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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
| JÜRGEN MÜLLER Book Number: 88638 |
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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...
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| THERESIA ENZENSBERGER Book Number: 89357 |
Published price: £14.99
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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...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90335 |
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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...
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| MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST Book Number: 90628 |
Published price: £15
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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...
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| KLAUS CARL Book Number: 90797 |
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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...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90809 |
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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...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90810 |
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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...
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| JAMES GULLIVER HANCOCK Book Number: 90829 |
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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...
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| RACHAEL HALE Book Number: 90830 |
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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 ...
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| YOLANDA ZAPPATERRA Book Number: 90842 |
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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...
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| GRAHAM HOWE & B. GATES WARREN Book Number: 90770 |
Published price: £40
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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...
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| ROBERT WARK Book Number: 91170 |
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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...
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| KETIL BJORNSTAD Book Number: 91173 |
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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...
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| ANGUS BUCHANAN Book Number: 91240 |
Published price: £25
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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...
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| HESTER BERRY Book Number: 91506 |
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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...
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| JONATHAN COTT Book Number: 91401 |
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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...
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| GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN Book Number: 91322 |
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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...
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| CAROLINE VOUT Book Number: 91331 |
Published price: £34
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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...
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| GEORGE SHACKELFORD & X. REY Book Number: 91337 |
Published price: £57
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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...
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| CLIFFORD ACKLEY Book Number: 91361 |
Published price: £32
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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...
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| SUE ROE Book Number: 91365 |
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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 ...
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| TIMOTHY WILSON Book Number: 91377 |
Published price: £50
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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...
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| COLTA IVES Book Number: 91386 |
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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...
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| ESTHER BELL & G. SHACKELFORD Book Number: 91392 |
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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...
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| JAMES HAMILTON Book Number: 91400 |
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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...
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| STEFAN MOSES Book Number: 91603 |
Published price: £22.50
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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...
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| ROXANA ROBINSON Book Number: 91751 |
Published price: £25
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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...
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| MICHAEL GLOVER Book Number: 91752 |
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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...
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| SIMON JENKINS Book Number: 91686 |
Published price: £29.99
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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...
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| GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS Book Number: 91576 |
Published price: £35
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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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