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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
Gothic Art by Andrew Martindale
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Greek Art by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
First published in the early 1960s, this history of Greek art has been enlarged and rewritten. It takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject, and emphasizes that Greek art should be seen in its proper context, not that of galleries and museums.
Greek Sculpture - The Classical Period by John Boardman
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Looks at the development of sculptures, reliefs, and friezes in fifth century B.C. Greece and assesses this period's importance in art history.
Hawksmoor by Downes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nicholas Hawksmoor was the architect of some of London's most prominent landmarks - St Mary Woolnoth in the City; St George's, Bloomsbury; Christchurch, Spitalfields; and part of Greenwich Hospital - and of other notable English buildings, such as All Souls, Oxford, and the Mausoleum at Castle Howard. ...Show more
Hogarth by David Bindman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Hogarth was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvelous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression. As a man he was rooted in his own time and his own society. We 'read' his satirical works - The Rake's Progress, Marriage-A-La-Mode - as we read a novel, and our pleasure i ...Show more
Impressionism by Phoebe Pool
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
The Impressionists--Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, and Renoir--are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. With imagination and insight, the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists and their contemporaries, using letters, critical reviews ...Show more
Milton - A Poem by William Blake by William Blake; Kay Parkhurst Easson (Commentaries by); Roger R. Easson (Commentaries by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The Sacred Art of the World | Reading Level: good-very good
Miro by Roland Penrose
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Modern Architecture - A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$16.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
The third revised and enlarged edition of a title in the WORLD OF ART series, providing a survey of 20th century architecture and its origins, with a new final chapter and a reviewed and extended bibliography.