Art History Books


Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance (Penguin Graphic Fiction) Best Price: $49.98 This trilogy of stories includes "Burn Again", the tale of a religious cult, and...	Alex V: For the love of Alex.	Leonardo da Vinci (Pelican) Best Price: $119.02 This is a highly-acclaimed short study of Leonardo da Vinci.	Tank Girl: Novelisation Best Price: $10.00 This has enough amusing parts to make it worth a go. At the start, Tank Girl is involved in a...	The Balinese (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $35.00 I am Balinese and I read this book with a critical frame of mind. I know Stephen Lansing and...



Geriatric Medicine: A Case-based Manual (Oxford Medical Publications) This book is a case-based introduction to geriatric medicine, Rather than an exhaustive textbook...	Endocrinology: Key Questions Answered (Key Questions Answered Series) Best Price: $91.22 If you are looking for a title to quickly review your basic and clinical concepts in...	Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $3.98 I have been involved in the patient personal scholarship of post structuralism for about 6...	Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man Best Price: $25.20 Three writers on Leonardo's scientific and engineering work to which Kemp refers are Paolo...	Eroticism and Art (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $16.65 Page 227-228 (2007 paperback edition): "Serrano's Piss Christ (1987), a large colour...



Collins You Can Paint - Pastels: A step-by-step guide for absolute beginners	Drawing for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Drawing Best Price: $6.33 Drawing for Beginners is an excellent instruction book. The illustrations and written...	Outdoors in Watercolour (Learn to Paint) Best Price: $77.15 This best-selling title will be relaunched in June 05 with a fresh new cover design. Many...	Learn to Paint: Light and Shade in Watercolour (Collins Learn to Paint Series) Best Price: $59.70 I think this book would be a good one for any level of watercolor painter, There are lots of...	Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects

Creativity 31 Best Price: $16.50 This book is great for those excrutiating moments of designer's block. Full of images...	Folk Erotica: Celebrating Centuries of Erotic Americana Best Price: $18.00 This book is a testament to the fact that all humans at some level are the same and always have...	American Illustration (Visual Arts) (No. 20) Now in its 20th year, American illustration presents the finest editorial, promotional,...	Everyone Can Draw Crazy Cartoons (Red Fox Activity Books)	Early Victorian Portraits

DINARS AND DIRHAMS. Coins of the Islamic Lands. The Early Period Part One and Part Two (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XIX) Although few examples of royal Mughal jewelled and enamelled work survive, the Khalili...	The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies Best Price: $256.79 This book examines Sophocles' handling of the chorus in his seven extant tragedies. This...	Early Celtic Art (Oxford Reprints)	Sebastiano del Piombo (Studies in History of Art & Architecture) This is the first detailed assessment of Sebastiano to have appeared in English. It follows his...	Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000 (Oxford English Monographs) Best Price: $80.60 While political connections between Ireland and Scotland have been vigorously promoted in recent...

Concise Dictionary of Physics (Oxford science publications) This authoritative reference is an indispensable aid for students and nonscientists seeking...	A Corpus of Spanish Drawings: Volume II: Madrid, 1600-1650 Best Price: $145.00 This corpus is designed to present a complete survey of Spanish drawings from 1400 to 1800. ...	Islamic Art: An Annual Dedicated to the Art and Culture of the Muslim World Volume I: 1981 Islamic Art I publishes the papers delivered at the 10th Colloquy on Art and Archaeology in...	Fuseli's Milton Gallery: 'Turning Readers into Spectators' (Oxford English Monographs) Best Price: $129.00 Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a...	Sayonara, Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Restored and Repackaged Best Price: $4.92 I picked up this book at the library while searching for information on the restoration of the...

Beethoven and the Voice of God Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College,...	Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios Best Price: $45.97 Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many...	Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs Best Price: $73.21 Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and...	Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface Best Price: $14.16 What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas...	Contemporary Indian Sculpture: An Algebra of Figuration Best Price: $37.86 This book discusses the development of contemporary Indian sculpture in relation both to the...

Textiles and Weavers in Medieval South India (Oxford India Paperbacks) Best Price: $42.03 Updated with a new Preface and Introduction, this second edition explores the vicissitudes of...	Mahabalipuram (Monumental Legacy) Best Price: $23.99 I just received this book and these are my first impressions. I haven't read it yet, I have...	An Outline of Islamic Architecture Best Price: $59.99 Arranged according to region, this volume introduces the student and general reader to the...	Chinese Almanacs (Images of Asia) Despite efforts by Chinese governments to suppress their popularity, and the influence of...	Chinese Snuff Bottles (Images of Asia) Best Price: $204.25 Among the most beautiful of the world's domestic art forms are Chinese snuff bottles,...

Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews Best Price: $23.84 If formalism's your bag, you'll enjoy this book. Collection of critical writting about...	Color Harmonies Best Price: $11.00 La teoria que propone Rudolf Arnheim, habla de una manera practica de la combinación...	Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting Best Price: $23.99 Shakespeare, Vermeer, Lope de Vega, Molière, and Diderot dont usually keep company with one...	Chicago Makes Modern: How Creative Minds Changed Society Best Price: $31.41 Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern?from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the...	Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial...

The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Best Price: $17.75 Why are the doors of America's prisons suddenly swinging open and catering to our most...	Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 10 (v. 10) "Metropolitan Museum Journal" represents a richly illustrated study of well-known...	Pre-Columbian Art (Chicago Visual Library) Best Price: $41.98	The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of...	Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral Best Price: $27.99 At Chartres Cathedral, for the first time in medieval art, the lowest register of stained-glass...

Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $67.95 Sculpture 1900-1945 provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of...	Art in China (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $133.32 Reading Clunas' book is a refreshing experience forme. It surveys an amazingly broad...	Art in China (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $7.48 While not the easiest to read, Clunas's book is currently the best short modest-sized...	George Eliot (Past Masters) George Eliot is one of the central figures in the Tradition of the English Novel. In this brief...	Speaking Up at Work: Teacher's Manual Best Price: $10.00 This text helps students develop the language skills and cultural awareness they need to succeed...

Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche Best Price: $20.52 Another wonderful book about the Japanese Buddhist mind from a one of a kind scholar and...	Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 With a New Preface Best Price: $29.95 In this richly illustrated volume, including a number of stunning color prints, Barbara Novak...	From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings 1589 to the Present Best Price: $77.77 Stretching back over millennia and comprising a myriad of traditions, the art of painting in...	Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) Best Price: $125.42 You have probably read the bible. You have probably read the Koran. You have probably read at...	Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature Best Price: $22.00 Robertson is a really excellent writer, and his frame for discussion is compelling reading. As...

From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity Best Price: $13.55 The title of Mr. Flores' book might be a little deceiving for those who are not familiar...	Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film (Global Chinese Culture) Best Price: $47.00 In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after...	Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) Best Price: $35.00 Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day...	The Icon	Secrets of El Dorado: COLOMBIA "Secrets of El Dorado," includes a brilliant narrative by German Arciniegas along with...

Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick Best Price: $185.00 Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr And The Brothers Kirkpatrick by Richard D. Mohr (Professor of...	Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA) Best Price: $45.00 Shanti Kumar's "Gandhi Meets Prime Time" examines how cultural imaginations of...	A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms Best Price: $11.11 kalinin@terra.com.br Linda Hutcheon's A Theory of Parody is one of the most important...	New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) Best Price: $29.63 I most enjoyed reading New Media in the Muslim World. This bookexamines the recent introduction...	The Critique Handbook: The Art Student's Sourcebook and Survival Guide (2nd Edition) Best Price: $21.61 Description: It is a book on academic critique in relation to art---academically centered. ...

Art of Seeing, The (8th Edition) Best Price: $64.00 The Art of Seeing explores traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focusing on art ...	The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay	Lloyd Rees Centenary Yearbook This collection of quality illustrations is in a yearbook that commemorates one of...	Oriental Collection of W. T. Walters; 65 Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a...	Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, R.a. Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...

The Search for Gainsborough A British Actress finds a painting in a theatre. A picture of an actor & she sets out to...	A Life of Picasso. Volume 1: 1881-1906	Ordinary Images Best Price: $44.99 The book was in very good condition but I found that there was a great deal of underlining of...	Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich Best Price: $25.99 I hate what happened in the 1940's. My dad fought in the Phillipines, his best friend was a...	Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature Best Price: $22.00 Robertson is a really excellent writer, and his frame for discussion is compelling reading. As...

From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity Best Price: $13.55 The title of Mr. Flores' book might be a little deceiving for those who are not familiar...	Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film (Global Chinese Culture) Best Price: $47.00 In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after...	Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) Best Price: $35.00 Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day...	The Icon	Secrets of El Dorado: COLOMBIA "Secrets of El Dorado," includes a brilliant narrative by German Arciniegas along with...

Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick Best Price: $185.00 Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr And The Brothers Kirkpatrick by Richard D. Mohr (Professor of...	Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA) Best Price: $45.00 Shanti Kumar's "Gandhi Meets Prime Time" examines how cultural imaginations of...	A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms Best Price: $11.11 kalinin@terra.com.br Linda Hutcheon's A Theory of Parody is one of the most important...	New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) Best Price: $29.63 I most enjoyed reading New Media in the Muslim World. This bookexamines the recent introduction...	Images of War: British Posters, 1939-45 Best Price: $154.59

Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature Best Price: $77.01 This is an excellent anthology of Native American Literature. I will use it for my Native...	Critical Perspectives on Art History Best Price: $42.55 Focusing on the dynamic connections between art history and real life, this introductory survey...	Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being Best Price: $173.02 By this book, 1940 marked the time that photography died and was replaced by vast amounts of...	Looking and Writing: A Guide for Art History Students Best Price: $26.58 Looking and Writing is an introductory guide for readers who are engaged in writing a visual...	Nineteenth Century European Art, 2nd Edition Best Price: $90.00 I have read this book and used it as a reference resource. As per the critical reviews, a highly...

Design and Composition Best Price: $62.00 While everything that the reviewer in "Black and White Copy of Original" says is true;...	Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals Best Price: $85.20 I didn't receive my book because they ran out of the product. I didn't see anything...	Italian Renaissance Art: A Source Book Best Price: $25.00 Focusing on select examples of Italian art spanning roughly four hundred years, Italian...	From El Greco to Goya Painting in Spain 1561 - 1828

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