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 20th Century at the National Portrait Gallery | Introduction by Robin Gibson, NPG 1984
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Art in East and West by Benjamin Rowland | Harvard University Press, 1954
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Photography: Discovery and Invention | The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990
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Three Essays on The Painting of our Time by Adrian Stokes | Tavistock Publications, 1961
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The Absolute Bourgeois. Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark
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Topics of our time. Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art by E.H. Gombrich | Phaidon, 1994 third impression
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Art and Alienation. The role of the artist in society by Herbert Read | Thames & Hudson, 1967
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Every Man An Artist. Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art edited by Brian Keeble | World Wisdom, 2005
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Patterns of Intention. On the Historical Explanation of Pictures by Michael Baxandall | Yale University Press, 1985
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Towards another picture. An anthology of artists’ writings 1945 to 1977 edited by Andrew Brighton and Lynda Morris. Midland Group Nottingham, 1977.
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An Introduction to Iconography by Roelof van Straten | Taylor & Francis, 2007, revised English edition
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Icon and Idea. The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness by Herbert Read | Faber & Faber, 1955
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The Sympathy of Things. Ruskin and the Ecology of Design 2nd edition by Lars Spuybroek | Bloombsbury, 2016
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Progress in Art by Suzi Gablik | Thames & Hudson, 1976
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After Modern Art 1945-2000 by David Hopkins | Oxford University Press | 2000 hardback
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Our Cousin Lautrec by Mary Tapié de Céleyran | Kentfield, 1967 | Limited edition numbered 122/150
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English Influence on Norwegian & Swedish Figuresculpture in Wood | Aron Andersson
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The Hero As Printer | Edited by C.A. McLaren | Aberdeen University Library, 1976
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The Tragi-Comical History of B.R. Haydon's Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Gulf by Michael Pidgley | Exeter College of Art and Design, 1986
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Architecture and Cubism, edited by Eve Blau and Nancy J. Troy | MIT Press, 2002
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Style in Ornament by Joan Evans | Oxford University Press, 1950
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Cubism and its histories by David Cottington | Manchester University Press, 2004
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Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics by Ann Eden Gibson | Yale University Press, 1997
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Essays on Mexican Art by Octavio Paz | Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987
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