Art History
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A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
Christina Connett BrophyCurrent price €58.87Original price €63.99Few American artists have captured painters imaginations with the gripping force of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917). The brooding spirituality of...
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Hilma af Klint: Artist, Researcher, Medium
Hatje CantzCurrent price €21.20Original price €26.50Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly e...
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Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser
V & A PublishingCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into ...
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Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010: Critical Essays
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99The notion of a person--or even an object--having a double has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the bod...
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Joanna, George and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship
Sue BradburyCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life. ...
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Jon Anderson and The Warriors: The Road To Yes
Dave WatkinsonCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50This unique and meticulously researched book will delight both Yes fans and students of the 1960s music scene. It is essential reading for all love...
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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
William DalrympleCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a serie...
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Edvard Munch Prints
Magne BruteigCurrent price €17.63Original price €23.50Munch was Norway''s greatest artist and one of the founders of the Expressionist movement. He first made a name for himself as a painter, and thoug...
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British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi
Sylvia ShortoCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century...
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Painter of Pedigree: Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury - Animal Artist of the Agricultural Revolution
Lawrence Trevelyan WeaverCurrent price €27.74Original price €36.99The industrial and agricultural revolutions transformed the face of Britain. Fiery blast furnaces, pit-head steam engines and fuming lime-kilns sca...
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Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Yale University PressCurrent price €232.50Original price €310.00The core of the Clark''s collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, I like all kinds of art if it is good o...
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Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Gemma BlackshawCurrent price €35.99Original price €44.99An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siècleVienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the great flourishing...
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William Bouguereau: The Essential Works
Frederick C. RossCurrent price €58.87Original price €63.99William Bouguereau, the most popular artist in nineteenth-century France, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular realist artists of all time. ...
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The Short Story of Modern Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Techniques
Susie HodgeCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced...
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Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings
Tobias G. NatterCurrent price €24.38Original price €26.50A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic ex...
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Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. II: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
Maurine St. GaudensCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99This is volume 2: E-K, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...
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Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South
Deborah C. PollackCurrent price €54.39Original price €67.99Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities - Atlanta, C...
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The Long Nineteenth Century: Treasures and Pleasures: Volume One: From the French Revolution
Alexander BeetlesCurrent price €14.00Original price €17.50This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue surveys the strength and range of British art from 1789 to 1918, while charting changes and development...
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Robert Koehler''s ''The Strike'': The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
James M. DennisCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined c...
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses
Starr FiguraCurrent price €44.15Original price €47.99Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume explores the remarkable relationship b...
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Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. IV: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
Maurine St. GaudensCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99This is volume 4: S-Z, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...
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Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. III: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
Maurine St. GaudensCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99This is volume 3: L-K, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...
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Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. I: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
Maurine St. GaudensCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This is volume 1: A-D, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...
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Europe in Vienna: The Congress of Vienna 1814/15
Agnes HussleinarcoCurrent price €44.15Original price €47.99For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. Never before had there be...
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Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The ''Englishness'' of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century
Mark A. CheethamCurrent price €146.27Original price €158.99Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, n...
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Julia Margaret Camerons Fancy Subjects: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire
Jeffrey RosenCurrent price €77.21Original price €98.99Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connect...
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Ink-Stained Hands: Graphic Studio Dublin and the Origins of Fine Art Printmaking in Ireland
Brian LalorCurrent price €55.67Original price €63.99Ink-Stained Hands fulfils a considerable gap in Irish visual arts publications as the first book to present the activities of printmakers in Irelan...
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The Making of Women Artists in Victorian England: The Education and Careers of Six Professionals
Jo DevereuxCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50When women were admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1860, female art students gained a foothold in the most conservative art institution in...
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100 Dogs of War: Samurai Art by Yoshitoshi
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Empire of the Senses: Beauty Prints from the Floating World
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Lust For The Devil: The Erotic-Satanic Art of Felicien Rops
Felicien RopsCurrent price €15.74Original price €20.99Current price €15.74Original price €20.99Save 25% -
A Victorian Architectural Controversy: Who Was the Real Architect of the Houses of Parliament?
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99Who was the bona fide architect of the New Houses of Parliament? Charles Barry (1795-1860), the winner of the Parliamentary competition, or Augustu...
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Learn Japanese Katakana - The Workbook for Beginners: An Easy, Step-by-Step Study Guide and Writing Practice Book: The Best Way to Learn Japanese and How to Write the Katakana Alphabet (Flash Cards...
George TanakaCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Current price €14.78Original price €16.99Save 13%