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Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context.Well-respec ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford; Michael White (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the ...Show more
Fashion Since 1900 by Amy de la Haye; Valerie Mendes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: World of Art Ser.
From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores the significant developments in fashion since 1900. Authors Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style for ...Show more
Interior Design Since 1900 by Anne Massey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Interior design experienced an extraordinary amount of changes in taste and style during the twentieth century. From William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to expressionism, postmodernism, and green design, Interior Design Since 1900 charts them all.Featuring more than two hundred color illustr ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Kenneth 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 modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
Monet by James H. Rubin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
One of the most famous and admired painters of all time, Claude Monet (1840- 1926) was the architect of impressionism--a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique of painting outside at the seashore or in city streets was as radically new as his subject matter: the landscapes and middle-cl ...Show more
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
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Category: Architecture and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
A revised and updated edition of Sir John Summerson's classic book.Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the classical style has long dominated the history of western architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Sir John Summerson's timeless text, as relevant tod ...Show more
Turner by Graham Reynolds; David Blayney Brown (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist's career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and h ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
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