Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Art & Architecture

Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.

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Well, I am a Sunday painter.  It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well.  - L.S. Lowry

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BRUEGEL THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
JÜRGEN MÜLLER    Book Number: 88638
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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Prepare to be shocked by the grotesque and grimacing series of paintings like The Triumph of Death with murdering skeleton figures slaying the population by hanging, throat cutting and barbarous ac...
BLUEPRINT
THERESIA ENZENSBERGER    Book Number: 89357
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
Product format: Hardback

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It is 1921 in Berlin. Luise Schilling lives here in her father's deeply conservative household and longs to tear down the past and build a new future and through much hard work finally realises her...
DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES    Book Number: 90335
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £1.50
Product format: Paperback

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Tiny and compact introduction to the rightly popular important paintings of Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velázquez, a native of Seville, 1599-1660. The earliest of his surviving works entitled Three M...
ENDANGERED ANIMALS
MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST    Book Number: 90628
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Probably designed for children aged nine and up, all ages will appreciate the striking graphic stamps from printmaker Tom Frost in his beautiful and illuminating journey through the world of endang...
BOATS: Art for Kids Jigsaws
KLAUS CARL    Book Number: 90797
Published price: £14.95
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback

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The Bridge at Argenteuil by Claude Monet, Fishing Boats at Saints-Maries by Vincent Van Gogh, Port of St. Tropez by Paul Signac, Boats in the Port of Honfleur by Claude Monet, The Roads at Kronstad...
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES    Book Number: 90809
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Ruben said 'My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size? has ever surpassed my courage.' The name of the great 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens reminds us of the impo...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES    Book Number: 90810
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Paperback

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'There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.' - Renoir (1841-1919). Born in Limoges, Pierre-Auguste Renoir learned to paint porcelain as a young appr...
ART OF MAP ILLUSTRATION: A Step-by-Step Artistic Exploration
JAMES GULLIVER HANCOCK    Book Number: 90829
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback

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Like rebus style storybooks, exciting visual maps tell a story of a place and provoke reminiscences. Personalised artwork that captures moments and memories can be captured in mapmaking from penci...
BABY LOVE: In Adoration of Babies
RACHAEL HALE    Book Number: 90830
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Hardback

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With their perfect soft skin, huge shiny eyes often staring directly at the camera, sweet smiles, chubby cheeks and limbs, here are babies in all manner of poses like lying across a teddy, licking ...
SKYLINES
YOLANDA ZAPPATERRA    Book Number: 90842
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Extremely beautiful silhouette artworks decorate the landscape pages of this compilation of one-of-a-kind buildings - fortresses, palaces, sacred sites, monuments, skyscrapers and cultural hotspots...
EDWARD WESTON: Portrait of the Young Man As An Artist
GRAHAM HOWE & B. GATES WARREN    Book Number: 90770
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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During his 50-year career, Edward Weston (1886-1958) blazed a trail in Photo-Modernism capturing portraits, landscapes, still life and nudes. This has established him as one of the most revered pr...
REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: Ten British Pictures
ROBERT WARK    Book Number: 91170
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback

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Each of the ten pictures presented chronologically have been chosen for the light that they cast on a period of profound change which starts as English painting takes leave of the Rococo and ends i...
STORY OF EDVARD MUNCH
KETIL BJORNSTAD    Book Number: 91173
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters, based on Edvard Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His troubled relationships, partic...
ENGINEERING REVOLUTION
ANGUS BUCHANAN    Book Number: 91240
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.50
Product format: Hardback

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A collaboration between ten authors, the book is sub-titled 'How the Modern World Was Changed by Technology'. It is a refreshing new 'take' on the history of technology and some of the most import...
TATE SKETCH CLUB: Life Drawing
HESTER BERRY    Book Number: 91506
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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We draw the human figure because it is a subject we can all relate to and engage with and it's a pleasing subject which serves as an outlet for our creativity and self expression. Each body is uni...
THERE'S A MYSTERY THERE
JONATHAN COTT    Book Number: 91401
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak', Jonathan Cott first interviewed the artist in 1976 for Rolling Stone following the publication of the trilogy that began with 'Where the Wild Thing...
ARABIC SCRIPT: Styles Variants and Calligraphic Adaptations
GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN    Book Number: 91322
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback

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The exquisite calligraphy and letters of the Arabic alphabet are explained in this thorough and illuminating guide. Writing styles and the alphabet presents an understanding of a culture and civil...
CLASSICAL ART: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
CAROLINE VOUT    Book Number: 91331
Published price: £34
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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In this beautifully illustrated work of impressive contemporary scholarship, Caroline Vout uses the celebrated double sculpture in marble known as "The Tyrannicides" to argue that the term "Classic...
DEGAS AND THE NUDE
GEORGE SHACKELFORD & X. REY    Book Number: 91337
Published price: £57
Bibliophile price: £24.00
Product format: Hardback

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With contributions by Lucien Freud, Martin Gayford and Anne Rocquebert here is the classical body observed, exploited and exhibited and finally transformed. The nude figure was critical to the art...
HOLLAND ON PAPER: In the Age of Art Nouveau
CLIFFORD ACKLEY    Book Number: 91361
Published price: £32
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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In the early 1890s, many progressive Dutch visual artists made a conscious effort to break with the past. This special selection of Dutch works on paper from 1890-1920 comprises many and diverse a...
IN MONTPARNASSE: The Emergence of Surrealism In Paris
SUE ROE    Book Number: 91365
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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Surrealism revolutionised the art of the early 20th century, with its epicentre in Paris, the city of Duchamp, Ernst, Cocteau and Dali. Surrealist art unleashed the irrational and the erotic, and ...
MAIOLICA: Italian Renaissance Ceramics
TIMOTHY WILSON    Book Number: 91377
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £16.50
Product format: Hardback

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The brightly coloured tin-enamelled earthenware called Maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th century Italy. This splendid huge tome is an in depth look at its his...
PUBLIC PARKS, PRIVATE GARDENS - PARIS TO PROVENCE
COLTA IVES    Book Number: 91386
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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With masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, many of these artists were themselves gardeners and they painted parks and...
RENOIR: The Body, The Senses
ESTHER BELL & G. SHACKELFORD    Book Number: 91392
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £12.50
Product format: Hardback

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A revelatory and wide-ranging explanation of Renoir's extraordinary depictions of the nude and their important artistic legacy. Tracing the entire arc of August Renoir's career, this magnificent v...
STRANGE BUSINESS: A Revolution in Art, Culture and Commerce
JAMES HAMILTON    Book Number: 91400
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
Product format: Hardback

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At the beginning of the 19th century there was a seismic change in the art world as the Industrial Revolution enriched the middle classes who could now afford to become patrons and collectors. The...
ENCOUNTERS WITH PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
STEFAN MOSES    Book Number: 91603
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'An Intimate Collection of Behind-The-Scenes Photos Featuring the Legendary Art Collector', the renowned photographer took these images between 1967 and 1974, and many have never been se...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: A Life
ROXANA ROBINSON    Book Number: 91751
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Paperback

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The Artist Georgia O'Keeffe's most accessible images - the magnified flowers, the dreaming antlers and skulls, and vast, mysterious cloudscapes - became hugely popular among the public in the 1970s...
GREAT WORKS: Encounters with Art
MICHAEL GLOVER    Book Number: 91752
Published price: £24.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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'Glover is a rare critic who invites us to join him in solving the riddle that every great work of art represents.' - James Bradburne. Glover is a London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and...
WEST COUNTRY: Discover Britain's Historic Houses
SIMON JENKINS    Book Number: 91686
Published price: £29.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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A Reader's Digest glamorous large publication of 97 of the most impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings in the West Country. They range from elegant Montacute in Somerset and medieval Bucklan...
FLIGHT THROUGH THE AGES
GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS    Book Number: 91576
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Hardback

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Flight Through the Ages was the title of the first annual exhibition of The Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971. This book celebrates 50 years of exhibitions and reproduces paintings by 100 artists ...
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