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Bloomsbury Look
ISBN: HB: 9780300244113, Yale University Press, October 2020
184 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.
The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of forward-thinking writers, artists, and intellectuals in London, with Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster among its esteemed members. The group's works and radical beliefs, spanning lit...
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£30,00
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Bernini's Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300247732, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus.
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti – the master of the previous age. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first co...
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£50,00
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Becoming America Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300247565, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 271 colour illus.
"Becoming America" offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant...
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£40,00
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Beyond Aesthetics Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions
ISBN: HB: 9780300247626, Yale University Press, February 2020
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the motivations of the collector, as well as a highly personal look at the politics of aesthetics an...
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£20,00
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Bestowing Beauty Masterpieces from Persian Lands - Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300247022, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 175 colour illus.
"Bestowing Beauty" showcases an assortment of stunning works from one of the world's most distinguished private collections of Persian art. Featuring more than 100 exquisite objects spanning many centuries, from the eve of the Islamic period in the 6...
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£65,00
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Baroque Pathways The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome
ISBN: HB: 9783791358093, Prestel Publishing, August 2019
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome host one of the major collections of Italian Baroque paintings. This art has been admired all over Europe. The monarchs aimed to transfer the glamour of Roman Baroque to their courts. In the 18th centu...
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£39,99
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Book of Beasts The Bestiary in the Medieval World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065907, Getty Publications, June 2019
356 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the tiger...
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£45,00
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Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance
ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.
Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...
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£19,95
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Birds of a Feather...
ISBN: HB: 9785912083648, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
304 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm
The symbolism surrounding the bird is unequalled by any other creature. Godlike, mysterious, benevolent or evil, they can be associated with fire, with freedom, with fragility and have been a recurrent symbol in mythology, literature and art through...
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£12,99
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Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life
ISBN: HB: 9781857096439, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2019
96 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 40 colour illus.
In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two...
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£16,95
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