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John Singer Sargent The Complete Paintings Cumulative Index to Volumes I-IX
ISBN: HB: 9780300219203, Yale University Press, September 2021
144 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The cumulative index to "John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings" comprises two indexes covering the nine volumes of the complete catalogue raisonne: a comprehensive general index and an index of the titles of all the works by Sargent that have b...
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£45,00
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Silke Otto-Knapp In the Waiting Room
ISBN: PB: 9780941548816, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, February 2021
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 38 halftones
Los Angeles-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp has developed a painting practice characterized by its rigorous process and attentiveness to the medium's possibilities. Using layers of black watercolor pigment, she builds up delicate surfaces, producing su...
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£28,00
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Private World of Surimono Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300247114, Yale University Press, May 2020
200 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 302 colour illus.
This beautiful volume celebrates the tradition of the Japanese surimono print. Produced from around 1800 until 1840, during the Edo period, surimono ("printed thing" in Japanese) combine intricate artwork and playful poetry, and their small print run...
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£30,00
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Masters of Art Picasso 
ISBN: PB: 9783791386287, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades – and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapestries -his work continued to evolve i...
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£9,99
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Into the Night Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791358888, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
344 pp., 30.8x23.4 cm, 400 colour illus.
These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, in which artists could exchange provocative ideas. They were welcoming environments for artists, dancers, designers, writers, and musicians pushing the boundaries of cultural and social norms...
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£45,00
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Hugh Lane The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915
ISBN: HB: 9780300236583, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 95 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This book charts a geography of the art market and the art museum in the early 20th century through the legacy of one influential dealer. Born in Ireland, Hugh Lane (1875-1915) established himself in London in the 1890s. With little formal education...
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£40,00
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50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384573, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, colour illus.
This beautifully produced book, available in a new edition, introduces readers to the major developments in the history of modern art – from Realism to the New Leipzig School. The story of modern art begins with a revolution – when the realists star...
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£14,99
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Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...
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£16,99
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European Art A Neuroarthistory
ISBN: HB: 9780300212792, Yale University Press, October 2016
320 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.
A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging acro...
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£45,00
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John Singer Sargent Volume 9: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925 (The Complete Paintings)
ISBN: HB: 9780300177374, Yale University Press, June 2016
352 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 194 colour illus., 106 black&white illus.
The last in a series of books devoted to the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), this volume covers the figure and landscape works that Sargent produced between 1914 and 1925. The story begins with the artist painting with friends on vacation in...
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