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On Art and Life by John Ruskin
$5.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 15 | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge Western assumptions about art and representatio ...Show more
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture by Nicholas Thomas
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Category: History & Theory | Series: Interplay S. | Reading Level: very good
Tribal art has been one of the great inspirations of 20th-century Western art. Europeans such as Picasso, Matisse, Ernst and Brancusi created their own responses to masks, sculpture and other forms of African, Oceanic and American art. But is this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one ...Show more
Early Netherlandish Painting: Volume One, Text by John Oliver Hand; Martha Wolff; National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Staff
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good
Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck's Annunciation, Rogier van der Weyden's Saint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David's Rest on the Flight into Egypt--among the greatest examples of northern Renaissance panel painting in North America--are included in this volume. The s ...Show more
Movements in Art since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.
The High Renaissance & Mannerism by Linda Murray
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The principal elements of High Renaissance art, first formulated by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s, came to their true flowering in the brilliant achievements of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome, of Michelangelo in Florence and Giorgione and Titian in Venice. After the death of Raphael in 1520 ...Show more
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame by E. Michael (EDT) Whittington
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Olmec began playing ballgames around 1800 BC, an activity that soon became an important part of Mesoamerican life. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina and includes 11 essays from the world's leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture. The contribu ...Show more
Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery by Wendy Wick Reaves; Bernard F. Reilly Jr.
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Conventional wisdom suggests that portraiture lost its relevance in the twentieth century, that it was too tied to representation and biographical narrative to compete. Why then, the vitality of the the National Portrait Gallery's twentieth-century images in "Eye Contact?" Far from confirming a moribund ...Show more
The Obstacle Race - The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncha ...Show more
Athenian Red Figure Vases - The Archaic Period - A Handbook by John Boardman
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
In his sequel to "Athenian Black Figure Vases, " John Boardman, Professor Emeritus at Oxford University, covers the invention of the "red figure" technique in about 530 BC. Professor Boardman illuminates the ancient art form by placing the painters and their vases within the history of Athens and the gr ...Show more
How Art Made the World by Nigel Spivey
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Ambitious in scale and far-reaching in scope, "How Art Made the World" is a fresh introduction to the history of art and, through the visual image, the history of humankind. Embarking with the motto 'Everyone is an artist', Nigel Spivey takes us on a quest to find out when and how we humans acquired and ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more