Art and Design

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures have shaped the world of ballet as profoundly as Dame Peggy van Praagh, and Christopher Sexton's authoritative biography, Peggy Van Praagh: A...

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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: 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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of two of Western music's most transformative eras stands Friedrich Blume's authoritative Classic and Romantic...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damageA cornerstone of musicological literature, The Oxford Companion to Music by Percy A. Scholes stands as one of the most ambitious and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the landscape of art criticism, few voices carry the weight and brilliance of Meyer Schapiro, whose Modern Art: 19th...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most luminous literary minds steps beyond verse to speak directly to the reader in Essays...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodWhat elevates a work of art from mere craft to timeless masterpiece? In What is a Masterpiece?, Kenneth Clark — one of the twentieth century's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersGeorge Bernard Shaw — playwright, polemicist, and provocateur — remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionA landmark survey of one of Australia's most distinctive Indigenous artistic traditions, Tiwi: Art & Artists presents a comprehensive portrait of...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the age of digital imagery, a generation of pioneering photographers hauled their cumbersome equipment across the vast and untamed Australian continent, capturing...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark volume in Australian institutional art history, Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting presents a comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the sweeping dynasties of ancient emperors to the refined elegance of imperial court culture, The Art of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of art and science stands one of history's most extraordinary minds — Leonardo da Vinci — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does art reveal about the human soul? In Art and the Spirit of Man, renowned French art historian and Member of the Académie Française,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in the history of Western art cast as long a shadow as Pablo Picasso, and John Richardson's monumental A Life of Picasso: Volume 1:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNew Zealand's sharpest political pen strikes again in Pickering Again!, a follow-up collection of biting editorial cartoons from...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the age of cinematic universes and blockbuster adaptations, one hero reigned supreme in the hearts of...

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