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A Concise History of Avant Garde Music - From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: World of Art Ser.
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
American Architecture by David P. Handlin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently cont ...Show more
Architecture after Modernism by Diane Ghirardo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers and women architects as well as famous international stars.
Art Deco by Alastair Duncan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: good
This volume traces the history of the art deco movement and examines its influence on design. Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting, silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, posters, books, jewellery, and architecture.
Art Of The Renaissance by Murray Peter & Linda
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread fr ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
$14.00 NZD
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
Art of the Andes - From Chavin to Inca by Rebecca Stone-Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: The\World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
This wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best single-volume introduction to Andean art and architecture.
Art of the Celts - From 700 B. C. to the Celtic Revival by Lloyd Robert Laing; Jennifer Laing
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A journey along the historical spectrum of Celtic art, from the rich treasures found throughout Iron Age Europe, through the flowering of metalwork, sculpture and manuscript illumination, to the revivals attempted today.
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
Athenian Red Figure Vases - The Archaic Period - A Handbook by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
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
Athenian Red Figure Vases ~ The Classical Period - A handbook by John Boardman
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Discusses the historical and artistic aspects of Athenian red figure vases of the classical period through the fourth century.