History of Art, Paperback

DescriptionThe golden days of the film poster are often remembered in print and at the auction house but the newsprint adverts for film are a vanis...

A friendly and inspiring introduction to art history, telling the stories of the world's greatest paintings and artists from prehistory to the mode...

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A chronical of one of the most controversial art movements of the 20th century. A broad range of articles trace the emergence of the movement in En...

Reducere. For centuries, the people of the Wabanaki Nations of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada used signs, symbols and designs to communica...

Description"The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo " David Brinley, University of Delaware, USAHistor...

The Art of Ancient Music discusses music's role in the long story of human creativity. While emphasizing broad human themes, the text has a special...

DescriptionDuring the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of Ameri...

In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution - and the potential twenty first century death of - the diary, mourning what...

Reducere. "Simply put, Harry Mathias has done it again. "The Death & Rebirth of Cinema" solidifies Mathias's standing as THE great translator of film-to-digi...

DescriptionArt, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and ill...

How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as c...

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Reducere. This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aest...

Reducere. The WWII-era Art of Guerilla Warfare was a short training pamphlet which informed and influenced the guerrilla warfare training programs for: Briti...

Reducere. This special edition of "The Art of War" by Machiavelli & "The Prince" by Machiavelli unites both of Machiavelli's renowned volumes on strategy tog...

An illustrated history of arts, crafts and design of the first peoples of South America.

Featuring decorative, religious, and utilitarian objects from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic Age, this is the ideal introduction to Greek ...

This book is a complete guide to the military philosophy of one of Great Britain's most successful military leaders, Bernard Law Montgomery. Arrang...

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Reducere. The history of Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War, spans more than two millennia in the East. It has been the primary vade mecum of Generals, Kings, an...

An accessible and richly illustrated introduction which celebrates the work of Black British artists.Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Rianna Ja...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Lachlan GoudieIllustration(s): 181 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

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The Art of War by Baron De Jomini was considered by most military experts of the day, at the time of the American Civil War, to be the definitive w...

Reducere. Inspired by the pathbreaking work of Howard Zinn, A People's Art History of the United States is propelled by a democratic vision of art, showing t...

A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider ...

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Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...

First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age ...

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First published in 1570, Joachim Meyer's The Art of Combat is among the most important texts in the rich corpus of German martial arts treatises of...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Kelly GrovierIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dime...

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An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins.

Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters...

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Finding the UFO Crash at San Augustin documents the crash site of a UFO in early July 1947 in west-central New Mexico. Many extremely unusual finds...

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare is full of recreations of fam...

DescriptionHeaven's Breath, the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biolo...

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

This thought-provoking and original book argues that hyperimages-calculated displays of images on walls or pages-have played a major role in the hi...

A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures wi...

An innovative approach to the study of an under-appreciated topic of the place of art in ancient religion and will be essential reading for researc...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...

Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basi...

Hans Delbruck's four-volume History of the Art of War is recognized throughout the world as the definitive work on the subject. Appearing in an Eng...

Considers developments including the use of gunpowder, the invention of firearms and iron balls. After reviewing the establishment of a European in...

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Reducere. - English translation of the military manual that guided the German Army in World War II - This book was carried into battle by officers and NCOs a...

DescriptionHistory of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. Th...

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky. Culture...

A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"

Reducere. An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wart...

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Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Muneji FuchimotoIllustration(s): 34 projects; over 1, 500 color photosNumber of pages: 160Publication date: ...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, GermanyIllustration(s): 295 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. Eleri is the only one with the ability to destroy the world around her... Now she needs to save it.She had always loved being used as the weapon, b...

Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings...

DescriptionArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic...

DescriptionOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scho...

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A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious po...

The Element summarises the state of knowledge about four styles of prehistoric rock art in Europe current between the late Mesolithic period and th...