History of Art & Design Styles books

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Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde

Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural...

Author: Ara H. Merjian
ISBN: 9780300270013
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation  Read More >>

Tomas Van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame

Tomas Van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame

Author: Tomas van Houtryve ,  Pauline Vermare
ISBN: 9798890180872
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Special insider access to the rebuilding process at Notre Dame after the 2019 fire, shot with a historic wet-plate...  Read More >>

Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito

Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures,...

Author: Susan Verdi Webster
ISBN: 9781477329726
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant...  Read More >>

Moral Seascapes: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Maritime Emergency

Moral Seascapes: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Maritime...

Author: Jonathan Stafford ,  Henning Trüper (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research)
ISBN: 9789462704404
Format: Paperback
$116.44

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea. We are no strangers today to visual representations...  Read More >>

The Re-Imagined Chas H. Marshall 1891 Horse Laughs

The Re-Imagined Chas H. Marshall 1891 Horse Laughs

Author: R J Carter ,  Peter Gatsis
ISBN: 9781895462944
Format: Hardback
$52.67

HORSE LAUGHS is a series of cartoons drawn and colored by Charles Hunt Marshall, who was better known by his pseudonym,...  Read More >>

Westminster Palast: Stein gewordene Geschichte Englands: Geschichte und Architektur eines ikonischen Wahrzeichens

Westminster Palast: Stein gewordene Geschichte Englands:...

Author: Andrew Higgins
ISBN: 9783384363237
Format: Hardback
$71.25

Der Westminster Palast, eines der berühmtesten Bauwerke der Welt, steht als Sinnbild für die politische Macht Großbritanniens...  Read More >>

Antoine Wiertz (1806-65) and the Quest for Modern Genius: The Reverse of the Sublime

Antoine Wiertz (1806-65) and the Quest for Modern Genius:...

Author: Stijn Bussels ,  Caroline Van Eck
ISBN: 9782503604732
Format: Hardback
$314.16

In art history, the Belgian romantic artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-65) is often considered as the prototype...  Read More >>

Die Beinsattel Des 13. Bis 17. Jahrhunderts: Reitzeuge ALS Sinnbilder Ritterlich-Hofischer Ideale

Die Beinsattel Des 13. Bis 17. Jahrhunderts: Reitzeuge...

Author: Maria Schroder
ISBN: 9783871572678
Format: Hardback
$300.96

Spatmittelalterliche und fruhneuzeitliche Sattel mit kunstvollen Schnitzereien und Gravuren aus Knochen oder Geweih...  Read More >>

The Three Natures: Gardens and Landscapes of the Italian Renaissance

The Three Natures: Gardens and Landscapes of the Italian...

Author: Anatole Tchikine
ISBN: 9781915487230
Format: Hardback
$414.48

In the middle of the sixteenth century, humanist Jacopo Bonfadio referred to gardens as ""a third nature,"" as distinct...  Read More >>

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Volume 2: Regional Perspectives

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Volume 2: Regional...

Author: Alexandra Dolea ,  Luke Lavan
ISBN: 9789004687967
Format: Hardback
$506.88

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, by region, from Britain...  Read More >>

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Volume 1: Thematic Perspectives

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Volume 1: Thematic...

Author: Luke Lavan
ISBN: 9789004687950
Format: Hardback
$712.80

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from...  Read More >>

Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands, 1500–1950

Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands,...

Author: Thijs Weststeijn ,  Elizabeth Alice Honig
ISBN: 9789004710740
Format: Hardback
$427.68

To what extent did women artists and patrons challenge, subvert, or confirm societal norms in the Low Countries?...  Read More >>

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History...

Author: Jody Benjamin ,  Jean Allman
ISBN: 9780821425473
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This book looks at how a range of West Africans interacted with the regional and global trade in textiles from 1700...  Read More >>

NG6461: The Fake Rubens

NG6461: The Fake Rubens

Author: Euphrosyne Doxiadis
ISBN: 9781916809895
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Wilfully Blind is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change...  Read More >>

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Author: Jonathan Lethem
ISBN: 9798988670001
Format: Hardback
$105.60

A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical...  Read More >>

Pharmapolis: Geschichten aus der Apotheke des Lebens: Chroniken der Heilkunst und menschlicher Schicksale - Band 1-2

Pharmapolis: Geschichten aus der Apotheke des Lebens:...

Author: Lena Sternfeld
ISBN: 9783384370631
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von ""Pharmapolis - Geschichten aus der Apotheke des Lebens"". In dieser faszinierenden...  Read More >>

Theorising the Artist Interview

Theorising the Artist Interview

Author: Lucia Farinati ,  Jennifer Thatcher
ISBN: 9781032419602
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented...  Read More >>

City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of...

Author: James Michael Buckley
ISBN: 9781477330241
Format: Hardback
$118.80

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of...  Read More >>

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History...

Author: Jody Benjamin ,  Jean Allman
ISBN: 9780821425466
Format: Hardback
$211.20

This book looks at how a range of West Africans interacted with the regional and global trade in textiles from 1700...  Read More >>

Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work

Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work

Author: Alex Johnson ,  James Oses
ISBN: 9780711293786
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Studios of Their Owntravels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous artists created their...  Read More >>

Art by Literati: Calligraphic Carving in Middle Qing China

Art by Literati: Calligraphic Carving in Middle Qing...

Author: Hye-Shim Yi
ISBN: 9781638571926
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Explores the integration of calligraphic inscription into late Qing China's literati culture, challenging traditional...  Read More >>

Witch-Ikon: Witchcraft in Art and Artifact

Witch-Ikon: Witchcraft in Art and Artifact

Author: Daniel A Schulke ,  Tom Allen (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781945147142
Format: Paperback
$118.80

The figure of the Witch has haunted the margins of religion and spirituality for thousands of years, as a figure...  Read More >>

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