Collection: Art Theory and Education
This diverse range of vintage and rare books explores creative processes, and the role of art in society. Written by experts in their field, they inspire educators and artists, offering new perspectives that can enrich teaching methods, and foster innovation in artistic practice.
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L'Art de Peindre Les Fleurs Natures Mortes a L'Aquarelle by G. Fraipont Laurens | Undated
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Fitting Design Into Hard Business by G.W. Ovink | Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1961 inscribed. Designed by John Lewis
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The Artist and the Writer in France | Essays in honour of John Seznec | Francis Haskell, Anthony Levi and Robert Shackleton | Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974
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Creating in Collage, Natalie d'Arbeloff & Jack Yates | Studio Vista hardback, 1967
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Information History in the Modern World | Edited by Toni Weller | Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Modern Illustration Processes by Charles W. Gamble | Pitman Press, 1948
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The Development & Classification of Type Design Originally compiled by R.E. O’Brien revised by H. Foster | Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Technology School of Art and Design Graphics and Print Production Section, undated
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Seeing from Above The aerial view in visual culture | Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin | I.B. Tauris, London/New York, 2013
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Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise by Charles D. Maginnis | Third edition 1901
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Formulas For Artists by Robert Massey | Watson-Guptill / B.T. Batsford, 1968
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The Practice of Painting by F. Schmid | Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1948
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The Tyranny of Taste. The Politics of Architecture | Jules Lubbock | Paul Mellon Centre for British Art by Yale University Press, 1995
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Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research | Edited by Steve Garner
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Figure Drawing and Composition by Richard G. Hatton | Chapman and Hall, 1900
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Topics: Developments in Dutch Museum Policy | Instituut Collectie Nederland, 2001
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What's wrong in Hazard House public information poster RoSPA accident prevention Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents, undated presumably 1940/50s
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Nationale. 6me cahier. Nouvelle méthode d’écriture | calligraphy text book | Marshall Foch on cover
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Aspects of Form. A Symposium on Form in Nature and Art edited by Lancelot Law Whyte. Preface by Herbert Read to accompany the exhibition Growth and Form at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) | Lund Humphries, 1951
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Creative Painting from Photographs by Rudy de Reyna | Paperback, Watson Guptill, 1986
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Fold-out poster for Basic Typography 1990. York College of Arts and Technology BTEC Graphic Design
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Cubist Aesthetic Theories by Christopher Gray | Johns Hopkins | 1967 4th Edition
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L'Art de Peindre Les Figures | Animaux L'Aquarelle by G. Fraipont | H. Laurens
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Learning to Draw. Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art by Ann Bermingham | Yale University Press, 2000
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Areopagitica by John Milton | Typography Dept, Maidstone School of Art, 1944
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Beyond The Dovetail. Craft, Skill and Imagination | edited by Christopher Frayling | Crafts Council, 1991
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La Science des Couleurs et l’Art du Peintre by Maurice Boigey 1923
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Symbolist aesthetics and early abstract art. Sites of imaginary space by Dee Reynolds | Cambridge Studies in French 51 | Cambridge University Press, 1995
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From Science to Systems of Art by Patricia Railing | Artists Bookworks 1989
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Cambridge Opinion magazine | No. 7, March 1958 | Edited by Robin McLaren
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Cambridge Opinion magazine | No. 52, 'Revolution' | Edited by Peter Kellner, 1968
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Cambridge Opinion magazine | No. 48 Attitudes to Science | Edited by Rupert Sheldrake
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Cambridge Opinion magazine No 21 | France 1945-1960
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Cambridge Opinion magazine | No. 9, June 1958 | Edited by D.H.V. Brogan
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Cambridge Opinion magazine | No. 8, April 1958 nuclear arguments / disarmament | Edited by John Landell-Mills and David Leitch
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Human Anatomy for Art Students by Sir Alfred Fripp and Ralph Thompson 1911
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Painting With A Policy | Associated Lead Manufacturers Limited trade brochure | undated, presumably late 1940s-early 1950s
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