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Latin American Art Since 1900 by Edward Lucie-Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
In this classic survey, now updated with full-color images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. Lucie-Smith examines major artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less familiar Latin American artists and exiled artis ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser.
Kenneth Frampton's highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
Monet by James H. Rubin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
One of the most famous and admired painters of all time, Claude Monet (1840- 1926) was the architect of impressionism--a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique of painting outside at the seashore or in city streets was as radically new as his subject matter: the landscapes and middle-cl ...Show more
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day.Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie- Smith demystifies t ...Show more
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$22.71 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art as 'primitive', mysterious and shrouded in taboo, but Nicholas Thomas, in looking at and beyond the famili ...Show more
Scottish Art by Murdo MacDonald
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
At a time when issues of Scottish identity are the subject of fierce debate, Murdo Macdonald illuminates Scotland's artistic past and present in this classic text in the World of Art series. Ranging from Neolithic standing stones and the art of the Picts and Gaels to Reformation and Enlightenment art an ...Show more
The Art of Contemporary China by Jiang Jiehong
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
A redefinition ofcontemporary Chinese artfrom the last forty years in thecontext of unprecedentedcultural, political, and urbantransformation, written by anauthority on the subject. Contemporary Chinese art is a subject of sustained and growing significance in present-day culture across the globe. This ...Show more
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces ...Show more
Turner by Graham Reynolds; David Blayney Brown (Introduction by)
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist's career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and h ...Show more
Viking Art by James Graham-Campbell
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
The Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking art and culture spread across continental Europe and into the world beyond. Written by a leading authorit ...Show more
William Blake by Kathleen Raine
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
Prophet, poet, painter, engraver - William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more