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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
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
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
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
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.
Eroticism in Western Art by Edward Lucie-Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | 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
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