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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
| ROSAMOND BERNIER Book Number: 74573 |
Published price: $30
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Bernier's father chaired the directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and when she herself was a young harp student she met all the great musicians of her day, from Otto Klemperer, who threw food a...
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| DYFRI WILLIAMS Book Number: 80887 |
Published price: £19.99
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Shown here are 160 of the most important and beautiful works of classical art held in the British Museum. Beginning with pre-historic Greece it continues through the classical period and the Roman ...
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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 81103 |
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Taschen's brand new SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Brad...
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| PRESENTED BY SELINA SCOTT Book Number: 81648 |
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In this programme, Selina Scott uncovers the treasures of Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury. His ancestors were collectors on a grand scale and managed to fill three...
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| MARK HOLBORN Book Number: 82539 |
Published price: $100
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Born into a prosperous family in Hampstead, Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was endowed with an artistic temperament and grew into a photographer and designer with a seemingly light-hearted approach to li...
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| JOHN CASSY & BARBARA GIBBON Book Number: 82857 |
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The beautiful 17th century Jacobean house in East Sussex was Rudyard Kipling's family home from 1902 to 1936. The interior reflects the author's strong associations with the East and many of the o...
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| THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82858 |
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A Baroque mansion situated near Derby, Calke Abbey's construction began in 1701. Set in a stunning landscaped park, it has become famous as a graphic illustration of the English country house in d...
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| GARY M RADKE & P. MACEY Book Number: 83169 |
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Itself an architectural masterpiece, Florence Cathedral is also home to many artistic treasures. Familiarly called Il Duomo, is an Early Renaissance architectural masterpiece. The interrelationship...
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| J. K. L. BIRCH Book Number: 83195 |
Published price: $85
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From voluptuous ghosts to abstract animals, from geometric forms to unique personal interpretations of Japanese myths and legends, the figures and mythical creatures that Michael Birch portrays in ...
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| MICHAEL PEPPIATT Book Number: 83230 |
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As a student, the would-be journalist Michael Peppiatt was desperate to get an interview with the artist Francis Bacon, famous for his visceral studies of screaming popes and dismembered bodies. Ne...
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| PIERRE ASSOULINE Book Number: 82799 |
Published price: £16.95
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Henri Cartier-Bresson is described as the 'eye of the century', a photographer whose images chartered 1920s Africa, the Spanish Republicans, Gandhi just before his assassination, and many more icon...
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| MICHAEL FRIED Book Number: 83070 |
Published price: £45
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Born in New York and educated at the greatest establishments in the US and England, Michael Fried is one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today. Another L...
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| MICHELLE GALINDO Book Number: 83549 |
Published price: £29.95
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Successful kids' design unites quality, sustainability and safety with ingenuity, style and pleasure and here is a selection of the very best from novelties to established classics. Innovative and...
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| ANDREA THOMAS Book Number: 83908 |
Published price: £25
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The Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual movement which spread outwards from Italy to Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, is often thought to have eluded Scotland, but as the author demonstr...
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| MURRAY MCKINNON & RICHARD ORAM Book Number: 83939 |
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Greatly enjoyed by our blurbers up in Scotland, this photohistory of the Scots is a brilliant celebration of life and the history beyond the wall. Murray Mackinnon and Richard Oram present aspects ...
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| NICK VEASEY Book Number: 83958 |
Published price: £14.99
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Nick Veasey creates works of art by the simple means of using images from X-rays and security scanners, working in a lead-lined room and varying the exposure to reveal the hidden structures below t...
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| JACK FORSTER Book Number: 83850 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £18.00
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A showcase for the Cartier fine watchmaking collection, this gorgeous book features iconic pieces in which there is a perfect fusion of mechanics and design. The Astroregulateur leads the field, wi...
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| JOHN SPIKE Book Number: 83878 |
Published price: £10.99
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Renowned for his sublime painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's talent showed at an early age. Initially taught by Ghirlandaio, to whom he was apprenticed at the age of 13, i...
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| BERENICE GEOFFROY-SCHNEITER Book Number: 84143 |
Published price: £18.95
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A troupe of African, American, Asian or Oceanic masks and ancestor effigies stare out at us, often sporting threatening snarls, bristling beards, lolling tongues and pointed canines. Are tribal so...
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| PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO Book Number: 84099 |
Published price: £19.95
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The former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum tours the world's major galleries in the company of a leading British art critic who has had the distinction of sitting for Lucian Freud, and t...
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| ART BOOKS Book Number: 84422 |
Published price: £24.95
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Skilled portrait painter Jonathan Yeo is essentially self-taught, and is refreshing because unlike so many modern-day artists his skill is such that his subject is immediately recognisable, whether...
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| DELIA PEMBERTON Book Number: 84336 |
Published price: $15.95
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Buddhism views the world we perceive as an illusion. In accordance with the law of cause and effect, or karma (literally 'action') the soul is propelled into an endless series of reincarnations. ...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
Published price: £25
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A big beautiful British Library and British Museum UK first edition 2005 paperback with 20 colour and 178 black and white woodcut illustrations, this beautiful book catalogues 110 of the most impor...
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| JAMES BEECHY & CHRIS STEPHENS Book Number: 84354 |
Published price: £24.99
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A big beautiful 2012 first edition exhibition catalogue published by Tate Britain. The front cover shows Pablo Picasso's Nude Woman in a Red Armchair from 1932 to grace the cover of this huge, hea...
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| MICHAEL EDWARDS Book Number: 84359 |
Published price: £42
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A friend of Giacometti, Balthus and Bacon, born in 1922, Raymond Mason established an international reputation chiefly through a number of monumental works in Paris, Montreal, New York, Washington ...
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| RECHT, PERIER-D'IETEREN Book Number: 84448 |
Published price: £60.95
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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Europe between the fifth and eighteenth centuries was one massive artistic workshop, and this book explores 14 ways in which the European melting pot created paradigmatic masterpieces for future ge...
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| Unknown Book Number: 84497 |
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Set comprises Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists (softback, 222pp) and Japanese Prints During The Allied Occupation 1945-1952 (hardback, 128pp). Buy both and make further ...
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| SOPHIE WALBEOFFE Book Number: 84515 |
Published price: £25
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With an Introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith. The advice to "paint with both hands" came from Sophie Walbeoffe's mentor Cecil Collins, her tutor at Central school in the mid-80s, who also taught the...
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| HENRIETTA GOODDEN Book Number: 84522 |
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Sir Robin Darwin (1910-1974) was a great visionary of the 20th century, and descendant of both Charles Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood. Born in 1910 into a family with many artistic connections, it was...
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| SOPHIE PAGE Book Number: 84598 |
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The author teaches late Medieval History at University College London and works on medieval magic and astrology especially in the relation to religion, cosmology and natural philosophy. Published ...
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