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Art and Identity in the Roman World by Eve D'Ambra
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Everyman Art Library | Reading Level: very good
In this reappraisal of the art and architecture of ancient Rome, Eve D'Ambra focuses on the personal, social and cultural identity of its subjects. The acquisition of art, whether the purchase of copies of Greek statuary, the construction of a sumptuous villa or the commissioning of a portrait head, pla ...Show more
Dictionary Of Art And Artists by Nikos Stangos (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Dictionary of Art Terms by Edward Lucie-Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art
What exactly is Neo-Expressionism? The part of a city known as the acropolis? Or the painting technique called gouache? In this authoritative and concise dictionary, more than 2000 entries and 375 illustrations embrace the vast vocabulary of painting and sculpture, architecture and photography, the deco ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.
Art since 1960 by Michael Archer
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The\World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Art today may seem perplexing at first with its divergent styles, forms, practices, media, and agendas. Michael Archer's intelligently argued survey is unique in revealing and making coherent sense of art practice from the past forty years-Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body, and Installat ...Show more
New Media in Late 20th-Century Art by Michael Rush
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Modern art has radically extended the conventional medium of sculpture and painting. Following on innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies o ...Show more
Pop Art by Lucy R Lippard
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Illustrated survey of pop art during the 1960s.
Roman Art by Donald Strong
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The Pelican History of Art | Reading Level: very good
Donald Strong's book traces the development of Roman art from its beginnings to the end of the 4th century A.D., embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman world, which extended from Britain to Mesopotamia and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa. A special virtue is the de ...Show more
Dialogues - Conversations with European Artists at Mid-Century by Edouard Roditi
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him- ...Show more
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Explains how abstract art originated and evolved, discusses major abstract artists and movements, and looks at the current revival of abstract painting.
Camouflage Australia: Art, Nature, Science and War by Ann Elias
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
This book tells a once secret and little known story of how the Australian government accepted the advice of a zoologist and seconded the country's leading artists and designers to deploy optical tricks and illusions to protect the nation.