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  • Great Artists Steal

    How Artists Really Get Their Ideas

    by Debra N Mancoff ...
    From the accidental to the purposeful, the innocent to the brazen, discover all the ways famous artists have begged and borrowed their way to greatness.*"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."—*Pablo PicassoThe great masters of art earned their reputation for supposedly taking art in entirely new directions—for pioneering new techniques, breaking with tradition, and busting norms—but behind ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • How Art is Made

    The Craft Behind the Masterpieces

    by Debra N Mancoff ...
    How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question – how were these works actually made?Divided into two sections – materials and methods – each chapter showcases a single work of art which demonstrates the mastery and innovative use of a single material or method, from oil paint, pastel and pencil, to woodcut, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Making A Masterpiece

    The stories behind iconic artworks

    by Debra N. Mancoff ...
    What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.Beginning with Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, we travel through time and a range of styles and stories – including theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics and power – to Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, challe ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Arthurian Handbook

    Second Edition

    by Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra N. Mancoff ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the**Holy ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Arthurian Revival

    Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation

    Edited by Debra Mancoff ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is that the "Arthurian revival" is an ongoing event, and has become multivalent, multinational, and multimedia. Originally published in 1992. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • King Arthur's Modern Return

    Edited by Debra N. Mancoff ...
    Series series Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
    The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Victorian Urban Settings

    Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

    Edited by Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela ...
    Series series Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
    This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Art in Minutes

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series IN MINUTES
    The perfect compact reference guide for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major artistic cultures, movements, phases, developments, artists and themes, from Prehistoric art to Hyperrealism. Contents also include Greek classicism, Gothic art, the Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, surrealism, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Handy Art History Answer Book

    by Madelynn Dickerson ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    The Art of Discovery. The Discovery of Art. The History of Art!Warhol, Michelangelo, and da Vinci. Picasso, Monet, and Rembrandt, Ai WeiWei and Jenny Holzer. What were they thinking when they created their masterworks? While we can't always know an artist's exact thoughts, The Handy Art History Answer Book examines their benefactors, their wealth or poverty, their passions, the politics, and the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Colors of Art

    The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

    by Chloë Ashby ...
    Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success.Colour allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages. And throughout history the greatest ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Mondrian

    by Isabella Alston ...
    Series series TAJ Mini Books
    Piet Mondrian pioneered the de Stijl movement—Dutch for “The Style”—that emerged in the early 20th century and which served as an important transition from a focus on Symbolism and Realism to a new and growing focus on abstraction. The evolution of Mondrian’s initial, traditional style, akin to that of The Hague School, through to his much later works in primary colors and geometric forms, which ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bachelors of a different sort

    Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

    by John Potvin ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD