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The Artists of the World: Biographical Index By Profession - Volume 3 Goldsmith (Croatia) - Graphic Artist (Great Britain)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: Munich, K. G. Saur: 2002

Seller ID: 006584

ISBN: 3598247079

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal wear. Very clean. HEAVY VOLUME - ADDITIONAL POSTAGE PAYABLE BY OVERSEAS BUYERS. 946pp
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The Mission of Art

By: Alex Grey and Ken Wilber (Foreword)

Price: $10.00 AUD

Publisher: Boston, USA, Shambhala: 1999

Seller ID: 022174

ISBN: 157062545X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Light general wear to covers. There is a crease to spine but it remains square. Internally pristine. Binding good. 255pp This book combines extensive knowledge of art history with phases of human consciousness evolution and shares firsthand experiences in creating art at the boundaries of madness and mysticism. Grey examines the roles of conscience and intention in the creative process, including practical techniques and exercises useful in exploring the spiritual dimensions of art. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Mission of Art will be appreciated by everyone who has ever contemplate...
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Early Christian Art: From the Rise of Christianity to the Death of Theodosius

By: Andre Grabar

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: New York, Odyssey Press: 1968

Seller ID: 011464

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Clipped jacket has heavy wear with chipping and loss of laminate at head of spine and adjacent area. Light wear to cloth. Moderate foxing to edges of page-block. Light foxing to maps at rear. Former owner's label to ffep - otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 326pp
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La Mtamorphose des Dieux: Le Surnaturel

By: Andre Malraux

Price: $35.00 AUD

Publisher: France, Gallimard: 1977

Seller ID: 022077

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket has moderate general wear plus a couple of taped tears to top front. Ink stamp 'PERSONNEL' to half-title and title pages. Some abrasions to rear pastedown and rear fep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. French text. 386pp
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Drawing: Forms, Techniques, Meanings

By: Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino and Gianni Carlo Sciolla

Price: $25.00 AUD

Publisher: Italy, Istituto Bancario San Paolo Di Torino: 1991

Seller ID: 019476

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Moderate general wear to cloth. Light foxing to edges of page-block. Light foxing to pastedowns and feps. Otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 251pp
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Art & Artists of South Africa: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Historical Survey of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists Since 1875

By: Berman, Esme

Price: $40.00 AUD

Publisher: Cape Town, Balkema: 1970

Seller ID: 013277

Binding: Hard Cover - Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Jacket has moderate general wear and a few tiny nicks. Tape marks to flaps. No real tears. Leather to spine extending 4cm on to boards. Light foxing to edges of page-block. Tape stains to pastedowns and feps - otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. Signed by author and numbered 90 of 200 copies. 368pp
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Civic Actions: Artists' Practices Beyond The Museum

By: Blair French and Danne Loxley

Price: $40.00 AUD

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art: 2017

Seller ID: 023606

ISBN: 1921034831

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 231pp
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Velazquez: The Technique of Genius

By: Brown, Professor Jonathan; Garrido, Carmen

Price: $100.00 AUD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 023228

ISBN: 0300072937

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 215pp
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The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Callen, Anthea

Price: $40.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Reaktion Books: 2015

Seller ID: 022821

ISBN: 1780233558

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal wear to jacket no tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. Inscribed by author to former owner on title-page. 335pp
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Framing Art: Introducing Theory and the Visual Image

By: Carter, Michael

Price: $10.00 AUD

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Hale & Iremonger: 1993

Seller ID: 022318

ISBN: 086806355X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Covers have light general wear. Crease to spine. Light foxing to edges of page-block. Name to half-title page otherwise internally clean. Binding good. 211pp
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Peasant Art in Austria and Hungary

By: Charles Holme (editor)

Price: $55.00 AUD

Publisher: London, The Studio: 1911

Seller ID: 019106

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Good

Moderate general wear to cloth and leather plus a ding and small tear to top front corner. Cloth in decorative folk art bird and tree pattern. Green leather with horizontal ridges to the spine. So, rebound. There is a minor water stain to the top corner of the front patedown (associated with the ding and tear) plus a similr mark to the facing ffep. A small code number to bottom of ffep. Otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 30pp plus 815 plates
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Drawing the Female Nude

By: Civardi, Giovanni

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Studio Vista: 1996

Seller ID: 016707

ISBN: 0289800900

Binding: Soft Cover with French Flaps

Condition: Good

Covers have light general wear. Spine not creased. Front flap clipped. Internally clean.156pp
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Imperial Landscapes: Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820

By: Crowley, John E.

Price: $70.00 AUD

Publisher: New Haven, Connectict, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: 2011

Seller ID: 023224

ISBN: 0300170505

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal wear to jacket. No tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. 320pp In response to conquests in mid-18th-century wars, Britons developed a keen interest in how their colonies actually looked. Artistic representations of these faraway places, claiming topographic accuracy from being "drawn on the spot," became increasingly frequent as the British Empire extended its reach during and after the Seven Years War. This is the first book to examine the country's early imperial landscape art from a broad comparative perspective. Chapters on the West Indies, Canada, the United States, the...
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Wall Painting in Roman Britain

By: Davey, Norman; Ling, Roger

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: England, Alan Sutton: 1982

Seller ID: 014770

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Covers have moderate to heavy general wear. Also some moderate stains. A few pale stains to top edge of page-block adjacent to spine. Internally very clean. Binding sound. A sheet of transparenicies in rear pocket. 231pp
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Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain 1650-1930

By: David Beevers (Editor)

Price: $50.00 AUD

Publisher: Brighton, England, Royal Pavilion & Museums: 2008

Seller ID: 023276

ISBN: 0948723718

Binding: Soft Cover with French Flaps

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally like new. 143pp
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Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney

By: David Malouf et al

Price: $18.00 AUD

Publisher: Melbourne, The MIegunyah Press: 2010

Seller ID: 015378

Binding: Soft Cover with French Flaps

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 175pp
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Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980

By: Dawn Ades

Price: $45.00 AUD

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 022792

ISBN: 0300045565

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. Attractive bookplate to ffep, otherwise internally clean. Binding good. 361pp
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Codex Leicester - Notebook of a Genius

By: Desmond, Michael;Pedretti, Carlo

Price: $45.00 AUD

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Powerhouse Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 022001

ISBN: 1863170812

Binding: Soft Cover with French Flaps

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 168pp
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Securing the Past: Conservation In Art, Architecture And Literature

By: Eggert, Paul

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: England, Cambridge University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 023312

ISBN: 0521725917

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 290pp
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Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland

By: Elizabeth Cumming

Price: $50.00 AUD

Publisher: Edinburgh, Birlinn: 2007

Seller ID: 022878

ISBN: 1841586102

Binding: Soft Cover with French Flaps

Condition: Very Good

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. A small pencil impression and eraser rubbing to top corner of half-title page, otherwise internally clean. 240pp
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James Fletcher-Watson's Watercolour Secrets

By: Fletcher-Watson, James

Price: $60.00 AUD

Publisher: England, Batsford: 2002

Seller ID: 023406

ISBN: 0713487577

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket has light generl wear and no tears. Internally very clean. Binding tight. 128pp
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An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists

By: Fritz Schider

Price: $10.00 AUD

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: 1957

Seller ID: 002805

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket has heavy wear, tears and some losses. Previous owner's name of front pastedown. Pages have even age-toning. 189 plates.
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Arte Sarda

By: g. V. Arata and G. Biasi

Price: $35.00 AUD

Publisher: Milan, S. A. Fratelli Treves Editori: 1935

Seller ID: 016633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Cloth has moderate general wear plus a few small stains. Some foxing to feps plus very feint foxing to some page margins. Partially erased name and date to title-page. There is some slackness to spine and hinges have tape repairs. All pages secure. Unpaginated 16 colour plates and 374 black and white plates.
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The Orient in Western Art

By: Gerard-Georges Lemaires

Price: $25.00 AUD

Publisher: Cologne, Konemann: 2001

Seller ID: 021124

ISBN: 3895088927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. 360pp HEAVY BOOK - NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING (except NZ).
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Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

By: Gloria Groom

Price: $60.00 AUD

Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago in Association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Musee D'Orsay, Paris: 2012

Seller ID: 022552

ISBN: 0300184514

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket has minimal wear and no tears. Protected in Mylar cover (not taped to jacket or book). Book very clean. Binding tight. 335pp SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CHARGE
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Sign, Image and Symbol

By: Gyorgy Kepes (Editor)

Price: $10.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Studio Vista: 1966

Seller ID: 009309

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unclipped jacket has moderate general wear, chipping to top edge, a 3cm tear (repaired with acid-free tape) and some creasing. Moderate wear to cloth. Age-toning to edges of page block. Moderate foxing to endpapers and pastedowns - otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 282pp
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Classified Directory of Artists' Signatures, Symbols and Monograms

By: H. H. Caplan

Price: $50.00 AUD

Publisher: London, George Prior Publishers: 1976

Seller ID: 019639

ISBN: 0860430049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

All the usual library additions and remnants. Hinges split but page-block secure. VERY HEAVY VOLUME. NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. 738pp
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Design Focus

By: Hal Missingham

Price: $22.00 AUD

Publisher: Melbourne, Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia: 1978

Seller ID: 020430

ISBN: 0442250231

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear to jacket. No tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. Design ideas for architects, painters, sculptors, weavers, fabric designers, print makers, silversmiths and jewellers. 224pp
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Looking at South African Art: A Guide to the Study and Appreciation of Art

By: Harmsen, Frieda;Kempff, Katinka;De Jager, J.

Price: $25.00 AUD

Publisher: Pretoria, South Africa, J.L. van Schaik: 1985

Seller ID: 012231

ISBN: 0627014119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket has moderate general wear, minor chipping and is age-toned. Moderate foxing to edges of page-block. Former owner's name to ffep and small spot of foxing to title-page - otherwise internally clen. Binding tight. 341pp
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

By: Harris, Alexandra

Price: $25.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 2010

Seller ID: 022813

ISBN: 0500251711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book and jacket very clean. Binding tight. 320pp Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties.
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Painting Australian Landscapes

By: Hays, Jim

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Bay Books: 1994

Seller ID: 018297

ISBN: 1863781358

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 96pp
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $30.00 AUD

Publisher: United Kingdom, Harvill Press: 1997

Seller ID: 018007

ISBN: 186046372X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unclipped jacket has light wear and no tears. Two small spots to top edge of page-block. A couple of pages have very minor abrasions where pages have stuck. Otherwise internally clean. Former owner's name and date to half-title page. Signed by Robert Hughes to same page. Binding tight. 635pp
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $35.00 AUD

Publisher: United Kingdom, Harvill Press: 1997

Seller ID: 018818

ISBN: 186046372X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Minimal foxing to feps. Top tip of ffep and half-title page clipped. Otherwise internally clean. Signed by Robert Hughes to half-title page. Binding tight. 635pp
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Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts

By: Isabelle Anscombe

Price: $18.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson: 1981

Seller ID: 018355

ISBN: 0500233373

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket has moderate wear plus a 2mm nick to front flap. Light wear to cloth. Book clean. Binding tight.176pp
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The Shorter Dictionary of Artists' Signatures : Including Monograms and Symbols

By: Jackson, Radway

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: London, W. Foulsham & Co.: 1980

Seller ID: 014138

ISBN: 0572008988

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket is heavily sunned. No tears. Minor age-tonng to edges of page-block. Internally clean. Binding tight. 224pp
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In the Russian Style

By: Jacqueline Onassis

Price: $12.00 AUD

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd.: 1977

Seller ID: 021202

ISBN: 0500232660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket has moderate general wear plus a small taped repair adjacent to head of spine. Some foxing to edges of page-block. Internally clean. Binding tight. 184pp
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The Impact of Modern Paints

By: Jo Crook; Tom Learner

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: Tate Gallery Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 018909

ISBN: 1854372874

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 192pp
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The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

By: Kanan Makiya

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: London, I.B.Tauris: 2004

Seller ID: 019042

ISBN: 1860649661

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. A small area of eraser rubbing to top corner of half-title page. Otherwise internally clean. 153pp
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C.F.A. Voysey: Arts & Crafts Designer

By: Karen Livingstone

Price: $40.00 AUD

Publisher: London, V & A Publishing: 2016

Seller ID: 020550

ISBN: 1851778543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book and jacket very clean. Binding tight. 320pp
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The Goldsmith of Florence: A Book of Great Craftmen

By: Katherine Gibson

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1929

Seller ID: 008013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Re-bound in libary boards which have heavy wear. The usual library additions and remnants. Age-toning to edges of page block. Minor marks to prelimininaries and a couple single pen marks to margin of a couple of pages only. Page 114 printed upside down and repair to pages 207/208. Text and plates clean. Binding tight. A reading copy. 209pp
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D H Lawrence's Paintings

By: Keith Sagar (Introduction)

Price: $20.00 AUD

Publisher: London, Chaucer Press: 2003

Seller ID: 019193

ISBN: 1904449174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Protected in mylar cover (Not taped). A small area of eraser rubbing to top corner of half-title page, otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 160pp
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Ascent: Frances Hodgkins Commemorative Issue

By: Leo Bensemann and Barbara Brooke

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: Christchurch, New Zealand, The Caxton Press: 1969

Seller ID: 006337

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair to Good

Covers have moderate general wear. Spine not creased. Some insect damage to edge of rear cover. Small label mark to top front corner of cover. Internally clean. 76pp
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Capturing the Australian Light in Watercolour

By: MacNaughton, Jenny

Price: $15.00 AUD

Publisher: Chatswood, New South Wales, Australian Artist Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 023254

ISBN: 064620243X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Covers have light general wear. Spine not creased. There is an area of clean rippling approximately 6cm x 6cm max to bottom margin of front cover and pages. Inscription by author to title-page. 72pp
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