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...

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...

Colin Rhodes / Outsider Art : Spontaneous Alternatives (Large Paperback)

Outsider Art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others...

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...

Joan Stanley Baker - Japanese Art ( 1998 - Originally 1984)

The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences from Korea, China, the South Seas, Europe,...

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...

Mortimer Wheeler / Roman Art and Architecture (Large Paperback)

"A survey as spirited as it is far-ranging."― The Times Literary Supplement Sir Mortimer Wheeler describes the architecture and town planning, the sculpture and painting, the silverware, glass,...

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 , Linda Murray / The Art of the Renaissance (Large Paperback)

The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420...

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...