Thames & Hudson World of Art / History of Art

A.M Hammacher - Barbara Hepworth - PB

Born in Yorkshire in 1903, of the heroic generation in twentieth-century British Art which included Henry Moore (with whom she studied in Leeds) and Ben Nicholson (whom she married), she explored in...

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...

Bruce Arnold - A Concise History Of Irish Art - PB 1969 ( Thames & Hudson History of Art) Illustrated

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

Caroline Tisdall and Angelo Bozzolla - Futurism - PB 1977

Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 and a group of spectacular talents set out to...

Edward Lucie-Smith - Furniture : A Concise History - PB -1979

In this illuminating history, text and illustrations combine to offer a view of furniture not as a succession of collectors’ pieces, but as a statement about the society that created it. Edward...

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...

Frank Whitford - Bauhaus - PB - 1988

An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methodsThe way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing...

Germain Bazin / Baroque and Rococo (Large Paperback)

Baroque and Rococo art and architecture have become popular once more, after a century and a half of neglect, misunderstanding and scorn. This radical shift in taste has led to a rapid growth of...

Ian Jeffrey - Photography : A Concise History - PB 1989 Reprint ( Originally 1981)

Surveys of photography usually provide little more than a history of the technical developments of the medium. Here is a concise critical history which explains by what criteria we can judge one...

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...

Lawrence Gowing - Matisse - PB - 1979

Examines Matisse's impact on modern art as well as examining his career, techniques, aesthetics, and stages of artistic development. A good overview of how Matisse moved from one technique to...

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,...