art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...
PB:
£40,00
QTY:
En Passant Impressionism in Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9783791359618, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
360 pp., 28x23 cm, 335 colour illus.
Is there such a thing as "Impressionist sculpture"? Since 1881 when Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, the term has existed along with the discourse around it. This book is dedicated to t...
HB:
£45,00
QTY:
Eloquent Bodies Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780300214017, Yale University Press, May 2020
340 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 211 colour illus., 322 black&white illus.
Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe dazzle visitors with arrays of sculpted saints, angels, and noble patrons adorning their portals and interiors. In this highly original and erudite volume, Jacqueline E. Jung explores how medieval sculptors used a...
HB:
£60,00
QTY:
El Greco Ambition and Defiance
ISBN: HB: 9780300250824, Yale University Press, March 2020
208 pp., 33x22.8 cm, 137 colour and black&white illus.
Renowned for a singular artistic vision, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541-1614), developed his distinctive painting style as he assiduously pursued professional success. This fresh and engaging survey of El Greco's work explores vari...
HB:
£35,00
QTY:
Eternal Feast Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300246902, Yale University Press, January 2020
196 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 137 colour illus.
Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to this day. This book focuses on feasting in the 10th through 14th centuries, examining Chinese paintings o...
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
Endless Periphery Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226481456, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 127 colour plates, 45 halftones
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...
HB:
£49,00
QTY:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
ISBN: HB: 9783791359342, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
180 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of colour. He favoured novel applications of paint in unusual matte finishes. For Kirchner, colour was of primary importance, coupled with technique and style....
HB:
£45,00
QTY:
Elizabethan Globalism England, China and the Rainbow Portrait
ISBN: HB: 9781913107031, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.
Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters – from the Caribbean to Asia – created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated...
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9781944929091, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2019
72 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 32 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Though best known as a painter of scrupulous hard-edge abstractions, Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) saw drawing plants as playing a central role in his art. "The drawings from plant life seem to be the bridge to the way of see...
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
Elizabethan Image An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603
ISBN: HB: 9780300244298, Yale University Press, June 2019
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 230 colour illus.
This richly illustrated volume presents an engaging overview of an extraordinary period of English history, the reign of Elizabeth I. Beginning with the great portrait of the Queen in grand procession with her Garter Knights, we discover themes that...
HB:
£35,00
QTY: