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The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame by E. Michael (EDT) Whittington
$45.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Olmec began playing ballgames around 1800 BC, an activity that soon became an important part of Mesoamerican life. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina and includes 11 essays from the world's leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture. The contribu ...Show more
Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery by Wendy Wick Reaves; Bernard F. Reilly Jr.
$40.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Conventional wisdom suggests that portraiture lost its relevance in the twentieth century, that it was too tied to representation and biographical narrative to compete. Why then, the vitality of the the National Portrait Gallery's twentieth-century images in "Eye Contact?" Far from confirming a moribund ...Show more
The Obstacle Race - The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncha ...Show more
Athenian Red Figure Vases - The Archaic Period - A Handbook by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
In his sequel to "Athenian Black Figure Vases, " John Boardman, Professor Emeritus at Oxford University, covers the invention of the "red figure" technique in about 530 BC. Professor Boardman illuminates the ancient art form by placing the painters and their vases within the history of Athens and the gr ...Show more
How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Ambitious in scale and far-reaching in scope, "How Art Made the World" is a fresh introduction to the history of art and, through the visual image, the history of humankind. Embarking with the motto 'Everyone is an artist', Nigel Spivey takes us on a quest to find out when and how we humans acquired and ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more
Weekend in Munich - Art, Propaganda and Terror in the Third Reich by Robert S. Wistrich
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Recollections of a Picture Dealer by Ambroise Vollard
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Celebrity, art merchant, socialite, publisher, and writer, Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) was one of the most extraordinary figures in 20th-century art. He possessed an uncanny ability to recognize genius in painters -- dozens of important artists received valuable commissions and gallery space with his h ...Show more
The Harold Letters, 1928-1943 - The Story of a Young Intellectual by Clement Greenberg; Janice Van Horne (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Discovery of Painting - The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768 by Iain Pears
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Studies in British Art | Reading Level: very good
Concepts of Modern Art by Nikos Stangos
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.
British Painting: The Golden Age by William Vaughan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into the forefront of European art. The main figures are Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence, Blake, Constable and Turner. William Vaughan discusses ...Show more