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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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| JOEL FINLER Book Number: 81949 |
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A former actor himself, director Elia Kazan is shown in a superb series of black and white stills on set, reflecting his remarkable collaboration with such young actors as Marlon Brando on A Street...
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| ROSEMARY SIMMONS Book Number: 82476 |
Published price: £16.99
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This informative guide to collecting prints made from 1900 onwards explains what prints are, how they can be recognised and the various techniques that are used in the making. Artists have always b...
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| TIMOTHY NEWBURY Book Number: 82487 |
Published price: £7.95
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Frames fulfil a variety of functions, from protection to decoration. They can indicate ownership or assert the importance of the paintings they enclose. When a painting retains its original frame...
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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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| ANDY WYATT Book Number: 82893 |
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An excellent Thames & Hudson publication, this foundation course in art and the practice of digital animation covers tips, trade secrets as well as career advice, whether you want to work for a sma...
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| JOHN CASSY & BARBARA GIBBON Book Number: 82775 |
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Famed as an architectural curiosity of its time, built inside and out in two distinct styles, Classical and Gothic, Castle Ward in County Down is a must-visit attraction. If you cannot get there, ...
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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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| THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82861 |
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Near Mansfield in Derbyshire, Hardwick Hall is a spectacular Tudor treasure house dominating the surrounding area, a statement of wealth and an authority of its builder, Bess of Hardwick, England's...
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| THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82864 |
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The Vyne is a Tudor mansion house situated near Basingstoke in Hampshire, built in the early 16th century for Lord Sandys, Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain. The house acquired a classical portico in ...
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| THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82865 |
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Built between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to entertain his guests and display his vast collection of art treasures, Waddesdon Manor is an extraordinary testimony to Victorian ta...
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| HUGH DAVIES & SALLY YARD Book Number: 83144 |
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"Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas." Francis Bacon the artist has steadfastly focussed on figurative subject matter in order to 'unlock the valves of fe...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 83168 |
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Some of our favourites include Jan Van Eyck's The Madonna of Autun, a cloistered scene with wonderful background in which the Chancellor Rolin is knelt in prayer in front of the Virgin; Dürer's Sel...
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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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| HENRY THOREAU Book Number: 83178 |
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"I have an appointment with Spring" wrote Henry Thoreau in March, 1853, and this gorgeous book is a selection of excerpts from his diaries describing the "vernal pools" that form in New England wit...
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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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| MARINA LINARES Book Number: 83205 |
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With there soft and powdery blue, mauve, pinks and reds, the textures are so tranquil and absorbing in these studies and among our favourites are Charing Cross Bridge London and a pathway in Monet'...
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| SAM SMILES Book Number: 83350 |
Published price: £20
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Originally produced to accompany an exhibition reflecting the Tudor heritage of the area at the Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, this depicts many of the miniatures, paintings and other...
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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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| ALAN KRELL Book Number: 82804 |
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Dripping with colour this beautiful heavyweight softback has hundreds of mono and colour examples plus drawings and posters. Edouard Manet (1832-83) is ubiquitous in the popular imagination as the...
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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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| CHRIS SCARRE Book Number: 83077 |
Published price: $19.95
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The geographical reminders of our country's history are spread from the megalithic monuments in Newgrange, Stonehenge and Avebury and beyond. This handy companion is a terrific guide to the feature...
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| MARGARET WHINNEY Book Number: 83087 |
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Margaret Whinney (1897-1975) was a much published author and Reader in Art History at the Courtauld Institute from 1950-1964 - she was also the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens! In 1971 she p...
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| SELINA HASTINGS Book Number: 83484 |
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Sub-titled 'The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon', this is the extraordinary story of the author's father Jack Hastings who in 1925 infuriated his ultra-conservative parents by tur...
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| GORDON MCMULLAN & Z. WILCOX Book Number: 83485 |
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A lavish British Library publication celebrating Shakespeare's story, a tale of sea-changes and show-stopping successes. From the very first production of Hamlet to a digital-age remix, the book e...
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