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The Arts In Hard Times: Thirty-First Annual Report And Accounts Year Ended 31 March 1976
$15.00 AUD
Author: The Arts Council Of Great BritainBinding: PaperbackPublisher: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in...
The King's Arcadia: Inigo Jones And The Stuart Court
$15.00 AUD
Author: John Harris, Stephen Orgel And Roy StrongBinding: PaperbackPublished: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...
Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World
Author: Annebella Pollen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 An accessible, lively and timely history of the collection and presentation of visual art by the British Council, one of the...
Modern Masterpieces Of British Art: Two Hundred Full Colour Reproductions Of Paintings Selected From Public Galleries In Great Britain And Ireland With Critical Notes And Indexes To Painters & Pictures
$120.00 AUD
Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: The Amalgamated Press Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. This lavish volume presents a comprehensive survey of...
Cambridge Cultural History of Britain: Volume 9, Modern Britain
This generously illustrated book is a comprehensive survey of the arts in Britain from 1945. Uniquely, it also reveals the cultural and social setting in which the writers, musicians, architects...
The Spirit Of Britain
A unique and beautifully illustrated survey of the arts in Britain from the Celts to the present day - the companion volume to The Story of Britain. In this comprehensive...
Pictura Britannica: Art From Britain
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - softcover/card cover in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. At the height of the Young...
The Art Collections Of Great Britain And Ireland
$85.00 AUD
Author: Jeannie Chapel, Charlotte GereBinding: HardbackPublished: Harry N. Abrams, 1986Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Art Collections Of Great Britain And Ireland presents a comprehensive survey of the...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael BirdFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 980g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the...
The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to
A timely history of immigration, integration and national identity that reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation's defining artworks. To truly understand British art is to recognize the...
British Art: Defining the 90s
Contemporary British art has been reaching wider audiences in recent years at home and abroad, with the nation-wide interest attracted by the Turner Prize and the increased profile of young...
Modern Britain 1900-1960
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Britain's Best Museums and Galleries: From the Greatest Collections to
Britain has many of the world's best museums and galleries, great and small. This sumptuously illustrated guide is a magnificent celebration of them, revealing a treasure trove of riches and...
The Princes Gate Collection
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA window into one of Britain’s most remarkable art collections, this work brings together...
Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s
Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodka's sponsorship of art shows to ABN-AMRO Bank's branding of...
Art Treasures In The British Isles: Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions And Collections
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work in art history and cultural heritage, Art Treasures in the British Isles: Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions and Collections...
The National Gallery: London
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodStanding as one of the world's great repositories of Western European painting, the National Gallery in London houses a collection that spans seven centuries...
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art
$12.00 AUD
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Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks From Australian And New Zealand Collections
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling volume chronicles the artistic and cultural landscape of Britain between 1900 and 1960, presenting a curated selection of...
The Genius Of British Painting
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe authoritative volume The Genius Of British Painting by David Piper presents a comprehensive overview of the rich...
Turner
An engaging account of Britain's greatest painter, told through works from the Yale Center for British Art's extensive collection Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is one of the most recognizable...
Tastemakers
In this irreverent, gossipy, questioning and amazingly well-informed inside story, BBC Arts Correspondent, Rosie Millard, identifies The Tastemakers, the cultural movers and shakers - artists, dealers, curators, art teachers, entrepreneurs...
The Cathedrals And Other Churches Of Great Britain
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards. Bumped and rubbed corners. Binding shaky. Clean text. This...
Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art
The book titled Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art by the author Andrew Renton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation
British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked...
Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability
Five years of lies and hypocrisy. Four activists holding power to account. One book showing how they did it - and why they're not done yet. 'Not funny' Liz Truss...
The Easter Story In Art
$20.00 AUD
Author: Charles CarterBinding: HardbackPublished: The Epworth Press, 1936Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical narrative chronicles the sweeping expanse of British history, presenting...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty
Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...
Designer British Silver: From Studios Established 1930-1985
'Designer British Silver' explores the designer-silversmiths who have shaped British silver from the 1950s through to the present day. Covering a complete generation of craftsmen and women, and featuring one-to-one...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its...
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
The untold story of why our country looks like it does, from the bestselling champion of national heritage, Simon Jenkins The story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and...
Hidden Treasures of the National Trust: Unlock the Stories Behind the
A beautiful gift for fans of the BBC Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. Go behind the scenes with the National Trust as they uncover extraordinary stories and save our...
National Trust Studies 1979
$30.00 AUD
Author: (ed.) Gervase Jackson-Stops. National Trust (Great Britain) Binding: HardbackPublished: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: mildew on spine and inside front and back...
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, TelegraphBritish architecture between the...
William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
$200.00 AUD
The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors,...
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
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Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
SAVE MANUAL
$12.00 AUD
"SAVE Britain's Heritage" was founded in 1975 to campaign publicly for the protection of threatened historic buildings. This book explains how the organization goes about its campaigns and looks at...
100 20th-Century Buildings
A stylish celebration of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, from the 20th century and beyond, from the country's leading organisation for the protection of 20th century architecture.This fascinating...
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, TelegraphBritish architecture between the...
The Victoria And Albert Museum: The Making Of The Collection
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew institutions in the world embody the ambition and aesthetic vision of Victorian Britain quite like the Victoria...