Robert Osborne
ISBN:9780789209924
The only official history of the Academy Awards and an indispensable addition to any movie buff's library. For the film industry, the Academy Awards is the most celebrated and most significant night of the year; everyone longs for the recognition of being nominated to win a little golden statuette. For most of us...
Format:Hardback Pages:439
USD $84.83
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
HIESINGER KATHRYN
ISBN:9780789201898
Continuing the popular and illuminating "Speak" series, this handsomely designed volume offers a user-friendly lexicon of the decorative arts. Understanding antiques requires knowledge of a specialized vocabulary that tells initiates what something is...
Format:Paperback Pages:224
USD $24.34
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
KHAN GABRIEL MANDEL
ISBN:9780789208798
This fascinating guide to the Arabic alphabet and writing styles also offers an ample and thorough overview of a culture and a civilization. "With its hundreds of illustrations ranging over many centuries...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:180
USD $28.24
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
OLSEN CHRISTINA
ISBN:9780789200167
Rich in color and in symbols of the occult, images from nineteen tarot decks from the earliest Renaissance artworks to todays postmodern packs trace the evolution of tarot. Originally used by aristocrats in complex games resembling bridge...
Format:Paperback
USD $24.34
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Robert Atkins
ISBN:9780789203656
AThis indispensable little volume demystifies postwar art. "ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords provides a valuable and illuminating lexicon of artistic genres...
Format:Paperback Pages:208
USD $22.39
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Robert Atkins
ISBN:9781558593886
This successor to the phenomenally popular Artspeak: A Guide To Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords chronicles international art from realism through surrealism. An invaluable guide through the intricacies of the first century of modern art...
Format:Paperback Pages:224
USD $22.39
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Made Wijaya
ISBN:9780789204677
An insider's look at the exotic, decorative lifestyle of the "island of the gods." "They say there are more temples than homes on Bali, and if this inviting book is any guide...
Format:Hardcover Pages:216
USD $58.49
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
WILKIE ANGUS
ISBN:9780789209054
In large format and sumptuous color, this volume surveys a nineteenth century European style that has become the rage in contemporary interior decorating. After many years of undeserved neglect...
Format:Hardback Pages:216
USD $87.80
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Jonathan Singer
ISBN:9780789210340
Botanica Magnifica features two hundred and fifty stunning photographs by Hasselblad Laureate Award winner Jonathan Singer, representingin the words of an ARTnews criticrare or exotic plants and flowers in large scale and exquisite detail...
Format:Hardcover Pages:356
USD $341.46
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
John T Spike
ISBN:9780789210593
Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than 20 years of research by a leading authority on the artist. In an engaging and informed text...
Format:Hardback Pages:280
USD $107.27
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Neil Folberg
ISBN:9780789209542
This new collection of compelling night photography contrasts the arid landscape of Israel and the Sinai Desert against the awesome and eternal spectacle of the night sky. "The deserts of Israel...
Format:Hardback Pages:59
USD $87.80
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Guang Guo;Ming Tan
ISBN:9780789210173
Stunning portraits of 44 of the most representative natural and cultural attractions in China, including 28 notable World Heritage Sites A luxuriously packaged photographic tour of Chinas most spectacular natural scenery and architectural landmarks...
Format:Hardcover Pages:244
USD $112.15
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
R L Wilson
ISBN:9780896600119
A must-have for every collector and enthusiast, this official history of Colt firearms illustrates and describes every model in every variation...
Format:Hardcover Pages:416
USD $44.83
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
LE MEN SEGOLENE
ISBN:9780789209771
An insightful new survey of the wide-ranging body of work of the most important French realist painter. When Gustave Courbet (18191877) began his career in the late 1840s...
Format:Hardback Pages:400
USD $152.14
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Gayle Byrne
ISBN:9780789210289
Written from a childs point of view, this touching picture book centers around a nontraditional family of grandparents raising their grandchild...
Format:Hardcover Pages:32
USD $18.49
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
KAUFMANN E
ISBN:9780896596627
Considered Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic masterpiece, Fallingwater is recognized worldwide as the paradigm of organic architecture. Here, in beautiful photographs...
Format:Hardback
USD $117.07
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
William Howard Adams
ISBN:9780896599192
The gardens of the world's great civilizations are revealed through sumptuous color plates and a fascinating text. With its sumptuous color plates...
Format:Hardcover Pages:356
USD $146.34
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Matteo Bacchin
ISBN:9780789210128
The third and fourth volumes in a series of six comic-book adventures that bring the dinosaurs back to life. In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series...
Format:Hardback Pages:61
USD $19.46
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Alev Lytle Croutier
ISBN:9781558591592
A fascinating history of harems from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. "I was born in an old house... that was once the harem of a pasha. During my childhood slaves and odalisques lived there with us." So begins the history of one of the strangest institutions any culture has ever developed. Drawing on first-hand accounts and memoirs...
Format:Paperback Pages:224
USD $48.73
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
CARMELO BETRO MARIO
ISBN:9780789202321
A complete handbook revealing the secrets of the hieroglyphic writing of the Nile Valley, which provides a still-vivid snapshot of the gods, the people...
Format:Hardcover Pages:251
USD $34.10
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
GOLDEN MANINE ROSA
ISBN:9780789203465
Whether you have five minutes or several days, this book has just the right recipe or technique for pampering yourself from head to toe. Healthy...
Format:Hardcover Pages:84
USD $16.54
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Matteo Bacchin
ISBN:9780789210111
The third volume in a series of six comic-book adventures that bring the dinosaurs back to life. In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamed up to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form...
Format:Hardback Pages:61
USD $19.46
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Marco Signore;Matteo Bacchin MatteoBacchin
ISBN:9780789209788
In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamed up to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form. Each volume in the series tells the action-packed yet scientifically accurate story of a different dinosaur living in its particular time and place. At the back of each volume...
Format:Hardcover Pages:61
USD $19.46
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Marco Signore;Matteo Bacchin MatteoBacchin
ISBN:9780789209795
In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamed up to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form. Each volume in the series tells the action-packed yet scientifically accurate story of a different dinosaur living in its particular time and place. At the back of each volume...
Format:Hardcover Pages:61
USD $18.49
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Nils Buttner
ISBN:9780789209023
Since Antiquity, painters have sought to portray the glories of nature, and many of their pictures have become the best-known masterpieces in the history of art. In this sweeping treasury of Western art...
Format:Hardcover Pages:416
USD $158.00
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
BACHMANN HANS-GERT
ISBN:9780789209009
The dazzliningly illustrated story of how the world's most beautiful element has influenced the art, economy, and society of every civilization. When Hesiod...
Format:Hardcover Pages:279
USD $87.76
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
UNKNOWN
ISBN:9780896591554
These paintings and prints by the American artist are among the finest examples of Impressionism. Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as some of the finest examples of Impressionist art. A rebel by the Victorian standards of her time...
Format:Paperback Pages:160
USD $22.39
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Hans F Nohbauer;Achim Noehbauer Hans FBunz
ISBN:9781558598652
The splendour and richness of the art and architecture of the Bavarian capital are captured in this volume. Breathtaking photographs and details provide a tour through the rich sites of this legendary city. Tracing Munich's history from the 12th century through the present...
Format:Hardcover Pages:348
USD $213.61
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Anne Distel
ISBN:9780789210579
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) stands out among the great artists for his willingness to paint pictures that are straightforwardly pretty and charming: he chooses familiar and sympathetic human types as his subjects...
Format:Hardback Pages:400
USD $152.14
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
SWANK SCOTT T
ISBN:9780789203588
In this pioneering study, historian Scott T. Swank reveals the links between the daily life of the Shakers in their planned religious communities and their art and architecture. As the Director of Canterbury Shaker Village...
Format:Hardback
USD $160.97
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
BOUCHET PHILIPPE
ISBN:9780789209894
A beautifully illustrated survey of the artistry and variety of shells, by an internationally renowned expert. More than just an appreciation of shells...
Format:Hardcover Pages:168
USD $50.68
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Dimitri Shvidkovsky
ISBN:9780789202178
Lavishly illustrated and elegantly written, this volume takes us on an architectural tour of one of the world's most beautiful and enchanting cities. Before becoming a city...
Format:Hardcover Pages:360
USD $107.27
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Ira Resnick
ISBN:9780789210197
For four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of Resnicks collection...
Format:Hardback Pages:280
USD $73.12
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
CARDO HORACIO
ISBN:9780789202505
Two nations were at war over a great island for years, and both sides lost many people before a truce was signed. The kings of these nations decided to reward the person who could devise the greatest memorial to the fallen so that the war would never be repeated. After a steady stream of inventors...
Format:Hardcover Pages:45
USD $36.05
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Amina Okada;M C Nou Jean LouisJoshi
ISBN:9781558596177
A sumptuously illustrated portrait of perhaps the most fascinating architectural marvel of all time. Built between 1632 and 1643 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in honor of his deceased wife Mumtaz Mahal...
Format:Hardcover Pages:242
USD $84.83
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Christine Barbaste;Mathias Delmas Franois-XavierMinet
ISBN:9780789209887
A tasteful guide that explores the pleasures of tea through word and image. In a skinny-no-whip-mocha-latte world, The Tea Drinkers Handbook is a refreshing return to Americas roots in tea-drinking. Though tea is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world...
Format:Hardback Pages:239
USD $34.10
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Harry Tomlinson;Elvin McDonald
ISBN:9781558591189
Presenting a unique blend of information and ideas, The Complete Book of Bonsai is the most lavish and up-to-date guide to the subject yet published. Harry Tomlinson is an internationally recognized authority on bonsai...
Format:Hardcover Pages:224
USD $50.68
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Eliane Strosberg
ISBN:9780789210548
In the twentieth century, the avant-garde movements promoted abstraction and formal experimentation in the visual arts, often dispensing with the human form altogether. Yet many artists of Jewish descent resisted this trend and continued to depict the human figure with sympathy and understanding. Few of them portrayed overtly Jewish themes...
Format:Hardcover Pages:211
USD $50.68
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Sandi Fellman;D M Thomas
ISBN:9780896597983
The definitive book on a fascinating art form, whose popularity continues to increase. A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos...
Format:Paperback Pages:112
USD $31.17
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Claude Mignot
ISBN:9780789205780
With more than 500 illustrations and numerous gallery floor plans, this invaluable guide is a mini-museum between two covers, offering visitors all they need to make the most of their visit to the world's largest art museum. -- WINNER of the New York Book Show Award Encyclopedic in its scope and exhausting in its magnitude...
Format:Paperback Pages:539
USD $22.39
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Thomas L Kelly;Ian A Dunham CarrollBaker
ISBN:9781558592186
With a foreword by the Dalai Lama, this remarkable volume presents an intimate, Family of Man-like portrait of Tibet and its people. According to Tibetan belief...
Format:Hardcover Pages:203
USD $70.19
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Sonja Bullaty
ISBN:9781558598959
The incomparable region of Tuscany and beyond, where the beauty of nature rivals the wealth of art, by the photographers of the much heralded Provence. For three decades these photographers have been drawn to Tuscany and its surrounding areas endeavoring to capture the special light...
Format:Hardcover Pages:180
USD $64.34
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
BULLATY SONJA & LOMEO ANGELO
ISBN:9780789201669
In awesome photographs that reviewers have said look like paintings, Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo have captured the enchantment of Venice and the allure of the nearby area...
Format:Hardcover Pages:180
USD $96.58
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Peter Braun
ISBN:9780789210395
Each year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited edition watches, and new producers...
Format:Paperback Pages:432
USD $39.95
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Ami Rubinger
ISBN:9780789210296
An interactive book about cats of all sizes, shapes and dispositions, Big Cat, Small Cat introduces children to rhyming and opposites in a fun and engaging way. Big Cat...
Format:Hardback
USD $16.54
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Tsuneko S Sadao
ISBN:9780789210357
This handy reference book is perfect for anyone interested in Japanese art, whether they be art history students and enthusiasts or tourists visiting Japan. A comprehensive overview of the major trends in art throughout the history of Japan...
Format:Paperback Pages:283
USD $34.10
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Georges Duby
ISBN:9780789210463
Paris is a moveable feast, Ernest Hemingway once proclaimed. The city of lights, or the city of love, Paris is indeed a feast for the senses...
Format:Hardback Pages:496
USD $317.07
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Clive Limpkin
ISBN:9780789209948
Author-photographer Clive Limpkin traveled extensively throughout India to capture this vast and populous nation. The photographic legacy of his journeys is impressively far-reaching...
Format:Hardcover Pages:216
USD $35.07
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting
Susan Fisher Sterling
ISBN:9780789210531
These palm-sized books capture all the beauty of Abbeville's art books in an irresistible tiny format. They are the perfect gift for anyone charmed by good things that come in small packages! The Tiny Folio series includes books on fine art...
Format:Hardback Pages:320
USD $13.61
Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permittingPages: 1
 |
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
