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Chevening A Seat of Diplomacy
ISBN: HB: 9781911300113, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 25x22 cm, 100 colour illus.
Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800 years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation of seven generations of the Stanhope family, bui...
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£30,00
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Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...
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£25,00
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Basic Instincts Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
ISBN: PB: 9781911300281, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), an artist of status and substance in his day, who is now largely unknown. It takes as its focus Highmore...
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£25,00
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Garden at War Deception, Craft and Reason at Stowe
ISBN: PB: 9781911300229, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 40 illus.
At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland off er a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. Unlike its French fl oricultural precursors, Stowe presents sudden shifts of scene, abrupt revelations, as well as spots at which to stop...
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£12,00
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William Henry Hunt Country People
ISBN: PB: 9781911300236, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
60 pp., 21x21 cm, 25 colour illus.
Taking its lead from W. H. Hunt's watercolour The Head Gardener, c. 1825, that is part of The Courtauld Gallery's permanent collection, this focused display will be first to investigate Hunt's depiction of rural figures in his work of the 1820s and 1...
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£12,00
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British Art Ancient Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9781911300144, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, April 2017
120 pp., 28x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery, this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoric moments across Britain from the 18th century to the 21st. While some of the works in the earlier...
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£25,00
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Creating the Countryside The Rural Idyll
ISBN: PB: 9781911300106, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, March 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.
From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air fresheners, contemporary art to computer games – a constellation of powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rur...
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£20,00
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Reservoir of Ideas Essays in Honour of Paul Williamson
ISBN: HB: 9781911300168, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
292 pp., 28.7x24.7 cm, 130 illus.
This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contributors, all friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, are prominent experts in their different fields,...
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£50,00
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Art of G. F. Watts
ISBN: PB: 9781911300076, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 colour illus.
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G. F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most charismatic figures in the history of British art. Covering all aspects of Watts's career, it places hi...
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£17,00
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Important European Sculpture Tomasso Brothers Fine Art
ISBN: HB: 9781911300151, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm
This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such...
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£30,00
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