History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

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The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light - they used a solar palette , the pigments matched to the colours the ey...

A native of Valencia, Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) first went to Paris in 1885 as a young artist at the age of twenty-three. H...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

The National Trust''''s collection of Arts & Crafts design ephemera preserves a hugely important period in design history. This collection of 2...

This beautiful book is a brilliant exploration of a fascinating artist who changed the world of art in the 20th century and inspired future painter...

Bringing to life the gorgeous, inspiring art of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and their group, Impressionists takes the reader back to Nineteenth ...

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of art history''s greatest colourists. However, the first years of his career in Holland were above all influen...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magist...

French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pis...

Why are curves important? What are the secrets of ornamentation? How do you create an invisible repeat in a fabric or wallpaper design? Does a h...

Hand-made jewellery is always in style. So why not go one step further and make your own beads? Polymer clay is the material of choice and you wil...

A return to Camelot This is the second volume of Arnold Schwartzman's trilogy on the architecture of the late 19th and early 20th Century, in whic...

Making is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone who is inspired to re...

Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore ...

An invaluable resource a delightful and compendious opus. - The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review The Death of Chatterton hangs from the wall of ...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achieveme...

Offering an extraordinary window into Korean culture, this magnificent volume brings a multidisciplinary approach to the history of Korean writingf...

The history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aes...

William De Morgan was the principal ceramic designer and maker in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Heavily influenced by the art of the Middle East, h...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influe...

Many of the most celebrated African American artists have created works that visually manifest Christian motifs and themes, yet this component of t...

Passage into the modern world left the Russian icon profoundly altered. It fell into new hands, migrated to new homes, and acquired new forms and m...

In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected elitist media and im...

The fifteen years in Germany between the end of World War I and the National Socialists rise to power in 1933 stand out as one of the twentieth cen...

A Touch of Blossom considers John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture and argues...

Revised edition of the bestselling backlist title. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social ...

In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a ...

Hand Drawn Maps is a fun how to book about hand drawn cartography. It is introduced by a brief history of maps and map making, followed by five sec...

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reaction to the brutality of working life and the sterility of industrial design in Victorian Britain. Although ...

The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism' redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. It takes as a starting point Edwar...

Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tea Rooms at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th, including the famous Willow Tea Rooms. Ahead...

One of Singapore's most prominent artists, Georgette Chen forged an artistic vision that till today continues to enchant and inspire. Chen's remark...

Mary Watts (1849-1938) was a leading designer of the Arts & Crafts period, the founder of the Compton Pottery and the wife of the great Victori...

The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though...

In this concise and beautifully illustrated introduction book, expert Jason Rosenfeld walks us through the key moments and central artworks to the ...

The Decorative Design of C.F.A. Voysey is the first book to place Voysey in his times. His was a dynamic age; 'Our descendants will envy the dawn t...

Edward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in h...

The Della Robbia Pottery was an integral part of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. The intention was to produce artistically designed ceramics ...

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The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are widely known and loved, but this book newly available in paperback presents a comprehensive s...