Product Description: Glasgow Museums' collection of Dutch and Flemish art is explored for the first time in this beautiful book. Featuring 50 works - many of them the collection's highlights - it is grouped thematically by people, places and objects, and sheds light on the major trends in Dutch and Flemish painting...read more

Product Description: The Moorish Castle is a military fortification that bears witness to the Islamic presence in the region, and was probably constructed between the eighth and ninth centuries and later expanded after the Reconquista. Overlooking the town of Sintra it served as a watchtower, guaranteeing the protection of Lisbon and its surroundings...read more

Product Description: Starting in the 10th century BCE, Greek art began to stand out for its variety of regional styles found mainly in ceramic works of the Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, which were given these names do to the use of decorative patterns based on a combination of lines and circles...read more

Product Description: The economic boom helped to encourage new fashions, fun and rejection of the rules. American films depicted and at the same time acted as a catalyst for this vast social mosaic. The unknown Turkish dancer Aiche Nana performed her legendary impromptu striptease at the Rugantino restaurant in Rome and the majors from the USA moved the sets for their blockbusters to the city, that was not only historical and hospitable, but also offered very low production costs...read more

Product Description: This lavish volume, drawn primarily from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Musee du quai, Branly, Paris, displays the art, artifacts and people of Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Asia from 1850-1910.

Product Description: Paris 1874, Boulevard des Capucines: a group of artists that were to radically change the rules of the art world, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Frédéric Bazille, mounted an exhibition in the studio of photographer Félix Nadar...read more

Product Description: The 19th century was a pivotal period in Western history, marked by a revolutionary phase involving not only politics but art and, more broadly speaking, taste. The roots of this change date back to the 1740s, when there was a call for a new kind of art, one that would be useful and educational, both aesthetically and morally, in contrast to the frivolous and “uncommitted” tendency of the Rococo...read more

Product Description: No civilization has left such imposing and fascinating vestiges as that of Egypt, and yet so little trace of the “human.” In ancient Egypt art was not an expression of the human world but a living and active representation of the act of creation...read more

Provides an introduction to the life and culture of the Renaissance, including information about the economy, urban life, homes, warfare, the invention of printing, religion, science, art, and encounters with other regions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book presents comprehensive outline of Sub-Saharan African art dating through the last 150 years, and connects a multitude of styles to specific ethnic groups and to spatial-temporal macro-areas that date back thousands of years...read more

Product Description: Oceanic Art (Visual Encyclopedia of Art)

Product Description: Next in Scala's prestigious Art Spaces series celebrating the history, architecture and art of the world's great collections in a concise and affordable format.

Product Description: Latest in Scala's acclaimed Art Spaces series Celebrates a new building by David Chipperfield Architects - winners of the 2007 Stirling Prize for architecture Stunning building combines dramatic architecture, a world-class exhibition programme and modern facilities The Hepworth Wakefield is the UK's major new art gallery situated in Wakefield, West Yorkshire...read more

Product Description: -An A to Z look at the art, architecture, and sculpture of the Library of Congress Across the street from the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, stands the original building of the Library of Congress, completed in 1897. The Thomas Jefferson Building, as it was named in 1980, is a landmark both in the nation's capital and in the nation's architectural heritage...read more

Product Description: A beautifully illustrated book depicting the work of Henry Moore and his life in rural Hertfordshire.

Product Description: Surveys the founder, history, architecture, and collection of the San Antonio, Texas, museum of modern and contemporary art.

Product Description: The latest in Scala's acclaimed Art Spaces series celebrates the recently opened New Museum for Contemporary Art on the Bowery in New York City, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA.

Product Description: COLLECT is one of the most influential art fairs to have emerged in recent years and is now one of the highlights of the international cultural calendar. Staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it is the only fair in Europe devoted to contemporary applied arts which can be seen in the context of the V&A's collections of applied and decorative art...read more