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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Robert Furneaux Jordan - A Concise History of Western Architecture - PB 1976 ( ORIGINALLY 1969)

A 1976 reprint of the 1969 original, issued as part of the Thames and Hudosn World of Art Series.  Particularly strong on renaissance and classical architecture, but also goes up to and includes...

Timothy Hilton - The Pre-Raphaelites ( Thames and Hudson History of Art) - HB - Illustrated - 19th Century Art

Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society...