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Battle Lines - Australian Artists at War by Scott Bevan
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From World War II to Vietnam and two Gulf Wars artists have shaped how we see war, immortalising soldiers and battles and influencing how we see ourselves as Australians. The war artist has opened our eyes and perceptions to historic events that would otherwise have been censored, distorted of forgotten ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
English Artists' Paper - Renaissance to Regency by John Krill
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Art and Identity in the Roman World by Eve D'Ambra
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Everyman Art Library | Reading Level: very good
In this reappraisal of the art and architecture of ancient Rome, Eve D'Ambra focuses on the personal, social and cultural identity of its subjects. The acquisition of art, whether the purchase of copies of Greek statuary, the construction of a sumptuous villa or the commissioning of a portrait head, pla ...Show more
Dictionary Of Art And Artists by Nikos Stangos (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Dictionary of Art Terms by Edward Lucie-Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art
What exactly is Neo-Expressionism? The part of a city known as the acropolis? Or the painting technique called gouache? In this authoritative and concise dictionary, more than 2000 entries and 375 illustrations embrace the vast vocabulary of painting and sculpture, architecture and photography, the deco ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.
Art since 1960 by Michael Archer
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The\World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Art today may seem perplexing at first with its divergent styles, forms, practices, media, and agendas. Michael Archer's intelligently argued survey is unique in revealing and making coherent sense of art practice from the past forty years-Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body, and Installat ...Show more
New Media in Late 20th-Century Art by Michael Rush
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Modern art has radically extended the conventional medium of sculpture and painting. Following on innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies o ...Show more
Pop Art by Lucy R Lippard
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Illustrated survey of pop art during the 1960s.
Roman Art by Donald Strong
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The Pelican History of Art | Reading Level: very good
Donald Strong's book traces the development of Roman art from its beginnings to the end of the 4th century A.D., embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman world, which extended from Britain to Mesopotamia and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa. A special virtue is the de ...Show more
Dialogues - Conversations with European Artists at Mid-Century by Edouard Roditi
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good