Product Description: Art and the Second World War is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive and detailed international overview of the complex and often disturbing relationship between war and the fine arts during this crucial period of modern history...read more

Product Description: Though his paintings of Russian village life, floating figures, flying cows, and roosters are instantly familiar, Marc Chagall (1887–1985) remains one of the least understood artists of his generation. Bringing together more than 60 paintings and a selection of works on paper, this lavishly illustrated book focuses on the artist’s time in Paris before World War I, his visit to Berlin and his exhibition there in 1914, and the years he spent in his native Russia around the time of the Revolution in 1917, all experiences that reinforced his highly personal visual language...read more

Product Description: This is the first complete monograph devoted to the work of one of Britain's most powerful and original contemporary artists. David Breuer-Weil studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Clare College, Cambridge. From the late 1980s until the late 1990s he worked as a specialist in Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art at Sothebys, London and as a curator for de Pury and Luxembourg Art in Geneva...read more

Product Description: Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family, Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940, settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s, known mainly for his images of Welsh miners, he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art and his work featured prominently in the 1951 Festival of Britain...read more

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Product Description: Book by Bohm-Duchen, Monica, Kitaj, R. B.

Product Description: Large Hardcover without dustjacket as issued. 64 pages. Illustrated with Famous Color Paintings of Nudes including both covers.

Product Description: An introduction to the world of the arts for 11 year olds.