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A foremost expert on van Gogh and Cézanne offers insight into how their works were virtually unrecognized during their master creators' lifetimes only to become some of modern art's most sought after and expensive representations, in an account that draws on new sources to address key questions about authenticity.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28709-5
EAN 9780500287095
Here is the paperback edition of the book described by "The Sunday Telegraph" as the most intellectually bracing short history of the Roman Catholic Church to have appeared for decades. The history of the Roman Catholic Church is the gateway to understanding 2,000 years of Western and often world civilization. Written by the distinguished ecclesiastical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 38,94 €
ISBN 978-0-500-51159-6
EAN 9780500511596
James Joyce's Dublin is published on the centenary of 'Bloomsday', the day of the action in Ulysses. Among other things, Ulysses is one of the most realistic novels ever written. Commentary on it has often focused on its crucial place in the history of modernism, its break with narrative convention, its exploration of the dilemmas ...
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Today we are surrounded by glossy publications and TV shows demonstrating the latest interiors. We take notions of style, comfort and atmosphere completely for granted, even designing our own rooms to achieve the right mood. Yet this language, seemingly so current, emerged in the 19th century, when a combination of economic, social and artistic factors ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-500-25156-0
EAN 9780500251560
The Medieval World at War brings together for the first time in a single volume authoritative accounts not only of European and Middle Eastern warfare, but also of Central Asian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese conflicts.Superbly designed, this book encompasses everything from Charlemagnes empire building, the Viking invasions of northern Europe and the Christian crusades against ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-500-25154-6
EAN 9780500251546
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. "The Great Cities in History" tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character of each place its people, its art and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 47,25 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28780-4
EAN 9780500287804
The scope of this book is immense, as is its contribution to the study of archaeology. Within nineteen broad geographical sections, numerous specialists survey the span of human prehistory, examining key social developments, new and emerging technologies, and tracing the movement of human populations across the globe and the development of human experience. The study ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 40,45 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28830-6
EAN 9780500288306
The photography book of the decade and a landmark publication celebrating the vision, imagination and brilliance of the world's most renowned photographic agency.There are very few books which can be genuinely be thought of as exceptional' this is one of them.With over 400 images selected by Magnum's photographers, this is at once a permanent record ...
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PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28838-2
EAN 9780500288382
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Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-23854-7
EAN 9780500238547
With over two hundred beautifully reproduced paintings, drawings and engravings, and accompanying texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of Proustians worldwide and a handsome volume in its own right. Eric Karpeles has identified and located all of the paintings to which the book makes exact reference. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 37,43 €
ISBN 978-0-500-51313-2
EAN 9780500513132
Fin-de-siècle Vienna was the central gathering point of the European avant-garde and an extraordinary laboratory for new ideas and concepts.Here is a dazzlingly illustrated (with over 700 illustrations) portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment and its most important protagonists. The contributors discuss Klimt and the artists and architects among them Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Josef ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 412 páginas
ISBN 978-0-500-28746-0
EAN 9780500287460
What makes these documents so important is also what makes them so exhilarating and fresh. They are uncensored, first-hand, on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company.The informal immediacy of the jottings anecdotes, incidents, telling details and off-the-record conversations makes for a compellingly candid read.Penrose's notes also include revealing accounts of the artist at ...
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Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 52,90 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28245-8
EAN 9780500282458
The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 37,43 €
ISBN 978-0-500-51354-5
EAN 9780500513545
In the brief period between the twentieth century's two cataclysmic world wars, Berlin was a vibrant metropolis a place filled with intrigue and decadence, where vice and virtue abounded in equal measure. It became the centre of European intellectual life where the arts and sciences met and flourished.Engaging and eminently readable, here is a compelling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 100 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-51295-1
EAN 9780500512951
One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artist's home near Cannes. As a co-pilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographer's pet dachsund, Lump. Photographer and dog were close companions, but Duncan's nomadic lifestyle ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 67,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-54314-6
EAN 9780500543146
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-500-20358-3
EAN 9780500203583
William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. He also discusses thoroughly Gainsborough's life and work - his childhood in Suffolk; his 'apprenticeship' in London; his marriage and the birth of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-27666-2
EAN 9780500276662
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