Arts of China After 1620
ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...
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55.00 GBP
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Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780300111200, Yale University Press, May 2006
356 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural de...
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80.00 GBP
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Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700
ISBN: PB: 9780300104691, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 100 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, a...
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47.50 GBP
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Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
ISBN: PB: 9780300088694, Yale University Press, July 2003
352 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen a...
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40.00 GBP
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Arts of China to AD 900
ISBN: PB: 9780300082845, Yale University Press, April 2000
280 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 300 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.
This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era o...
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37.50 GBP
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Pictorial Art of the West, 800-1200
ISBN: PB: 9780300064933, Yale University Press, October 1995
470 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 325 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.
Aims to provide a comprehensive guide to all forms of pictorial art – from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics and embroidery – and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. This study covers the p...
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Ars Sacra: 800-1200
ISBN: HB: 9780300060485, Yale University Press, February 1995
340 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 275 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.
The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enamelled and bejewelled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the body supposed to be con...
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100.00 GBP
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Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780300056495, Yale University Press, October 1993
610 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 75 colour plates, 232 black&white illus.
Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The book covers various areas including works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism.
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32.50 GBP
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Arts in Prehistoric Greece
ISBN: PB: 9780300052879, Yale University Press, May 1992
311 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 237 colour and black&white illus.
A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace...
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37.50 GBP
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Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780300053180, Yale University Press, May 1992
522 pp., 28,4x21,4 cm, 318 colour and black&white illus.
This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Br...
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37.50 GBP
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