Japanese Architecture: A Short History
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This expert guide to Japanese architecture is of enormous historical importance to the understanding...
A History of the Western Art Market: A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers, and Markets
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This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western...
Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
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This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological,...
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon
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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and...
Carving Traditional Style Kachina Dolls
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This book is written for beginning and intermediate wood carvers interested in carving a traditional...
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection
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Sir Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) lived an extraordinary and colourful life and left a remarkable...
Colour: The Professional's Guide: Understanding and Mastering Colour in Art, Design and Culture
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Colour is one of the most complex elements of design and it is also what people respond to first on...
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
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In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles...
Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
Claire Breay and Julian Harrison
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When it was granted by King John in 1215, Magna Carta was a practical solution to a political...
Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China
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In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during...