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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
| 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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| SALLY KIBBLE Book Number: 89270 |
Published price: £17.50
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For lovers of Suffolk in general and Woodbridge and the Deben Valley in particular, Thomas Churchyard charted Georgian and Victorian scenery still charming us today. Sally Kibble has been inspired...
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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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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 90168 |
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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his S...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90335 |
Published price: £7.95
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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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| ERIC BOTTOMLEY Book Number: 90362 |
Published price: £30
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Transport artist Eric Bottomley specialises in nostalgic scenes reconstructed from old photos and drawings. The railway paintings in this book mainly depict the last 20 years of steam in Britain, b...
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| CAMILLE FLAMMARION Book Number: 90796 |
Published price: £9.95
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The fear of the end of the world has repeatedly appeared throughout the ages and is here documented through hundreds of colour artworks from the Angel of the Abyss and the Locusts from c950 from th...
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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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| STEPHEN BUSHELL Book Number: 90800 |
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A huge quality art publication printed to the highest quality, no expense has been spared on the high production values of these colour images of beautiful green or white jade, vessels designed wit...
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| ERNEST RENAN Book Number: 90801 |
Published price: £29.95
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Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was an historian, religious scholar and philosopher and in the hopes of joining the priesthood he attended an ecclesiastical seminary during his youth. His exposure to the...
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| ALBERT JACQUEMART Book Number: 90803 |
Published price: £29.95
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Originally published in 1907 under the title History of Furniture, Albert Jacquemart (1808-1875) arranged his text under the following chapters: Furniture, Ornamental Art, Objects of Art Derived Fr...
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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 |
Published price: £12.99
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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 |
Published price: £18.99
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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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| RICHARD GREEN AND DES JONES Book Number: 91253 |
Published price: £55
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Rare 1995 first edition, this exciting volume presents both a fascinating insight into the life of Clarice Cliff, the innovative designer of her time, and is the most detailed reference of her desi...
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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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| DAVID MCFETRICH Book Number: 91239 |
Published price: £60
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Biblophile's favourites must be Tower Bridge in London and Pulteney Bridge in Bath, and you are sure to have your own from the 1,600 separate entries for individual bridge sites or related groups o...
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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 |
Published price: £12.99
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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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| JAMES JEREB Book Number: 91323 |
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The word Morocco evokes images of blue-robed warriors on thoroughbred racing camels crossing beautiful desert sands, high-walled mountain fortresses, palace harems, souks where you can find everyth...
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| JONATHAN COTT Book Number: 91401 |
Published price: $30
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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 |
Published price: £18.99
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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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| DIANA CRAIG PATCH Book Number: 91335 |
Published price: £50
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Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York there are illustrations of more than 180 objects created from about 4,000 to 2650 BC presenting the artforms and iconography in which the early...
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| GEORGE SHACKELFORD & X. REY Book Number: 91337 |
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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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