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Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300148268, Yale University Press, February 2009
288 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow process of evolution by "natural selection", the dynamic interplay of life forms...
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£50,00
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Art of Defeat France 1940-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780892368914, Getty Publications, January 2009
448 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 32 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This is an unflinching and honest portrayal of how numerous artists and their works were used during the German occupation of France. "Art of the Defeat" provides an unflinching an honest look at the art scene in France during the German occupation o...
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£35,00
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Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Volume 1: Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600
ISBN: HB: 9789086890279, Yale University Press, January 2009
584 pp., 39.5x39.5 cm, colour illus.
This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world's largest and most representative collection of paintings from the Dutch Golde...
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£350,00
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Picasso and the Allure of Language
ISBN: PB: 9780300135466, Yale University Press, January 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 156 colour images, 62 black&white illus.
Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso had close friendships with writers and an abiding interest in the written word. This groundbreaking book, which draws on the collections of Yale University, traces the relationship that Picasso had with literature a...
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£30,00
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Arts of Ancient Vietnam From River Plain to Open Sea
ISBN: PB: 9780300146967, Yale University Press, January 2009
416 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 3 maps, 246 colour illus.
Once a strategic trading post that channeled the flow of riches and ideas among countries situated along the South China Sea and places as far away as India and Rome, Vietnam has a fascinating history and an artistic heritage to match it. This lavish...
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£35,00
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Picturing the Bible The Earliest Christian Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300149340, Yale University Press, January 2009
328 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 251 colour images, 52 black&white illus.
"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images...
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£40,00
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Prato Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-state
ISBN: HB: 9780300137149, Yale University Press, January 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour images, 102 black&white illus.
This handsome book recounts the historical development of one city republic, Prato in Tuscany, from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. In telling the story of Prato's origins, construction, and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, a...
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£65,00
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Heyer Schapiro Abroad Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks
ISBN: HB: 9780892368938, Getty Publications, January 2009
280 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 8 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.
This is an intimate and illuminating collection of personal letters and notebook pages from one of the 20th century's leading art historians. Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was one of the 20th century's leading art historians. This volume brings together...
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£30,00
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History of Church in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892369362, Getty Publications, January 2009
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
A fascinating look at the history of the Christian Church as portrayed throughout Western art. This richly illustrated volume argues that, because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church,...
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£16,99
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"Writing" of Modern Life The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780935573459, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2009
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 75 halftones
What is it about etching that renders it – according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer – a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and mod...
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£15,00
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