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What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what ...
This book celebrates the thriving world of Islamic arts and crafts, as well as presenting the rich cultural, philosophical and historical heritage that contemporary artists ...
Targeting the same audience as Phaidon's highly successful and long-selling Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith, Art & Today surveys contemporary art from 1980 to ...
A picture-driven account of this important period in the proven successful format of Egypt -- 4000 Years of Art (Phaidon 2003). Presenting 300 artworks from the ...
This volume retraces the story and development of painting from the Renaissance to our days, with numerous illustrations and excursuses about major painters, theoricians and ...
Awestruck by the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London church, David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to the art - its physical ...
'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical ...
Spanning centuries, and encompassing a variety of masterpieces - from paintings on canvas and cave walls to structures and jewellery - this fascinating compendium of "lost art ...
"In My View" is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has ...
Now published in paperback, Sketchbooks provides a revealing glimpse into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the worlds of advertising, design, graphic ...
There has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings ...
Subject and object of artists' work, the artist's body represents the state of contemporary art and makes a wider comment on the human condition ...
Art has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is famously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present ...