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By: Brend

ISBN: 9780714114439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1991
Publisher: British Museum Press
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This illustrated history of Islamic art surveys the achievement of Muslim artists and craftsmen over 1200 years, from the 7th to the 19th centuries AD. The author examines the great diversity of styles, region by region. Also considered is the specific character of Islamic art and its influences.


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By: Eva Wilson

ISBN: 9780714180663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1988
Publisher: British Museum Press
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An anthology of 280 Islamic designs and patterns. It is drawn from the heritage of Islamic art c 800-1600 AD. It is suitable for designers, craftsmen, artists, teachers and students.


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By: Helen Harrison

ISBN: 9780714861500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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The perfect introduction to the life and work of Jackson Pollock


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By: Charlotte Gere

ISBN: 9780714128191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Presents the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. This book focuses on the attitudes of owners to their jewellery and the symbolic weight that it was expected to carry.


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By: Carolyn Lanchner

ISBN: 9780870707254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
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Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the 20th century. These books present the stories behind masterpieces of the modern canon and the contributions of individual artists to the history of modern art.


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By: Jordan Wolfson

ISBN: 9781941701065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: David Zwirner
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Over the past decade, New York artist Jordan Wolfson has gained a reputation for his surprising, thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. This book deals with the life of this artist.


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By: Allan Antliff

ISBN: 9780714861340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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The perfect introduction to the life and art of Joseph Beuys.


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By: Charles Gaines

ISBN: 9780714871554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African-American experience


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By: Serenella Ciclitira

ISBN: 9788857214603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Skira
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Korean Eye is regarded a pioneering global promoter of Korean art and culture, and as such has attracted huge numbers of artists wishing to enter their work for the forthcoming 2012 exhibition. This title helps us understand the work of Korean Contemporary Artists, and provides a gateway to the wider culture of their homeland.


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By: Louise Coysh

ISBN: 9781908970169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Art / Books
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How to capture that breadth in one work of art How to celebrate a single system while also reflecting the millions of lives that it transports every day This book explores the historic and mythological significance of the labyrinth.


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By: Patricia Emison

ISBN: 9780714862552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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The latest addition to the best-selling Colour Library series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all Leonardo's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.


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By: Gianni Caffiero

ISBN: 9781780670577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: BIS
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Suitable for scholars, collectors and Aivazovsky's admirers, this book focuses on the works of 19th century master who raised European maritime painting to a new level.


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By: Ulf Kuster

ISBN: 9783775732277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
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The life and work of the French-American sculptor in our series Art to Read


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By: Claire Van Cleave

ISBN: 9780714126548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Features masterpieces of Italian Renaissance drawings from the British Museum, the Louvre and other French public collections in Lille, Rennes and Montpellier. Examining the drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artists mind at work, this book explains the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings.


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By: Dyfri Williams

ISBN: 9780714122540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: British Museum Press
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The British Museum has one of the finest collection of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. This book investigates 180 of these works, including the most famous and also a selection of lesser known but equally important pieces.


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By: John Cherry

ISBN: 9780714128238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Goldsmiths were among the most highly regarded craftsmen in the medieval world, making extravagant objects from precious gold and silver, often enriched with rare stones and engraved gems. This title explores the goldsmiths craft through works in the British Museum and from collections around the world.


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By: Christof Thoenes

ISBN: 9783836537162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2020
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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Michelangelo was a genius of unrivaled virtuosity. This dependable edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of his work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history with ten richly illustrated chapters covering the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture with special focus on the tour de force frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.


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By: Germano Celant

ISBN: 9788857232218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Skira
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Offers an analysis of the work of Mimmo Paladino, one of the most innovative and established contemporary artists in the world. This book covers his entire oeuvre from 1963 to 2015, his role in renewing painting that, after including environmental interventions, shifted to photography and sculpture, architecture and cinema, opera and theatre.


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By: Clarissa von Spee

ISBN: 9780714124704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, Modern Chinese Ink Paintings features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.


(Hardback)

By: Leon Kapp

ISBN: 9781568365190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
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By: Richard Weston

ISBN: 9780714828794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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In this survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations.


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By: Martin Gayford

ISBN: 9780500239773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art


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By: Marino Brovier

ISBN: 9788857221403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Skira
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A splendid catalogue devoted to the work of an artist who was responsible for some of the most original glass artworks in art history.


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By: Darian Leader

ISBN: 9780714870915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
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An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting

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