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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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  • 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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  • Fictions of Art HistoryFictions of Art History
    Yale University Press

    Fictions of Art History

    Mark Ledbury  Softcover | 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 practices and modes of writing. How, the...
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  • Watercolor: A HistoryWatercolor: A History
    Abbeville Press

    Watercolor: A History

    Marie-Pierre Salé  Hardcover | 26.16 x 4.57 x 32.51 cm | 400 pp Abbeville Press | 2023 | 9780789213730 This is the most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published, featuring more than 300 full-colour illustrations printed on Munken paper to capture the...
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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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  • 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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  • Instagrammable: What art tells us about social mediaInstagrammable: What art tells us about social media
    Hannibal Publishers

    Instagrammable: What art tells us about social media

    Koenraad Jonckheere Hardcover | 17 x 2.67 x 23 cm | 304 pp Hannibal Publishers | 2024 | 9789464941531 How are the Holy Trinity and social media related? Why do we love colour filters so much? What makes hashtags so powerful? And why do we...
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  • The Art of Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke (Non-mint)The Art of Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke (Non-mint)
    H.N. Abrams

    The Art of Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke (Non-mint)

    Softcover | 22.86 x 1.2 x 22.86 cm | 128 pp Arcade | 1994 | 9781559702515 When Roy Lichtenstein painted his largest painting ever - a five-story-high mural in New York City - photographer Bob Adelman was there with his camera and tape recorder...
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  • Edvard Munch: In DialogueEdvard Munch: In Dialogue
    Prestel

    Edvard Munch: In Dialogue

    Hardcover | 25.1 x 2.87 x 29.06 cm | 288 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791378183 In Dialogue explores the many ways that Munch's work has influenced modern and contemporary artists. While Munch’s pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work,...
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  • Picasso – El GrecoPicasso – El Greco
    Hatje Cantz

    Picasso – El Greco

    Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.29 x 29.21 cm | 192 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775752138 Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the most fascinating in art history. This publication brings Pablo Picasso's...
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  • Mexican Graphic ArtMexican Graphic Art
    Scheidegger & Speiss

    Mexican Graphic Art

    Softcover | 17.15 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm | 320 pp Scheidegger & Speiss | 2017 | 9783858817990 This beautifully designed book offers an overview of the development of Mexican graphic art between the late 19th-century and the 1970s, ranging from figurativism to early...
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  • Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely: Joyous MachinesMichael Landy and Jean Tinguely: Joyous Machines
    Tate Publishing

    Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely: Joyous Machines

    Hardcover | 22.4 x 1.5 x 26.6 cm | 144 pp Tate Publishing | 2010 | 9781854379191 Published to accompany the Tate Liverpool exhibition, this book examines the intriguing relationship between renowned British artist Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, one of the most subversive...
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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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  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist DrawingsImpressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings
    Thames & Hudson

    Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings

    Christopher Lloyd Hardcover | 22.1 x 3.3 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021231 Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Japanese Kite PrintsJapanese Kite Prints
    University of Washington Press

    Japanese Kite Prints

    John Stevenson Hardcover | 26.04 x 1.91 x 31.12 cm | 200 pp University of Washington Press | 2004 | 9780295984544 Colour woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two...
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  • From Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-GardeFrom Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde
    Princeton Architectural Press

    From Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde

    Adam Lerner Softcover | 18.42 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2013 | 9781616891626 In 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver director Adam Lerner did something unheard of in the museum world - he mounted a large exhibition...
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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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