Art
Art and artists from the earliest rock art to the flowering of the Renaissance and diverse contemporary work.
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Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty [Hardback]
David Thomas (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781921394188
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Criss Canning combines the traditions of botanical art and still-life painting in her beautiful paintings in which as Gordon Morrison, Director of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, has observed, she portrays the personality of each plant depicted.... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597506
Published by : Pindar Press
Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the mino... .... Learn More -
Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium [Hardback]
Axel Bangert (Editor); Robert S. C. Gordon (Editor); Libby Saxton (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975028
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 4
Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction betwe... .... Learn More -
Jan van Eyck and Portugal 's "Illustrious Generation" : Volume I: Text [Hardback]
Barbara von Barghahn (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597650
Published by : Pindar Press
Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders (1400-1800). In 1993, she was conferred O G... .... Learn More -
Jan van Eyck and Portugal 's "Illustrious Generation" : Volume II: Plates [Hardback]
Barbara von Barghahn (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597667
Published by : Pindar Press
Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders (1400-1800). In 1993, she was conferred O G... .... Learn More -
The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form: Studies in the History of Art from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollock, Volume II [Hardback]
Irving Lavin (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597476
Published by : Pindar Press
Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin's studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini. They range from studies of the art and architecture of Late Antiquity to twentieth-century painting in New York. They are divided here by date,... .... Learn More -
AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday [Hardback]
Robert B. Koehl (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781931534734
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 43
Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York ... .... Learn More -
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins [Paperback]
Jack Green (Editor); Emily Teeter (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9781885923998
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 36
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with ... .... Learn More -
Joseph Henderson: Doyen of Glasgow Artists, 1832-1908 [Paperback]
Hilary Christie-Johnson (Author)
£47.00ISBN: 9781921394881
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Joseph Henderson’s contribution to the burgeoning Glasgow art world in the second half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th was profound. Glasgow became a centre of artistic activity in the 1860s, due in part ... .... Learn More -
David Rankin: The New York Years [Hardback]
Dore Ashton (Author)
£59.00ISBN: 9781921394584
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Renowned New York art historian and critic Dore Ashton’s new book on the Australian artist David Rankin’s ‘New York Years’ provides illuminating insights into the development of the numerous themes expresse... .... Learn More