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A Concise History of Avant Garde Music - From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: World of Art Ser.
A Private Passion - 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University by Stephan Wolohojian (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Grenville L. Winthrop (1864-1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion was collecting art. He had the resources, the intuition and talented advisers to help him create a collection that is distinct not only in its depth and breadth, but also in its quality. The Winthrop Collection ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
Alexander Hare McLintock Printmaker - An Essay and a Catalogue by David Bell; Roger Collins (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Bulletin of New Zealand Art History: Special Ser. #1 Ser. | Reading Level: good
American Architecture by David P. Handlin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently cont ...Show more
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century by Ellen G. Miles
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: A\Publication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The energy and optimism of the new nation are apparent in this catalogue, which features John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Previously unpublished documents and infrared reflectograms shed new light on Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnso ...Show more
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century - Part II by Robert Wilson Torchia; Deborah Chotner; Ellen G. Miles
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: A\Publication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In this second of two volumes devoted to the Gallery's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, more than 100 works are catalogued. Distinguished in part by the concentration of works by three prominent artists, Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, the collection also ...Show more
Andrea Mantegna 1430/31-1506 by Nike Batzner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Masters of Italian Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Architecture after Modernism by Diane Ghirardo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers and women architects as well as famous international stars.
Art Nouveau by Maria Costantino
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Gallery of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Art Of The Renaissance by Murray Peter & Linda
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread fr ...Show more
Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient by Henri A. Frankfort
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Hist of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good