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The Green Fuse | |||
| Pastoral Vision in English Art, 1820-2000 | Art | |||
| Jerrold Northrop Moore | ||||
| Antique Collectors' Club 2007 255 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1851495320 300x240mm | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| From Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) to Graham Arnold (b.1932) and the Ruralists, this book traces the green heritage in English art over the last two centuries, showing how artists have drawn on the land - often specific landscapes of home - to nourish their vision. Moore follows this continuity in English art through illustrated discussions of the lives and work of Palmer, William Hyde, FL Griggs, Edward Gordon Craig, Paul Nash, John Piper, John Minton and the neo-Romantics, Graham Arnold and David Inshaw. | ||||
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Breaking the Rules | |||
| The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde: 1900-1937 | Art | |||
| Stephen Bury (Edited by) | ||||
| British Library 2007 176 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712309802 255x188mm | ||||
| Published Price £14.95 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Between 1900 and 1937 the avant garde consisted of a series of overlapping movements such as Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism and Surrealism. Denied mainstream publication, these groups became adept at creating alternative outlets - manifestoes, magazines, artist's books and photo books. This study looks first at the printed work of the avant-garde, demonstrating its importance to the various groups; it then surveys the avant garde in 29 European cities, from Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius in the Baltic States to Zurich. | ||||
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Illumination from Books of Hours | |||
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| Janet Backhouse | ||||
| British Library 2004 160 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712348492 189x150mm | ||||
| Published Price £9.95 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Taking their name from a single text - the Hours of the Virgin Mary - Books of Hours reflect both the personal piety and the fashionable tastes of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe. With reproductions of manuscript pages from 140 examples, introduced by former curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, Janet Backhouse, this book acts as an introduction to some of the most beautiful and historically interesting Books of Hours in the collections of The British Library. | ||||
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Portraits: A History | |||
| Art | ||||
| Andreas Beyer | ||||
| Harry N Abrams 2003 413 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0810945398 333x278mm | ||||
| Published Price £90.00 | Our Price £40.00 | |||
| From its mythical origins to the hyperreality of Chuck Close's 'heads', Andreas Beyer sketches 'a panoramic history of the portrait in painting' and presents a selection of some 300 masterpieces. He describes the artists, sitters and contexts, discusses masters of the genre such as Jan van Eyck, Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt and Ingres, and shows how these paintings - whether self-portraits, portraits of rulers, group or private portraits - are 'exemplary solutions to a central purpose in the history of art'. Translated from the German by Steven Lindberg. | ||||
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Arts in the '20s | |||
| Architecture and the Decorative Arts in Europe | Art | |||
| Roberto Papini | ||||
| Verbavolant 2005 480 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0954428838 341x248mm | ||||
| Published Price $150.00 | Our Price £40.00 | |||
| First published in 1930 and presented here in near-facsimile, Papini's selection of 1920s architecture, interiors, furniture and decorative arts ranges from buildings by Gropius to needlepoint lace from Czechoslovakia and Italy. With over 800 photographs (12 in colour). | ||||
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