Art, Design & Architecture

Norman Battershill / Painting Gardens (Coffee Table Book)

Norman B

Terryl Whitlatch / Animals Real and Imagined (Coffee Table Book)

Take a fantastic voyage into Whitlatch's

Charles Earl Bradbury / Anatomy and Construction of the Human Figure (Coffee Table Book)

To draw or paint human figures truly, an artist must have as much understanding of bones and muscles as of form. This beautiful guide by a respected artist and teacher provides that knowledge...

Kate Moross / Make Your Own Luck: A DIY Attitude to Graphic Design (Coffee Table Book)

One of today’s most refreshing young creatives gives the inside scoop on how to make it as a graphic artist.From art school student to designer for Nike, Topshop, and Google, Kate Moross has lived...

Richard R. Brettell / Modern Art - 1851-1929 : Capitalism and Representation (Coffee Table Book)

Richard Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account, the latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series, explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso,...

Tate Gallery / The Turner | Whistler | Monet Exhibition at Tate Britain, Spring 2004 (Coffee Table Book)

Whilst these three great artists have bee

Banksy / Wall and Piece (Coffee Table Book)

Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New...

Edmund Swinglehurst / The Life and Works of Monet (Coffee Table Book)

This book gives a quick biography of Monet, explains the elements of his painting style, and includes fifty of his best-known and best-lovedworks.   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Bonechi / Art and History of Florence: Museums, Galleries, Churches, Palaces, Monuments (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Bernhard E. Bürdek / Design: The History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (Coffee Table Book)

Design today is a global instrument. Bernhard Bürdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century up to those...

Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries / The Burrell Collection (Coffee Table Book)

Original glossy printed wrappers. The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated in Pollok Country Park on the south side of the city. Beautifully...

Gary Faigin / The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression (Coffee Table Book)

Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual...

Valdes / Art and History of Umbria (Coffee Table Book)

Discover Umbria’s rich and tragic history, monument and artwork with this beautiful volume. Its detailed texts and superb historical and artistic illustrations and maps provide an overview of the...

Marina Cipriani / Art & History of Paestum (Coffee Table Book)

Discover Paestum‘s rich history, monument and artwork with this beautiful volume. Its detailed texts and superb historical and artistic illustrations and maps provide an overview of the fascinating...

Gillian Park / Don't Be A Starving Artist (Large Paperback)

How to make money as an artist - doing what YOU love! Don't Be A Starving Artist is the book I wished I had as I built my business from self-taught painter to professional artist in just over five...

John Fleming / The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (Hardback)

An exhaustive guide to the decorative arts of the West since the Middle Ages covers furniture, glass, rugs, porcelain, pottery, pewter, brass, and wallpaper   This book is second hand, and while you...

David Mellor / Recording Britain : A Pictorial Doomsday of Pre-War Britain (Coffee Table Book)

In 1940 the familiar British landscape was under attack, not only from the imminent threat of German bombers but also from rapid urban development. The Ministry of Labour, in association with the...

Ken Howard / The Complete Artist (Coffee Table Book)

This volume is designed to address the specific needs of artists working in four different subject portrait and figure drawing, still life, and landscape painting. The manual provides the beginner...

Jeannie Baker / Window (Coffee Table Book)

Author & artist Baker offers a provocative wordless book about the changing environment, as readers look through the same window year after year for 20 years, and see the scene change from wilderness...

Noel Kelly / Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts (Coffee Table Book)

Creative Ireland provides a rigorous appraisal of Irish contemporary visual arts practice across all forms of media. It profiles 100 leading Irish visual artists active between 2000–2011, including...

Enrico d'Assia - A Room With a View: Paintings - HB SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION

Published by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, 1995, ( text in English)  This copy is signed by the artist, and numbered a low copy 13, from the limitation of 300.   

Oskar Fischel & Max Von Boehn - Modes and Manners of the XIX Century - in 4 Volumes - 1927 - Illustrated

A hardcover set of four ( the complete set) covering 19th century ( and early 20th century to 1914 fashion, as taken from artworka nd prints of the eras themselves  Published by Dent & Sons , 1927...

Frank Weyers / Salvador Dali (Large Paperback)

  Salvador Dalí: Life and Work  

J.C. Cooper / An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols (Large Paperback)

In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200...

W.J. Thomas Mitchell / Iconology : Image, Text, Ideology (Large Paperback)

     

Paula Owen / Objects and Meaning (Large Paperback)

Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft

James Elkins / Stories of Art (Large Paperback)

Stories

Frank Connolly - Exposed : The Scandals that Rocked the State - PB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price.   From the murky corridors of power to the empty streets of our ghost estates, Frank Connolly exposes the Ireland that decades of corruption...

Christiane Reiter / Tuscany Style (Icons) (Large Paperback)

Traversing the landscapes, homes

Ingo F Walther - Masterpieces of Western Art - HB

A large format Taschen Books edition, subtitled ' a History of Art in 900 Individual Studies' 1999, covering European and ( later wider US & western art) from the middle ages to 1980's - a huge...

William L. Pressly - James Barry : The Artist as Hero - PB

Paperback, published by Tate Gallery UK, linked to an exhibition held in the gallery in 1983.  With colour reproductions section and b&w reproductions of almost all of Barry's art. 

Paul Kelly, Cormac Murray & Brendan Spierin - The Dublin Architecture Guide 1937-2021 - PB - BRAND NEW

With a Foreword by Dermot Bannon and an introductory essay by the architect Jonathan Sergison, The Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modern architecture of Dublin. With a total of...

Maeve Conrick / Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada (Large Paperback)

Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed Munroe Eagles

Michael Jordan / Buddha - His Life in Images (Large Paperback)

Buddha: 

Antoni Pitxot & Montse Aguer - The Dali Museum in Figueres - PB

Paperback, a detailed guide to both the building and the art in the Salvador Dali Museum. illustrated in colour throughout . 

John O'Regan ( Editor) - Donald Teskey - Gandon Profile Edition ( SIGNED BY Donald Teskey) - 2005 - PB

Paperback, published by Gandon Editions, 2005.  Signed in black ink by the artist ( Donald Teskey '05) to the title page in black ink, no dedications or other marks, a profusely illustrated artist...

Ashville Publishing / A Buyers Guide to Irish Art (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Fintan O'Toole, Catherine Marshall & Eibhear Walshe ( Editors) - Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks - HB - BRAND NEW

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Ireland’s creative output from the revolutionary period until today...

Lucie-Smith / Dictionary of Art Terms (Large Paperback)

World of Art

Simon Schama / The Power of Art (Coffee Table Book)

Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool...

Georgina O'Hara Callan / Fashion and Fashion Designers (Large Paperback)

  "A fashion bible."― Vogue"Invaluable."― The World of Interiors This indispensable guide to fashion provides in more than 1200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every i

Maria Dolores Jimenez-Blanco / The Prado Guide (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

John Canaday / Metropolitan Seminars in Art (11 Book Collection)

Metropolitan Seminars in Art by John Canaday (11 Book Collection) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Contains: the artist as a social critic composition as expression composition as...

Irish Arts Review 1999-2002 (4 Book Collection)

Iriah Arts Review 1999-2002 (4 Book Collection)     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we...

Yvonne Whelan - Reinventing Modern Dublin : Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity - HB

Yvonne Whelan takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the years before Independence through to the contemporary plans for the millennium spire on O'Connell Street,...

Christos Achilleos - Medusa - PB - Fantasy Art Techniques

Large format paperback, illustrated with black and white sketches and full colour 'finished' art throughout.  A unique insight into the working methods through which Chris Achilleos produces his...

John Douet / Pen & Brush Lettering: A Book of Alphabets (Coffee Table Book)

Over 80 complete alphabets and numerals. Selections range from formal roman faces and other serifs to elegant modem sans serifs and free-flowing italic scripts, as well as a variety of shadow and...

Julia Cameron / The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self (Coffee Table Book)

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the 'I'm not talented enough' conditioning that...

Germain Bazin - A Concise History of Art - From the Renaissance to the Present Day - PB

This edition published by Thames and Hudson World of Art, 1964. Originally published in French in 1958.  The approximate end date is circa 1950. Illustrated in black and white photographs throughout. 

Holy Show / Contemporary Irish Life & Art : Holy Show Issue 3 & 4(2 Book Collection)

Contemporary Irish Life & Art: Holy Show (2 Book Collection) "Holy Show" is a contemporary Irish arts magazine and cultural platform showcasing visual art, literature, film, and music from Irish...

Taschen Publishing / Auguste Rodin | Diego Rivera | Jan Saudek (3 Book Collection)

Taschen (3 Book Collection) Three art guides from noted German publisher Auguste Rodin - Sculptures & Drawings Diego Rivera - Mexican born artist and illustrator Jan Saudek - Czech born art...

Gandon Editions / Works (4 Book Collection)

Gordon Editions: Works (4 Book Collection)   Michael scott John T Davis Patrick Hall Charles Brady