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Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$14.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
?An eloquent reading of images produced by peoples in the Pacific? ? Art Monthly Looking at and beyond the dazzling colours and patterns of the ?primitive? art of the Pacific Islands to explore the significance of the art, past and present. Nicholas Thomas shows how each region is characterized by its o ...Show more
British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book Frances Spalding reassesses the astonishing achievements of British artists from the Edwardians Ben Nicholson and Walter Sickert to the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; from the work of Paul Nash and David Jones between the wars to that of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, ...Show more
Romanesque Art - Selected Papers by Meyer Schapiro
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Subjects include the sculptures of the cloister and the portal in the French abbey of Moissac, as well as the manuscript paintings and stone sculptures from the Castilian abbey of Silos. Schapiro applies evidence from numerous sources, such as literature, folklore, and political history, to reconstruct ...Show more
Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship by Catherine Scallen
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From 1870 to 1935, the first true catalogues raisonn s of Rembrandt's paintings were produced, incorporating the results of individual connoisseurs' evaluations of authenticity and quality. This book, the first full-length study of this scholarly corpus, concentrates on the written connoisseurship of Wi ...Show more
From Nineveh to New York - The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School by John Malcolm Russell; Judith McKenzie (Contribution by); Stephanie Dalley (Contribution by); Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of the nineteenth century, uniting archaeological imperialism, genius, and romance. No less remarkable is the story of the collection, dispersal, and then frantic re-acquisiti ...Show more
The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia to 1944 by Humphrey McQueen
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Big Eyes Small Windows by Kyoichi Tsuzuki; Nick Kemps (Selected by)
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
A selection of writings from Niek Kemps that introduces new aspects of his work. Through the interweaving of essays, dialogues, stories and anecdotes, Niek Kemps invites the reader to rethink some of our accustomed responses to culture.
Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The twentieth century has been a period of major disruption for traditional institutions in Africa. But even as old forms of art patronage were being suppressed, new avenues of artistic expression opened up. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which precol ...Show more
Blimey! - From Bohemia to Britpop - The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst by Matthew Collings
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
A racy account of the London contemporary art scene by celebrated art critic Matthew Collings, giving a snapshot of the new Bohemia of the 90s interwoven with episodes from the author's own life in London. From Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, specially-commissioned photographs by documentary film-maker I ...Show more
Native North American Art by Janet Catherine Berlo
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Category: History & Theory | Series: Oxford History of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
An investigation of the indigenous arts of the US and Canada in the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series. The importance of these arts to the integrity of spiritual, social, political and economic systems within Native North American societies is considered through issues such as gender, representation, the col ...Show more
Baroque and Rococo by Germain Bazin
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Baroque and Rococo art and architecture have become popular once more, after a century and a half of neglect, misunderstanding and scorn. This radical shift in taste has led to a rapid growth of detailed knowledge about the artists who created these exhilarating styles. The famous masters have been reas ...Show more
Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement since the Second World War. Because the images created by such leading figures as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko were so extraordinary, it is often thought to have been a revolution in painting only, ...Show more