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Borders Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300107029, Yale University Press, February 2006
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The Scottish Borders have some of the most romantic countryside in Scotland, ranging from rocky coastline to rolling moors and farmland. The early buildings reflect a history of conflict, expressed in the plethora of castle strongholds and tower hous...
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£60,00
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Goya's Last Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300117677, Yale University Press, February 2006
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 120 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828) had a prolific career and spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political emigres from Spain and South America. In those years and just before his departure from Spain he c...
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£45,00
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Perfect Likeness Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300115802, Yale University Press, February 2006
344 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewellery,...
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£65,00
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Candidates for Fame The Society of Artists for Great Britain, 1760-1791
ISBN: HB: 9780300110043, Yale University Press, February 2006
280 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 black&white illus.
In 1760, an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the first show split exhibitors into rival gro...
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£55,00
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Picasso Architecture and Vertigo
ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.
The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...
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£45,00
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Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools
ISBN: HB: 9780300115840, Yale University Press, February 2006
88 pp., 30.1x27.3 cm, 67 tritone illus.
Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross's most personal series to da...
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£30,00
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Chinese Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780300100655, Yale University Press, February 2006
536 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 468 colour images, 51 black&white illus.
This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neol...
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£85,00
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Body-building Reforming Masculinities in British Art, 1750-1810
ISBN: HB: 9780300110050, Yale University Press, January 2006
352 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 175 black&white illus.
This ambitious and original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a...
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£55,00
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Willem Drost (1633-1659) A Rembrandt Pupil in Amsterdam and Venice
ISBN: HB: 9780300105810, Yale University Press, January 2006
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 20 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
Willem Drost was one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils, and he is also considered one of the most mysterious. This book, the first ever devoted to this exceptional artist, unravels many of the mysteries of Drost's life and career. Curator and art his...
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£75,00
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America and the Sea Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport
ISBN: HB: 9780300114027, Yale University Press, January 2006
159 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, duotone, 175 colour illus.
The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvellous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. Presented with accessible...
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£50,00
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