History of Art
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Nordic Orientalism
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said'...
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Northwest Carving Traditions
Schiffer£54.99| /Native art on the Northwest Coast is very much alive and increasing in both artistry and volume. Over 400 color photographs of old and recent artwo...
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Northwest Native Arts: Basic Forms
Hancock House Publishers (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £13.99| /Learn to draw Native Art! First Nations artist Robert E. Stanley Sr. shares his knowledge and technique in rendering classic northwest native drawi...
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Northwest Native Arts: Creative Colors 2
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£6.99| /The second coloring book in the Northwest Native Arts Series. Learn about some of the real and legendary creatures revered by the natives of the we...
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Nostalgia for the Future
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £36.00Current price £22.00| /In the first chapter on the German militarys unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitlers advoca...
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Nurie
Americas Group Publications (US)£17.99| /Takes readers back to an aspect of their childhood long forgotten in most English-speaking countries - the pleasure of filling in the lines with pr...
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Oceania at the Tropenmuseum
LM Publishers (NL)£38.99| /This is the second volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany th...
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Octavio Ocampo
Edition Olms AG£35.00| /Text in English, German & Spanish. Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexicos most prolific artists. Octavio was born on 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Gua...
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Of God and Mortal Men
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This book conveys the artistic genius of T C Cannon (19461978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclus...
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Olive Rush
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873-1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Na...
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Ottoman Touch
Blue Dome Press (US)£25.66| /This is an introduction to the classical arts and crafts of the Ottoman period. Being both an academic and artist, Kuşoğlu discovers the subtle sec...
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Painted Alive
Schiffer£31.99| /Painted Alive is the first collection of bodypainted images by New Orleans artist Craig Tracy. With his masterful approach to this ancient and ephe...
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Painted Sky
Schiffer£45.99| /The works of 106 contemporary artists provide a fresh look at the artistic vibrancy of the Rocky Mountain West region of the United States. More th...
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Paisley
Schiffer£22.99| /Paisley textile designs are organized into a sweeping visual survey, from orderly foulard patterns to elaborate borders, from experimental media to...
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Paper Textures
Schiffer£36.99| /A treasury of textures, this beautiful book and its accompanying Mac and PC Compatible CDs are filled with 114 colorful images of handmade papers, ...
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Pasifika Styles
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles...
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Passion for the Arctic
LM Publishers (NL)£38.99| /In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel, granted his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, no...
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Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison
McMichael Canadian Art Collection£30.99| /Passion. Reason. Opposites attract.It is no secret that Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) never met. Their art could not be fur...
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Paul Wegener
Edition Axel Menges (D)£38.00| /Text in German. The title of Paul Wegener's film Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland, dating from 1917, alludes to Pieter Bruegel's well-known picture Co...
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Peep-Machine Pin-Ups
Schiffer£27.99| /Machines called Mutoscopes offered quick shows for a penny from 1895 until as late as the 1970s, flipping cards to create the impression of a "movi...
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Pennsylvania German Arts
Schiffer£27.99| /There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The Pennsylvania Germans...
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Peripheral Insider
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In Denmark there has been a tendency to view expatriate art not as part of current global developments, but as expressions of ethnic cultures of li...
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Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony
Schiffer£113.99| /The most comprehensive review of the Provincetown Artist Colony to date, this two-volume set is complete with conversations with many artists, incl...
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Peter McLeavey
Te Papa Press£49.99| /From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...
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Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
Sagging Meniscus Press£22.99| /Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up. From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nucle...
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PhotoGraphic Encounters
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at...
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Pinball Wizards & Blacklight Destroyers
Schiffer£31.99| /Pop-art connoisseurs are treated to a mind-bending journey through the blistering paintings of San Francisco artist Dirty Donny Gillies. Take a vis...
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Pop Beckett
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£41.00| /When Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. Howev...
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Popular Art and the Avant-garde
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...
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Popular Arts of Mexico
Schiffer£54.99| /One hundred years worth of quality Mexican popular art, including pottery, clay figures, marionettes, straw mosaics, Talavera, clay banks, coconut ...
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Positive Creations
Schiffer£36.99| /The voice of a younger generation of visionary and psychedelic artists rings loud and clear in this compilation of Chris Dyer's works from 1979 to ...
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Potlatch People
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£20.99| /This title is complimentary to Hancock House's first Mildred Valley Thornton book released in 2000, Buffalo People: Portraits of a Vanishing Nation...
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Pottery of Acoma Pueblo
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£153.99| /The pottery of Acoma Pueblo stands at the height of ceramics among the Pueblo Indian pottery traditions. This exhaustively researched book traces t...
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Printed & Lace Handkerchiefs
Schiffer£27.99| /Collecting pretty handkerchiefs has become a wide-spread and popular hobby for many people. This entertaining and comprehensive identification and ...
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Pseudepigraphical Images in Early Art
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£16.99| /New investigations have demonstrated that a number of pseudepigrapha provided the textual basis for features in biblical representations in early a...
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Psychedelic Chic
Schiffer£36.99| /Brilliant colors, eye-popping designs, luxurious fabrics--all these and more characterize the unforgettable fashion trends of the late 1960s and ea...
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