Art
Art and artists from the earliest rock art to the flowering of the Renaissance and diverse contemporary work.
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On Portraiture: (Do Tirar Pelo Natural) [Paperback]
Francisco De Holanda (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781912168118
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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Francisco de Holanda (1517/18 – 1585) was a court painter, architect and essayist at the Lisbon court of John III of Portugal and Catherine of Austria. Son of the Netherlandish painter and miniaturist, António de Holanda (d. 1557), from whom he le... .... Learn More -
Munch and his World: Graphic Arts and the Avant-garde in Paris and Berlin [Paperback]
Giulia Bartrum (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9780861592371
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 237
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The art of Edvard Munch is striking for the originality and universality of its themes, which cross moments in place and time. Yet he was very much an artist of the nineteenth century, and the focus of this publication is to show how especially in... .... Learn More -
P.S. Krøyer and Paris: French Connections and Nordic Tones [Hardback]
Mette Harbo Lehmann (Author); Dominique Lobstein (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9788772197203
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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The lover of light': these were the words used in 1928 by a French critic seeking to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909), who had close ties to the French art scene for more than two decades. Krøyer first arrived in ... .... Learn More -
Ovartaci: The Master Madman [Hardback]
Brian Benjamin Hansen (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9788772197104
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Ovartaci (Louis Marcussen) (1894-1985) is one of the most enthralling Danish artists of the 20th century. Ovartaci lived at a mental institution from 1929 and to the end of his life. In 1979 his work was presented at the exhibition "Outsiders" at ... .... Learn More -
American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane [Hardback]
Maxwell King (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9780822947042
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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A comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. The book presents a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street... .... Learn More -
Five and One Theses on Modernity: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939 [Hardback]
Eleni Kefala (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780822946922
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
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Medieval Image-Concepts and the Meaning of Visual Programs [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828739
Published by : Pindar Press
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This is the second volume of Professor Brenk's studies on late-Antique and medieval art; the first volume, on The Christianization of the Late Roman World , is featured earlier.This volume presents a selection of 25 studies which are gr... .... Learn More -
Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
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Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive proliferatio... .... Learn More -
The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form: Studies in the History of Art from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollock, Volume I [Hardback]
Irving Lavin (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828401
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 1
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This work in two volumes brings 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... .... Learn More -
Medieval Rome: A History in Art [Hardback]
John Osborne (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597414
Published by : Pindar Press
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For over twenty years, Professor Osborne has worked on the medieval wall paintings of Rome. His papers cover the period from the Byzantine art of the early Middle Ages to the flowering of monumental painting and mosaic in the twelfth and thirteent... .... Learn More
