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Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Oxford History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public bui ...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
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - On the Way to the Gates, Central Park, New York City by Jonathan David Fineberg; Wolfgang Volz (Photographer)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An exciting and richly illustrated book presenting an accessible survey of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's career and celebrates the long-awaited Gates project for Central Park, New York City Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative public projects. Their installations often ...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
Donatello 1386-1466 by Rolf C. Wirtz
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Masters of Italian Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Doré's Illustrations for Ariosto's Orlando Furioso - A Selection of 208 Illustrations by Gustave Doré; S. Appelbaum; Ludovico Ariosto (Contribution by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gustave Dore (1832-1883) was the greatest illustrator of 19th-century France and the leading book illustrator of his day. His startling conceptions and brooding surreal imagery lent overwhelming power to his often definitive illustrations of the classics: The Divine Comedy, Gargantua, and Pantagruel, Th ...Show more
Drawings of William Blake - 92 Pencil Studies by William Blake; Geoffrey L. Keynes (Editor); G. Keynes (Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Let a Man who has made a Drawing go on & on & he will produce a Picture or Painting, but if he chooses to leave it before he has spoil'd it, he will do a Better Thing." Blake prized the "first lines" from his hand for their freshness and their proximity to the source of inspiration. From the re ...Show more
Drawn to Italian Drawings - The Goldman Collection by Nicholas Turner; Jean Goldman (Contribution by)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Art Institute of Chicago Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This lovely book features exquisite drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including works by Guercino, Parmigianino, Raphael, and other Italian masters. These 126 working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions offer insights into the varied approaches to drawing, the arti ...Show more
Early Medieval Art by John Beckwith
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser.