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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art
Aboriginal artists today practise in one of the world's longest continuous tradition of art - and perhaps the last to be generally recognised. Widely sought after, aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of leading museums and galleries. This concise survey looks at the work of Austral ...Show more
African Art by Frank Willett
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art Ser.
The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota and other African peoples is extremely vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact their works had upon the development of 20th-century Western art - on Picasso, Derain, Braque and Modigliani, among others - continues to this ...Show more
Art Textiles of the World : Great Britain by Matthew Koumis (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Art Textiles of the World Ser.
A lavishly illustrated survey of some of Canada's leading artists working across the spectrum of contemporary textile art. 192 pages, over 250 colour photos Introductory essays by Alan Elder, Sandra Alfoldy, PhD, JR Carpenter, Lisa Vinebaum, foreword by the Editor. Featured artists: Jennifer Angus, Ingr ...Show more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Alan Crawford
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than any other work in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed ...Show more
Chinese Art by Mary Tregear
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students alike. Generously illustrated and eminently readable, it covers not only bronzes, jades, calligraphy, an ...Show more
Concepts of Modern Art by Nikos Stangos (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art Ser.
The main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished art historians and critics in Britain and the United States. With Edward Lucie-Smith on Pop Art, Suzi Gablik on Minimal Art, Norbert Lynton on Expressionism, and ...Show more
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History by LAVER James
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art S.
From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today, this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history. Costume and Fashion explores the forms and materials used in fashion t ...Show more
Greek Art by John Boardman
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
First published in the early 1960s, this history of Greek art has been enlarged and rewritten. It takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject, and emphasizes that Greek art should be seen in its proper context, not that of galleries and museums.
Greek Sculpture - The Archaic Period by John Boardman
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
"Authoritative and brilliantly illustrated. . . . The book recommends itself not only for its synthesis of existing knowledge, but also for its original ideas." --The Daily Telegraph For most people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancien ...Show more
Impressionism by Phoebe Pool
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
The Impressionists--Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, and Renoir--are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. With imagination and insight, the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists and their contemporaries, using letters, critical reviews ...Show more
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B : The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art Ser.
More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories o ...Show more
The Theatre : A Concise History by Phyllis Hartnoll
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: World of Art