Thames & Hudson World of Art / History of Art

Alastair Duncan - Art Nouveau - PB

A 1999 reprint of the original 1994.  Previous owner's name on inside front cover.  Alastair Duncan, a recognized expert on the period, tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art...

Bernard Denvir - The Impressionists at First Hand - PB - 1987

Gathers selections from letters, critical reviews, and reminiscences by the impressionist artists and their contemporaries.     A host of primary sources are translated and...

Dieter Beaujean / Velazquez (Large Paperback)

Art in Focus   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...

Francois Fosca - Renoir - PB ( Revised 1969) - Originally 1961

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Originally published in French in 1961, this is translated by Mary martin...

Graham Reynolds - J.M.W Turner ( World of Art) ( 1984 - Originally 1969)

Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. He had a precocious gift that was developed over a...

Herbert Read & Nikos Stangos - The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists - PB

This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers...

Janet McLean ( Editor) - Lines of Vision : Irish Writers on Art - National Gallery of Ireland

Fifty-six Irish writers have contributed new short stories, essays and poems to this anthology inspired by art from the National Gallery of Ireland collection. It includes work by acclaimed figures...

Jean Bouret - Degas - PB - 1965

Degas ( 1834-1917 ) was a member of the school of painting which emerged after 1850 from the Paris bourgeoisie. The revolutionary naturalism of his work, his many studies of subjects as diverse as...

Jonathan Benthall - Science and Technology in ART Today - PB - 1972 ( World of Art Library)

The relationship between technology , science  and creativity is of increasingly vital significance in an age wen art is teh traditional sense, and in traditional media. Jonatan Benthall studies...

Kenneth Frampton - Modern Architecture - A Critical History PB 3rd ed 2000

A paperback 3rd revised edition, 2000 , issued as part of the Thames and Hudson World of Art Series.This acclaimed survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins has become a classic since it...

Michael Levey / From Giotto to Cezanne (Large Paperback)

From Giotto to Cezanne: A Concise History of Painting Originally 1962. The World of art library. Contents I. The early Renaissance in Italy -- II. The Renaissance in Northern Europe -- III. The...

Patrick Waldberg / Surrealism (Large Paperback)

"An excellent picture of a movement which...has had a profound effect on the arts of the twentieth century."― The Times Educational Supplement The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over...

Paul Griffiths - A Concise History of Modern Music - From Debussy to Boulez - HB

Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern,...

Peter Murray / The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Large Paperback)

Guides the reader from the earliest revivals of Roman style to the villas of Palladio and Vignola. Each of the great architects is clearly and sensitively discussed. 202 illustrations.   This...

Phoebe Pool - Impressionism - PB - 1970

Reprint paperback edition, Thames & Hudson UK , 1970, originally 1967.  with 209 images, 77 of which are in colour. Covers the full history of French Impressionism, one of the most important...