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  • Look Again: How to Experience the Old MastersLook Again: How to Experience the Old Masters
    Thames & Hudson

    Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters

    Ossian Ward Softcover | 15.49 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500239674  The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary...
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  • Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the BrushNineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush
    Unicorn Press

    Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush

    Caroline Chapman Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Unicorn | 2021 | 9781913491413 For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assumed that marriage and...
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  • Creation: Art Since the BeginningCreation: Art Since the Beginning
    Bloomsbury

    Creation: Art Since the Beginning

    John-Paul Stonard Hardcover | 19.43 x 4.06 x 25.17 cm | 464 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781408879689 A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse.Fifty thousand years ago on an island...
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  • Postures: Body Language in ArtPostures: Body Language in Art
    Thames & Hudson

    Postures: Body Language in Art

    Desmond Morris Hardcover | 17.53 x 3.81 x 24.89 cm | 320 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022610  Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores...
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  • Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)
    Laurence King

    Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)

    Anne D'Alleva Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 192 pp Laurence King | 2012 | 9781856698993 This book provides an accessible introduction to the range of critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments,...
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  • Great Works: Encounters with ArtGreat Works: Encounters with Art
    Prestel

    Great Works: Encounters with Art

    Michael Glover Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.81 x 24.77 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791383019 Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have turned to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover's thoughts about...
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  • Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London PaintersModernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
    Thames & Hudson

    Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

    Martin Gayford Hardcover | 16.51 x 4.06 x 24.13 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500239773  Modernists & Mavericks presents a masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs...
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  • Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist PeriodGroup Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period
    Hatje Cantz

    Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period

    Softcover | 20.32 x 4.19 x 27.31 cm | 448 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775750400 Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: all over the world, artists joined forces in collectives throughout the twentieth century. While the tendency to form groups was...
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  • Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th CenturyMisère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century
    Thames & Hudson

    Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century

    Linda Nochlin Hardcover | 16.26 x 2.54 x 24.38 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500239698  The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society as rapid economic progress went hand-in-hand with appalling working...
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  • Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art) (Non-mint)Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art) (Non-mint)
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    Thames & Hudson

    Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art) (Non-mint)

    Brendan Prendeville Softcover | 15.24 x 1.78 x 21.34 cm | 224 pp Thames & Hudson | 2000 | 9780500203361  Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book – the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject...
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  • Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
    Thames & Hudson

    Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

    Martin Gayford Softcover | 12.95 x 2.54 x 19.81 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500295182  Lucian Freud (1922–2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford....
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  • Young Michelangelo: The Path To The SistineYoung Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine
    Gerald Duckworth & Co

    Young Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine

    John T. Spike Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.78 x 22.81 cm | 336 pp Gerald Duckworth & Co | 2011 | 9780715640661  This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T....
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  • Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative CultureMaking Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
    MIT Press

    Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

    W. Patrick McCray Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.9 x 23.5 cm | 344 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262044257 Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the...
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  • The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth CenturyThe World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
    Thames & Hudson

    The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

    Timothy Hyman Hardcover | 20.07 x 2.79 x 26.92 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239452 In this passionate reappraisal of figurative painting, the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth century art....
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  • 100 Ideas that Changed Art100 Ideas that Changed Art
    Laurence King

    100 Ideas that Changed Art

    Michael Bird Softcover | 17.02 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 216 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786273888  From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world...
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  • Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)
    Thames & Hudson

    Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)

    Jenny Uglow Hardcover | 19.56 x 1.78 x 25.4 cm | 112 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022627  Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow...
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  • Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their TwentiesDesperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties
    ACC Art Books

    Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties

    Angela S. Jones & Vern G. Swanson  Hardcover | 24.97 x 2.72 x 29.26 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2020 | 9781788840842 Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before...
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  • Barnaby Barford: The Apple is EverythingBarnaby Barford: The Apple is Everything
    ACC Art Books

    Barnaby Barford: The Apple is Everything

    Softcover | 17.02 x 2.64 x 23.65 cm | 288 pp ACC Art Books | 2022 | 9781788841641 In The Apple is Everything, sculptor Barnaby Barford offers a celebration of this fruit using over 240 illustrations and photographs of apples, illustrating their place within...
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  • ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern ArtArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art
    Frances Lincoln

    ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    Susie Hodge Softcover | 15.88 x 2.22 x 20.64 cm | 208 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711254763 Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up....
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  • Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South AmericaRadical Geometry: Modern Art of South America
    RA

    Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America

    Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 176 pp RA | 2014 | 9781907533693 From radical innovations in the use of colour and form to new materials like neon and interactive, kinetic sculpture, this 2014 Royal Academy exhibition presented some of the...
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