Art and Design

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the crackling lightning bolt of its iconic radio tower logo to the swan song of its final production, The RKO Story is the...

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The Hulton Deutsch Collection (which became the Hulton Getty Picture Collection in 1996) is one of the world's most important repositories of photographs. A continual acquisition of various collections and...

Edited by Miche Frizot (researcher at the Centre National de la Rechereche Scientifique in Paris) and published on the initiative of the Arts Council of the Centre National du Livre,...

This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn and now again to 2010 by art...

What is more ordinary than a pair of shoes? In a world where shoes have become objects of mass consumption, these accessories are now rid of any significance. The industry...

The book titled British Prints: Dictionary and Price Guide by the author Ian Mackenzie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A masterly overview of a rich and varied ancient art, illustrated in vibrant colour. Mosaic has been called 'painting for eternity,' and it is in fact one of the few...

The book titled Concise History of Western Architecture by the author Robert Furneaux Jordan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMastering the invisible art of light is the difference between a forgettable image and a truly cinematic one — and Gerald Millerson's authoritative manual remains...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of art, commerce, and democracy, Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America assembles a formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor every filmmaker who has ever watched a technically brilliant scene fall flat due to poor audio, Sound Sense for Movie Makers arrives as an...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone serious about the craft of television, Gerald Millerson's The Technique of Television Production stands as...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would it mean if the greatest playwright who ever lived were not a relic of the past,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodHoused within the grandeur of Buda Castle, the Hungarian National Gallery stands as one of Central Europe's most celebrated repositories of fine art, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA life spent in pursuit of beauty across continents, centuries, and art forms finds its most eloquent expression in For Want of the Golden City,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to dance? Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing presents an intimate and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA cornerstone of art historical scholarship, The Oxford Dictionary of Art stands as the definitive single-volume reference for...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the cobblestone slums of Victorian London to the gilded heights of Hollywood royalty, Charles Chaplin's My Autobiography...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the turbulent years spanning 1939 to 1965, few figures occupied a more singular vantage point in the British art world than...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA towering figure in mid-twentieth-century literary criticism, L. C. Knights — King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of Enlightenment idealism and Romantic revolution, the late eighteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic reinventions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of artistic revolution and intellectual inquiry stands Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, a landmark anthology that presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: FEP missing.In an era when polyphonic grandeur met mathematical precision,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to feel the power of a symphony, to be arrested by a painting, or to...