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Hardcover. Showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. With artists' biographies and details of manufacturers, a full glossary and a thematic index, this volume is suitable for all those interested in the Art Deco style. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 321 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2754.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500239483
ISBN
9780500239483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.75
€ 83.10

Hardcover. From cigarette cases and watches to compacts and lighters, a range of portable, exquisitely crafted classics from the Art Deco era Num Pages: 272 pages, 436 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 240. .
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500518311
ISBN
9780500518311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.14

Paperback. More than 700 streamlined, Art Deco chrome wares presented in 600 photos and illustrations, including table decorations, drinking and buffet items, smoking articles, and lamps, all products of firms such as Chase, Manning-Bowman, Kensington, and Revere. Histories of the firms and their industrial designers appear with patent and design information. Num Pages: 192 pages, 484 color & 117 b/w photos. BIC Classification: ACXD3; AFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764307447
ISBN
9780764307447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Tattoos and tattoo artwork have become part of mainstream culture. This book features twenty-six international artists who use a variety of media, from ink, watercolour, acrylic paint and oil to lino printing, painting on wood and board, and even examples of tattoo-style skateboard graphics. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 Colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
MIN
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780670188
ISBN
9781780670188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.06

Hardcover. A beautiful and comprehensive study of fine, international bronze statuary of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Over 1100 illustrations, 200 in color, and carefully researched text with relevant marks, inscriptions, artist signatures, dates, and foundry stamps. Over 450 artists are represented. Num Pages: 330 pages, 1100 photos & drawings. BIC Classification: AFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 311 x 241 x 42. Weight in Grams: 3140.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887401220
ISBN
9780887401220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.78
€ 75.16

Cards. 25 greeting cards featuring images from The Art Book. Dimension: 178 x 149 x 49. Weight in Grams: 585.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Publication date
2012
Edition
Gcr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714865256
ISBN
9780714865256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.50

hardcover. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Back in Print
SKU
V9781442647923
ISBN
9781442647923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.74

Paperback. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442616042
ISBN
9781442616042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.77

Hardback. Provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This book gives a sweeping tour through the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy as it offers and revised views on a broad range of important subjects. Num Pages: 464 pages, 259 color illus. 49 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 288 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162492
ISBN
9780691162492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64
€ 80.24

hardcover. Kay's local study of the debate over cultural modernism in Imperial Germany makes a significant contribution both to the study of modernism and to the history of German culture. Num Pages: 184 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACV; AFC; BGH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802009227
ISBN
9780802009227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.72

Paperback. Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349362042
ISBN
9781349362042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. In the early 1650s Ferdinand Bol produced a series of wall-covering paintings. This 'painted chamber' is a unique example of a branch of the art of painting which was extremely popular in the seventeenth century, although hardly any of it now remains. Bol's ensemble has always been surrounded by mysteries. Who was the initial owner, what was the re Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. Num Pages: 324 pages, 89 black and white 121 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; ABC; ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 260 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1464. The Ambitions of a Wealthy Widow in a Painted Chamber by Ferdinand Bol. Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. 297 pages, 89 black and white 121 colour illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; ABC; ACQ; AFC; AGB. Dimension: 260 x 260 x 20. Weight: 1464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089643261
ISBN
9789089643261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.67

Paperback. Explores the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular Chinese woodblock prints Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AFTB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 595.
Publisher
U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892641543
ISBN
9780892641543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.93
€ 50.86

Hardcover. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of traditional Japanese ceramic culture as interpreted by today's leading designers Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JM; ACBP; AFPC; AKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 300 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1900.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714871981
ISBN
9780714871981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.44
€ 44.46

Paperback. Are you Experienced? explores immediacy and immanence in the practices of some of the world's leading artists; highlighting a recent approach in contemporary art wherein the experience of the work is all-encompassing. To be present with the work is to understand it. Num Pages: 192 pages, 203 colour and b/w ills. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910433010
ISBN
9781910433010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.34

Hardcover. In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. This title offers an overview of Arcimboldo's life and work, exploring the artist's early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Num Pages: 288 pages, 39 colour plates, 43 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 224 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226426860
ISBN
9780226426860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.90
€ 68.12

paperback. An introduction to the art of archaic and classical Greece. Looking at the social and cultural contexts in which the rich diversity of Greek arts were produced, Robin Osborne shows how artistic developments were both a product of, and contributed to, the intensely competitive life of the Greek city. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, numerous colour plates and black and white halftones, 3 plans, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG; AFC; AFK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192842022
ISBN
9780192842022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.34

Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGB; AJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 341 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2926.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Tulika Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9789382381761
ISBN
9789382381761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.75
€ 71.25

Hardcover. This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AFKP; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241336
ISBN
9780230241336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.75

Paperback. Apocalypse documents, reproduces and interpets the Apocalypse cycle in the Great East Window of York Minster, Britain's largest expanse of medieval stained glass Num Pages: 160 pages, 125. BIC Classification: AFPS; AMN; HRCC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Third Millenium Pub Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908990327
ISBN
9781908990327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 313 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1552.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764347856
ISBN
9780764347856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 27.89

Hardback. Presents a Portrait of a Lady from the Poldi Pezzoli museum in Milan, one of the greatest masterpieces of Florentine portraiture from the latter half of the 15th century, investigates the art of the Pollaiolo brothers: Antonio, a goldsmith, painter and sculptor, and the most famous of the three; Piero, a painter; and Silvestro. Num Pages: 288 pages, 203 illustrations, 184 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND; AFC; AFKG; AFW; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 311 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1866.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857224749
ISBN
9788857224749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.43

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
h.f.ullmann
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9783848005543
ISBN
9783848005543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 9.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 169 color images. BIC Classification: AF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 214 x 7. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764336157
ISBN
9780764336157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.85

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