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Tag along with experts to learn everything there is to know about Antarctica in this unique foldout book.

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A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of Christianity.

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Offers an interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century. The author shows how artists in Mexico participated in local and international developments, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the art world of the last five centuries.

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An overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today's environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change.

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A comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct illustrated survey of myth as it appears in Greek art.

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A daily almanac that presents a selection of art historical events for every day of the year from momentous and headline-grabbing, to intimate, amusing or revelatory.

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The book is a visual garden of Deco design, with hundreds of items photographed in colour and described with their useful purposes, materials, and current values. This book is important because it demonstrates how the new Art Deco style provided the Depression-ridden world with colour and style in a form most people could afford.

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Showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. With artists' biographies and details of manufacturers, a full glossary and a thematic index, this volume is suitable for all those interested in the Art Deco style.

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An accessible guide to the finer details of 100 masterpieces of Western art.

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A lavishly illustrated reference on a little-known chapter in art history--the art of the three Baltic States, covering a wide range of mediums, movements, and styles.

(Hardback, Third edition)

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present.

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Presents an overview that helps you make coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. This edition includes a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. It offers information on the evolution of art over the decades.

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The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it and where it can be found, which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society. This title examines the themes in contemporary art, from portraiture in the age of face transplants and facial recognition software, and more.

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(Paperback, Revised)

An updated edition of this hugely successful book, the most accessible history of world art ever assembled.

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The first publication to collect the work of more than 140 contemporary designers of the very best limited-edition studio furniture.

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The first-ever A-Z survey of the major modern and contemporary artists of the Middle East.

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An introductory guide to a prominent and expanding field of study: artists unique contribution to the art of the moving image in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Written by tutors at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts, a vital reference and practical resource for craftspeople, artists and students .

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An informative and beautifully produced guide to one of the worlds most spectacular collections of Hellenistic and Islamic silverwork, now available in paperback.

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The long-awaited monograph on the Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble, gathering more than a decade of their groundbreaking collaborative work.

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An extraordinary monograph by one of the most revered and original image-makers at work today, now expanded and updated to include previously unpublished work.

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A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to the work of Aubrey Beardsley, one of the defining artists of the Art Nouveau style.