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Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300210606, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
224 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 375 colour illus.
This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts, forging a uniquely Irish style. Nearly all of the works within this remarkabl...
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£30,00
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James Ensor The Temptation of Saint Anthony
ISBN: HB: 9780300203912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 98 colour illus.
This engaging volume describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony – a work by late 19th-century Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) that is composed of fifty-one sheets of paper co...
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£20,00
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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 49, 2014
ISBN: PB: 9780226212678, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 700 colour plates
The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. The essays in this volume include a new analysis of Gr...
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£66,00
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Master of the Trebon Altarpiece
ISBN: HB: 9788024622613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
330 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, 86 colour plates, 12 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...
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Multiples in Pre-Modern Art
ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones
In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...
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£49,00
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My Concept of Art
ISBN: PB: 9788170463429, Seagull Books, February 2015
72 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, illustrated thoughout
One of India's foremost artists of the twentieth-century, Somnath Hore had a long and storied career that overlapped the boundaries between art and activism. "My Concept of Art" is a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through differen...
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£16,00
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Tea-Garden Journal
ISBN: PB: 9788170463412, Seagull Books, February 2015
108 pp., 31.7x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Famous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a worker's union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized...
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£34,00
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