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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.
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
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art
Aboriginal artists today practise in one of the world's longest continuous tradition of art - and perhaps the last to be generally recognised. Widely sought after, aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of leading museums and galleries. This concise survey looks at the work of Austral ...Show more
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Explains how abstract art originated and evolved, discusses major abstract artists and movements, and looks at the current revival of abstract painting.
Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement since the Second World War. Because the images created by such leading figures as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko were so extraordinary, it is often thought to have been a revolution in painting only, ...Show more
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
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 Deco by Alastair Duncan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: good
This volume traces the history of the art deco movement and examines its influence on design. Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting, silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, posters, books, jewellery, and architecture.
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 Myth in Ancient Greece by Thomas H Carpenter
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: good-very good
Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivalled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion. There is no suv ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more
Art of the Andes - From Chavin to Inca by Rebecca Stone-Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The\World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
This wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best single-volume introduction to Andean art and architecture.