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Thai Art and Culture | |||
| Historic Manuscripts from Western Collections | Art | |||
| Henry Ginsburg | ||||
| British Library 2000 138 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712346201 290x262mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| This richly illustrated study surveys historic Thai manuscripts currently held in Western collections, examining the evolution and colourful imagery of Thai Buddhist iconography and a diversity of non-religious texts. | ||||
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The Pitti Palace | |||
| The Palace and its Art | Art | |||
| Marilena Mosco | ||||
| Philip Wilson 1997 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0856674699 274x196mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The Pitti Palace with its immense garden, the Boboli, dominates the left bank of the River Arno across from the old part of Florence. Originally begun in 1458 on the orders of Luca Pitti, a friend of the Medicis, the building was enlarged over the centuries and now houses, in effect, five museums in one magnificent palace. This guide provides an overview of the history of palace and garden and the collections, including paintings by Filippo Lippi, Raphael, Perugino and Titian as well as the Grand Ducal treasures and modern Italian works. | ||||
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Great Smaller Museums of Europe | |||
| Art | ||||
| James Stourton | ||||
| Scala 2003 272 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1857592840 280x240mm | ||||
| Published Price £29.95 | Sale Price £14.99 | |||
| James Stourton presents a personal tour of 35 of Europe's great small museums. None are national collections, but all are glorious in their own way and house some of the world's greatest art treasures. Illustrated with over 350 reproductions, the book describes the settings of the collections and the works they contain: among them the Impressionist masterpieces of the Courtauld Institute in London, Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in Rome's Galleria Borghese, works by Kandinsky and Marc in the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and, in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. | ||||
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Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |||
| The First Years | Art | |||
| Scala 1996 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1857591216 275x196mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Our Price £11.99 | |||
| In an illustrated introduction to Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, Stefan van Raay tells the story of the magnificent 18th century building, while Julian Spalding provides artist profiles and commentary on works from Peter Howson's Patriots to Fitness is Energy by the Chinese painter Hock-Aun Teh. | ||||
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Modern and Contemporary Prints | |||
| A Practical Guide to Collecting | Art | |||
| Phoebe Phillips; Tom Robb | ||||
| ACC 2004 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1851494588 255x210mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Collecting original prints is the one of the most exciting areas in the art market. Whether you are buying for pleasure or as an investment, this handbook provides a fund of valuable information. After an introduction to the subject, it covers printing techniques, dealers' jargon, insurance, valuation and spotting fakes. Other chapters deal with framing, hanging and preserving prints, and the book concludes with an A-Z of artists, information on galleries and dealers and a bibliography. | ||||
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Images of Eden | |||
| An Enquiry into the Psychology of Aesthetics | Art | |||
| Arthur Edwards | ||||
| Skylark 2003 349 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0953611604 | ||||
| Published Price £34.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Aesthetics is traditionally regarded as an aspect of philosophy: Edwards's approach is different. He argues that any work of art is devised in the mind of the artist and interpreted in the mind of the beholder and must therefore constitute a device of communication between those two minds. He explores the implications of this idea in a wide-ranging, cross-cultural quest that extends from Freud's model of the psyche to the trigonometry of the Great Pyramid and from communication theory to the Ying Yang symbol. | ||||
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Dali | |||
| Art | ||||
| Gabriele Ebbecke | ||||
| Prestel 2004 72 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 3791330772 | ||||
| Published Price £4.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| Part of the Lifelines series of guides to the world’s major artists. This pocketbook looks at Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali with explanations of the imagery in his paintings, focussed interpretations of selected works and a guide to where Dali’s works can be seen today. 7"x3", colour throughout. | ||||
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The Sweeter Side of R Crumb | |||
| Art | ||||
| Robert Crumb | ||||
| MQP 2006 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1846011140 275x198mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Robert Crumb is acknowledged as a highly influential cartoonist, but also berated, particularly by feminists, as a sexist and a misogynist - in fact, quite beyond the pale. This collection of drawings has been especially selected to show Crumb's sensitive nature and to rehabilitate the caustic creator of Fritz the Cat, Honeybunch Kominsky, Mr Natural and Devil Girl. With studies of children, cats, musicians and landscapes, this is Crumb on a charm offensive. | ||||
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Essays on Art and Language | |||
| Art | ||||
| Charles Harrison | ||||
| MIT 2001 302 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0262083000 | ||||
| Published Price £22.95 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art and Language, the artistic movement based in England-and briefly in the United States - with which Harrison has been associated for 30 years. Harrison uses the work of Art and Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. | ||||
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Greek Art | |||
| Art | ||||
| Mark D Fullerton | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2000 176 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0521779731 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Discussing material from across the Greek world and covering a millennium, from the archaic age to the Roman Imperial period, Fullerton stresses the political, social and religious functions of Greek art, showing how its imagery reflected personal and communal identity. He uses the Parthenon and its sculptures as a paradigm to illustrate the principles behind sculpture, architecture and painting; and he also considers Western culture's self-definition through its 'construction' of the Classical. | ||||
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Modern Means | |||
| Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present | Art | |||
| Deborah Wye; Wendy Weitman | ||||
| Museum of Modern Art 2004 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0870704532 280x225mm | ||||
| Published Price £32.00 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| This is the catalogue of a Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition (2004) exploring artists' means of expressing aesthetic concerns, in painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation art, from Monet to Cindy Sherman. | ||||
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Apollinaire on Art | |||
| Essays and Reviews 1902-1918 | Art | |||
| Leroy C Breunig (Edited by) | ||||
| MFA 2001 546 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0878466266 | ||||
| Published Price $19.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| The enthusiasms, antipathies and remarkable acumen of Guillaume Apollinaire make him, even now, the most evocative commentator on the intellectual and artistic ferment of early 20th century Paris. One of the first to champion Picasso and Braque, and to identify the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp and Rousseau; he also coined the word 'surrealism' and almost single-handedly pushed Cubism into the mainstream. This collection of his art criticism, first published in 1960, is reprinted with a new foreword by Roger Shattuck. | ||||
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Impressionism | |||
| An Intimate View | Art | |||
| Florence E Coman | ||||
| Giles 2005 80 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1904832032 | ||||
| Published Price £12.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| A study of impressionism using the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection of small French paintings in the National Gallery of Art to explore how artists such as Degas, Monet and Pissarro sought to capture everyday moments and objects encountered in their lives and those of their family and friends. | ||||
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Rainer Fetting | |||
| Berlin, New York | Art | |||
| Raab Galerie 1990 184 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 3875843134 280x230mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £10.99 | |||
| Selected work by German painter and sculptor Rainer Fetting with an introductory excerpt of a conversation with one of Fetting's subjects during a sitting, with a listing of his extensive exhibitions. | ||||
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Joumana Mourad | |||
| Paintings and Monotypes 1998 | Art | |||
| Andrea Harari; Robert Berry (Edited by) | ||||
| Panart 1998 32 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1901340333 310x238mm | ||||
| Published Price £15.00 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
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