World of Art
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Romanticism and Art (Revised)
$28.95 Add to cartIn the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Vaughan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0500202753
- Language: English
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Art and Architecture in Mexico
$26.95 Add to cartThis new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Oles, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0500204063
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Art and Climate Change
$24.95 Read moreArt and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative production for its own sake is not eno
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Fowkes, Maja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0500204756
- Language: English
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Etruscan Art
$24.95 Add to cartThe Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the sea… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Spivey, Nigel Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0500203040
- Language: English
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Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the simple shell beads worn by Palaeolithic hunters to the splendor of Renaissance gold work and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels, here is a fascinating and informative guide to the devel… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Phillips, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: May 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0500202877
- Language: English
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Buddhist Art and Architecture
$21.95 Add to cartTo guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, col… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Fisher, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0500202656
- Language: English
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Indian Art
$29.95 Add to cartThis engaging book tells the story clearly and vividly from the first, still mysterious, beginnings in the Indus valley, through the great masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art to the coming of Islam… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Craven, Roy C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 27 1997
- ISBN10: 0500203024
- Language: English
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Bonnard
$26.95 Add to cartBonnard found early fame among the Nabis, the radical young disciples of Gauguin, and went on with Vuillard to create a new intimist art of psychologically charged interiors. But from 1900 he turned b… [more below]
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Hyman, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0500203105
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
$29.95 Read moreKenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0500204446
- Language: English
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North American Indian Art
$21.95 Add to cartThis timely new book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures such as Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi to the work of modern artists like … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Penney, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0500203776
- Language: English
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Concepts of Modern Art
$24.95 Add to cartThe main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished art historians and critics in Britain and the United Stat
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Stangos, Nikos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: June 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0500202680
- Language: English
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Hellenistic Sculpture
$21.95 Add to cartThe exuberant realism and virtuoso technique of Hellenistic sculpture formed the basis of much later European art. Under Alexander and his cosmopolitan successors, sculptors enriched the classical Gre
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Smith, R. R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0500202494
- Language: English
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The Arts in Spain: From Prehistory to Postmodernism
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the dawn of mankind’s artistic achievement in the cave paintings of Altamira, to Picasso’s groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and beyond, the arts in Spain tangibly illustrate the unique co… [more below]
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Moffitt, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0500203156
- Language: English
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Chinese Art (Revised)
$19.95 Add to cartAt a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear’s authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Tregear, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0500202990
- Language: English
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Modern Painting: A Concise History
$24.95 Add to cartWhile acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read’s classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern ar
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Morley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204896
- Language: English
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Interior Design Since 1900
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day–from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement, and Art Deco to High-Tech and green design–every style of interior design sinc… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Massey, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0500203970
- Language: English
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Hindu Art and Architecture
$26.95 Add to cartThe art of Hinduism constitutes one of the world’s great traditions, as alive today as when the first images of Hindu gods were fashioned out of stone more than two thousand years ago. George Michell’… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Michell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0500203377
- Language: English
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The Impressionists at First Hand
$23.95 Read moreThe impressionists–Claude Monet, ?douard Manet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and others–are probably the most popular of all artistic schools.
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Denvir, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297320
- Language: English
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The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec
$26.95 Add to cartExpanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America–Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Azt
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Miller, Mary Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0500204500
- Language: English
