History of Art
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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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Silver Hollowware for Dining Elegance
Schiffer£36.99| /Spectacular centerpieces, tea services, and candelabras are among the gorgeous silver pieces shown in this new, beautifully illustrated book. These...
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Silver in Turkish Art
Blue Dome Press (US)£25.99| /Kuşoğlu is not only a celebrated academic who introduces the arts and culture of the Ottoman civilisation to the contemporary audience, but he is a...
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Silver Jewelry Treasures
Schiffer£15.99| /This is a treasury of silver jewelry from 20th century European, American Indian, Mexican, and modern designers. Hand-wrought, filigree, openwork, ...
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Situating Design in Alberta
University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainabil...
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Sketches & Measurings
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /Sketches & Measurings - Danish Architects in Greece 1818-1862
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Sonia
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /After Sonia Cornwall's father died in 1939, her mother inherited the Onward Ranch and a huge debt. To make the ranch viable, a twenty-year-old Soni...
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Sorel Etrog
Art Gallery of Ontario£26.99| /Etrog's work dots the urban landscape in Toronto and many other urban centres in Canada and shows an overriding concern for the human body's transf...
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Southeast Asian Textiles
Schiffer£36.99| /The exquisite diversity of textiles in this book will fascinate all who behold them! Southeast Asian textiles have long been recognized on the worl...
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Spanish New Mexico -- Two-Volume Set
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£61.99| /Founded in 1925 in Santa Fe, the Spanish Colonial Arts Society has become central to the collection and promotion of traditional Hispanic arts in N...
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Spark the Creative Flame
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£50.99| /This is a resource that strives to inform, inspire, and motivate all who work in craft and wish to improve the creative expression of their work. W...
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Spider Webb's Classic Tattoo Flash 1
Schiffer£22.99| /Innovative artist Spider Webb has brought the traditional art of tattooing into the modern age, elevating the primitive or folk art iconography int...
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Spider Webb's Classic Tattoo Flash 2
Schiffer£22.99| /Innovative artist Spider Webb has brought the traditional art of tattooing into the modern age, elevating the primitive or folk art iconography int...
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Spirit of Powwow
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£30.99| /Spirit of Powwow has evolved as we have talked with dancers and drummers until we feel we now have a powwow book that goes beyond the usual mere de...
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Spirit of Vitalism
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£78.99| /This anthology outlines a strong vitalistic movement in Denmark with considerably broader dimensions than has previously been recognised. The contr...
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Spoons from Around the World
Schiffer£54.99| /This all-new book is the latest work by two of the foremost authorities of historic silver and has evolved from their highly respected earlier book...
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Stars & Stripes
Schiffer£31.99| /Through 349 images, celebrate America in all her glory. Whether it’s a piece to hang on a wall, to be worn, or for marketing propaganda, see how si...
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Stephen Andrews POV
Goose Lane Editions£30.99| /The work of Stephen Andrews has long mediated the successive crises of the contemporary world, exploring conflict, social change, and identity. For...
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Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons
Schiffer£68.99| /This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare photographs. Stanley B. Burns, MD, has ...
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Stolen Beauty
Schiffer£13.99| /Stolen Beauty is the first adult coloring book with a mission: to inform the public about the problem of art theft while raising awareness of what ...
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Stories From My Life
Ariadne Press (US)£30.99| /The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....
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Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery
Schiffer£18.99| /Out of a long and rich tradition of pottery making among the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest there has grown a new and exciting form. In 1...
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Studio Rally
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /On the first weekend in October, Nova Scotia artists and artisans throw open their studio doors, and locals and tourists alike, Studio Rally maps i...
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