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Wood Engraving The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving
ISBN: PB: 9781684580484, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; and ho...
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£23,00
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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...
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£35,00
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West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2
ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City,  "West 86th"  reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...
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£16,00
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Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
ISBN: HB: 9780300254501, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 170 colour illus.
In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial Symphony in White pai...
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£40,00
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William Blake Visionary
ISBN: HB: 9781606066423, Getty Publications, August 2020
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
William Blake (1757-1827) is a universal artist – an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most strikin...
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£27,00
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Where the Truth Lies The Art of Qiu Ying
ISBN: HB: 9783791359137, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
240 pp., 29x22 cm, 200 colour illus.
Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming Dynasty masters of the Wu School. This elegantly produced and groundbreaking monograph, the firs...
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£55,00
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Witnessing Slavery Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
ISBN: HB: 9781913107055, Yale University Press, September 2019
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 168 colour and black&white illus.
Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work...
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£45,00
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Whistler in Watercolor Lovely Little Games
ISBN: HB: 9780300243628, Yale University Press, June 2019
286 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour illus.
In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)....
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£30,00
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Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...
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£50,00
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World Between Empires Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781588396839, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2019
332 pp., 27.9x25.1 cm, 344 colour illus.
Emerging as an urgent response to the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, this publication examines the art and architecture of regions that served as major trade routes between the Roman and Parthian Empires from 100 B.C. to A...
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£45,00
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