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Aboriginal Art by MORPHY HOWARD
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: very good
Aboriginal art has survived the colonial period to become a major feature of contemporary Australian society. This book surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, from ancient rock paintings to powerful modern works in acrylic on canvas. The patterns and symbols of Aboriginal art, though they may at f ...Show more
Art Nouveau by Stephen Escritt; Anne Bechard-Leaute (Translator); Susanne Bosch-Abele (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Art and Ideas Ser.
A study of Europe and America's boldest and most fashionable style.
Art Skills by Fiona Watt
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas Ser.
Perfect for young artists, this book is packed with ideas for painting, drawing, printing and making collages. Young artists can develop their skills by following the simple step-by-step instructions to complete the inspiring projects. New edition of hardcover spiral bound edition 9780746098257. Perfect ...Show more
Baroque & Rococo by Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
This new title in the highly regarded Art & Ideas series presents a thorough introduction to the Baroque and Rococo styles. Encompassing architecture, interior design, furniture, ceramics, garden landscaping and theatrical spectaculars, as well as the masterpieces of this prolific period in the Fine ...Show more
Bosch by Laurinda Dixon; Hoop Design Staff (Designed by)
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Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Lit ...Show more
Cezanne by Mary Tompkins Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
With his distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures and still-lifes, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) profoundly influenced the Cubists and the direction of 20th-century art. This account of his life and work traces his full career from his early years in Aix-en-Provence, through his time in Paris studying th ...Show more
Christmas Art Ideas by Fiona Watt
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
A bumper book packed full of creative gluey, glittery and paint-spattered ideas for the Christmas season. Design wrapping paper with fingerprinted snowmen, make a flying reindeer picture or create sparkly baubles for the tree and lots, lots more. Each doodling, painting, printing or sticking activity co ...Show more
Christmas (Drawing, Doodling & Colouring) by Fiona Watt
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
There's lots to draw, doodle and colour in this creative book filled with wonderful Christmas scenes, from jolly pictures to colour in to doodle-starters from which drawings can grow and grow and grow until they cover the whole page.
Courbet by James Henry Rubin
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
Amid the background of social turbulence in the mid-nineteenth century, Gustave Courbet's unconventional paintings of real people in everyday scenes came to embody values with radical political implications. James Rubin addresses the entire range of Courbet's work: from his hunting scenes and spirited l ...Show more
Cubism by Neil Cox
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: good
This is an introduction to cubism, the movement often seen as the single most important development in the history of 20th-century art. The book offers an account of the origins of the style in the dialogue between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso between 1907 and 1914. It traces cubism's evolution in t ...Show more
Dali by Robert Radford
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas Series
One of the best-known and most visually influential artists of the 20th century, Salvadore Dali achieved fame on an international scale as both painter and celebrity. Bridging the gap between high art and popular culture, he created in his Surrealist works a startling imagery that moved freely into the ...Show more
David by Simon Lee
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the most important European artist in a period of extraordinary upheaval. A participant in the French Revolution, he then witnessed the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A revolutionary in both art and life, David took painting away from the frivolity of the Rococo ...Show more