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Impressionism by Ralph Skea
$22.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
It is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics, professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to encounter the unorthodox paintings on display, with their seemingly unfinished surfaces and lack of an ...Show more
Key Moments in Art by Lee Cheshire
$19.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Art lovers can list history's most important art objects, but what many don't know are the dramatic, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind these most famous works. Spanning the last 500 years of art history, this book revisits fifty momentous events that changed the course of art--days when now wo ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford
$21.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Beautifully illustrated with some of the world's greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confi ...Show more
Pop Art - Art Essentials by Flavia Frigeri
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Pop Art refers to a post-war movement connecting art with popular culture. Billboard signs, comic books, and movie stars were just some of the subjects chosen by pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, to name a few, to illustrate the contemporary world ...Show more
Street Art - Art Essentials by Simon Armstrong; Anon; Makoto Azuma
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A comprehensive history and interpretation of the street art movement, featuring all of the key practitioners in a colorful combination of sharp images and insightful commentary. Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous inte ...Show more
Surrealism - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had become one of the most popular and recognizable art movements of the twentieth century. Contrary to common belief, surrealism was created in contrast to the chaos ...Show more
Women Artists by Flavia Frigeri
$21.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as an ...Show more
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