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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REN HANG

New REN HANG

EDITED BY DIAN HANSON    Book Number: 81874
Bibliophile price: £32.50
Product format: Hardback

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Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefr...
DAVID HOCKNEY: A Chronology
DAVID HOCKNEY    Book Number: 88648
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback

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Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of colour, explorer of image and perception, for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of ex...
COCA-COLA ART OF JIM HARRISON
JIM HARRISON    Book Number: 93012
Published price: £36.95
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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The collection in this book is divided between the seasons. Coca-Cola scenes in spring and summer include a covered wooden bridge with the Coca-Cola logo painted along its length. The interior of a...
GOLDEN COMPASS: His Dark Materials Book I
PHILIP PULLMAN    Book Number: 93016
Published price: $37.99
Bibliophile price: £13.00
Product format: Hardback

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Fans of the trilogy His Dark Materials will love this sumptuously illustrated edition of the first volume, with evocative modern drawings in colour to illustrate every stage in Lyra's epic story. T...
LEGACY OF THE MASTERS: Painting and Calligraphy
WILL KWIATKOWSKI    Book Number: 93024
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sixty gorgeous works of Islamic art, created in the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires, are reproduced in colour to the highest specification as full-page illustrations in this exceptional ...
MODERN VINTAGE ILLUSTRATION
MARTIN DAWBER    Book Number: 93027
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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In this retro age, the work of classical illustrators has been taken up and given a new twist by modern designers, and this stunning visual feast shows how Dali, Rodchenko, Rauschenberg, Blake, Kli...
PRIDE AND PERSECUTION: Jan Steen's Old Testament Scenes
LAURA PARKER    Book Number: 93031
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Paperback

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First published to accompany an exhibition of art of the same name at the at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham in October 2017 to January 2018, this rare exhibition catalo...
WATER LILIES: Claude Monet
DR MARINA LINARES    Book Number: 93082
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback

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A heavyweight quality Könemann multilingual edition by the well regarded art historian. The cycles of Water Lilies are a highlight in Claude Monet's work and found in collections around the world....
DEREK BOSHIER RETHINK/RE-ENTRY
EDITED BY PAUL GORMAN    Book Number: 93088
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Hardback

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At Yeovil School of Art in Somerset from 1953-1957, Derek Boshier demonstrated the graphic abilities - via a sketchbook of pencil and ink drawings, some coloured with crayon or gouache - of local s...
MAKE GREAT ART ON YOUR IPAD
ALISON JARDINE    Book Number: 93108
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Paperback

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You don't have to be an artist to achieve great results on your iPad, and this refreshingly accessible book is perfect for skilled artists and aspiring creatives alike. There are step-by-step proj...
RENOIR: An Intimate Biography
BARBARA EHRLICH WHITE    Book Number: 93126
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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A big glamorous heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication with 105 illustrations by the Tufts University professor and friend of Renoir's great granddaughter Sophie. The joy that permeates August Re...
UNCOVERED: Revolutionary Magazine Covers
IAN BIRCH    Book Number: 93141
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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This book is a sheer delight, showcasing over 100 magazine covers from the late 1950s onwards, with a commentary on the inside story of each by editors and designers. Magazine covers need to make t...
VINTAGE CYCLING POSTERS 22 PULL-OUT POSTERS
ANDREW EDWARDS    Book Number: 92702
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Paperback

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Poster art, design, fonts and colour, style and artistry at its best, this is a thrilling and unique book of detachable posters which measure 11" wide by nearly 14" tall. Artwork by Toulouse Lautr...
IN SEARCH OF VAN GOGH
GLORIA FOSSI    Book Number: 93159
Published price: $37.50
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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To search for van Gogh means to retrace his actual physical path to the mental states that inspired his art. It means to take our understanding of art and geography and apply at what we know of Vin...
SURFACES AND SUPPORTS: Artist Toolbox
STEPHANIE CARBAJAL    Book Number: 93210
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback

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Here is a practical guide to drawing and painting surfaces on canvas and paper to textiles and woods because every surface you draw on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brigh...
JOHN CRANCH: Uncommon Genius
JOHN LAMBLE    Book Number: 93229
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'The Life and Achievements of a Self-Taught Polymath, Artist and Wit from Devonshire', John Cranch was born in the same small town in the same year that Gray's Elegy was published. Taug...
POCKET ART GUIDES: Relief Painting
GABRIEL MARTIN ROIG    Book Number: 93251
Published price: £8
Bibliophile price: £3.75
Product format: Hardback

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Let's experiment in our art with building up a surface texture, using washes on a sand background, fabric or paper wrinkles, backgrounds with a heavy texture or a still life with a textured gesso b...
HISTORY OF PRESS GRAPHICS
ALEXANDER ROOB     Book Number: 93049
Bibliophile price: £55.00
Product format: Hardback

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Discover original modernist design in a 100 year history of graphic news items and their trailblazing influence on the emerging Avant-Garde movements. An illustrated press where the images are as i...
BARRY FLANNAGAN
CLARE PRESTON ET AL    Book Number: 93440
Published price: £150
Bibliophile price: £50.00
Product format: Hardback

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The first monograph to be published on the work of Barry Flanagan (1941-2009), one of Britain's preeminent sculptors which includes over 200 colour reproductions and a newly compiled chronology. T...
LONG DRAWN OUT TRIP: A Memoir
GERALD SCARFE    Book Number: 88858
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £3.25
Product format: Hardback

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The man famed for his venomous nib, the legendary cartoonist and designer tells his life story for the first time, encompassing sweeping social changes in the 1960s and beyond. For more than half ...
MASSIMO LISTRI: The World's Most Beautiful Libraries
PHOTOS BY MASSIMO LISTRI    Book Number: 93053
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with these collections of knowledge, le...
JANE AUSTEN'S MANSFIELD PARK AND EMMA
HUGH THOMSON    Book Number: 93286
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback

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In 1893, George Allen the publisher gave Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) a commission to illustrate Pride and Prejudice. Already well known for his delightfully humorous and accurate drawings of 18th cen...
JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
HUGH THOMSON    Book Number: 93287
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback

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When Hugh Thomson received a commission to illustrate Pride and Prejudice from George Allen in 1893, he was already well known for his delightfully humorous and accurate drawings of 18th century li...
JANE AUSTEN'S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, NORTHANGER ABBEY
HUGH THOMSON    Book Number: 93288
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback

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A companion to 93286 and 93287, we have three in this set of facsimile reprints to collect of the glorious and affectionate pen and ink illustrations to the original 1890s publications. The three ...
MASTERPIECES OF FANTASY ART
DIAN HANSON    Book Number: 93054
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sexy, sensual and otherworldly, Fantasy art is that colourful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens. It took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s wit...
BOOK OF ORNAMENTAL ALPHABETS ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
F. G. DELAMOTTE    Book Number: 90424
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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Remaining few copies of this rare facsimile reprint of the 1862 fourth edition of the 1858 classic, guaranteed to inspire anyone interested in lettering and calligraphy. Beautifully printed with g...
ENGLAND'S MAGNIFICENT GARDENS
RODERICK FLOUD    Book Number: 93490
Published price: $40
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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England's gardens range from the Baroque splendour of Blenheim Palace, whose vast acres were designed by Capability Brown at enormous expense, to the low-density suburban housing of the 19th and 20...
HIERONYMUS BOSCH COMPLETE WORKS
STEFAN FISCHER    Book Number: 74881
Bibliophile price: £150.00
Product format: HARDBACK

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In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are ...
BOUCHER AND CHARDIN: Masters of Modern Manners
EDITED BY ANN DULAU    Book Number: 93373
Published price: £23
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Paperback

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Almost exact contemporaries, the French painters Boucher and Chardin represent contrasting trends in the way women are depicted. This discerning book takes as its starting point two paintings of th...
ETERNAL BODY: A Collection of Fifty Nudes
RUTH BERNHARD    Book Number: 93392
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £18.00
Product format: Hardback

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In her private quest to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity," acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) passionately created a collection of images that rank ...
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