Category: History & Reference

Art and History of Pompeii (With the Reconstructions of the City)

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 96236

ISBN: 281DES1005195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 19101930

Price: $11.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : June 2002

Seller ID: 80653

ISBN-13: 9780262025300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hundreds of primary documents from the Central European artistic avant-gardes, most of them translated into English for the first time.The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of modernism's evolution as it reached its peak throughout the continent during the 1920s. Written documents--manifestoes, artists' statements, and reviews--were the lifeblood of these movements and, during the periods when political events conspired to isolate them, one of their few means of communication and exchange. Much of this crucial evidence has become lost to us, and the artistic avant-g...
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Birds in Art: 2007

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : 2007

Seller ID: 83077

ISBN: 281DES1004229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Italian Furniture Frame Corp., Artistic Furniture catalog

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chicago, Laser : c1925?

Seller ID: 33573

ISBN: 281DES1000199

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NRG Blast: The ultimate NRGizing Workout

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Seller ID: 87014

ISBN: 070999009957

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s

Price: $11.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : December 2002

Seller ID: 80655

ISBN-13: 9780262083133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A sourcebook of primary documents on Eastern and Central European art from the second half of the twentieth century.Although a number of books have told the story of modern and contemporary art in Eastern and Central Europe, missing from these accounts have been the sources themselves. This book, the result of years of research by an international team of artists, curators, editors, translators, and scholars working with the Museum of Modern Art, presents primary documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the twentieth century. Because th...
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Spain; a history in art

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Seller ID: 96380

ISBN: B007T4S75K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The History of Art: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Dorset Press : January 1992

Seller ID: 92444

ISBN-13: 9780880295505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Impressionists at First Hand (World of Art)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : March 1987

Seller ID: 26833

ISBN-13: 9780500202098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gathers selections from letters, critical reviews, and reminiscences by the impressionist artists and their contemporaries.
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California Studies in the History of Art)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: University of California Press : April 1995

Seller ID: 80654

ISBN-13: 9780520202535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a wide range of leading and emerging artists since 1945, the collection--while comprehensive and authoritative--offers the reader some eclectic surprises as well. Included here are texts that have become pivotal documents in contemporary art, along with writings that cover unfamiliar ground. Some are ne...
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Typography 5: The Annual of the Type Directors Club

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Watson-Guptill : January 1950

Seller ID: 96629

ISBN-13: 9780823055395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Vatican Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art and Culture in the Vatican and Italy

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Gingko Press Inc : January 1993

Seller ID: 92688

ISBN-13: 9788843543557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Italian Renaissance Illuminations

By: Alexander, J. J. G.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: George Braziller : January 1977

Seller ID: 92691

ISBN-13: 9780807608647

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Viking Ship Finds

By: Anders Hagen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Universitetetes Oldsaksamling

Seller ID: 81300

ISBN: 281DES1004054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Greek Sculpture

By: Barron, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Studio Vista Dutton Picturback : January 1966

Seller ID: 38025

ISBN-13: 9780289368084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

beautiful b/w photos, 160 pgs
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Understanding Modern Art (An Usborne Introduction)

By: Bohm-Duchen, Monica,Cook, Janet

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Edc Pub : February 1992

Seller ID: 32935

ISBN-13: 9780746004753

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

-- Wide variety of styles discussed to help readers know what to look or listen for to enhance their enjoyment

-- Puts the arts in historical context
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Pennsylvania German illuminated manuscripts;: A classification of fraktur-schriften and an inquiry into their history and art

By: Borneman, Henry Stauffer

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : January 1973

Seller ID: 72823

ISBN-13: 9780486229263

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Antique Furniture: explained and Illustrated 1501-1901

By: Bowers, K.W.M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gramercy : January 1971

Seller ID: 75232

ISBN: B000WHFTHK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Romanticism and Its Discontents

By: Brookner, Anita

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : November 2001

Seller ID: 95960

ISBN-13: 9780374527846

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant reassessment of French Romantic painting by a noted art historian and Booker Prize winner In "Romanticism and Its Discontents," Booker Prize-winning novelist and celebrated art historian Anita Brookner offers a stunning reassessment of the masters of French Romantic painting in the context of nineteenth-century poetry, literature, and criticism. Examining the works of these artists, Brookner traces the way in which French Romanticism evolved from the political turmoil of the late eighteenth century and the defeat of Waterloo in 1815, and replaced the agnosticism of the Enlightenmen...
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VASARI''s Lives of the Artists. Biographies of the most eminent architects, painters, and sculptors of Italy. Abridged and edited by Betty Burroughs.

By: Burroughs, Betty

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster : January 1946

Seller ID: 73809

ISBN: B00362J6JU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Royal Style: Five Centuries of Influence and Fashion

By: Calloway, Stephen,Jones, Stephen

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Co : October 1991

Seller ID: 69313

ISBN-13: 9780316125093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism

By: Cole, Bruce,Gealt, Adelheid

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Summit Books : January 1989

Seller ID: 94475

ISBN-13: 9780671670078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art Deco: 1st Ed. (ART DECO: IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE GUIDE)

By: Collectibles, House Of

Price: $5.00

Publisher: House of Collectibles : September 1988

Seller ID: 87021

ISBN-13: 9780876373620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Imperial Tombs of China

By: Congyun, Lei

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Portland Art Museum : January 1995

Seller ID: 80540

ISBN-13: 9781882516056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

By: Cumming, Laura

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner : April 2016

Seller ID: 95975

ISBN-13: 9781476762159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" (The Economist), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Vel zquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young--too young to be king--and yet also too young to be pai...
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Look!: Art History Fundamentals

By: D'Alleva, Anne

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Pearson College Div : July 2003

Seller ID: 87032

ISBN-13: 9780130486356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written in a casual, personable, and unassuming style, this handbook introduces readers to the basic methods of art history and the visual and contextual analysis of works of art, and teaches them how to use these types of analysis in writing about art. Features a balanced selection of examples drawn from the arts of Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. Provides a comprehensive bibliography of art history periodicals, general guides and reference works, websites, history of art history, as well as writings by period and theme. Art History as a Discipline. The ...
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Art Deco: An Illustrated Guide to the Decorative Style 1920 - 1940 (A Quintet book)

By: Darton, Mike

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Book Sales : July 1990

Seller ID: 75495

ISBN-13: 9781555215712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Reviews the distinctive style of the age, including sculpture, glass, silver, furniture, architecture, and other fields.
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A Family of Fashion: The Messel Dress Collection, 1865-2005

By: de la Haye, Amy,Taylor, Lou,Thompson, Eleanor

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers : March 2006

Seller ID: 94477

ISBN-13: 9780856676109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This lavishly illustrated catalogue will accompany an exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2006.The items on display are drawn from the extensive wardrobe of four generations of Lord Snowdon's family--the Messel-Rosse-Linley-Sambourne-Snowdons. The book uses these examples to trace the evolution of stylish English dress from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, and is brought up to modern times through items lent by living family members.
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