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Southwold (2nd edition): An Earthly Paradise
Geoffrey MunnCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99The inspiration behind William Morris's Earthly Paradise, the muse for J.M.W. Turner's superlative seascapes, a home to hardy fishermen and the top...
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Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Decoration in Early Imperial Italy
Mantha ZarmakoupiCurrent price €60.02Original price €68.99Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatise...
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Abiding Buddha: The Sculpture of Tranquility
Unicorn Publishing GroupCurrent price €26.00Original price €32.50Xu Bin Jueyis sculpture breaks nearly a hundred years of stasis in Buddha sculpting. Using contemporary materials such as metal, resin and wood, Ju...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art: Highlights
Philadelphia Museum of ArtCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A beautifully illustrated introduction to the Philadelphia Museum of Arts encyclopedic collection Philadelphia Museum of Art Highlights presents ...
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Albrecht Durer: Art and Autobiography
David EkserdjianCurrent price €18.39Original price €22.99The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist ...
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William Bell Scott''s Screen: A Pre-Raphaelite Romance
Emily LearmontCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99William Bell Scotts screen, The Kings Quair, was commissioned by James Leathart, an important collector of Pre-Raphaelite art. The beautifully deco...
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Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
Elizabeth KingCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as the monk. The walking, ...
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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
Allison RudnickCurrent price €40.79Original price €50.99Reveals how American art in the 1930sintertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our ownengaged with the pu...
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Hippy & Trippy Art: 14 Black Light Posters
Editors of Epic InkCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Embrace the iconic 60s counterculture movement with 14 large-scale psychedelic black-light posters.Hippy & Trippy Art is filled with mind-bendi...
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History of Modern Design Third Edition
David RaizmanCurrent price €52.43Original price €56.99This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, e...
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Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s
Adam RoweCurrent price €32.79Original price €39.99A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, m...
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Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Emanuele CocciaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immens...
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Treasures of India: From Antiquity to Modernity
DKCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99An exquisite collection of artefacts, sculptures, and historically significant treasures from across India. If the captivating bronze dancing girl ...
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The Colour Line
Igiaba ScegoCurrent price €16.19Original price €19.99It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life ...
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The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder
Duncan MacmillanCurrent price €26.00Original price €32.50Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadders art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the accoun...
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Justine PicardieCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardies definitive biography explores the dark my...
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Rodin: In Private Hands
Bowman Sculpture LtdCurrent price €20.79Original price €25.99Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name in 2014, Rodin: In Private Hands is a selection of works by Rodin curated by the Bowman Gall...
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Written in Wood: Three Wordless Graphic Narratives
George A. WalkerCurrent price €20.79Original price €25.99'The delicacy and intelligence of George Walker's printmaking seems to have come to us from a bygone age. Fortunately, we have George with us now' ...
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John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
Ian CollinsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (19222009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he ...
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Rembrandt''s Roughness
Nicola SuthorCurrent price €63.47Original price €68.99Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterl...
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Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt
Marisa Anne BassCurrent price €62.89Original price €73.99How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the inte...
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David Milne: An Introduction to His Life and Art
David P. SilcoxCurrent price €11.19Original price €13.99A well illustrated concise introduction to the art and life of David Milne (1882-1953), widely regarded as one of the most gifted Canadian painters...
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Edward Burne-Jones Mythical Paintings: The Pygmalion of the Pre-Raphaelite Painters
Liana De Girolami CheneyCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99This book focuses on Sir Edward Burne-Jones mythical paintings from 1868 to 1886. His artistic training and traveling experiences, his love for the...
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Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers
Debra N. MancoffCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Containing a stunning array of romantic paintings, this book brings together two important aspects of Victorian culture--the Pre-Raphaelite movemen...
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