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The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art the Paul Mello) by Allen Staley Publisher Comments This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $78.50 New - Hardcover 
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Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion by Andrew Bolton Publisher Comments Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late 18th century. As perceived by Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu, England was a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance, a place where the Enlightenment... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Moving Targets: An Inside Guide to British Art Now by Louisa Buck Book News Annotation The author scrutinizes the art that reflects our contradictory, uncertain times. In her discussion of the players, the makers, and the geography of current British art, she examines the uncertain territory between art and science, body and mind, high... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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British Art: A Walk Round the Rusty Pier by Julian Freeman Publisher Comments Julian Freeman's 16 essays on British Art turn the subject on its head and its side, and—without formally pretending to reassess it—give it a good shaking. Skating across the better part of 500 years, the book's choices of subject are... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Flexible
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Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin (World of Art) by Andrew Wilton Publisher Comments Although Britain has played a dominant role in European history, its schools of painting have not always been seen as contributing significantly to the great Continental tradition. In this new book, the eminent art historian Andrew Wilton provides an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain by David Bailey Publisher Comments In the 1980s—at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities—the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Victoria & Albert: Art & Love by Jonathan Marsden Publisher Comments The Victorian era is unquestionably one of the high points in the history of British art—and the culture of that period was defined, as much as anything, by the artistic tastes of Queen Victoria and her beloved Prince Albert. From Victorias... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $53.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Art for the Nation: Exhibitions & the London Public, 1747-2001 by Brandon Taylor Synopsis In the first half of the eighteenth century the only galleries in which to view art were the homes of the upper classes. That art had a highly exclusive audience. How did the exhibition of art in England evolve from the private to the public? What were... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Recording Britain by Gill (edt) Saunders Publisher Comments Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project sponsored by the British government in the late 1930s as the country faced the potentially devastating impact of a second world war. The resulting collection of more than 1,500 watercolors and... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 by Katharine Baetjer Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of the... (read more) List Price $86.95 Your price: $63.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Contemporary British Art: An Introduction by Grant Pooke Synopsis The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape both national and... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Public Art: Space by Mel Gooding Publisher Comments Surveys 20 works of art in public spaces, including finished works, works in progress, and unseen alternative designs.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blimey! from Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst by Matthew Collings Review "Hilarious and horrible, intelligent and frightening Blimey! is the book the art world deserves" The... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England by David Williamson Publisher Comments A popular guide to the kings and queens of Great Britain from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II, illustrated in color throughout with portraits of every monarch taken from paintings, coins, engravings, photographs and sculpture. Biographical entries give... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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50 British Artists You Should Know by Lucinda Hawksley Synopsis This roll-call of British artists confirms the dominance and excellence of British art across five centuries, from Blake to Banksy, Turner to Tracey Emin.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Spirit of Britain by Roy Strong Publisher Comments "The Spirit of Britain" is a masterly survey of the country' s arts-- literature, music, poetry, painting, architecture, theater, and all the related subjects that, over the centuries, have given British intellectual and cultural life its unique... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intelligence New British Art 2000 by Virginia Button Publisher Comments "Intelligence" suggests both covert information gathering and the faculty used to process information into something new. Many contemporary artists might be seen as intelligence agents at large in society, gathering, sifting, and transforming the raw... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual, C. 1500-C. 1800 by Nigel Llewellyn Publisher Comments How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England by Juliet Fleming Publisher Comments Tattoos and graffiti immediately bring to mind contemporary urban life and its inhabitants. But in fact, both practices date back much further than is generally thought—even by scholars. Drawing on a previously unavailable archive, Juliet... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars by Steven Heller Publisher Comments The newest addition to the Art Deco series, British Modern is the first to focus on Great Britain's contribution. An essential resource for graphic artists, designers, and anyone interested in advertising or art history, British Modern contains over 200... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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