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Rediscoveries in Art - Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France by Francis Haskell
$40.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Wrightsman Lectures Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Landscape and Power by W J T Mitchell (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
Landscapes, whether in pictures or the world, have been viewed as a genre, treated as texts, interpreted as allegory. Landscape and Power goes beyond these approaches to ask not just what landscape "is" or "means" but what it does, how it works as a cultural practice. The original essays in this volume ...Show more
The Uses of Images - Studies in the Socila Function of Art and Visual Communication by E H Gombrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Gombrich is obviously an intelligent essayist well versed in the history of art and culture. Unfortunately, he knows a lot more than most of us. He too often refers to art, movements and people that the even more familiar art reader may not be very familiar with. Many of these essays bring up inter ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Hugh Brigstocke
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Focusing on Western art, this work concentrates on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, leaving architecture to be covered separately. It includes artists and their works, and also pays attention to topics of interest focused on patronage, taste, theory and criticism. There are over 2600 entries, ...Show more
Athenian Black Figure Vases by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Athenian black figure vases bear the work of consummate artists, like Exekias, who depicted on them scenes of myth and everyday life which deepen our knowledge and understanding of Greek antiquity. In this survey, Professor John Boardman enables the reader to study the many aspects of the vases, and to ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | 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
Heaven and Hell in Western Art by Robert Hughes
$55.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
The Aesthetics of Modernism by Joseph Chiari
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
The Gardner Heist - The true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft by Ulrich Boser
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a ...Show more
American Visions - The epic history of art in America by Robert Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America. The intense relationship betwe ...Show more
Defining Modern Art - Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr by Irving Sandler (Introduction by); Amy Newman (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Essays by the man who helped found the Museum of Modern Art discuss cubism, abstract art, futurism, Matisse, Picasso, and artistic freedom.
Art and the French Commune - Imagining Paris after War and Revolution by Albert Boime
$20.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist i ...Show more