Art: History
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Pueblo Bead Jewelry
Schiffer£31.99| /The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featu...
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Quimper Pottery
Schiffer£45.99| /Entertaining and informative, Quimper Pottery: A Guide to Origins, Styles, and Values provides a comprehensive look at this centuries-old French fo...
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R.G. Smith
Schiffer Military£27.99| /R.G. Smith began his career as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s, and played a key role in the design of many successful tactic...
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R.S. Prussia
Schiffer£27.99| /This book explores porcelain wares produced by the Reinhold Schlegelmilch Porcelain Factory [marked R. S. Prussia], of Suhl, Germany, and sold to A...
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Rebecca Belmore
Goose Lane Editions£30.99| /Facing the monumental issues of our time.In a 2012 performance piece, Rebecca Belmore transformed an oak tree surrounded by monuments to colonialis...
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Rediscovery of Antiquity
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£64.99| /The latest volume of Acta Hyperborea, which appeared in the late fall of 2003, includes articles, which are the revised versions of papers presente...
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Reflections of the Breast
Brick Tower Press (UK)£19.99| /This isn't another cancer book. It is the triumph of the human experience. It his the story of every woman. It is the incredible insight and brilli...
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Reframing The Danish Renaissance
University Press of Southern Denmark£34.00| /This collection of essays by 26 Renaissance scholars from Europe and the United States represents the outcome of an international conference which ...
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Remembering the Future
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£33.99| /What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through whi...
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Renaissance Realm
Schiffer£22.99| /Russian painter Olga Suvorova is internationally known for her brilliant reinterpretations of English Pre-Rafaelite art, described by critic Viktor...
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Rethinking Art Between the Wars
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In the interwar period art revealed itself as part of the social and ideological order. The work of art became a point of intersection for the mode...
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Rethinking Postwar Europe
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£38.99| /This book offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently ...
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Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk
Schiffer£18.99| /This facsimile edition of a 1922 children’s book features seventy-three dynamic and whimsical woodcut illustrations—the first woodcuts that the fam...
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Rita Letendre
Art Gallery of Ontario£19.99| /Critically acclaimed Rita Letendre is one of the most eminent living abstract artists. Her painting career began in Montreal in the 1950s, when she...
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Roadsworth
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardIn October 2001, paint was spilled on the streets of Montreal. A stark, primitive bike symbol, looking sus...
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Roaring '20s Fashions: Deco
Schiffer£36.99| /By the second half of the 1920s, old-fashioned Victorian morals had gone the way of starched collars and cruel corsets and a "no holds barred" atti...
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Roaring '20s Fashions: Jazz
Schiffer£36.99| /By the second half of the 1920s, old-fashioned Victorian morals had gone the way of starched collars and cruel corsets and a "no holds barred" atti...
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Robert C. Jackson Paintings
Schiffer£54.99| /The paintings of Robert C. Jackson are introduced by Philip Eliasoph in the artist's first monograph. Using paintings from artists as diverse as An...
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Robin Wood's CORES Recycled
Schiffer£27.99| /Initially, they were the waste product of wooden bowls turned in an ancient technique by Robin Wood of the United Kingdom, an expert pole-lathe tur...
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Roller Derby / Girl Gang
Schiffer£31.99| /"In this book, many of the depictions of what a girl gang is are not the most admirable. They are often belligerent, rude, violent, and lewd. But i...
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Romantic Generations -- Text, Authority & Posterity in British Romanticism
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£19.99| /Unlike the first two volumes of "ANGLES" on the English-Speaking World, this special issue does not originate in a set of conference papers. The id...
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Rozane Ware
Schiffer£7.99| /A beautiful and popular art pottery by Roseville, the Rozane line was conceived in 1904 to reproduce in art pottery fine oil paintings of soft and ...
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SakKijâjuk
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association ...
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SakKijâjuk
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /Nunatsiavut, tânna Inuit nunakKatigengituk Canada-mit pitâlauttut namminik kavamamik 2005-imi, sanaKattajut sananguatausimajunik adjiKangitunik nun...
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SakKijâjuk
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /This description is for the French edition.Le Nunatsiavut, région inuite du Canada qui possède une administration autonome depuis 2005, a une produ...
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Sam Hyde Harris: 1889 â 1977 A Retrospective
Schiffer£72.99| /Sam Hyde Harris, an early California plein aire landscape painter, earned his living as an artist from 1903, at the age of 14, until he passed away...
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Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£34.00| /This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this i...
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San Francisco's Playland at the Beach
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /Presenting many rare photographs of Playland at the Beach and the surrounding neighbourhood -- including previously unpublished photographs from th...
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Sarah's Tea Time
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /At Aunt Mary's farmhouse, Leigh Court in Gloucestershire, tea time was a daily occurrence at 5:00 p.m. You could set your watch by it! Leigh Court ...
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Scott Fraser
Schiffer£68.99| /Visually stunning, informative, and broad in scope, this comprehensive overview gathers the works of renowned still-life painter Scott Fraser. Beau...
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Shadows on the Mesa
Schiffer£63.99| /From 1909 until the late 1920s, the Wetherill-Colville Guest Ranch in Kayenta, Arizona, was the primary stopover for writers, geologists, archeolog...
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Shaker Furniture
Schiffer£36.99| /English founder Ann Lee and a small group of followers brought the Shaker faith to New England in 1774. Dedicated to a simple, communal lifestyle o...
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Sharing Code
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This book tells the story of Art1, a computer program developed in 1968 at the University of New Mexico by electrical engineer Richard Williams wit...
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She's a Wildcat!
Schiffer£27.99| /Born of color and light in Long Beach, a protégé of legendary lowbrow icon The PIZZ, Candy has struck a fever in the landscape of pop surrealism. H...
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Silenced
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canad...
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Silver Curios in the Home
Schiffer£36.99| /Antique silver objects made for specific uses often reside in curio cabinets but are little understood today. In the late 19th century, many unusua...
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