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Masters of Art Schiele
ISBN: PB: 9783791386263, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Egon Schiele left an enormous artistic legacy that is all the more powerful for the brevity of his career. Isabel Kuhl's lively text follows Schiele's trajectory from an artist in the Art Nouveau style to a powerful interpreter of human sexuality and...
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£9,99
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Marie Cuttoli The Modern Thread from Miro to Man Ray
ISBN: HB: 9780300251319, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 100 colour illus.
Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to p...
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£35,00
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Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece
ISBN: PB: 9781857096606, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2020
72 pp., 27.1x22.8 cm, 50 colour illus.
This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the artist's most celebrated: "The Virgin of the Rocks". The quarter-century p...
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£10,00
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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...
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£40,00
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Making Marvels Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781588396778, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2019
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus.
At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inven...
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£50,00
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On Color
ISBN: PB: 9780300248463, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 47 colour illus.
Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a...
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£14,99
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Millet and Modern Art From Van Gogh to Dali
ISBN: HB: 9780300248661, Yale University Press, October 2019
208 pp., 27.9x21.9 cm, 192 colour and black&white illus.
Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School. Through his publicly exhibited works and their critical reception, Millet was of crucial significance to modernist painters. Millet's modernity is evident...
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£30,00
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Vincent Van Gogh
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385983, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...
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£14,99
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Toward a Global Middle Ages Encountering the World through Illuminated
ISBN: PB: 9781606065983, Getty Publications, August 2019
296 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books – like today's museums – preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures and everyone's place in it. Often a Eurocentr...
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£45,00
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Leonardo Da Vinci The 100 Milestones
ISBN: HB: 9781454930426, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2019
224 pp., 27.7x23.9 cm, colour illus.
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the s...
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£25,00
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