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Art History
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Heritage : A History of How We Conserve Our Past€17.99
What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it.
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Michael Healy 1873-1941 : An Tur Gloine's stained glass pioneer€55.00
This book tells the story of the reclusive artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in this exacting craft, and who worked at the world-renowned An Tú r Gloine (Tower of Glass) studio for almost four decades.
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Your Brain on Art : How the Arts Transform Us (Hardback)€24.99
We're on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone.
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Design : The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardback)€39.99
A true celebration of classic design - and the perfect gift for design lovers of any age.
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What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail€24.99
This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture.
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The Madman's Gallery : The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art€37.99
Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of the bestseller The Madman's Library (SundayTimes Literature Book of the Year 2020, Radio 4 Book of the Week) comes an extraordinary new illustrated collection.
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The Story of Art without Men€37.99
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed.
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Art History For Dummies€29.99
Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let's (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest painters, sculptors, and architects.
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The Mirror and the Palette : Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits€13.99
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men.
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The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, County Meath (Large Hardback)€70.00
Excavations at Knowth Volume 7. The complex of passage tombs at Knowth is dated c. 3200–2900 BC, and this volume deals with one of the most significant aspects of the site.