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  • Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book ArtsGraphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts
    Pennsylvania State University Press

    Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts

    Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.52 x 27.94 cm | 264 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2015 | 9780271071114 The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colourist, a remarkable draftsman, and a...
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  • Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and RivalryVermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
    Yale University Press

    Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

    Hardcover | 29.46 x 25.4 x 2.79 cm | 320 pp Yale University Press | 2017 | 9780300222937 The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art.  The virtuosity of these works,...
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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 been turning to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover's thoughts...
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  • A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer ScreenA History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
    Thames & Hudson

    A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

    David Hockney & Martin Gayford Softcover | 16.5 x 3.2 x 24 cm | 368 pp Thames & Hudson | 2020 | 9781419750281 Informed and energised by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art...
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  • Jackson Pollock: Supplement Number One to a Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other WorksJackson Pollock: Supplement Number One to a Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works
    Pollock-Krasner Foundation

    Jackson Pollock: Supplement Number One to a Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works

    Hardcover in slipcase | 29.3 x 2.6 x 29.8 cm | 90 pp Pollock-Krasner Foundation | 1995 | 9780964463905 Published in 1995, this first supplement to Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works (here-after: JPCR) contains entries for forty-eight new-found works by...
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  • Peggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De StijlPeggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De Stijl
    NAI Publishers

    Peggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De Stijl

    Doris Wintgens Softcover | 19.56 x 1.52 x 25.91 cm | 192 pp NAI Publishers | 2017 | 9789462084100 Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when...
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  • Young Rembrandt: A BiographyYoung Rembrandt: A Biography
    W.W.Norton

    Young Rembrandt: A Biography

    Onno Blom Hardcover | 16.26 x 2.54 x 24.38 cm | 288 pp W. W. Norton | 2020 | 9780393531794 Like Shakespeare, Rembrandt van Rijn left us a world rich with his work but with few clues about his enigmatic life. How did a...
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  • Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 PanelsShort Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels
    Fourth Estate

    Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

    Toby Ferris Hardcover | 15.9 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 336 pp Fourth Estate | 2020 | 9780008340964 This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and...
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  • Michelangelo's Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael
    Princeton University Press

    Michelangelo's Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael

    Erwin Panofsky Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.81 x 22.86 cm | 408 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691165264 The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on Michelangelo.In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a...
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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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  • Gauguin (World of Art)Gauguin (World of Art)
    Thames & Hudson

    Gauguin (World of Art)

    Belinda Thomson Softcover | 15 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 224 pp Thames and Hudson | 2019 | 9780500294642 A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE World of Art TITLES View more books in the World of Art Series Paul Gauguin achieved a high public...
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  • This is MagritteThis is Magritte
    Laurence King

    This is Magritte

    A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.59 x 23.18 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780678504 Belgian artist René Magritte’s biography is a key element of...
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  • The Lives of Lucian Freud (2 volume set)The Lives of Lucian Freud (2 volume set)
    Knopf

    The Lives of Lucian Freud (2 volume set)

    William Feaver Hardcover | 1238 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2019 | 9780525657521 & 9780525657668 Illustrations: 17 colour and 41 b/w Volume I: The Restless Years (1922-1968)  Volume II: Fame (1968-2011) has eight pages of colour images. PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by...
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  • Calder (2 volume set)Calder (2 volume set)
    Knopf

    Calder (2 volume set)

      Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940)  Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976)  Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival...
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  • Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden AgeRembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age
    Timken Museum of Art

    Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age

    John Wilson & Stephanie S. Dickey Softcover | 19.5 x 26.6 x 0.7 cm | 58 pp Timken Museum of Art | 2010 | 9780615342610 An Exhibition catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at Timken Museum of Art, San Diego in 2010. The exhibition featured...
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  • The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters from Giotto to TwomblyThe Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters from Giotto to Twombly
    ACC

    The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters from Giotto to Twombly

    Bernard Chambaz Hardcover | 24.56 x 2.64 x 29.29 cm | 240 pp ACC | 2018 | 9781851499120 Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote...
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  • Looking at Art with Alex KatzLooking at Art with Alex Katz
    Laurence King

    Looking at Art with Alex Katz

    Alex Katz Softcover | 15.88 x 2.22 x 21.91 cm | 208 pp Laurence King | 2018 | 9781786272843 Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world’s most-celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the...
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  • Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)
    Konig

    Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)

    Friedemann Malsch,  Zelfira Tregulova & Irina Vakar. Softcover | 23.11 x 1.02 x 26.42 cm | 64 pp Konig | 2018 | 9783960984375 In 2015, Irina Vakar, senior research scientist at Tretyakov Gallery, re-examined Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) through X-ray imaging and pigment samples. Reconsidering...
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  • Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly AbstractionModernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction
    MIT Press

    Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction

    Marcia Brennan Softcover | 17.3 x 1.2 x 22 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2006 | 9780262524681 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small black stamp on the lower edge.  How postwar abstract modernist paintings came...
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  • The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the RightThe Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right

    Paul B. Jascot Softcover | 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816678259 This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past...
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