Thames & Hudson World of Art / History of Art

Alec Clifton-Taylor - The Cathedrals of England - PB 1979

A paperback reprint, 1979, perhaps teh standard history of England's great gothic cathedrals - but also covering the full 9 centuries of cathedral construction , from eariest Norman beginnings up to...

Bernard Denvir - The Impressionists at First Hand - PB - 1987

Gathers selections from letters, critical reviews, and reminiscences by the impressionist artists and their contemporaries.     A host of primary sources are translated and...

Edward Lucie-Smith - A Concise History of French Painting - PB - 1980 (Originally 1971)

Paperback, published by Thames and Hudson UK, this reprint 1980, originally 1971. Illustrated in colour and black and white.  288 pp. with b/w & colour illustrations. French painting from...

Francois Fosca - Renoir - PB ( Revised 1969) - Originally 1961

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Originally published in French in 1961, this is translated by Mary martin...

Georgina O'Hara Callan / Fashion and Fashion Designers (Large Paperback)

  "A fashion bible."― Vogue"Invaluable."― The World of Interiors This indispensable guide to fashion provides in more than 1200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every...

Germain Bazin - A Concise History of Art - From the Renaissance to the Present Day - PB

This edition published by Thames and Hudson World of Art, 1964. Originally published in French in 1958.  The approximate end date is circa 1950. Illustrated in black and white photographs...

Germain Bazin - Baroque and Rococo - PB 1979 (Originally 1964)

Baroque and Rococo art and architecture have become popular once more, after a century and a half of neglect, misunderstanding and scorn. This radical shift in taste has led to a rapid growth of...

Herbert Read - A Concise History of Modern Painting ( Thames and Hudson History of Art Series) - Vintage 1970 PB

First published in 1959, this is a fully revised and expanded 1974 reprint. Thames and Hudson are probably one of the best publishers of art books, both then ( at time of publication) and now . High...

John Steer - A Concise History of Venetian Painting - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Thames and Hudson UK, 1979,first published 1970. Venetian painting grew out of Byzantine art, and its opulence and sensuousness clearly differentiate it from the more...

Jonathan Benthall - Science and Technology in ART Today - PB - 1972 ( World of Art Library)

The relationship between technology , science  and creativity is of increasingly vital significance in an age wen art is teh traditional sense, and in traditional media. Jonatan Benthall studies...

Kenneth Frampton / Modern Architecture : A Critical History (Large Paperback)

"One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today."― Architectural Design This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first...

Lucy R Lippard - Pop Art - PB 3rd Edition Revised - 1970

Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic color and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here...

Paul Griffiths - A Concise History of Modern Music - From Debussy to Boulez - HB

Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern,...

Phoebe Pool - Impressionism - PB - 1970

Reprint paperback edition, Thames & Hudson UK , 1970, originally 1967.  with 209 images, 77 of which are in colour. Covers the full history of French Impressionism, one of the most important...

Timothy Hilton - The Pre-Raphaelites ( Thames and Hudson History of Art) - HB - Illustrated - 19th Century Art

Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society...

Walter S. Gibson - Hieronymus Bosch - PB 1974

Published by Thames and Hudson USA, this is a 1974 paperback edition, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Both a biography of the artist and a detailed examination of his artistic...