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Egon Schiele by Frank Whitford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. Schiele was only ...Show more
Egyptian Art by Cyril Aldred
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
"His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history."--The Times Educational Supplement Of the ancient art that has survived from the non-Classical world, that of Egypt make ...Show more
English Architecture by David Watkin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive, well-illustrated survey of English architecture provides an evenhanded, straightforward history from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the twentieth century. Concentrating on buildings that can still be seen today, David Watkin discusses all the styles and periods of English architectu ...Show more
Eroticism in Western Art by Edward Lucie-Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Theodoric to Charlemagne by Paolo Verzone
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Art of the World | Reading Level: very good
Furniture: A Concise History by Edward Lucie-Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this illuminating history, text and illustrations combine to offer a view of furniture not as a succession of collectors' pieces, but as a statement about the society that created it. Edward Lucie-Smith offers insights into almost every period, from the prehistoric to the postmodern--from Neolithic t ...Show more
Futurist Manifestos by Umbro Apollonio
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout Europe. The author, a young Italian poet named F.T. Marinetti, demanded that writers and artists reject the c ...Show more
Gauguin by Belinda Thomson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always had as much to do with the dramatic events of his life - his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island, his turbul ...Show more
Gauguin by Belinda Thomson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always had as much to do with the dramatic events of his life - his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island, his turbul ...Show more
Gothic Art by Andrew Martindale
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Greek Art by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
First published in the early 1960s, this history of Greek art has been enlarged and rewritten. It takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject, and emphasizes that Greek art should be seen in its proper context, not that of galleries and museums.
Greek Sculpture - The Archaic Period by John Boardman
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
"Authoritative and brilliantly illustrated. . . . The book recommends itself not only for its synthesis of existing knowledge, but also for its original ideas." --The Daily Telegraph For most people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancien ...Show more