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ZOO - By Eliza Williams (Ed) - Hardback Book - ISBN: 1841180335 Each edition of ZOO forms part of a library of outstanding international creative talent. This is issue ... |
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WARSZAWA WIEKU OSWIECENIA - By Jana Kotta and Stanislawa Lorentza - Hardback Book Polish language book with many reproductions of paintings, poems, tables and a fold out map. |
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TRANSGRESSIONS - The Offences of Art - By Anthony Julius - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0500237999 Since the mid-19th century artists have compulsively rejected received ideas in order to test and subvert morality, law, ... |
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THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN PAINTING - By Irving Sandler - Softback Book - ISBN: 0064300757 A History of Abstract Expressionism which describes the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural milieu of the Depression years. The ... |
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THE STUDIOS AND STYLES OF THE RENAISSANCE - Italy 1460-1500 - By Andre Chastel - Hardback Book A close study of the numerous studios and workshops of the period covering architecture sculpture and painting. ... |
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THE SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE - By Emmanuel Cooper - Softback Book - ISBN: 041511013 First published in 1986 to wide critical acclaim this book breaks new ground by bringing together and discussing ... |
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THE SATURDAY BOOK 15 - Ed. John Hadfield - Hardback Book This fifteenth annual issue of the Saturday Book contains over a hundred art pages - more than any ... |
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THE ROYAL COLLECTION - By Christopher Lloyd - Hardback Book FORWARD BY HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES. The British Royal Collection of paintings is the largest and most ... |
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THE QUEENS PICTURES - Royal Collectiors Through The Centuries - By Christopher Lloyd - Softback Book This National Gallery Publication depicts the works which the Queen lent when the new Sainsbury's wing of the ... |
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THE QUEEN'S PICTURES - By Oliver Millar - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0907486487 52 colour and over 250 black and white plates. Oliver Millar, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, traces ... |
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THE LOUVRE - Softback Book - ISBN: 2711834654 With an introduction by Pierre Rosenberg, of the French Academy President Director of the Louvre. This comprehensive volume ... |
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THE IMPRESSIONISTS - By William Gaunt - Hardback Book An introductory text which introduces the main purpose of the Impressionists movement, followed by 108 colour plates, each ... |
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THE GARDEN GALLERY - SIGNED COPY - By Rachel Bebb & John Garfield - Paperback Book A collection of photographs taken by John Garfield of works exhibited in Rachel Bebb's Garden Gallery. Here John ... |
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THE EROTIC MUSEUM IN BERLIN- By Hans-Jurgen Dopp - Hardback Book - ISBN: 1859957757 The author acted as an advisor in setting up the Erotic museum in Berlin, as well as being ... |
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THE COMIC ART OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN - By Denis Gifford & Mike Higgs - ISBN: 0948248211 A graphic celebration of Chaplin's centenary 1889 -1989. While other books concentrate on dissecting every aspect of his ... |
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THE BRITISH GENIUS - A History of Painting - By Haldane MAcFall - Hardback Book A lovely combination of art and history. Text is enhanced with illustrations, including 19 tipped-in colour plates and ... |
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THE ART OF THE BOTANIST - By Martyn Rix - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0718824822 The Art of the Botanist follows the development of botanical knowledge as expressed in illustrations up to the ... |
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THE ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION - By Lys de Bray - Softback Book - ISBN: 1861604254 A survey of the time-honoured craft of botanical illustration tracing its history as far back as the Ancient ... |
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THE ALTE PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH - By Erich Steingraber - Softback Book - ISBN: 0856672203 The Alte Pinakothek is one of largest and finest painting galleries in the world. This book conations ... |
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THE AGE OF ROCOCO - By Arno Schonberger & Halldor Soehner - Hardback Book A magnificently presented volume, containing 316 illustrations in black and white, and 49 full page tipped in colour ... |
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SEXUALIA- Edited by Clifford Bishop and Xenia Osthelder - Hardback Book - ISBN: 382902729X From pre history to cyber space. An international team of authors document sexuality, exploring all aspects of this ... |
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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH MINIATURES - By J. Murdoch - Hardback Book in Slipcase The first complete catalogue of the seventeenth-century English miniatures in the national collection at the Victoria and Albert ... |
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ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER SHOW 1983 - By William Bowyer (Ed) - Softback Book The Royal Academy illustrated 1983. A souvenir of the 215th summer exhibition. |
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ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES 1902 - Hardback Book A catalogue illustrating the hundred and thirty-forth exhibition of the Royal Academy. Contains hundreds of b/w images as ... |
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ROMANTIC ENGLAND - By Peter Quennell - ISBN: 297001310 WRITINGS AND PAINTINGS BETWEEN 1717-1851 - The romantic spirit swept like a tide across the English literary landscape. ... |
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ROMAN ART - FROM THE REPUBLIC TO CONSTANTINE - By Richard Brilliant - Hardback Book A perceptive study with over 300 illustrations covering the principal aspects and development of Roman Art from its ... |
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PREHISTORIC ROCK ART - By Elizabeth Goodall - Hardback Book PREHISTORIC ROCK ART OF THE FEDERATION OF RHODESIA & NYASALAND. A guide to the relatively unknown prehistoric rock ... |
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PRADO MADRID - By Anna Pallucchin, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Licia Ragghianti Collobi - Hardback Book The Prado is unique among the world's great museums on account of its unsurpassed and astonishingly rich collection ... |
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POP ART - Images of the American Dream - AUTHOR: John Rublowsky - Hardback Book Pop Art is the most controversial of all modern movements. This book sets out to analyse what exactly ... |
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POLSKA RZEZBA WSPOLCZESNA - By Andrzej Jakimowicz - Hardback Book The work of various Polish sculpters, shown in 47 full page black and white photographs with 21 pages ... |
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PIN-UP - A MODEST HISTORY - By Mark Gabor - Softback Book - ISBN: 0330237616 A definitive history of seductive poses, glamour photography and erotica from the 15th Century to the modern day. ... |
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PICTURING OLD NEW ENGLAND Image and Memory - Ed. William H. Truettner - Book Hardback - ISBN: 0300079389 This volume sifts eight decades of art, from between the Civil War to the Second World War, to ... |
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PEN PICTURES FROM RUSKIN - By Caroline A. Wurtzburg (Ed) - Hardback Book Volumes 1 & 2 of these pocket sized books with descriptions of many of Ruskin's 'pen pictures' compiled ... |
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PAINTING AND PATRONAGE - By - Hardback Book - ISBN: 1900123606 This commemorative publication accompanies a unique exhibition and cultural collaboration between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the ... |
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OUTLAW REPRESENTATION - By Richard Meyer - Softback Book - ISBN: 080779359 A study of censorship and homosexuality in twentieth-century American art. This books chapters include Censorship and Homosexuality, ... |
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OLD RUSSIAN PAINTINGS RECENT DISCOVERIES - Hardback Book Forty-eight full page tipped in colour prints are included in this book, with explanatory text in both Russian ... |
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NEW HOPE FOR AMERICAN ART - By James M. Alterman - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0977266508 A comprehensive tome Showing the Important 20th Century Paintings from and surrounding the New Hope Art Colony. This ... |
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MODERN TIMES, MODERN PLACES - By Peter Conrad - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0500018774 LIFE & ART IN THE 20TH CENTURY - Modernity was like a rollercoaster ride, during which the human ... |
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MASTER DRAWINGS - The Woodner Collection - By Jane Turner (Ed) - Softback Book An exhibition catalogue produced by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Ranging over all schools of ... |
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LE LOUVRE - By Rene Huyghe - Hardback Book The masterpieces in paintings from XVth to the XXth century. Twenty-six colour tipped in plates with accompanying text ... |
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KLIMT: BEETHOVEN - By Jean-Paul Bouillon - Softback Book - ISBN: 0847808149 THE FRIEZE FOR THE NINTH SYMPHONY. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was the major artist and dominant persoality of ... |
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GODESSES IN ART - By Lanier Graham - Hardback Book - ISBN 0896600688 . This far ranging volume offers an extraordinary wealth of images, from pre-history to the 1990's, representing female ... |
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GLI EX LIBRIS DEI PROTAGONISTI - By E Bragaglia et. al. - Softback Book - ISBN: 8885114040 Das exlibris bekannter personlichkeiten. The text of this book is in German and Italian. The title translated into ... |
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FEMININE BEAUTY - By Kennith Clark - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0297776770 With 40 colour plates and 135 monochrome illustrations. In this is a superb and highly informative essay ... |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN RELIGIOUS ART - By Diane Apostolos-Cappadona - ISBN: 0826409156 An indispensable reference guide to the motifs, subject matter, iconography and visual topics related to women in the ... |
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DREAMERS OF DECADENCE - By Philippe Jullian - Hardback Book - ISBN: 026902783 Symbolist painters of the 1890s. Starting with the vast unfinished works of Gustave Moreau, Philippe Jullian takes the ... |
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DIE VOLKSKUNST IN FRANKREICH - By Jean Guiseneir - Hardback Book - ISBN: 3766703439 German language book about French Art. |
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DARK KNIGHTS & HOLY FOOLS - By Bob McCabe - Softback Book - ISBN: 0752818511 THE ART AND FILMS OF TERRY GILLIAM -The first book to trace thirty years of the work and ... |
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DADA & SURREALISM - By Robert Short - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0706412311 With 49 colour illustrations and 133 in black and white this book discusses and reveals the considerable diversity ... |
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COLLECTION OF EARLY RUSSIAN ART IN ZAGORSK MUSEUM - By T. V. Nikolayeva - Hardback Book in Slip Case This beautifully illustrated catalogue contains pictures in both colour and black and white, and offers explanatory text in ... |
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COCOA AND CORSETS - By Michael Jubb - Paperback - ISBN: 011440187 X Reproduced in this book are 80 late Victorian and Edwardian posters and showcards from the Stationers' Company archives ... |
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BRITISH WATERCOLOURS FROM THE OPPE COLLECTION - By Anne Lyles and Robin Hamlyn - ISBN: 1854372408 A spectacular selection of 100 Watercolour highlights from a collection of three thousand Watercolours, drawings, oil sketches and ... |
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ART TREASURES IN THE BRITISH ISLES - General Editor Trewin Coppleston - Hardback Book The story of the country's artistic heritage, describing how works of art, both British and Foreign, have been ... |
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ART IN BLOOM - By Ella M. Foshay - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0714826928 Painting from the collection of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, USA. Complementing over 40 superb reproductions ... |
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ART FOR COMMERCE - By M. Turner and D. Vaisey (Intro) - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0859671224 A stock-book of the illustrative designs offered to customers by the Bristol printers, E.S. & A. Robinson, in ... |
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ART BRUT - By Michel Thevoz - Softback Book - ISBN: 2605003078 Art Brut, "Raw Art" is the term coined by Jean Dubuffet to describe the art practiced by men ... |
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APOCALYPSE - By Norman Rosenthal et al. - Softback Book - ISBN 0900946938 BEAUTY AND HORROR IN CONTEMPORARY ART. An essential purchase for anyone interested in contemporary art, this is the ... |
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ANCIENT EGYPTION DESIGNS - By Eva Wilson - Softback Book - ISBN: 0714180610 A visual anthology of over 350 line drawings of designs and patterns, selected from the work of artists ... |
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AMERICAN RADIANCE - By Stacy C. Hollander - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0810967413 Showcasing more than 400 outstanding works that comprise the Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum ... |
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AMERICAN PAINTING FROM ITS BEGINNING TO THE ARMORY SHOW -Text Jules David Prown - Hardback Book The history of American painting began in the Colonial period in the 17th Century, and because these early ... |
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AFRICAN ART - By Duncan Clarke - Hardback Book - ISBN: 1862220174 Illustrated with over 80 superb colour plates, this volume shows the full range of African creativity, from sophisticated ... |
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AFRICA TRIBAL ART OF FOREST AND SAVANNA- By Arnold Bamert - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0500233187 Over two hundred treasures of African art, drawn from private collections and never before made available to the ... |
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A GOLDEN AGE - By Gyongyi Eri & Zsuzsa Jobbagyi - Hardback Book - ISBN: 9631344436 ART AND SOCIETY IN HUNGARY 1896 - 1914. Translations by Zsuza Beres and Peter Doherty. Highly illustrated in ... |
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1970 AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF FLEMISH, DUTCH AND ITALIAN OLD MASTERS - Leonard Koester Gallery - Ringbound Softback Originally sold in aid of the Cell Barnes Hospital Trust, this is a catalogue of the autumn exhibition ... |
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