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The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200 by C. R. Dodwell
$40.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The\Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and ...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 Rise of the Creative Class: And How it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
$14.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Art of Mentoring Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today - and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in Am ...Show more
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
Toulouse Lautrec by Douglas Cooper
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Masters of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The forty stunning colorplates in this volume are brilliant demonstrations of Toulose-Lautrec's virtuosity. The text, liberally illustrated with both reproductions of his works and documentary photographs, gives a graphic and sensitive account of the artists's life and work.
Vasily Kandinsky by Thomas M. Messer; Wassily Kandinsky
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Masters of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Vasily Kandinsky was one of the principal founders of abstract painting, perhaps the most revolutionary development in 20th-century art. In this collection, Messer has selected notable paintings, reproduced as colour plates, from every period of Kandinsky's career. The early years are documented in imag ...Show more
Victorian Architecture by Roger Dixon; Stefan Muthesius
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Explores the interplay of social forms, technological advances, and creative achievements that gave rise to various building types in the Victorian age.
Western Architecture: A Concise History by R. Furneaux Jordan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
William Morris by O.B. Duane
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Discovering Art: The Life, Times and Work of the World's Greatest Artists Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Separately or as a series, these titles form a new full-colour reference library of the world's greatest artists and their art. Each book contains high quality reproductions of some of the artists' most important, as well as some of their lesser known works. These lavishly illustrated books delve deeply ...Show more