History of art / art & design styles
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How Art Works
£18.99How Art Works
What goes into creating art? How can we learn to ‘read’ paintings? What are the key elements of composition? ‘How Art Works’ uses practical graphics to demonstrate the techniques, styles, materials, and concepts that lie behind great art. It shows you how to interpret paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and reveals how art is made, laying out the key techniques and materials in visual detail. It also explains the nuts and bolts of the technical aspects behind art, such as perspective and composition, and shows how to identify major artistic styles and movements.
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See what you’re missing
£20.00See what you’re missing
Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists – from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world – to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
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The Annunciation: A Pilgrim’s Quest
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The elements of art
£15.99The elements of art
Packed with useful tips for gallery browsing, the Elements of Art takes the world’s greatest artworks and makes them easy for anyone to understand.
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The story of art
£49.95The story of art
Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text – the ideal gift for every art connoisseur and student
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The Story of Art Without Men
£30.00The Story of Art Without Men
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA, and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America, and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan this is the history of art as it’s never been told before.
£30.00