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Art of the Celts - From 700 B. C. to the Celtic Revival by Lloyd Robert Laing; Jennifer Laing
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A journey along the historical spectrum of Celtic art, from the rich treasures found throughout Iron Age Europe, through the flowering of metalwork, sculpture and manuscript illumination, to the revivals attempted today.
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
Athenian Black Figure Vases by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Athenian black figure vases bear the work of consummate artists, like Exekias, who depicted on them scenes of myth and everyday life which deepen our knowledge and understanding of Greek antiquity. In this survey, Professor John Boardman enables the reader to study the many aspects of the vases, and to ...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
Athenian Red Figure Vases ~ The Classical Period - A handbook by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Discusses the historical and artistic aspects of Athenian red figure vases of the classical period through the fourth century.
Ballet & Modern Dance by Susan Au
$14.00 NZD
Category: Dance | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Traces the development of ballet, describes influential choreographers, dances, and dancers, and looks at modern trends in dance.
Baroque and Rococo by Germain Bazin
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Baroque and Rococo art and architecture have become popular once more, after a century and a half of neglect, misunderstanding and scorn. This radical shift in taste has led to a rapid growth of detailed knowledge about the artists who created these exhilarating styles. The famous masters have been reas ...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.
British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book Frances Spalding reassesses the astonishing achievements of British artists from the Edwardians Ben Nicholson and Walter Sickert to the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; from the work of Paul Nash and David Jones between the wars to that of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, ...Show more
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
Bruegel by Walter S. Gibson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Although Pieter Bruegel's pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure. In a volume which will widen the understanding and enhance the enjoyment of Bruegel's many admirers, Walter Gibson illuminates the sixteenth-cent ...Show more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Alan Crawford
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than any other work in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed ...Show more