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Art and the French Commune - Imagining Paris after War and Revolution by Albert Boime
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist i ...Show more
Lives of the Artists - A Selection by Giorgio Vasari
$65.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
A History of Graphic Art by James Cleaver
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Redemption of the Robot - My Encounter with Education Through Art by Herbert Read
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Museums - A Visual Anthropology by Mary Bouquet
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Museum Masters - Their Museums and Their Influence by Edward P Alexander
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.
Literary Art in Digital Performance - Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism by Francisco J. Ricardo (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Literary Art in Digital Performance examines electronic works of literary art, a category integrating the visual+textual including interactive poetry, narrative computer games, filmic sculpture and projective art. Each case study/chapter is followed by a 'post-chapter' dialogue between editor and author ...Show more
Academies of Art Past and Present by Nikolaus Pevsner
$40.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Artspeak - A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords by Robert Atkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
This updated edition, which includes a new chapter about art in the 1980s, explores artwork of the 20th century, from 1900 to the present day. The text examines the motives behind the main developments, and argues that they are serious and intelligent attempts to make art honest and significant. The aut ...Show more
Tracks in the Snow - Studies in English Science and Art by Ruthven Todd
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good