Contains a collection of more than 40 captioned pen and ink drawings, with two spectacular 8-page gatefoldsFeatures black-and-white and full-colored sketches of the architecture of Paris accompanied...

Torso is an amazing collection of work spanning 16 years, that documents the burgeoning tattoo phenomenon across the United States and Pacific Islands; these photographs are slick and darkly...

J. Richard Judson, Carl Van De Velde. Includes Indexes.

The book traces the complex evolution of Irish art through three millennia, showing how it has drawn on Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Mediterranean and other diverse sources. The author repatriates...

Book by Bindman, David

Traces the historical evolution of industrial design by examining the works of individual designers and the social, economic, cultural, and technological forces that influenced the design of items...

"His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history."―The Times...

A discussion of Western painting describing the Renaissance, 17th century painting, and the Rococo and Romantic periods

A study of the life and works of Joseph Mallord William Turner. A precocious talent, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 15, an institution that was to play a major part in his...

Displaying the best of Hungarian folk art from the seventeenth century to the present, this illustrated history examines the complex society of the Hungarian nation to explore the sociological and...

Heather Martienssen. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [155]-156.

Previously unpublished photographs and iconic portraits of musicians from the 1950s through the 1980s offer a new perspective on Doisneau's remarkable talent.Master photographer Robert Doisneau's...

By exploring the relationship between the idea of Nature and the idea of Art in the period from 1660-1760, this study attempts to account for the distinctive quality of the 'Augustan mode' in...

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`A major contribution to the study of modern painting, sculpture, architecture, and design in this country.' Museums Journal .

Writing in Gold is a bold and challenging statement about the importance of the visual arts in a largely illiterate society. Exploring the height of Byzantine society from the 6th to the 12th...

No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very good condition. Pages are bright and clean, and the text is clear throughout. AF