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Hardback. Accompanying the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the Tsars of Russia. It explores the reasons why these extraordinary gifts were presented, their artistic and cultural impact. Editor(s): Levykin, Alexey Konstantinovich. Num Pages: 160 pages, 107 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 263 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1462.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500514979
ISBN
9780500514979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.85

paperback. Wrapping in Images is a comparative analysis of tattooing in Polynesia in its original setting. It shows how tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person in the main Polynesian societies, and provides a new perspective on Polynesian comparative sociology. Series: Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology: Cultural Forms. Num Pages: 358 pages, 35 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKP; AFY; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780198280903
ISBN
9780198280903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 153.58

Paperback. Throughout the history of imperial China, the educational elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. By examining literary archetypes, titles of paintings, inscriptions and the historical context, this text shows that paintings expressed strong political opinions. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 434 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; 3H; ACK; AFC; DSBB; DSC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 276 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674007826
ISBN
9780674007826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.68

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Anomie Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910221013
ISBN
9781910221013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. Featuring the works of key Scottish painters and sculptors between 1885 and 1965. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; ACX; AFC; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 265. .
Publisher
National Galleries of Scotland United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906270896
ISBN
9781906270896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.86

Hardback. Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as 'The Scottish Colourists'. This illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to the artist in his home town of Edinburgh, and throws fascinating new light on Peploe's life, on the influence of France on his work, and on his posthumous reputation. Num Pages: 96 pages, 88 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 272 x 16. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300189766
ISBN
9780300189766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.44

Hardback. A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259522
ISBN
9780520259522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.05
€ 62.04

Paperback. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Royal Academy Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910350669
ISBN
9781910350669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.06

Paperback. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339655
ISBN
9781349339655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.18

Paperback. .
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714126883
ISBN
9780714126883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.34

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253223357
ISBN
9780253223357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Presents an introduction to how actor training shapes modern theatre. Num Pages: 368 pages, 65 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AFKP; ANC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415471688
ISBN
9780415471688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.68

Paperback. Alison Ospina has been making green wood chairs and stools for over twenty years. She has developed her own distinctive approach to creating sculptural, functional chairs using the natural shapes of the tree. Num Pages: 9 pages, 130 Colour/ 25 Line. BIC Classification: AFT; WFV; WKDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 297 x 210. .
Publisher
Stobart Davies Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780854421473
ISBN
9780854421473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 192 color photos. BIC Classification: AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 808. Codes of Authority, Domination and Struggle. 160 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AFY. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight: 802.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764317644
ISBN
9780764317644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.65

Hardback. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology. Num Pages: 390 pages, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; AFKG; HDDG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138816039
ISBN
9781138816039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.22

Paperback. Assembles 13 key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, from painting to architecture. Editor(s): Efimova, Alla; Manovich, Lev. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18ill.2figs. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AC; AFT; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226951249
ISBN
9780226951249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.73

Hardback. People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFP; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 231 x 24. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780236421
ISBN
9781780236421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. A survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art - the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. It explores developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 400 pages, 200 colour images + 150 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; ACV; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 297 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300175677
ISBN
9780300175677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.38
€ 48.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 300 color photos. BIC Classification: AFC; AGZ; WFA; WFBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612436449
ISBN
9781612436449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, this title re-stages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity. Num Pages: 64 pages, 34 colour plates. BIC Classification: AFW; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780936316307
ISBN
9780936316307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.59

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Mucha, Alphonse. Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art. Num Pages: 75 pages, 70 illustrations, 9 in colour. BIC Classification: AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 228 x 6. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
75
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486236728
ISBN
9780486236728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.78

Paperback. This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting. Num Pages: 224 pages, 300 col illus. BIC Classification: AFCC; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 189 x 16. Weight in Grams: 688.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007236060
ISBN
9780007236060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: AFC; AFF; AGHF; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Watson-Guptill
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385346276
ISBN
9780385346276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 20.60

Hardcover. Paper cutting for book lovers: a gorgeous celebration of the book-as-object. Num Pages: 176 pages, 200 photos. BIC Classification: AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 185 x 18. Weight in Grams: 714. Nice copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003612
ISBN
9781452117102
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.28

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