Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art books

63 books were found.

After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts

After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts

Author: Lindsay Kelley
ISBN: 9780262545631
Format: Paperback
$85.00

"Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks...  Read More >>

The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters...

Author: Benjamin Moser
ISBN: 9780241586457
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser...  Read More >>

Stickers for Everything: 500+ Waterproof Stickers for Decorating Laptops, Water Bottles, Car Bumpers, or Whatever Your Heart Desires

Stickers for Everything: 500+ Waterproof Stickers for...

Author: Brita Lynn Thompson ,  Blue Star Press
ISBN: 9781950968589
Format: Paperback
$47.99

This fun collection of all-new stickers, designed by The Sticker Queen, a.k.a. Brita Lynn Thompson of Zenspire...  Read More >>

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter...

Author: Wayne Franits
ISBN: 9781848225466
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English...  Read More >>

Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in...

Author: Allison Leigh (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
ISBN: 9781350282742
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's and Gender Studies 2021 There...  Read More >>

LéOn Bonvin (1834–1866): Drawn to the Everyday

LéOn Bonvin (1834–1866): Drawn to the Everyday

Author: Jo Briggs ,  Maud Guichané
ISBN: 9782958323400
Format: Hardback
$77.63

This beautiful publication presents a catalogue raisonné of Léon Bonvin's work published in both French and English....  Read More >>

The Cute

The Cute

Author: Sianne Ngai
ISBN: 9780262544658
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on...  Read More >>

Watercolor Painting at Home: Easy-to-follow painting projects inspired by the comforts of home and the colors of the garden

Watercolor Painting at Home: Easy-to-follow painting...

Author: Bley Hack
ISBN: 9781600589423
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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The Intimate Rembrandt

The Intimate Rembrandt

Author: Christopher White
ISBN: 9781838395322
Format: Hardback
$98.99

White studies Rembrandt’s technique from an aesthetic rather than a scientific point of view  Read More >>

WM. BRANDT'S SONS & CO.: The Story of a Family Trading Company

WM. BRANDT'S SONS & CO.: The Story of a Family Trading...

Author: Peter Augustus Brandt
ISBN: 9781838395353
Format: Paperback
$98.99

The story of the Brandt family's international trading and banking activities is told by Peter Augustus Brandt who...  Read More >>

Sickert: The Theatre of Life

Sickert: The Theatre of Life

Author: Richard Shone
ISBN: 9781901192599
Format: Hardback
$155.25

This beautifully-illustrated book provides an overview of the artist Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), bringing...  Read More >>

Netsuke: A miniature sculpture of Japan from private collections

Netsuke: A miniature sculpture of Japan from private...

Author: State Hermitage Museum
ISBN: 9785935726706
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Netsuke, a small utilitarian keychain carved in wood and ivory was used in Japan in the 17th-19th centuries for...  Read More >>

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya: Hardcover

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya:...

Author: Cristina Berna ,  Eric Thomsen
ISBN: 9781637526613
Format: Hardback
$341.52

The Aritaya Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi, , is one of the most...  Read More >>

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya: Premium

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya:...

Author: Cristina Berna ,  Eric Thomsen
ISBN: 9781637526507
Format: Hardback
$380.34

The Aritaya Tokaido is a surprise - here Hiroshige develops a complete course in landscape print design  Read More >>

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Aritaya...

Author: Cristina Berna ,  Eric Thomsen
ISBN: 9781637526620
Format: Paperback
$287.19

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya 1943 is a fantastic virtual landscape design course and manual.It was...  Read More >>

Luca Ellena: Einkaufswagen

Luca Ellena: Einkaufswagen

Author: Jonathan Progin
ISBN: 9783735607249
Format: Hardback
$67.27

Over two years, the photographer Luca Ellena (*1997) “portrayed” numerous shopping carts in unusual surroundings....  Read More >>

Ben Nicholson: Distant Planes

Ben Nicholson: Distant Planes

Author: Dr Lee Beard ,  Chris Stephens
ISBN: 9781901192568
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Provides a succinct and insightful introduction to a little-known period of the artist's career: his years in Switzerland....  Read More >>

Drawn to Paper: Degas to Rego

Drawn to Paper: Degas to Rego

Author: Piano Nobile
ISBN: 9781901192582
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Showcases works on paper by some of the leading figures of European modernism.  Read More >>

The Skill of Flower Arranging: Everything You Need to Know

The Skill of Flower Arranging: Everything You Need to...

Author: Gregory Milner
ISBN: 9781922131522
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The Skill of Flower Arranging captures a lifetime of international decorating, demonstrating and judging experience...  Read More >>

How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of...

Author: Akiko Busch
ISBN: 9781101980422
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, How to Disappear explores nature as a more joyful and peaceful way of living...  Read More >>

Craigie Aitchison: And the Beaux Arts Generation

Craigie Aitchison: And the Beaux Arts Generation

Author: Susan Campbell
ISBN: 9781901192551
Format: Paperback
$90.56

For the first time, Craigie Aitchison and the Beaux Arts Generation tells the story of Craigie Aitchison's role...  Read More >>

Sally Moore: Acting Up

Sally Moore: Acting Up

Author: Peter Wakelin
ISBN: 9781911408475
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The first full study of this leading figurative artist.  Read More >>

Paul Nash: Another Life Another World

Paul Nash: Another Life Another World

Author: David Boyd Haycock
ISBN: 9781901192544
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Following the sell-out 2014 publication Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910 – 1946 this revised and expanded edition has...  Read More >>

The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867

The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second...

Author: Julia Thoma
ISBN: 9783110486681
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of...  Read More >>

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