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Modern London Map: Guide to Modern Architecture in London
Robin WilsonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology Cosmogony and Rituals: Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New Worl...
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Democratic Art: The New Deal''s Influence on American Culture
Sharon Ann MusherCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wa...
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Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries
University of Hawai'i PressCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99The first three centuries of the Heian period (7941086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature an...
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History of Art: A Student''s Handbook
Marcia PointonCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99This fully revised edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and wri...
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Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...
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Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...
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Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
Simon ConnorCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statu...
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Christian Iconography: A Study of Its Origins
André GrabarCurrent price €42.39Original price €52.99An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian artIn this book, historian André Gr...
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A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of ''Abbas Ibn Firnas
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...
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Hokusai Pop-ups
Courtney Watson McCarthyCurrent price €25.59Original price €31.99Hokusai (17601849) was an extraordinarily prolific Japanese master artist and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) schoo...
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Dessins Bolonais
Catherine LoiselCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Since 1972, the Drawings and Prints Department of the Louvre has published the reportoire of the Italian drawings held in its collections. This vol...
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Dog
Marc TetroCurrent price €59.19Original price €73.99This luscious book marks the first appearance of Marc Tetro's wonderfully expressive canines in art-book form, documenting his incredible style tha...
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Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
Leuven University PressCurrent price €54.39Original price €67.99Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museum...
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The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837 Present Day
J. François-CampbellCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of t...
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Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien
Yvonne OwensCurrent price €31.19Original price €38.99Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised ima...
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Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I: Elements
Matthew T. KapsteinCurrent price €45.23Original price €51.99In Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I, Matthew T. Kapstein and an international team of specialists provide a comprehensive intr...
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Prints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €46.10Original price €52.99Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain react...
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Painting in New York 197183
KarmaCurrent price €51.99Original price €64.99A window into the world of 1970s painting through the work of 30 women artists Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New Y...
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Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye
Stephanie A. LeitchCurrent price €91.19Original price €113.99Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber ...
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Mary Magdalene: A Visual History
Emerita Professor Diane Apostolos-CappadonaCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalenes many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. I...
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Womans Wardrobe
Kate StrasdinCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it ...
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Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics
Fred EvansCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the works aestheti...
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Qayrawan: The Amuletic City
William GalloisCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawn suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the c...
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Tomb Memory Space: Concepts of Representation in Premodern Christian and Islamic Art
De GruyterCurrent price €59.99Original price €74.99From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulch...
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The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Jonas OtterbeckCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Music ProgrammeExamines how the making, marketin...
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Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim Museum PublicationsU.S.Current price €56.79Original price €70.99From Dawoud Bey and Lorna Simpson to Sondra Perry and Kerry James Marshall, a multiethnic group of artists explores what it means to be seen, not s...
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Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace
Stefanie SolumCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de Medicis impact on the visual world of her ti...
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Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; pract...
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Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany
Marion F. DeshmukhCurrent price €123.19Original price €153.99Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and ca...
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Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768): Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France
Jennifer G GermannCurrent price €115.19Original price €143.99Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal châteaux and, after 1737, in ...
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Scale in Contemporary Sculpture: Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size
Rachel WellsCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...
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The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €138.32Original price €158.99Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Verones...
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Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola''s Seasons of Desire
Anthony ColantuonoCurrent price €123.19Original price €153.99Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Tit...
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Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €123.19Original price €153.99Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers - ...
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James Barry, 1741-1806: History Painter
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €133.97Original price €153.99Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and co...
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History of Information Graphics
Sandra RendgenCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online ...
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Late Gothic: The Birth of Modernity
Jan FriedrichCurrent price €14.00Original price €17.50Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Neth...
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Reinhard Mucha: An Initial Suspicion
Hirmer VerlagCurrent price €45.59Original price €56.99The long-awaited work monograph on the biennial and documenta artist Reinhard Mucha. For me, things only become interesting when they contain som...
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Brian Cook''s Landscapes of Britain: a guide to Britain in beautiful book illustration
Brian CookCurrent price €21.20Original price €26.50The illustrations of Brian Cook from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s have become iconic. His heightened use of colour, in a flat colour poster style, is...
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Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World
Karin BreuerCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50A stunning introduction to the history of Japanese printmaking, with highlights from the de Young museum's vast collection In 1868, Japan underwent...
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Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi brochures 1950s-1980s
Jonny TrunkCurrent price €26.85Original price €33.99Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic no...
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Textures from Nature in Textile Art: Natural inspiration for mixed-media and textile artists
Marian JazmikCurrent price €24.51Original price €28.50Harness the beauty of the natural world to create unique textile art pieces. Learn how to create beautiful textile art inspired by details in natur...
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Angelica Kauffman
Annette WickhamCurrent price €21.20Original price €26.50Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (17411807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history pain...
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America the Beautiful
National GeographicCurrent price €35.09Original price €44.99Featuring more than 300 magnificent National Geographic images of all 50 states--and inspiring words from luminaries across the country--this colle...
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