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William and Lucy The Other Rossettis
ISBN: HB: 9780300102000, Yale University Press, October 2003
352 pp., 24.2x16.7 cm, 110 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) and Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marria...
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£35,00
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Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971
ISBN: PB: 9780226811673, University of Chicago Press, May 2002
272 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 20 colour plates, 250 halftones
One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of i...
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£47,00
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Goya Images of Women
ISBN: HB: 9780300094930, Yale University Press, March 2002
384 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 50 black&white illus., 130 colour illus.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) created magnificent paintings, tapestry designs, prints and drawings over the course of his long and productive career. Women frequently appeared as the subjects of Goya's works, from his painted cartoons for th...
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Contact
ISBN: PB: 9781861542236, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2001
160 pp., 28.8x24 cm, full-colour illus.
One of the more widely discussed and inventive exponents of contemporary British art, Sam Taylor-Wood has spent a decade creating film and photographic works that extend the boundaries of their media. She has worked closely with Bruce Mau Design on t...
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£28,00
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Modern Life and Modern Subject British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300083507, Yale University Press, June 2000
344 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 120 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illum...
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£40,00
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Picture in Question Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226791296, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
151 pp., 21.6x14 cm
A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses s...
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£19,50
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Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...
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£11,50
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Fine Arts in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226791517, University of Chicago Press, February 1981
280 pp., 21.5x18.7 cm, 250 halftones
Contents: Series Editor's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition The Identification of Art with America The Persistence of...
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£33,00
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