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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. Their artistic beliefs were set out by John Ruskin, the art historian who ardently supported them. Their chief principle was truth to nature: that a painter should draw what he or she sees, and not follow painterly conventions. This book offers a wide range of poetic and literary extracts.

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Beginning with an introduction to the life of the artist, this beautifully illustrated book presents a chronological selection of Raphael's drawings including early figure studies, demonstrating his astonishing mastery of naturalistic movement. It then explores his working methods and shows how he incorporated the influences of his famous peers into his own inimitable style.

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Magnificent collectors edition of the great Renaissance painter Raphael

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Raymond Pettibon is the foremost draftsman of his generation, and one of America's most important contemporary artists. This book presents over six hundred works from every part of the artist's career, the majority of which have never been shown before. It charts the development of the themes that have come to define Pettibon's expansive oeuvre.

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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) is considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers that ever lived. Beginning with an introduction to the life of the artist, this illustrated book presents a thematic selection of etchings and drawings by Rembrandt.

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A critically acclaimed account of one of the most dynamic and flamboyant periods in art history, this volume recaptures, for art scholar and amateur alike, the richness of this important but little studied period in French art.

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Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images

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The perfect introduction to the life and work of Richard Estes

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Devoted to Robert Motherwell (1915-1991); American painter, printmaker, and editor, this title focuses on a important aspect of the artist's life in relation to his art, and explores the many ways in which his activities as an artist, writer, and theorist helped to shape American culture during the second half of the twentieth century.

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Presents a selection of over 200 works on paper by the American artist, from the National Gallery of Washington, DC, the MoMA and the Whitney Museum, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as public and private European and American collections.

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The first comprehensive monograph on a Turner-Prize-winning artist whose work encompasses historical research, scientific enquiry and a deep engagement with the materials of his art.

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Created by the great Russian artists (Deineka, Malevic, Adlivankin, Laktionov, Brodskij, Korzhev), this book presents a multiplicity of questions, themes and formal approaches to art spanning from the phases of the civil war to the beginnings of the Brezhnev era, stopping at the early 1970s when trends in official Soviet art took on varied.

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Features work of a young Japanese artist, whose complex collage-like drawings and sometimes surreal, sometimes disturbing compositions are made almost entirely by hand.

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A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion

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A unique opportunity to own a limited edition silver gelatin print on fibre paper by Tacita Dean. Printed in 2008 in a limited edition limited of 45. Each comprises a special edition of the book that is beautifully bound, individually signed and numbered, and presented in a custom-made box.

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Presents an overview of American printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century, beginning in 1905 with John Sloans etchings of everyday urban experience, dubbed the Ashcan School, and concluding with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionist prints. It also includes biographies of many artists.

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The fourth volume of this highly praised, definitive reference to Andy Warhol's (19281987) extensive artistic production

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The third volume in the acclaimed multi-volume series presenting the most accurate and authoritative data on Andy Warhol (192887) ever assembled, including eagerly awaited new scholarship

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An introduction to art from medieval to modern times.

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Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book from pre-historic times to the present, over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians

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Illustrated with over 250 remarkable objects from the British Museum and other collections in Egypt, the United States and Europe, this book traces the course of Egyptian art from its sudden initial flowering to its final resurgence during the rule of the Ptolemies.

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Offers an overview of the arms and armours of the Collection of the Furusiyya Art Foundation. It is an invaluable contribution to the historical study of Islamic arms and material culture. The furusiyya is a whole of practical and theoretical knowledge related to the horse: horsemanship, hippology, veterinary medicine and art of warfa.

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An accessible, innovative introduction to the art of China.

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In this autobiography Cellini describes court life, his career as a Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith, and his views of his contemporaries, including Michelangelo.