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  • How to Read Paintings

    Western art explored through a close-reading of painted masterpieces

    by Christopher P Jones ...
    Series series Looking at Art
    How to Read Paintings explores some of the finest paintings from the world of art history.Have you ever come across a painting from art history and wondered what it was about? Do you wish you knew what to look for so you could understand it better?How to Read Paintings explores the fascinating meaning behind a range of famous paintings, including masterworks by Vermeer and Cézanne. You will learn ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Paintings Explained

    Learn to read paintings through some of art's most famous works

    by Christopher P Jones ...
    Series Book 2 - Looking at Art
    Imagine walking into an art gallery and looking at a painting. What does it mean? What is it trying to say? This book will help you answer these questions.From paintings by Botticelli to Van Gogh, Great Paintings Explained explores what the pictures actually show by delving into the myths, symbolism and stories behind fifteen different works of art.Artworks include:The Night Café by Vincent van ... Read more

    $5.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Great Artworks Say

    How to interpret masterpieces of art

    by Christopher P Jones ...
    Series Book 3 - Looking at Art
    What Great Artworks Say uncovers the hidden messages and subtle details of some of the world's most famous works of art.Do you look at artworks and wish you knew more about them? This illustrated book is a must-read for art lovers, providing insights into the history and meaning of individual works of art, as well as how you can best appreciate them.Featuring works by renowned artists such as ... Read more

    $6.13 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Masterpieces of Art Explained

    Discover famous artworks and their finer details

    by Christopher P Jones ...
    Series Book 4 - Looking at Art
    Masterpieces of Art Explained highlights the key aspects and creative ideas behind inspirational artworks.Do you enjoy learning about different types of art? This book reveals the key features depicted within popular paintings and sculptures, finding hidden details beyond first glances and how they convey their meaning.From works by Caravaggio to Vermeer, discover the objects that have changed art ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

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  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of Western Art

    by Peter Whitfield ...
    What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities in eras utterly remote from our own? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece to the revolutionary years of the 19th and 20th ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • A Brief History of Painting

    2000 BC to AD2000

    by Roy Bolton ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    The urge to create pictures of our world has been with us ever since early man daubed a fingerful of pigment on a rock, or used primitive colours to create exquisite images of the beasts he hunted - images so breathtakingly powerful they have never been surpassed, however sophisticated we have become. This book tells the story of what painting has meant to us, and how its role has changed over the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile

    by Martin Kemp ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsArt has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern

    by Carol Strickland ...
    Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern* This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated.This second ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Third Tower

    Journeys in Italy

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Johannes Vermeer (Delphi Classics)

    by Johannes Vermeer, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 2 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer specialised in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life in his home city of Delft. The artist’s reputation fell into obscurity after his death and it was not until the 19th century that his work was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD