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  • Art Firsts

    The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works

    by Nick Trend ...
    The story of art is not always the story of art-historical 'isms' and complex academic debate. The real history is often the story of some very simple firsts - the first time an artist painted themselves, the first time someone painted a smile, the first actual place to be depicted, the first feminist artwork, the first anti-war work.Art evolves and revolutionises itself through these simple - but ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Art Can Tell Us About Love

    by Nick Trend ...
    Discover the love affairs that inspired art's greatest masterpieces.Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of unrequited love, or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friendship, What Art Can Tell Us About Love explores the myriad ways love has influenced artists, shaped the work they created, and altered the course of art history.Beautifully illustrated with full-colour ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Art Firsts

    The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works

    by Nick Trend ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict a Black person or approach feminism? And why were each of these firsts so important? This book answers all these fascinating questions and more.Art Firsts explores 30 groundbreaking works to piece together an original approach to looking at and appreciating art, as well as ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of Art in 50 Paintings (Illustrated)

    by Delphi Classics, Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 36 - Delphi Masters of Art
    This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over 500 full colour images, it builds upon Delphi’s groundbreaking Masters of Art Series — the world’s ... Read more

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  • Modigliani

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Modigliani (1884-1920) was a painter of great unhappiness in his native Italy and felt only sorrow in his adopted country of France. Out of this discontent came forth Modigliani’s original work, which was influenced by African art, the Cubists, and drunken nights in Montparnasse. His portrayal of women—sensual bodies, almost aggressive nudity, and mysterious faces—expresses their suffering and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Face to the World

    On Self-Portraits

    by Laura Cumming ...
    Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world’s museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Painting

    2000 BC to AD2000

    by Roy Bolton ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    The urge to create pictures of our world has been with us ever since early man daubed a fingerful of pigment on a rock, or used primitive colours to create exquisite images of the beasts he hunted - images so breathtakingly powerful they have never been surpassed, however sophisticated we have become. This book tells the story of what painting has meant to us, and how its role has changed over the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 1000 Paintings of Genius

    by Victoria Charles, Joseph Manca, Megan McShane, Donald Wigal ...
    From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the conventional. There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. ... Read more

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  • ArtQuake

    The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series Culture Quake
    Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.The books begin with the rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD