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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BLUEPRINT
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...
DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
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...
ENDANGERED ANIMALS
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...
BOATS: Art for Kids Jigsaws
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...
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
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...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
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...
BABY LOVE: In Adoration of Babies
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 ...
SKYLINES
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...
EDWARD WESTON: Portrait of the Young Man As An Artist
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...
REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: Ten British Pictures
ROBERT WARK    Book Number: 91170
Published price: £15.99
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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...
ENGINEERING REVOLUTION
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...
TATE SKETCH CLUB: Life Drawing
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...
THERE'S A MYSTERY THERE
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...
ARABIC SCRIPT: Styles Variants and Calligraphic Adaptations
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...
CLASSICAL ART: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
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...
IN MONTPARNASSE: The Emergence of Surrealism In Paris
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 ...
STRANGE BUSINESS: A Revolution in Art, Culture and Commerce
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...
ENCOUNTERS WITH PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
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...
FLIGHT THROUGH THE AGES
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 ...
BAUHAUS
BORIS FRIEDEWALD    Book Number: 91659
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The purpose of this richly illustrated book is to introduce readers to the fascinating world of the Bauhaus - one of the most influential currents of modern architecture and design - and the artist...
BAUHAUS MASTERWORKS: New World View
MICHAEL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91708
Published price: $35
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The Bauhaus manifesto, written by the movement's founder Walter Gropius in 1919, announced that "the ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building". Kandinsky, Klee, Franz Marc and Lasz...
EUGENE-LOUIS CHARVOT
SUSAN GALLO    Book Number: 91711
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French artist Eugéne-Louis Charvot (1847-1924) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. A fascinating individual, he practiced medicine for many years but stated that his first love was art. I...
SPITZ MASTER: A Parisian Book of Hours
GREGORY CLARK    Book Number: 91738
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In vibrant colours and shimmering gold, the Spitz Hours is a landmark in the history of late medieval French painting. Made as a devotional aide for a pious and wealthy layman, this Book of Hours ...
STAGES OF DECAY
JULIA SOLIS    Book Number: 91739
Published price: $34.95
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A most unusual architectural look at abandoned theatres and music halls across the USA and Europe with stages cluttered with debris, vaulted ceilings pocked with peeling paint and water damage, sea...
ON A PEDESTAL: A Trip Around Britain's Statues
ROGER LYTOLLIS    Book Number: 91885
Published price: £20
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'From slavers to rock icons, from comedians to the Great War's fallen, Lytollis goes into the why they are there in bronze and granite, but also talks to the people who pass them every day. Fascina...
ALPHABET: Pull-Out Frieze
PAUL THURLBY    Book Number: 91889
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Big bold poster art to learn your ABCs or enjoy modern graphic design, A is for AWESOME, B BOUNCE, C CATCH, D DOG, E EMBRACE, F for FIERCE with a roaring lions head with bright red mane all the way...
PRISONERS OF HISTORY: What Monuments to WW2 Tell Us
KEITH LOWE    Book Number: 91905
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From Berlin to Moscow, Seoul to Hiroshima, the Philippines to Israel, Lithuania to Washington, the Bomber Command Memorial in London, the Shrine to the Fallen, Bologna, the Nanjing Massacre Memoria...
MY COOL HOUSEBOAT
JANE FIELD-LEWIS    Book Number: 91935
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A companion to My Cool Kitchen code 91936 here is another photographic showcase of beautifully designed interiors, the real homes of people with great imagination, taste and creativity. One exampl...
MY COOL KITCHEN
JANE FIELD-LEWIS    Book Number: 91936
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A style guide to unique and inspirational kitchens, colourful blocks of Mondrian colour and other big bold artworks, a cow's skull for a statement sculpture, tasteful ceramics, scrubbed wooden tabl...
ETERNAL LIGHT
RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS MUSEUM    Book Number: 91655
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'The Sacred Stained-Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany' is the sub-title of this magnificent Chicago exhibition catalogue complete with splendid gatefold pages of close up exquisitely coloured ...
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