art
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
- Add to basket
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
- Add to basket
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Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
- Add to basket
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Christian Art
- £25.00
- Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mch figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is…
- Add to basket
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Drawing Masterclass: 100 Creative Techniques of Great Artists
- £14.00
- Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows you how to weave some of this magic into your own drawings. Drawing Masterclass analyses some of the most fascinating drawings by some of the best artists the world has ever known: the way they were made, what…
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England’s Constable (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Folio Society publication of Joseph Darracott's Life and Letters of John Constable (in ful colour)
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Faces of Christ: Jesus in Art
- £10.00
- Jesus is one of the most often portrayed figures of all time. But what do all of his faces - in art from different ages and around the world - tell us about him? In this beautiful book images of Jesus are used to explore his life and legacy, including…
- Add to basket
-
G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
- Add to basket
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
- £12.00
- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
- Add to basket
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Inside Australia
- £30.00
- Antony Gormley Inside Australia showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative process in detail, while commentaries explain its different stages and place the work…
- Add to basket
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
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Looking at Art (with your eyes closed)
- £15.00
- LOOKING AT ART (WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next…
- Add to basket
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Olafur Eliasson (Tate Modern Artists)
- £12.00
- Ever since he made his debut on the international scene in the early 1990s, the originality of Olafur Eliasson's visual language has been clear. Viewers play a major role in his art, and each work is made in relation to them. Drawing on a wealth of references ranging from nature…
- Add to basket
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Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
- Add to basket
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Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (vols I & II SIGNED)
- £800.00
- William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Popular when first published, it illuminates the search for authenticity of treatment and depth of meaning in his own work and that of Millais, Rossetti and their…
- Add to basket
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Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art)
- £12.00
- An erudite and superbly illustrated survey of a continuingly vital part of contemporary art. Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book Ð the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject Ð demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American…
- Add to basket
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- £40.00
- How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings…
- Add to basket
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Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
- Add to basket
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Sacred & Secular: A companion
- £8.00
- A collection of over 440 readings grouped under weekly themes, aimed to give a new spiritual direction and zest in the decision-making of every day.
- Add to basket
-
Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
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Sylvia Plath: Drawings
- £60.00
- In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration…
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The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
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The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
- Add to basket
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The Blue Guitar Etchings
- £230.00
- Full title: The Blue Guitar Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso. 20 colour etchings.
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The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
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The Creative Gift: The Arts and the Christian Life: Arts and Christian Life
- £10.00
- The World is desperately short of men and women who will use their creative gifts. Too often Christians have exercised their gifts only within the church. In this book, H R Rookmaaker calls Christ's people to creative involvement in the wider world.
- Add to basket
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The Engraved Work of Eric Gill
- £25.00
- Catalogue from the Victoria and Album museum, updated from the 1963 edition with foreword by James Pope-Hennessy (V&A Director) illustrating the museum's possessions as a result of the artist's widow donating the work in 1952. 205 illustrations (from engravings on wood and metal) by Eric Gill
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The Netherlands: A Study of some aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life
- £12.00
- Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs. Sitwell leads us out of museums and away from the great cities, where tourist, and their guidebooks, usually remain cloistered. By traveling outside the usual, Sitwell has discovered a new and beautiful Holland…
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
- Add to basket
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The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
- Add to basket
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The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
- Add to basket
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The Road Home A Journey in Art and Music
- £20.00
- "The Road Home" presents a collection of ten paintings inspired by the Gospels by American artist Daniel Bonnell. Each painting is reflected upon in the lyrics of a song and a prayer, both penned by Garth Hewitt. With CD of Hewitt's songs.
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The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
- Add to basket
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This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
- £12.00
- In a series of twenty-four letters Michael Mayne makes an offering to his grandchildren of all that has inspired him in literature, music and art. It is, in Ronald Blythe's words `an inventory of his joy'. Written in a candid autobiographical fashion, the book is a passionate plea to the…
- Add to basket
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Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
- Add to basket
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
- Add to basket
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
- Add to basket
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
- Add to basket
-
William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
- Add to basket
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
- Add to basket
-
Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
- Add to basket
-
Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
- Add to basket
-
Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
- Add to basket
-
Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
- Add to basket
-
Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
- Add to basket
-
Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
- Add to basket
-
Christian Art
- £25.00
- Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mch figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is…
- Add to basket
-
Drawing Masterclass: 100 Creative Techniques of Great Artists
- £14.00
- Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows you how to weave some of this magic into your own drawings. Drawing Masterclass analyses some of the most fascinating drawings by some of the best artists the world has ever known: the way they were made, what…
- Add to basket
-
England’s Constable (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Folio Society publication of Joseph Darracott's Life and Letters of John Constable (in ful colour)
- Add to basket
-
Faces of Christ: Jesus in Art
- £10.00
- Jesus is one of the most often portrayed figures of all time. But what do all of his faces - in art from different ages and around the world - tell us about him? In this beautiful book images of Jesus are used to explore his life and legacy, including…
- Add to basket
-
G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
- Add to basket
-
Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
- £12.00
- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
- Add to basket
-
Inside Australia
- £30.00
- Antony Gormley Inside Australia showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative process in detail, while commentaries explain its different stages and place the work…
- Add to basket
-
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
- Add to basket
-
Looking at Art (with your eyes closed)
- £15.00
- LOOKING AT ART (WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next…
- Add to basket
-
Olafur Eliasson (Tate Modern Artists)
- £12.00
- Ever since he made his debut on the international scene in the early 1990s, the originality of Olafur Eliasson's visual language has been clear. Viewers play a major role in his art, and each work is made in relation to them. Drawing on a wealth of references ranging from nature…
- Add to basket
-
Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
- Add to basket
-
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (vols I & II SIGNED)
- £800.00
- William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Popular when first published, it illuminates the search for authenticity of treatment and depth of meaning in his own work and that of Millais, Rossetti and their…
- Add to basket
-
Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art)
- £12.00
- An erudite and superbly illustrated survey of a continuingly vital part of contemporary art. Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book Ð the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject Ð demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American…
- Add to basket
-
Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- £40.00
- How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings…
- Add to basket
-
Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
- Add to basket
-
Sacred & Secular: A companion
- £8.00
- A collection of over 440 readings grouped under weekly themes, aimed to give a new spiritual direction and zest in the decision-making of every day.
- Add to basket
-
Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
- Add to basket
-
Sylvia Plath: Drawings
- £60.00
- In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration…
- Add to basket
-
The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
- Add to basket
-
The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
- Add to basket
-
The Blue Guitar Etchings
- £230.00
- Full title: The Blue Guitar Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso. 20 colour etchings.
- Add to basket
-
The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
- Add to basket
-
The Creative Gift: The Arts and the Christian Life: Arts and Christian Life
- £10.00
- The World is desperately short of men and women who will use their creative gifts. Too often Christians have exercised their gifts only within the church. In this book, H R Rookmaaker calls Christ's people to creative involvement in the wider world.
- Add to basket
-
The Engraved Work of Eric Gill
- £25.00
- Catalogue from the Victoria and Album museum, updated from the 1963 edition with foreword by James Pope-Hennessy (V&A Director) illustrating the museum's possessions as a result of the artist's widow donating the work in 1952. 205 illustrations (from engravings on wood and metal) by Eric Gill
- Add to basket
-
The Netherlands: A Study of some aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life
- £12.00
- Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs. Sitwell leads us out of museums and away from the great cities, where tourist, and their guidebooks, usually remain cloistered. By traveling outside the usual, Sitwell has discovered a new and beautiful Holland…
- Add to basket
-
The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
- Add to basket
-
The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
- Add to basket
-
The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
- Add to basket
-
The Road Home A Journey in Art and Music
- £20.00
- "The Road Home" presents a collection of ten paintings inspired by the Gospels by American artist Daniel Bonnell. Each painting is reflected upon in the lyrics of a song and a prayer, both penned by Garth Hewitt. With CD of Hewitt's songs.
- Add to basket
-
The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
- Add to basket
-
This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
- £12.00
- In a series of twenty-four letters Michael Mayne makes an offering to his grandchildren of all that has inspired him in literature, music and art. It is, in Ronald Blythe's words `an inventory of his joy'. Written in a candid autobiographical fashion, the book is a passionate plea to the…
- Add to basket
-
Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
- Add to basket
-
Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
- Add to basket
-
Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
- Add to basket
-
What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
- Add to basket
-
William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
- Add to basket
-
William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
- Add to basket