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Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.
A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...
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£75,00
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Crisis of Reason European Thought, 1848-1914
ISBN: PB: 9780300097184, Yale University Press, November 2002
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War. Broader than a straight survey, deeper and richer than a textbook, this work seeks to place the reader in the po...
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£24,00
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From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon
ISBN: HB: 9780300096965, Yale University Press, November 2002
160 pp., 19.6x28 cm, 10 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.
During the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, me...
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£25,00
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Ireland's Painters
ISBN: HB: 9780300097658, Yale University Press, October 2002
352 pp., 32.9x25.9 cm, 50 black&white illus., 375 colour illus.
This illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Irelan...
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£45,00
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Catherine the Great A Short History
ISBN: PB: 9780300097221, Yale University Press, September 2002
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 17 illus.
Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584) is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – he has been credited with establi...
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£9,99
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Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300044942, Yale University Press, September 2002
808 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania". Thi...
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£70,00
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780300094473, Yale University Press, August 2002
416 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 300 colour illus.
An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.
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£40,00
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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835
ISBN: HB: 9780300093728, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2002
444 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 450 black&white illus., 126 colour illus.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a collection of more than 1400 works in watercolour, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk and charcoal. This catalogue, the first volume in a series devoted to the...
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£58,00
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New Paradigm in Architecture The Language of Post-modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300095128, Yale University Press, June 2002
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 60 black&white illus., 310 colour illus.
The story of a movement that changed the face of architecture over the last 40 years of the 20th century. Starting with the counter culture of the 1960s and the call for a complex urbanism by Jane Jacobs and a complex architecture by Robert Venturi,...
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£35,00
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Seeing Through Paintings Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780300094084, Yale University Press, May 2002
312 pp., 25.9x19.9 cm, 217 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present.
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£35,00
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