Collection: Art History
This fascinating and diverse selection of second hand and vintage art history material provides valuable insights into the cultural, social, and historical contexts of art – demonstrating the transformative power of art, and its influence on society.
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The Good-tempered Pencil. A Survey of Modern British & American Humorous Art by Fougasse | Max Reinhardt, 1956
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Abstraction Création Art Non Figuratif 1933, Cahier no. 2 | Auguste Herbin
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Burning the Box of Beautiful Things by Alex Seago | Oxford University Press 1995
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Kinetic Art: The language of movement | Guy Brett | Studio Vista 1968
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Futurist Art and Theory by Marianne W. Martin | Clarendon Press, 1968
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Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist, James King | Edinburgh University 2016
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Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even | John Golding 1973
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Three Lectures on Modern Art | Katherine S. Drieier, James J. Sweeney, Naum Gabo | Philosophical Library, 1949
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The Sixties Art Scene in London by David Mellor | Barbican Art Gallery, 1993
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The Fauvist Painters by Georges Duthuit, 1950 | Paul Rand cover design & typography
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What Is Modern Painting? by Alfred H. Barr | The Museum of Modern Art, 1946
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War Pictures by British Artists. No. 2. Blitz | Oxford University Press, 1942
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The German Revolution. Expressionist Prints | The Hunterian, 2019
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Eduardo Paolozzi at new worlds. Science fiction and art in the sixties by David Brittain | Savoy Books, 2013
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Van Gogh: Le Suicidé de la Société | Artaud Antonin | K Editeur 1947
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Futurism: The Museum of Modern Art, New York | Joshua C. Taylor, 1961
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50 Jahre Bauhaus | Kunstgebäude am schlossplatz, Stuttgart 1968
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New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society | Margaret Garlake | Yale 1998
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The Home the Surrealists: Lee Miler, Roland Penrose and Their Circle at Farley Farm | Antony Penrose, 2001
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Nationalism and Classicism by Athena S. Leoussi | Macmillan Press / University of Reading, 1998
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Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel | Verso 1994
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Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970 | David Crowley and Jane Pavitt | V&A, 2008
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Cubism and Abstract Art The Museum of Modern Art, New York by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., The Spiral Press, 1936
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A Sampler of Castile by Roger Fry Leonard and Virginia Woolf | Hogarth Press, 1923
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A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 | Edited by Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier
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Module, Symmetry, Proportion by Gyorgy Kepes | Studio Vista, 1966
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Marcel Duchamp – à L'infinitif | The Typosophic Society, 1999 | Translated by Richard Hamilton
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A History of Visual Communication | Josef Müller-Brockman | 1986
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Roman Imperial Architecture by J. B. Ward-Perkins | Pelican History of Art, 1981
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Hidden Hands. A different history of Modernism | Frances Stonor Andrews | Channel 4, 1995
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Motif 6 – journal of the visual arts | Spring 1961 | Hans Unger, edited by Ruari McLean
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Ver Sacrum Vienna Secession art magazine - heft 7 1899 (Poor condition)
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Man | Oskar Schlemmer | A Bauhaus Book | Lund Humphries, 1971 first English ed
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