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This is Rembrandt
Author: Jorella Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider...
Graffiti Paris
Author, Fabienne Grevy Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 128 Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces-sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings-into...
The Art of Looking Up
Author: Catherine McCormack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to...
Magnum Artists: When Great Photographers Meet Great Artists
Author: Magnum Photos Ltd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by...
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...
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...
This is Matisse
Author: Catherine Ingram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in...
Amazing Art Adventures: Around the world in 400 immersive experiences
Author: Yolanda Zappaterra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Discover hundreds of the most interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world! Amazing Art Adventures offers us art and...
The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt
Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
Author: William E. Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 Finalist for the Marfield Prize (The National Award for Arts Writing), Arts Club of Washington The untold story of Michelangelo's...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
Author: Catherine Hickley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art....
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...
Magritte: A Life
Author: Alex Danchev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Rene Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions...
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...
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life
Author: Will Gompertz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people...
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
Author: Caroline Shenton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research,...
This is Goya
Author: Wendy Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived...
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...
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
Author: Alexandra Lange Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant and insightful cultural history of how the design of toys, clothes, furnishings, and other physical surroundings at school and...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits
Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
National Portrait Gallery: The Collection
Author: Rab MacGibbonFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 220mm, 480g, 120 pagesPublished: National Portrait Gallery Publications, United Kingdom, 2023National Portrait Gallery: The Collection introduces the key people who have shaped the history...
American Visions
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This is Bacon
Author: Kitty Hauser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius
Author: Alexander Marr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and...
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
Author: Helen Langdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted...
Giorgione's Ambiguity
Author: Tom Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or 'big George' died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly...
The Eye of the Poet: Andre Breton and the Visual Arts
Author: Elza Adamowicz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andre Breton's life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an...
Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Author: Michael Fried Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Michael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo...
Rachel Ashwell: My Floral Affair: Whimsical Spaces and Beautiful Florals
Author: Rachel Ashwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Flowers and floral decoration are at the core of Rachel Ashwell's world and her designs. From her showcase rose garden in...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe
Author: Forrest McGill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A huge number of artworks relating to the Rama legends have been made over the course of 1500 years in a...
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Author: Craig Clunas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives...
Romanesque Basic Art
Author: Norbert Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental...
Fundamentals of Art History
Author: Anne D'Alleva Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book...
Gloves: An Intimate History
Author: Anne Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From hand-knitted mittens to exquisitely embroidered confections and Bluetooth-enabled gloves that function like a mobile phone, the extraordinary variety of gloves...
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
Author: Jennifer Higgie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white...
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: The Beyeler Collection
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Sketchbook
Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback 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 ill. In...
Scottish Art
Author: Murdo Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 What makes Scottish art Scottish? In this now classic text, Murdo Macdonald explores the distinctive characteristics of Scottish art over the...
Destination Art
Author: Amy Dempsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Manifesting in a broad range of media, from massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks to giant public murals,...
LEGO The Art of the Minifigure
Author: Brian Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautiful visual celebration of the iconic LEGO (R) minifigure - its history, evolution, and status as a cultural icon. The...
Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific
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American Visions
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Hegel's Owl: The Life Of Bernard Smith
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