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Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-39 An Alliance of Art, Design and Industry
ISBN: HB: 9780300070057, Yale University Press, December 1996
320 pp., 31x24 cm, 150 black&white illus., 130 colour plates
Since the mid-1920s Swedish glass has been synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship, the most highly acclaimed product of the Swedish applied arts industries in the international marketplace. Its development and stunning ascendancy came...
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£50,00
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Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800
ISBN: PB: 9780300064650, Yale University Press, September 1996
336 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 150 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
The Alhambra, the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp "Shahnama", these masterpieces of Islamic art were produced during the period from the Mongol conquest in the early thirteenth century and the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This book s...
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£35,00
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Roger Fry Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226266428, ISBN: HB: 9780226266435, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
447 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory".A Roger Fry Reader", edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a c...
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£31,00
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£76,00
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Judgment of Paris
ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones
Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...
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£28,00
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£88,00
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Making Theory/Constructing Art On the Authority of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226328928, ISBN: HB: 9780226328911, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
370 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones
Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that hav...
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£34,50
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£62,00
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Modelling the Head in Clay
ISBN: PB: 9780823030996, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 1996
160 pp., 27.7x21 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Renowned contemporary sculptor Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of rough in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, enabling the reader to see exactly how...
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£18,99
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Classic Still Life Painting A Contemporary Master Shows How to Achieve Old Master Effects Using Today's Art Materials
ISBN: PB: 9780823034482, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, March 1996
144 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm
Not for sale in selected countries! "Classic Still Life Painting" shows artists how to create paintings of sparkling brilliance and jewel-like color that look like they have been lit from within-just like the exquisite paintings of the Renaissance...
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£21,99
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