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Chinese Art by Mary Tregear
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students alike. Generously illustrated and eminently readable, it covers not only bronzes, jades, calligraphy, an ...Show more
Chinese Art by Mary Tregear
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students alike. Generously illustrated and eminently readable, it covers not only bronzes, jades, calligraphy, an ...Show more
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.
Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance by J.R. Hale
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Within the vast literature of the Renaissance, this is the one indispensable book: for the student who wants a guide to the complicated maze of Italian Renaissance political history; the scholar who needs a convenient, unified reference source; the art lover who wants to check facts and discover the bac ...Show more
Constable by Michael Rosenthal
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Traces the development of the career of the English artist and analyzes his paintings, water colors, and drawings.
Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The twentieth century has been a period of major disruption for traditional institutions in Africa. But even as old forms of art patronage were being suppressed, new avenues of artistic expression opened up. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which precol ...Show more
David Hockney by Marco Livingstone
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s throug ...Show more
De Stijl by Paul Overy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Design | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine De Stijl.
Design since 1945 by Peter Dormer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The essential shape, form and structure of some objects in our daily lives may have been fixed many generations ago, but design and designers have now been moved center stage by the varied demands of a society that in less than half a century has gone from the restless search for the new throw-away cons ...Show more
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
Early Medieval Art by John Beckwith
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser.
Edvard Munch by J. P. Hodin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Long before the first theories of psychoanalysis were formulated, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) became the pioneer of an art which discovered and depicted the inner conflicts of modern man.