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Romantic Art by William Vaughan
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Sexuality in Western Art by Edward Lucie-Smith; Edward Lucie Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Edward Lucie-Smith's examination of sexuality in Western art from prehistory to the present first treats the tradition chronologically, then considers its characteristic themes and symbols.
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance by Peter Murray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Well-illustrated, undeniably useful, Murray's book is truly welcome." --Architectural Design "Informed in content and concise in style . . . a perfect introduction to the architecture of the Italian Renaissance." --Richard Stapleford, Cooper Union School of Architecture A classic guide to one of the ...Show more
The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt by W. Stevenson Smith; W. Kelly Simpson (Revised by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Pelican History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A wealth of art and architectural treasures survive from Ancient Egypt--a civilization that endured from the fourth millennium B.C. to the conquest of Alexander the Great. In this book, Ancient Egyptian monuments, their decorations, and many other works of art are reproduced in more than four hundred be ...Show more
The Art and Architecture of Russia by George H. Hamilton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Hist of Art Ser.
Originally published: Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1954.
The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller
$18.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries.Providing an in-depth examination of central w ...Show more
The Art of Recklessness - Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Art Of... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivit ...Show more
The Art of War: The New Illustrated Edition by Sun-tzu
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: The\Art of Wisdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been by military leaders since ancient times. ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio by Diane Cole Ahl (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Cambridge Companions to the History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Companion explores the visual, intellectual, and religious culture of Renaissance Florence in the age of Masaccio, 1401-1428. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars and conservators, the essays in this volume investigate the artistic, civic, and sacred contexts of Masaccio's works a ...Show more
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically ...Show more
The Grid, Lattice and Network - Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art by Andrew Bogle
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide by Thomas P. Campbell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP) Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This completely reconceived and rewritten guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's encyclopedic holdings--the first new edition of the guidebook in nearly thirty years--provides the ideal introduction to almost 600 essential masterpieces from one of the world's most popular and beloved art collections. ...Show more