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History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

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History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

paperback. Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'. Illustrator(s): Boreham, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSB; HPCD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Icon Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848311787
ISBN
9781848311787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 6.28

Paperback. Published in conjunction with an exhibition over a decade in the making, this volume examines the influence of Claude Monet (1840-1926) on an entire generation of American artists. The exhibition examines how the innovations of French Impressionism were adopted and transformed into one of the most enduring styles in American painting. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 306 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harn Museum of Art United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780983308515
ISBN
9780983308515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.19

Hardback. Looking at representations of nineteenth-century 'oriental' bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracing their global dissemination at cross-cultural intersections of the visual and the political. This book examines orientalism's politico-erotic import across not only imperial Britain and France but also throughout India. Editor(s): DelPlato, Dr. Joan; Codell, Professor Julie F. Num Pages: 252 pages, Includes 36 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409463955
ISBN
9781409463955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.83

Series: College Art Association Monograph. Num Pages: 176 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC; AGB; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 286 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 976.
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271009445
ISBN
9780271009445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.41

hardcover. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 789. Weight in Grams: 1497.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804750622
ISBN
9780804750622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.37

Paperback. Orientalism, the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in European thought, is a controversial and a problematic concept. This book provides a concise text on the evolution and development of the theory of orientalism, the practice of orientalism in history, and its persistence and reformulation. Series: Concepts in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index,. BIC Classification: ACV; JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780335202065
ISBN
9780335202065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.18

hardcover. Modern visual satire erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of art history. This title attempts to reconfigure the geography of modern visual satire, from North America to Europe, to China and the Ottoman Empire. Editor(s): Porterfield, Todd. Num Pages: 240 pages, Includes 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754665915
ISBN
9780754665915
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.81

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558593886
ISBN
9781558593886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.89

Paperback. This volume traces Yeats' fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, especially his interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, helped shape his aesthetic theory and practice as a poet. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 60 photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACVM; AFKB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629955
ISBN
9780815629955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.43

Paperback. Meikle explores the history of American design, from the industrialization of the 19th century and the mass production of the 'machine age' to the information-based society of the present, examining how design, consumerism, and culture connect. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, halftones and full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1D; ACV; ACXD2; ACXJ8; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192842190
ISBN
9780192842190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.23

Paperback. This volume records impressions of life on the 19th- and early-20th-century American frontier by 21 artists better known for their paintings, sculptures and photographs. Most, but not all, of the selections come from journals or diaries kept during trips to the West. Editor(s): Barclay, Donald A. (Librarian, Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, Texas, USA); Maguire, James H. (Professor of English, Boise State University, Idaho, USA); Wild, Peter (Professor of English, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA). Num Pages: 336 pages, 21 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; 3JJ; AB; ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652429
ISBN
9780875652429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.73

Paperback. Series: Zulu Crafts. Num Pages: 108 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVN; AFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 7. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Publishing Print Matters South Africa
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9780980260991
ISBN
9780980260991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.12

Hardcover. This is a study of the Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli, who spent the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Australia and New Zealand and is best known as a teacher of Frances Hodgkins. Num Pages: 154 pages, 42 colour plates, colour and b&w ill. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 284 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781869403355
ISBN
9781869403355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages, 16 colour & 4 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609537
ISBN
9780815609537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACV; ACX; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903470831
ISBN
9781903470831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.91

hardcover. Evocative works in Tonalism, Impressionism, and Naturalism that offer relief from the urban world Num Pages: 225 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACXD; AFC; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611176759
ISBN
9781611176759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.16

Hardback. An exploration of the life and career of Charles Guernsey Tuthill, who was born in 1871 and produced some of America's finest cut glass art. It discusses the business Tuthill founded, the patterns he created, the techniques he used, and the other artisans and consumers he knew. Num Pages: 256 pages, 161 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACX; AFP; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1229.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585441488
ISBN
9781585441488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890901809
ISBN
9780890901809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.93

Paperback. In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States. Editor(s): Hemingway, Andrew; Wallach, Alan. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 188 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1038.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625341143
ISBN
9781625341143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.20

Paperback. Why did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a white woman? Where did the image of the enchained kneeling slave, ubiquitous in abolitionist visual culture on both sides of the Atlantic, come from? This book attempts to answer these questions. Series: Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900. Num Pages: 516 pages, 24 colour & 147 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820334271
ISBN
9780820334271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.89

Paperback. Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated. Editor(s): Busch, Gunter; von Reinken, Liselotte. Translator(s): Wensinger, Arthur S.; Hoey, Carole Clew. Num Pages: 576 pages, 46 b&w plates. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACXD1; AGB; BJ; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810116443
ISBN
9780810116443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

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

€ 81.03

Hardcover. Concentrating on the use of illustration in Victorian literature - especially novels, poems and children's books - the essays collected in this text address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. Topics include the century's best-known illustrators and the use of words as images. Editor(s): Maxwell, Richard. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 125 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; AKLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920979
ISBN
9780813920979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.49

Hardcover. A major study of the Holland Park Circle, this is both a narrative of the lives, works and influence of the artists, architects and their patrons and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values. This was the period of art as great fashion. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 colour plates, 100 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; ACV; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 201 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1252.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300081640
ISBN
9780300081640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.39

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