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Hardback. Tells the story of David Ireland's house, a rundown Victorian in the Mission District of San Francisco that the artist transformed into an environmental artwork, taking the detritus of his restoration labors as well as objects left behind by previous owners and refashioning them into sculptures. Num Pages: 120 pages, 36 color, 43 b/w. BIC Classification: AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520280281
- ISBN
- 9780520280281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.94
€ 32.99
€ 23.94
Paperback. Presents the world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC. This title traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. Editor(s): Tait, Hugh. Num Pages: 280 pages, 328 illustrations, 300 in colour. BIC Classification: AFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1340. 280 pages, 328 illustrations, 300 in colour. Editor(s): Tait, Hugh. Presents the world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC. This title traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AFP. Dimension: 275 x 219 x 22. Weight: 1316.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714150956
- ISBN
- 9780714150956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.91
€ 32.99
€ 23.91
Paperback. A colour compendium of tile art and production from around the world, ranging from ancient times onwards. Placing the tiles firmly in their historical and cultural context, it highlights the continuity and diversity of tiles, examining how tile art in one time and place has inspired and rejuvenated those in others. Num Pages: 304 pages, 330 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFP; AFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714150994
- ISBN
- 9780714150994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.50
€ 32.99
€ 23.50
Paperback. This wonderful book will spur hopelessly addicted Santa carvers to new heights and depths. Here are 60 of Al Streetmans whimsical, humorous caricature patterns, bringing exciting new dimensions to Santa carving. Al takes the carver step-by-step through the carving of a Santa flying on a candy cane to deliver his goods. Num Pages: 64 pages, 105 color photos, patterns for 60 Santas. BIC Classification: AFKC; WD; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 278 x 8. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887409967
- ISBN
- 9780887409967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.10
€ 16.10
Paperback. This deceptively simple and addictive sketchbook-with-content includes tons of hip and entertaining things to draw. Encourages artists to try their hands at things like a bike, mistakes, Fred Astaire, synchronized swimmers, a sippy cup, RUN DMC, feelings, a waffle, the view from an airplane, and many many more. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: AFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 718. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0015351
- ISBN
- 9780811876445
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was the artist Francis Bacon's home and studio for over 30 years. On his death in 1992, access was granted to photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this fascinating record of the artist's private space and its contents. Num Pages: 120 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ACX; AFC; AGB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500510346
- ISBN
- 9780500510346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.80
€ 25.99
€ 19.80
Paperback. Includes drawings of street wear, active wear, bridal wear, swim wear and lingerie. This title covers the topics of composition how best to group together figures when illustrating a line of garments; concept drawings developing the skills necessary to make quick studies or to jot down ideas; and, more. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations (some col.), col. ports. BIC Classification: AFF; AGZ; AKTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 330 x 232 x 39. Weight in Grams: 3012.
- Publisher
- 9 Heads Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970246356
- ISBN
- 9780970246356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 44.90
€ 51.78
€ 44.90
Paperback. does drawing make one 'see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still', as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media - from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad - have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 181 illustrations, 174 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 269 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500292259
- ISBN
- 9780500292259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.01
€ 21.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. Offers a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 onwards. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book shows how performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. Editor(s): Wood, Catherine. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AFKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 9. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849760201
- ISBN
- 9781849760201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.80
€ 26.99
€ 22.80
Hardback. A dictionary that provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 617 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AFKB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 176 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 617
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300149654
- ISBN
- 9780300149654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.76€ 73.91
€ 91.76
€ 73.91
Hardcover. The amazing story of the life and work of the renowned botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian is told alongside her beautiful illustrations of butterflies in this charming and elegant book. Num Pages: 144 pages, 70 colour. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Prestel
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783791381497
- ISBN
- 9783791381497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.35
€ 19.99
€ 15.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160. .
- Publisher
- Hayward Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853323454
- ISBN
- 9781853323454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.88
€ 29.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto", a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is unusual in its iconography. This book uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. Translator(s): Goodman, John. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 280. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734424
- ISBN
- 9780804734424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.63
€ 26.99
€ 26.63
Paperback. How faces are captured shows in striking ways the artistic aims of those who painted them. But how can the depiction of a face suggest a personality? This book tackles this and other questions, and introduces such issues as the ideals of beauty and how portrait painters have captured a likeness and convey character. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- National Gallery London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857094640
- ISBN
- 9781857094640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 80 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146. .
- Publisher
- National Gallery London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857096163
- ISBN
- 9781857096163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. A guide that helps readers identify saints and their significance in a painting - be it from the National Gallery or from other collections. It explains, through the National Gallery's collection of religious images, the significance of saints and their role in the history of European painting as well as different types of saints. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- National Gallery London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857094657
- ISBN
- 9781857094657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. This big book presents a wide range of cast metal bookend designs shown in over 500 color photos. Each is identified and there are histories of the manufacturers, book racks, catalogs and a useful identification and buyers' guide. Num Pages: 192 pages, 573 color photos. BIC Classification: AFT; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 281 x 12. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764300400
- ISBN
- 9780764300400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.17
€ 41.99
€ 32.17
Hardcover. This unrivalled new companion to the dynamic and fast-moving world of digital art gives readers an in-depth understanding of the form, covering its history and evolution, aesthetics, and politics, as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions. Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: AFKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118475201
- ISBN
- 9781118475201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 207.38
€ 207.38
Hardcover. Focuses on an overlooked strand in British painting of the 1930s. This title reveals a small group of figure painters, situated stylistically between the avant-garde abstractionists and the entrenched Edwardian traditions of belle peinture, who were looking for ways of being both modern and in touch with a wide public. Num Pages: 112 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; AFC; AGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Publisher
- Philip Wilson Publishers
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856676192
- ISBN
- 9780856676192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 36.90
€ 44.99
€ 36.90
Paperback. The main body of this work is a collection of 24 photographs of Picasso and others at a cafe in Paris in the mid 1910s. They have been analyzed for date and time and present a record of the artist and his friends. Short biographies and more illustrative material is included. Num Pages: 110 pages, 70. BIC Classification: 3JJF; AFC; AGB; AJCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 4. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262611473
- ISBN
- 9780262611473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.30
€ 20.99
€ 18.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACX; AFC; AGNB; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927330050
- ISBN
- 9781927330050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.74
€ 33.99
€ 22.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, 250+ color photos, 11 patterns. BIC Classification: 5HC; AFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887408816
- ISBN
- 9780887408816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.66
€ 15.99
€ 14.66
Hardback. Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book studies Whistler and his Impressionist followers and offers an analysis of Whistler's art as well as fresh insights into his modernist project. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 90 b&w illustrations and 40 colour images. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 192 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135459
- ISBN
- 9780300135459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.62€ 40.56
€ 51.62
€ 40.56
Paperback. Presents the history of artists' film and video in Britain. Structured in two parts ('Institutions' and 'Artists and Movements'), this work considers the work of some 300 artists, including Kenneth Macpherson, Basil Wright, Len Lye, Humphrey Jennings, Margaret Tait, Jeff Keen, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Le Grice, and Peter Gidal. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; AFKV; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1062.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844570966
- ISBN
- 9781844570966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.90
€ 46.99
€ 45.90