World of Art: American Art and Architecture
R145This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work
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World of Art: Bruegel
R180Although Pieter Bruegel’s pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure.
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World of Art: Outsider Art Spontaneous Alternatives
R170Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern western art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals and others beyond the margins of society and the art market. Coined in 1972, the term in English derived from Jean Dubuffet’s ‘Art
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World of Art: The Language of Ornament
James Trilling presents an immense variety of ornament from the Paleolithic Age to the present day, enabling the reader to appreciate inherent form and beauty, as well as historical importance across cultures – whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain or the carved or worn ornament of Native Americans.
