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Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500 by Evelyn S. Welch
$18.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Oxford History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world's most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Here, Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the ...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 in Europe, 1700-1830 - A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth by Matthew Craske
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Oxford History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Hogarth's pugnaciously xenophobic `Gates of Calais', Giambattista Tiepolo's grandiose murals at Wurzburg, Goya's satirical engravings, Los Caprichos, and Canova's chastely classical sculptures could hardly be more different but all are aspects of the same period. In an era of unprecedentedchange - rapid ...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
Athens - A History - From Ancient Ideal to Modern City by Robin Waterfield
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Art of Mentoring Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Perhaps no other city looms larger in our cultural and historical imagination than Athens. For two and a half millennia, people have looked to the city's past as a beacon of genuine democracy, artistic expression, and the classical ideal. In this engaging narrative, noted classicist Robin Waterfield tra ...Show more
Ballet & Modern Dance by Susan Au
$14.00 NZD
Category: Dance | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Traces the development of ballet, describes influential choreographers, dances, and dancers, and looks at modern trends in dance.
Baroque and Rococo by Germain Bazin
$12.00 NZD
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
British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
$12.00 NZD
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
British Painting: The Golden Age by William Vaughan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into the forefront of European art. The main figures are Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence, Blake, Constable and Turner. William Vaughan discusses ...Show more
Bruegel by Walter S. Gibson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Although Pieter Bruegel's pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure. In a volume which will widen the understanding and enhance the enjoyment of Bruegel's many admirers, Walter Gibson illuminates the sixteenth-cent ...Show more