The arts: general topics Books
University of Chicago Press Lasting Impressions The Grolier Club Library
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£35.62
University of Chicago Press Illustrating the Good Life The Pissarros Eragny
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£39.29
Stanford University Press Book Art Object 2
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£52.50
Moon City Press Robert E Smith Paintings Drawings Poems and
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£16.96
Chicago Review Press Making MakeBelieve
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is good for children because it values pretending and playing and imagining without expensive toys or games. How wonderful for children to have time to play and create from their own imaginations!" Dale Evans Rogers, writer, film-star, grandmother, mother, and wife of the late Roy Rogers"Children who are encouraged to use their imaginations receive a wonderful gift that will benefit them the rest of their lives! Making Make-Believe shows you exactly how to do it. Enjoy!" Jim Davis, creator of the Garfield comic strip
£14.20
Houghton Library,U.S. The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton
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£26.96
Houghton Library,U.S. The Work of Stephen Harvard
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£17.95
Ohio State University Press Sun Cycle
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£14.40
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Brass Book American English and European
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bills and Feet An Artisans Handbook William
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£12.59
University of Washington Press Metaphor Into Form
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£33.96
Terra Foundation for American Art Chicago Modern 18931945 Pursuit of the New
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£43.18
University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Lady Peintures et photographies
Book SynopsisThe Gilded Age of United States inspired an equally extravagant artistic outpouring, particularly in portraiture of high-society women. This volume brings a fresh perspective to the Gilded Age, revealing it as a period of fruitful exchange between French and American artists, between painting and photography, and between tradition and avant-garde.
£46.93
University of Chicago Press SpaceSightSelf
Book SynopsisThe exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues - identity, vision and place. This catalogue documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights and selves.
£14.41
The University of Chicago Press Pious Journeys Christian Devotional Art and
Book SynopsisIn their protracted search for divinity, Western European Christians follwed many paths to personal connection with the eternal, including the acquisition of art, objects and artifacts. The essays in this work consider the role these objects and images played in these spiritual journeys.
£16.50
The University of Chicago Press Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
Book SynopsisThis text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me, Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators.
£41.18
University of Chicago Press Confronting Identities in German Art Myths
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be German? This catalogue to accompany the exhibtion at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art turns to artworks, artists, and their audiences to explore how Germans of the past two centuries have confronted issues of identity, both individual and collective.
£30.39
University of Chicago Press Smart Collecting Acquisitions 19902004
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£24.00
University of Chicago Press OneMany Western American Survey Photographs by
Book SynopsisFocusing on the photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view, this title brings together a group of photographs by William Bell and Timothy H O'Sullivan. It investigates their role and purpose, taking into account the larger context of nineteenth-century modes of viewing.
£21.00
University of Chicago Press Looking and Listening in NineteenthCentury France
Book SynopsisDifferent eras experience art in different ways. This title uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and recorded music to demonstrate how technological developments and changing social settings transformed the French experience of art in the nineteenth century.
£26.27
University of Chicago Press The Writing of Modern Life The Etching Revival in
Book SynopsisExamines British, French, and American artists who from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth-century afterlife practiced etching as a form of quasi-literary authorship. This title is suitable for literary and art historians alike.
£15.00
The University of Chicago Press Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of
Book SynopsisThe exhibition Echoes of the Past draws upon the findings of a multiyear research project headed by Katherine R. Tsiang at the University of Chicago's Center for the Arts of East Asia. This exhibition catalog features entries with full-color illustrations of the works in the exhibition.
£34.00
The University of Chicago Press Feast
Book SynopsisExplores the role of the meal in contemporary art. This title offers the survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment.
£34.00
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Window Interface Screen Arts and New Media
Book SynopsisExplores how artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Monika Fleischmann, Pierre Huyghe, Richard Long, and others address the role of windows and interfaces as mediums of perception and transport. This book investigates art that explores the limits of the body in relation to the surrounding world and reveals the embodied character of human experience.
£18.10
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings
Book SynopsisThaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books. This title marks the artist's first major museum show.
£22.50
University of Chicago Press Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation
Book SynopsisFeatures the Cologne-based artist Cosima von Bonin's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. This title presents a selection of colorful images of Cosima von Bonin's playful yet deeply thoughtful and suggestive work.
£10.70
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum In the Aftermath of Trauma Contemporary Video
Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, this title presents the work of contemporary video artists from around the world who use their medium to probe traumatic experiences and their aftermath.
£26.63
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum AI Weiwei Bare Life
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cultural traditions, are deeply engaged with the history of art, drawing particularly on conceptualism and minimalism. Informed by the readymadecentral to the work of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warholhis work questions the status of the work of art itself, blurring the lines between art and non-art, invention and appropriation, structure and openness, even fiction and fact. From the start of his multifaceted career in the late 1970s, Ai has envisioned artistic practice as a deeply human, moral, and political endeavor. This volumea hybrid between a scholarly study and an exhibition catalogpresents the artist's work in dialogue with theoretical texts by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt alongs
£40.19
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Literary and Art Theories in Japan
Book SynopsisSurveys major aestheticians to uncover what remained important over the course of Japanese history. Rather than take a comprehensive descriptive approach, Makoto Ueda focuses on views of the essential nature of literature and art, considering how people answered questions such as ""How does art differ from life?"" or ""What is the use of art?"".
£27.69
New Amsterdam Books English Watercolors An Introduction
Book Synopsis"To compare the history of English watercolors into 160 pages might seem foolhardy, yet this jewel of a book does so with style."âPublisher's WeeklyTrade ReviewA jewel of a book. * Publishers Weekly *
£26.25
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Arturo Herrera
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Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Black is Black Aint
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£47.43
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Nora Schultz Parrottree
Book SynopsisPublished on the occasion of Nora Schultz's exhibition Parrottree-Building for Bigger than Real, January 12 February 23, 2014. It was Schultz's first solo museum show in the US and the first show curated at the Renaissance Society by new Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Øvstebø. Nora Schultz: Parrottree is a unique and ambitious hybrid between exhibition catalog and artist's book. Along with photo documentation of the Renaissance Society installation and an essay by the curator Solveig Øvstebø, the publication also includes The Parrot Magazine by Nora Schultz, a 64-page magazine made by parrots for parrots and for all birds that need to integrate into human society under aggravated circumstances. Additionally, experimental writing pieces by Keren Cytter and Seth Price, and a visual art project by John Kelsey were all commissioned specifically for this book.
£30.00
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago David Maljkovic Also on View
Book SynopsisAlongside each of his exhibitions, David Maljkovic translates his work into the form of a book, which becomes another medium in the practice of this interdisciplinary artist. For Also on View, he collaborated with designer Toni Uroda to channel the themes and methods of his 2019 solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society. In the book, a rendition of Maljkovic's public artist talk from the opening night of the exhibition is accompanied by a dynamic array of images. While embracing a wide range of mediaincluding photography, painting, video, sculpture, and various hybridsthe Croatian artist has developed distinctive methods of incorporating and refiguring his own earlier works in new installations. For his exhibition and corresponding publication at the Renaissance Society, Maljkovic revisited elements that originated from previous projects, and gathered them together in a presentation of works tailored to the unique architectural space. Altered photographs, paintings directly on the gallery walls, videos, and sculptures accumulate into a rich and varied collection of works.
£26.88
Trolley Books Paul Fryer Dont Be So
Book SynopsisPaul Fryer is an Artist, Poet and Musician who lives and works in London. Studying briefly at Leeds College of Art, Paul subsequently became involved in the Leeds legendary Vague and Kit Kat clubs.
£21.21
Trolley Books Nick Waplington Learn How To Die The Easy Way
Book SynopsisAs Nick Waplington's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2001, these photographs express a yearning for the artistic and commercial freedom that the Web might yet expose, and a celebration of the dislocated reason behind conventional thoughts and the media they use.
£23.99
Michael Butterworth Corridor8 v 3 Pt 2
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£8.20
Fitzwilliam Museum 6000 Years of African Combs
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£999.99
Fitzwilliam Museum Origins of the Afro Comb
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£17.20
Anomie Publishing Meekyoung Shin
Book SynopsisLondon and Seoul-based Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) is internationally renowned for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when objects of distinct cultural and historical specificity are dislocated from their original context.
£21.35
West Grinstead Publications The Creation of Gothic Architecture 2 volume set
Book SynopsisFirst part of 5-part history of the development of Gothic in the churches of the Paris Basin, 1120-1250.The Creation of Gothic Architecture 2 volume set is a five-part illustrated thesaurus of the Early Gothic churches in the limestone region of northern France known as the Paris Basin. It focuses on the transformation from romanesque to gothic architecture during the years between 1120 and 1250, and when complete it will provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 1,420 churches of the Paris Basin. Most of these churches, which represent a vital step in the evolution of western European architecture, are barely known outside the region, and have been little recorded. The completed project will: provide a photographic description of all the more significant churches; analyse stylistic changes to foliate capitals and vault-erection techniques; establish a foundation for dating the contruction phases of the churches; and, using this chronology, will identify the time and place for each of the creative ideas, inventions and innovations that produced the gothic style, follow their evolution from place to place, and identify the major creators. Dr JOHN JAMES is a world authority on medieval architecture, author of over sixty books and articles.Trade ReviewIn this monumental study, James and several collaborators have brought together a formidable resource. The scale of James' enterprise far surpasses any previous attempts at the systematic collection of this type of data, which is why this study is so very useful.[...]These volumes are a fundamental resource for the study of medieval art in northern France, and every library associated with the teaching of medieval art and architecture should have them. * SPECULUM *No serious art-historical library should be without it. [The publisher] is to be congratulated for taking on this epic venture. * THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE. *
£625.50
Square Halo Books Objects of Grace Conversations on Creativity
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£18.99
Whale & Star Press Unbroken Poetry
Book SynopsisDrawing from the artist's sketchbooks, personal interviews with the artist and the works of Martinez Celaya, the author describes his impetus and methods in a conceptual volume of exceptional beauty and voice.
£28.80
The University of Chicago Press What Happened to Art Criticism
Book SynopsisIn this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for the changes in writing about art, from passionate to academic.
£11.78
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library Italian Ballet 16371977
Book SynopsisFor the second catalogue of materials from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Professor Ward has selected over 2,100 items relating to Italian ballet from the seventeenth through the twentieth century.
£35.66
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press The Uncommon Denominator
Book SynopsisThe Uncommon Denominatorpresents a spectrum of aesthetic eloquence and technical mastery in the ceramic arts.Hirsch has achieved professional recognition both as a ceramic artist and teacher.The Uncommon Denominator: A Tribute to Richard Hirsch presents a spectrum of aesthetic eloquence and technical mastery in the ceramic arts. Originally published to coincide with a traveling exhibition, this catalog celebrates the career of Hirsch through the work of a selection of his alumni. He has achieved professional recognition both as a ceramic artist and teacher. During his teaching career, which has spanned over thirty years, he has been a faculty member of two prominent craft programs: the Program in Artisanry at Boston University, and currently, the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. Many of Hirsch's former students have established their own outstanding careers in the contemporary ceramics field. Represented in The Uncommon Denominator are notable examples of the renaissance in utilitarian pottery, continued interest in the vessel aesthetic, and the investigation of both figurative and abstract sculpture.
£12.34
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC Museum Inc. Inside the Global Art World
Book SynopsisHas corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. Written in a witty and argumentative style, this book describes the art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture.
£11.78
