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Vendor:Princeton University Press
White: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 240 pp Princeton University Press | 2023 | 9780691243498 As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of colour, but it is without doubt an important colour in its own right,...- £17.50
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Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art
Neil Wells Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 208 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781914414343 The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater...- £15.00
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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,...- £10.00
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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...- £8.50
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Fictions of Art History
Mark Ledbury Softcover | 17.78 x 1.78 x 24.13 cm | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300191929 Fictions of Art History addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing...- £5.00
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Stripped Bare: The Art of Animal Anatomy
David Bainbridge Hardcover | 17.53 x 2.79 x 24.89 cm | 256 pp Princeton University Press | 2018 | 9780691181424 For more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy - the study of anatomical variation among different animal species - has been used to make arguments...- £20.00
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Three Centuries of American Prints: From the National Gallery of Art
Hardcover | 25.4 x 4.06 x 30.23 cm | 360 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239520 Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art highlights the three major movements in American art and print history in nearly 200 masterful prints...- £30.00
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Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts
John Bidwell 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...- £15.00
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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65
Jane Alison Hardcover | 24.43 x 3.63 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791379357 Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern explores a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this...- £22.50
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Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture
Monica Bohm-Duchen Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 26.99 cm | 256 pp Lund Humphries | 2019 | 9781848223462 Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe...- £15.00
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Renoir: The Painter and his Models
Hardcover | 17.53 x 3.4 x 24.89 cm | 356 pp Museum of Fine Arts Budapest | 2023 | 9786156595089 This catalogue of Renoir's first monographic exhibition in Hungary (2023-2024) presenting almost seventy works, this book explores an oeuvre spanning six decades, from the...- £45.00
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Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World (Non-mint)
Richard Dorment Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm | 288 pp Pegasus | 2023 | 9781639364978 Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, and part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power, and...- £10.00
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Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art
Nancy Perloff Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm | 248 pp J Paul Getty Museum | 2016 | 9781606065082 At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity)....- £25.00
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The Value of Art: Money. Power. Beauty. (New Expanded Edition)
Michael Findlay Hardcover | 18.11 x 2.69 x 24.77 cm | 240 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791389073 Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly...- £12.50
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Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art Uncovered, Explored, Explained
Matthew Wilson Hardcover | 23.37 x 2.54 x 27.43 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2023 | 9780500025673 For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of...- £15.00
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The Russian Avant-garde: Siberia and the East
John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler & Evgenia Petrova Hardcover | 25.5 x 2.8 x 29.5 cm | 319 pp Skira Editore | 2014 | 9788857219165 This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East—be it the Russian East or the Far...- £30.00
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Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained (Non-mint)
David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro Hardcover | 15.24 x 2 x 20.32 cm | 240 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2018 | 9780271081137 “Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses...- £6.50
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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Henk van Nierop Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 448 pp Routledge | 2018 | 9789462981386 Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire,...- £20.00
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Face and Mask: A Double History
Hans Belting Hardcover | 17.15 x 2.54 x 24.77 cm | 288 pp Princeton University Press | 2017 | 9780691162355 presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the...- £25.00
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Paul Klee on Modern Art
Paul Klee & Herbert Read Softcover | 19 x 0.6 x 19 cm | 56 pp Faber & Faber | 9780571066827 Paul Klee on Modern Art, with an introduction by Herbert Read, represents the essential collection of thinking about art from one of the...- £5.00
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