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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...
Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques: Step-by-Step Lessons for Vibrant, Realistic Drawings! (With Over 700 illustrations)
Author: Cocomaru Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to...
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art
From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-ranging overview of the movements, themes and media found...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
England's Gardens: A Modern History
Discover the iconic and enduring beauty of English gardens, the people who made them, and the legacy they leave We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is,...
Raphael
Author: Nicoletta BaldiniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 168mm, 180g, 96 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2010Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to...
10,000 Years of Art
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Great Women Painters
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 348 A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking...
Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor...
The Story of Art
Author: EH Gombrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1064 'Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the [sic] cave paintings to the 20th century...
Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work
Studios of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals of over 50 famous artists. From Picasso, to Hockney, to Caravaggio, discover the eclectic creative...
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his death The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the...
The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin: Japan's Great Poet and Landscape Artist
Author: Andreas Marks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin beautiful and mysterious a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of...
Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now
Beautifully designed, this book has been written by the Indigenous staff at the Powerhouse and Melbourne museums. It presents a diverse range of Indigenous cultural expression from across Australia including...
Art Rules: How great artists think, create and work
Author: Cassie Packard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The best thing about rules is that you can break them: here are over 100 mantras for anyone interested in creating...
Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen
Wabi sabi, the quintessential Japanese design aesthetic, is quickly gaining popularity around the world. Taken from the Japanese words wabi , which translates to less is more, and sabi ,...
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
A beguiling, human history of colour by one of art history's most exciting voices The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as...
Betty Swanwick: Artist and Visionary
This monograph intends to rectify the neglect of a visionary twentieth century British artist in the tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. A friend and pupil of Edward Bawden,...
Modern Colors of Japan: Japanese Color Harmony Dictionary: The
An indispensable guide to the colours and combinations of contemporary Japanese design-by one of Japan's leading colourists! Colour consultant Teruko Sakurai finds inspiration everywhere - in the foods, landscapes and...
Artemisia Gentileschi
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
A TIMES , DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF...
Hokusai Prints Sticker Book: A Collection of Over 160 Removable Color
The 160 vibrant stickers in this book span the full range of Hokusai's subjects from serene landscapes and intricate nature studies to lively scenes of Kabuki actors, Samurai in battle...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**A New York Times Editor's Pick*'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in...
Constable: A Portrait
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A...
Otto Wagner
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Paper Quilling for Beginners: A Complete All-in-One Guide to Creating
Create beautiful paper flowers, vegetables and decorative items with this comprehensive quilling guide for beginners! Under the expert guidance of Japanese quilling artist Motoko Maggie Nakatani, one of the world's...
Origami Paper 500 sheets Japanese Folk Prints 6" (15 cm): Tuttle
This paper pack contains 500 origami papers printed with designs from traditional Bingata folk fabrics. These paper packs make an excellent resource for all different kinds of folding, crafting and...
Encounters with Australian Modern Art
"Encounters with Australian Modern Art" represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with...
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life
Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant...
The Fashion Scents: Style and Perfume and Chanel to Madonna
Smell: the most evocative of the senses. It can summon up emotions, memories, stories - even times long past. We smell a perfume from the 1920s and the age of...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the father of Pop art', he produced experimental and multilayered work in a range of media...
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller,
' I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.' Florence, the...
Painting with Monet
Author: Harmon SiegelFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 312 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionism.At pivotal moments in his career, Claude...
Italian Renaissance Maiolica
The V&A has the greatest collection of maiolica in the world. This long awaited study explores the significance of these fascinating objects in the art and social history of the...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula
The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one of the most private and representative artistic genres. But what distinguishes the specifically female...
J.Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
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This completely revised edition of the handbook highlights the collections at the new J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, including the newest acquisitions. Three hundred works are reproduced,...
Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror's Archive
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Before any sound critical framework could be evolved around the phenomenal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam as the originator of an extraordinary individualistic idiom of painting, ruthless market forces regrettably came...
African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection
The book includes one hundred colour plates accompanied by in-depth descriptions, as well as numerous black-and-white photographs of the masks as they are used in religious and secular ceremonies. An...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: [...]
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...