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The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller
$18.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries.Providing an in-depth examination of central w ...Show more
The Book of Urizen by William Blake
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The Sacred Art of the World | Reading Level: good-very good
The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
More than two hundred photographs and text trace the development of cathedral design from its Norman beginnings through the flowering of Gothic to the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool.
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically ...Show more
The Expressionists by Wolf-Dieter Dube
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, co-founder of the 'Brucke' movement in Dresden, convey the essence of the revolutionary movement in the arts which overthrew the stifling academicism of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany and led in the years between 1900 and 1914 to an amazing upsurge of creative activity. Th ...Show more
The High Renaissance & Mannerism by Linda Murray
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The principal elements of High Renaissance art, first formulated by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s, came to their true flowering in the brilliant achievements of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome, of Michelangelo in Florence and Giorgione and Titian in Venice. After the death of Raphael in 1520 ...Show more
The Photography As Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
A short illustrated survey of the use of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. The work of approximately 150 of the best-known artist-photographers are featured: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Billingham, Juergen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare, Thomas R ...Show more
The Pre-Raphaelites by Timothy Hilton
$10.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society.
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design by Nikolaus Pevsner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Design and Designers by Guy Julier
$14.00 NZD
Category: Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive guide embraces all modern design's numerous manifestations: graphics, products, interiors, furniture, industrial and architectural design. In over 500 entries, this book examines not only the work of important designers worldwide, but also the many dramatic changes that have influence ...Show more
The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Graphic Design and Designers by Alan Livingston; Isabella Livingston
$14.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Theatre by Phyllis Hartnoll
$15.00 NZD
Category: Theatre | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is a history of theatre, worldwide in scope and ranging from its ancient origins in the choral hymns sung round the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety of fo ...Show more