaches and reflections, especially against the background of the current debate about contemporary interpretations of the landscape. Since the 1970s Jurgen Schilling has found inspiration in the rough countryside between the Mediterranean, the Corbieres and the Minervois, where the natural elements can be experienced at first hand. Based on his studies of art history and philosophy relating to the broad field of landscape representation, he has created an oeuvre driven by the imperative of doing justice to events and experiences. Schilling uses in his work the raw materials and pigments found on location. A first retrospective of his work was held in Carcassonne in 2012.

    1 in stock

    £36.00

  • Clifford Ross: Sightlines

    Hirmer Verlag Clifford Ross: Sightlines

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisClifford Ross’s photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveals one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations of the nature of vision in the medium’s history. Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Clifford Ross’s art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of the iconic subjects of the mountain and the sea convey powerful creative engagement with the landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.

    5 in stock

    £28.00

  • Flowers! (Bilingual edition): In the Art of the

    Hirmer Verlag Flowers! (Bilingual edition): In the Art of the

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisFlowers have been a popular motif in art for centuries. As the epitome of natural beauty and earthly mortality since the Baroque era, flowers have lost none of their fascination for artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Why does modern and contemporary art turn so frequently to this multi-faceted subject?

    5 in stock

    £29.75

  • Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s

    Hirmer Verlag Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisDive into the art world of the closely allied artists Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman. Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld accompanies the first two-person survey exhibition of these closely allied artists, offering a compelling tour through ecological concerns central to their celebrated careers and into the shadowy depths of the threatened natural world. Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman were among the earliest contemporary artists to address, and even anticipate, the epic ecological problems we now face. This publication unites some twenty-five sculptures and paintings by both artists along with selected works on paper and a major new collaborative diorama. As explored in the book’s introduction, an essay by Lucy R. Lippard, and a new joint interview, the artists probe our strained relationship with the environment and the consequences of reigning ideologies about nature.

    5 in stock

    £25.60

  • Hiroshige

    Taschen GmbH Hiroshige

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £14.25

  • Philipp Keel: Last Summer

    Steidl Publishers Philipp Keel: Last Summer

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    £28.00

  • Diana Michener: Trance

    Steidl Publishers Diana Michener: Trance

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    £52.00

  • Elina Birkehag: D for Daughter

    Spector Books Elina Birkehag: D for Daughter

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £27.20

  • Kehrer Verlag Natural Light

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £32.30

  • Roadside Meditations

    Kehrer Verlag Roadside Meditations

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £30.40

  • Quiet Beauty

    Tuttle Publishing Quiet Beauty

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisQuiet Beauty

    5 in stock

    £16.99

  • Young-sé Lee

    Skira Young-sé Lee

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    £25.50

  • Mira Lehr: Arc of Nature. Second Edition

    1 in stock

    £46.40

  • Caleb Cain Marcus: A Brief Movement After Death

    Damiani Caleb Cain Marcus: A Brief Movement After Death

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisA brief movement after death by Caleb Cain Marcus explores the release of energy from the body into the universe when we die. The images were taken along the coasts of New York and California and contain sky and ocean—immense bodies of space that we can lose ourselves in; becoming part of their vastness. The inspiration for the book came to the photographer from a personal experience. With the birth of his daughter, his death suddenly felt very near. His childhood questions about what happens when we die resurfaced and Marcus began to think about how to visually represent what occurs after death. The work represents the starting point of his new practice that juxtaposes digital and hand-applied mediums to create a hybrid surface, color and edge that challenges the medium of a photograph and the way in which it is seen, understood and felt. With the motion of a pendulum the grease pencil is swung by a string to make tightly grouped marks that reference the finite quantity of time in a lifespan and that move across the paper as if in a formation of light leaving the earth.

    5 in stock

    £18.00

  • David Gulden: Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend:

    Damiani David Gulden: Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend:

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisNor Dread Nor Hope Attend. Photographs from the Plains of Africa gathers 65 stunning black and white photographs of the icons of the Kenyan wilderness. This is David Gulden’s second monograph and the culmination of seven years work. With his masterful eye, he has perfectly captured the elegance and beauty of lions, elephants, zebras and giraffes in their natural habitat. With a title from a poem by acclaimed Irish poet W.B. Yeats, Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend includes text by Dr. Richard Leakey, journalist Fiammetta Rocco, and American artist Alex Beard.

    5 in stock

    £48.00

  • WC - World Citizen

    Damiani WC - World Citizen

    Book SynopsisWC. World Citizen presents photographs taken by Gustav Willeit while traveling across Italy, China, Japan, California, Iceland, and Uganda. Every corner of the planet hides traces of the past, and Willeit perfectly captures these evanescent memories. Regardless of latitude and longitude, the presence of humans, civilizations and anthropogenic interventions in natural ecosystems has caused an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity. And yet he is aware that humanity does not own Earth, and never has – despite the fact we have always thought so. An awareness reflected in pictures depicting how our home has become more and more of a precarious habitation. The book is a journey delving into nature’s folds and cracks, increasingly impacted by humanity’s arrogant stewardship. We are WCs: world citizens, as described by Japanese composer Sakamoto. And yet as WCs we run the risk of, slowly but inexorably, transforming into another WC of lesser noble nature.

    £39.20

  • The Art of the National Parks Boxed Note Card Set

    Insight Editions The Art of the National Parks Boxed Note Card Set

    Book SynopsisCelebrate your love of America's national parks with this deluxe boxed set of 20 blank cards and envelopes featuring eye-catching artwork from the popular Fifty-Nine Parks print series.

    £18.23

  • A General History of Quadrupeds

    The University of Chicago Press A General History of Quadrupeds

    Book SynopsisShowcases the author's engraving techniques that allowed text and images to be published on the same page. This book features engravings of over four hundred animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time.

    £19.00

  • Geography of the Gaze  Urban  Rural Vision in

    The University of Chicago Press Geography of the Gaze Urban Rural Vision in

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFocusing on Western Europe from the 17th to 19th centuries, Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Dubbino shows how developments in science and art affected the portrayal of landscapes.

    1 in stock

    £89.30

  • Women Environment and Networks of Empire

    McGill-Queen's University Press Women Environment and Networks of Empire

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisWomen, Environment, and Networks of Empire is the first detailed study of the art and correspondence of Elizabeth Gwillim and her sister Mary Symonds in South India. The book explores what their work reveals about natural history, the natural environment, colonialism, and women’s lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.Trade Review“For those who value close historical study of a time and a place and new historical sources, this book – and the trove of primary materials unearthed by the researchers of the Gwillim project that it contains – gives us a window onto British, Indian, and imperial worlds, nineteenth-century material culture, foodways, clothing and textiles, and natural history, as well as women's work in art and science.” Ann Shteir, York University and editor of Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    5 in stock

    £52.70

  • A Prairie State of Mind

    University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"This beautifully crafted work would grace the coffee table of anyone who has a passion for the loveliness of the prairie."--Kansas History

    1 in stock

    £25.19

  • A Prairie State of Mind

    University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"This beautifully crafted work would grace the coffee table of anyone who has a passion for the loveliness of the prairie."--Kansas History

    2 in stock

    £17.99

  • The Chinese Atlantic

    Indiana University Press The Chinese Atlantic

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMetzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism. -- Hadley Howes * ANTIPODE ONLINE *Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex

    1 in stock

    £52.70

  • The Chinese Atlantic

    Indiana University Press The Chinese Atlantic

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMetzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism. -- Hadley Howes * ANTIPODE ONLINE *Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex

    2 in stock

    £17.99

  • Fantasmic Objects

    Indiana University Press Fantasmic Objects

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScheid's knowledge of Lebanese art, its socio-political context and its historical unfolding are unequal. Her ethnographic immersion in that field is also unequal. What's more, a vast body of comparative and theoretical literature is brought to bear on the subject. The result is a genuinely important work, conceptually innovative, thoroughly educative, and highly stimulating. -- Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne Future Generations Professor of Anthropology, author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the WorldWhere there is no art, this book finds much that art does. In a place where the ontology of art is seen as belonging to an elsewhere, this book steams the tapestry of complex local art-acts into view. If concerned with the becoming of art and its social consequences in societies overlooked by high modernism and in turn self-belittling, read Kirsten Scheid's book. -- Walid Sadek, Philippe Jabre Endowed Professor in Art, author of The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted warA highly original, richly textured, and meticulously researched study of three major Lebanese artists and their reception in Beirut. The works of Moustapha Farrouk, Omar Onsi, and Saloua Raouda Choucair come alive in Scheid's evocative prose. Essential reading for scholars of modern art in postcolonial, postwar, and Muslim societies. -- Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990The most important book about middle eastern art and social life I've read, Fantasmic Objects gives Humanists and Social Scientists a uniquely intra-disciplinary tour de force, that produces new knowledge about Lebanon, its art, modern citizenships, double decolonization, and methods to rethink local art histories. Scheid's brilliant offering of taswir, the polysemic Arabic word for imagination, compels us to rethink what art is and does. You need this book; it will change the way you think. Beautifully written, breathtakingly observed, and nothing less than inspiring, this brilliant book will guide art historical enquires of the global for decades to come. -- Hannah Feldman, author of From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962Table of ContentsPreambleAcknowledgmentsNotes on LanguageNotes on Sources1. Introduction: No Art Here2. Exhibitions: Sociality as Fantasm3. Nudes: The Citizen as Fantasm4. Landscapes: The Nation as Fantasm5. Art Lessons: Fantasmic Formations of the Lady-Artist6. Portraits: Towards a Fantasmic Ontology of Art ActsConclusion: Between Art and HereBibliographyIndex

    15 in stock

    £25.19

  • Shifting Grounds

    University of Washington Press Shifting Grounds

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *

    2 in stock

    £52.14

  • Shifting Grounds

    University of Washington Press Shifting Grounds

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *

    20 in stock

    £33.98

  • Mary Randlett Landscapes

    University of Washington Press Mary Randlett Landscapes

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisMary Randlett''s photographic vision of the Northwest is big-hearted, intricate, and tender and fully inhabited by the animals, tides, forests, mountains, and spirits that dwell there. What others may take for granted, Randlett sees as quintessential: overcast days with endless and often exquisite variations of gray clouds, raindrops on puddles, dripping branches, and distant shafts of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. She is steeped in the history of the Northwest and its many art forms.Mary Randlett Landscapes presents a visual record of the Northwest at its most pristine and poetic. During her many years of finely tuned observation, Randlett has learned to take the time to ponder the essences of what she seesthe curl of a bird''s drifting feather, a water strider not quite breaking the surface of the water, fog ascending a hillside, the moment a pond''s surface turns to ice. Her photography brings this corner of the Northwest to the world.Trade Review"In this superb collection Randlett, who knows her subject well, majestically captures the physical qualities of the Pacific Northwest. Her work represents splendid environmental perfection: one knows these definitive photographs could have been taken nowhere else. This beautifully presented collection should be made available to everyone interested in the art form." * Choice *"This quiet, reflective collection is filled with photos that work like poems. It invites repeat visits because of the subtlety of Randlett's art—much of it focused on light, clouds, and mist—and also because it stands as a stern rebuke of what growth and development are doing to a bounteous natural world that once seemed immutable." -- John Marshall * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *"Like all the great landscape photographers, Randlett avoids excess studio manipulation and instead lets her subject do the talking. And oh, how Mother Nature talks—or rather sings—in front of her lens." * Seattle Magazine *"Randlett's interest isn’t in place as much as mood and composition. And of course, the main ingredient in these introspective studies is light, its endless variations, its absence." -- Sheila Farr * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lifting the Veil / Ted D'Arms Mary Randlett, Friend and Photographer / Barry Herem The Art of Mary Randlett / Denise Levertov 7 Poems by Denise Levertov Afterword / Joyce Thompson Chronology / Jo Ann Ridley Acknowledgments Technical Notes

    1 in stock

    £38.30

  • Vanishing Ice  Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art

    University of Washington Press Vanishing Ice Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIntroduces the artistic legacy of the planet's frozen frontiers now threatened by a changing climate. Tracing the impact of glaciers, icebergs, and fields of ice on artists' imaginations, this book explores the connections between generations of artists who adopt different styles, media, and approaches to interpret alpine and polar landscapes.Trade Review"This unusual and involving work is recommended for art, arctic history, and alpine history collections. It is highly recommended for the many readers interested in historic expeditions and/or climate change, who will appreciate the eye-opening dialog between art from many periods." -- Shelly Sommer * Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research *

    1 in stock

    £38.30

  • Empire to Nation  Art History and the

    Yale University Press Empire to Nation Art History and the

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisOffers a fresh consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. This work begins in the year 1768, which marks the foundation of the Royal Academy and the launch of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation.Trade Review"[A] strikingly handsome book.”—Andrew Lambert, The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord -- Andrew Lambert * The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord *Shortlisted for the 2013 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the Pre-1800 category, given by the Historians of British Art. -- 2013 Historians of British Art Short List in the Pre-1800 category * Historians of British Art *

    15 in stock

    £38.00

  • Weatherbeaten

    Yale University Press Weatherbeaten

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisA celebration of the American painter's life and work in the region he loved bestTrade Review"Wonderful."—Frank Wilson, Philadelphia Inquirer (Holiday Gift Guide selection)"A vivid survey of his work from those years when the Maine coast served as Homer’s muse."—Dana Jennings, New York TimesWinner of the Photography/Art category at the 2012 New England Book Festival"[A] gorgeous book." —American History

    5 in stock

    £30.88

  • Smithsonian Trees of North America

    Yale University Press Smithsonian Trees of North America

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    £54.00

  • Ireland and the Picturesque

    Yale University Press Ireland and the Picturesque

    Book SynopsisThat Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at core of the picturesque's development and argues for a greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design.Trade Review“The two-way flow of picturesque inspiration across the Irish Sea was a complex cultural phenomenon that this study brilliantly illuminates.”—William Laffan, World of Interiors -- William Laffan * World of Interiors *Winner of the 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. -- John Brinckerhoff Jackson * Foundation for Landscape Studies *Won Honorable Mention for the 2016 Elisabeth Blair MacDougal Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians. -- Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award * Society of Architectural Historians *

    £42.75

  • Baule Monkeys

    Yale University Press Baule Monkeys

    Book SynopsisThe Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culturerough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers and serve their communities through the mediation of diviners. Investigating the creation, forms, and usage of the sculptures, the authors shed light on the cultural and ritual contexts in which they operated. Beautifully illustrated with over 55 full-page color images of works in public and private collections, this important publication also includes many unpublished field photographs. Distributed for Mercatorfonds

    £47.50

  • East of the Mississippi

    Yale University Press East of the Mississippi

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes

    2 in stock

    £40.38

  • Making a Photographer

    Yale University Press Making a Photographer

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, sponsored by The Center for Cultural Landscapes at the UVA School of Architecture“In her brilliant book, Dr. Rebecca Senf allows us to go beyond the pure beauty of Adams’s images. We are brought into a much-needed passion and complexity of his practice.”—Catherine Opie“This is an important work that augments existing literature in both content and methodology. It will be a standard reference for anyone interested in Ansel Adams.”—Britt Salvesen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art“Rebecca Senf brilliantly demonstrates how the first two decades of Ansel Adams’s long career—years that are often dismissed as ‘formative’ or ‘immature’—in fact, sow the seeds of the astonishing work that we now identify as ‘classic’ Adams.”—Steven Hoelscher, The University of Texas at Austin“In this great, approachable read, Senf helps us appreciate the skills and genius of Adams, who inspired millions of Americans to visit, and to ultimately love and support, their National Parks.”—James E. Cook, CEO, Western National Parks Association“Lavishly illustrated and painstakingly researched, Senf’s book reveals how a 14-year-old visitor to Yosemite became America’s most famous photographer and a passionate advocate for the National Parks.”—Malcolm Daniel, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    £38.00

  • Yale University Press Danish Golden Age Painting

    Book SynopsisA vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864).

    £38.00

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