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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
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Selected for its starry skies, Parisian nightlife scene on an illuminated terrace and for its complexity, this is one of the Old Masters series and a companion to the Klimt puzzle code 88696. Dark...
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| Unknown Book Number: 88696 |
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From a new series called Old Masters, we have chosen two in the series because they are particularly beautiful and challenging. Gustav Klimt's masterpiece frames his subject with her naturalistic ...
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| GORDON HOME Book Number: 88970 |
Published price: £6.99
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We have three to collect in this delightful series, now rather rare, 2009 facsimile reprints of the 1922 original. Gordon Home's simply beautiful sketches of depth in pencil capture Wordsworth's D...
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| MATTHEW WILLIAMS Book Number: 88989 |
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The Gothic architectural style created a medieval effect and was popularised by such architects as Sir George Gilbert Scott, Alfred Waterhouse and G. E. Street, and of course, William Burges. A la...
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| LEONARDO DA VINCI Book Number: 88568 |
Published price: £16.99
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Arguably the central figure of the Renaissance, it is extraordinary that we have an unparalleled set of documents which illuminate Leonardo Da Vinci's thought processes, interests and deepest belie...
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| EDITED BY MICHAEL JONES Book Number: 88480 |
Published price: £55
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Sub-Titled 'The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber In Luxor Temple', the Temple of Amun-Re was built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs. It is one of the iconic monuments of New...
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| STEPHEN HEBRON Book Number: 88485 |
Published price: $25
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Generations of Humanities students at Oxford have whiled away their afternoons in the Baroque splendour of the Radcliffe Camera, which now houses the History Faculty Library. The Camera was the un...
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| EDITED BY ANNA VALLEY Book Number: 88492 |
Published price: £50
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With his landmark 1919 painting The City, Fernand Léger (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others like Matisse redefined the practice of painting with styles ...
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| HILLIARD GOLDFARB Book Number: 88502 |
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A big, rare exhibition catalogue published by Yale University Press with Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006 first edition softback. The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-190...
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| JOHN HASSALL & MIKE WEBB Book Number: 88507 |
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A terrific parody of the Bayeux Tapestry first drawn over a hundred years ago, here is the satirical response by pioneering British illustrator John Hassall to the sense of outrage that gripped Bri...
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| JAMES HAMILTON Book Number: 89170 |
Published price: £12.99
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Thomas Gainsborough, the 18th century British painter whose masterpieces track the different fashions in painting. He painted everything from stiff-necked, formal and doll-like figures in portraits...
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| 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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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 88648 |
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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...
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| CLARA DRUMMOND Book Number: 89102 |
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Beginner or professional artist need just two things in order to draw - a pencil and paper. Winner of the BP Portrait Award, Clara Drummond uses artists who inspire her to demonstrate how everyone...
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| HELEN ROCHESTER AND ILEX Book Number: 89117 |
Published price: £14.99
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Mathematician, painter, architect, sculptor, designer, engineer, scientist, theorist and draughtsman, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was the original Renaissance man. Much of his genius can be glea...
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| DESMOND MORRIS Book Number: 89122 |
Published price: £24.95
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Surrealism was a new philosophy of psychic automatism exempted from any aesthetic or moral concern. The Surrealist movement began in Paris in the 1920s and was not in origin and art movement, but ...
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| FRANCESCA LEUNG AND ILEX Book Number: 89128 |
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Sub-titled 'Learn the Art of Drawing From the Masters' Italian artists of the 15th century notably turned to classical masterpieces to copy from. In turn, the examples set by the great artists in ...
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| ELIZABETH COWLING Book Number: 89131 |
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Portraiture and the human figure remained Pablo Picasso's prime subject and favourite genre throughout his life. His earliest portraits were done from life, and reveal a precocious ability to catc...
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| EDITED BY HUGO VICKERS Book Number: 89010 |
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Cecil Beaton was primarily known for having photographed virtually every prominent person in public life in the course of his long career from the Queen to the Rolling Stones, authors, dancers, cho...
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| GERALD SCARFE Book Number: 88858 |
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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 ...
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| DAVID DAY Book Number: 89100 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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Tolkien scholar and bestselling author David Day for over four decades has had an enduring fascination with complex mythologies which led him to J. R. R. Tolkien. Here he describes the history and...
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| DENISE HARRISON Book Number: 89111 |
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A popular and brilliant starter book for anyone working in acrylics packed with information on gels and gesso and colour as you discover why acrylic paint is one of the most powerful materials avai...
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| DAVID DAY Book Number: 89112 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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'You won't need to be an expert in Elvish to find your way around Middle-earth and the Undying Lands.' 'I am pleased to be able to reveal a treasure trove of illustrations of Tolkien's world that ...
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| R. G. GRANT Book Number: 89145 |
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Intricate, elegant architectural plans and elevations and evocative period drawings and photographs showcase the innovative designs and technologies behind 50 historic lighthouses built around the ...
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| MICHAEL HOWARD Book Number: 89150 |
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Slipcased and with 12 rare, removable facsimile documents, is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the leader of the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet. Over 150 colour images record the de...
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