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1. The new analogy : poetry painting and technology / Octavio Paz.

No cover image available
Creator:
Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
Date:
[1970]
Physical Description:
36 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ireland and the British empire : essays on art and visuality / Fintan Cullen (ed.).

Ireland and the British empire : essays on art and visuality / Fintan Cullen (ed.).
Date:
[2023]
Physical Description:
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

3. The rare art traditions : the history of art collecting and its linked phenomena wherever these have appeared / Joseph Alsop.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989
Date:
c1982
Physical Description:
xxiii, 691 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

4. Pictures-within-pictures in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Roach.

Pictures-within-pictures in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Roach.
Creator:
Roach, Catherine
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
xvii, 218 pages, 40 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

5. The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.
Creator:
Nead, Lynda
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
vii, 407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

6. Art and society: Ruskin in Sheffield, 1876 / Robert Hewison.

Art and society: Ruskin in Sheffield, 1876 / Robert Hewison.
Creator:
Hewison, Robert, 1943-
Date:
c1981
Physical Description:
23 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

7. Prints & people; a social history of printed pictures [by] A. Hyatt Mayor.

Prints & people; a social history of printed pictures [by] A. Hyatt Mayor.
Creator:
Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980
Date:
[1971]
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) 752 illus. 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

8. Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.

Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.
Date:
[2022]
Physical Description:
xix, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

9. The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.

The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.
Creator:
Tromans, Nicholas
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
294 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

10. Robert Seymour and nineteenth century print culture : sketches by Seymour and comic illustration / Brian Maidment.

Robert Seymour and nineteenth century print culture : sketches by Seymour and comic illustration / Brian Maidment.
Creator:
Maidment, Brian
Date:
2021
Physical Description:
x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

11. Spreading canvas : eighteenth-century British marine painting / edited by Eleanor Hughes ; with contribution by Eleanor Hughes ... [and 7 others].

Spreading canvas : eighteenth-century British marine painting / edited by Eleanor Hughes ; with contribution by Eleanor Hughes ... [and 7 others].
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
xiii, 298 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

12. Med kant av guld och silver : en studie av knypplade bårder uddar av metall, 1550-1640 / Lena Dahrén.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dahrén, Lena
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
271 p. : ill. (some col.)
Collection:
Reference Library

13. Paesaggio e società in Inghilterra, fra città e campagna / Silvano D'Alto.

No cover image available
Creator:
D'Alto, Silvano
Date:
c2003
Physical Description:
242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

14. Art in an age of counterrevolution, 1815-1848 / Albert Boime.

Art in an age of counterrevolution, 1815-1848 / Albert Boime.
Creator:
Boime, Albert
Date:
2004
Physical Description:
xvii, 750 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

15. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.
Creator:
Montfort, Patricia de
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
xiv, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

16. Transculturation in British art, 1770-1930 / edited by Julie F. Codell.

No cover image available
Date:
c2012
Physical Description:
xvii, 289 p., [4] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

17. Victorian radicals : from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts & crafts movement / Martin Ellis, Victoria Osborne, Tim Barringer.

Victorian radicals : from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts & crafts movement / Martin Ellis, Victoria Osborne, Tim Barringer.
Creator:
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

18. British art and the First World War, 1914-1924 / James Fox (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge).

No cover image available
Creator:
Fox, James, 1982-
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
xii, 233 pages, 11 numbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

19. Charles II : art & power.

Charles II : art & power.
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
463 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

20. Eighteenth-century art worlds : global and local geographies of art / edited by Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan.

Eighteenth-century art worlds : global and local geographies of art / edited by Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan.
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
xvi, 290 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

21. Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating / Maura Reilly ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.

Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating / Maura Reilly ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.
Creator:
Reilly, Maura
Date:
[2018]
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

22. Locating the self, welcoming the other : in British and Irish art, 1990-2020 / Valérie Morisson.

Locating the self, welcoming the other : in British and Irish art, 1990-2020 / Valérie Morisson.
Creator:
Morisson, Valérie
Date:
[2022]
Physical Description:
xiv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

23. Domenico Brucciani and the formatori of nineteenth-century Britain / Rebecca Wade.

Domenico Brucciani and the formatori of nineteenth-century Britain / Rebecca Wade.
Creator:
Wade, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
xiv, 198 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

24. The poor teacher : a painting and its public :28 April-22 May, 1981 Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery.

No cover image available
Date:
1981
Physical Description:
23 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

25. Fads and fancies / Denys Sutton ; with an introduction by Kenneth Clark.

Fads and fancies / Denys Sutton ; with an introduction by Kenneth Clark.
Creator:
Sutton, Denys
Date:
c1979
Physical Description:
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

26. Bad art / Quentin Bell.

Bad art / Quentin Bell.
Creator:
Bell, Quentin
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
ix, 245 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

27. Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pointon, Marcia R
Date:
2009
Physical Description:
ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

28. Art and identity at the water's edge / edited by Tricia Cusack.

No cover image available
Date:
c2012
Physical Description:
xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

29. Art history at the crossroads of Ireland and the United States / edited by Cynthia Fowler and Paula Murphy.

Art history at the crossroads of Ireland and the United States / edited by Cynthia Fowler and Paula Murphy.
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
xiv, 187 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

30. Uproar! : scandal, satire and printmakers in Georgian London / Alice Loxton.

Uproar! : scandal, satire and printmakers in Georgian London / Alice Loxton.
Creator:
Loxton, Alice
Date:
2023
Physical Description:
xii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

31. Art and society, by Herbert Read.

No cover image available
Creator:
Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xix, 282 p. incl. illus., plates. 22 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

32. The black figure in the European imaginary / Adrienne L. Childs, Susan H. Libby ; with an introduction by David Bindman.

The black figure in the European imaginary / Adrienne L. Childs, Susan H. Libby ; with an introduction by David Bindman.
Creator:
Childs, Adrienne L.
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
80 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

33. The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer in Britain 1815-1850 : the commodification of historical objects / Mark Westgarth.

The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer in Britain 1815-1850 : the commodification of historical objects / Mark Westgarth.
Creator:
Westgarth, Mark
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
x, 191 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

34. Modern spiritualism and Scottish art : Scots, spirits and séances, 1860-1940 / Michelle Foot.

Modern spiritualism and Scottish art : Scots, spirits and séances, 1860-1940 / Michelle Foot.
Creator:
Foot, Michelle
Date:
2023
Physical Description:
x, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

35. Interiorities : Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejão / editor, Anna Schneider ; authors, Njideka Akunyili Crosby [and ten others].

Interiorities : Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejão / editor, Anna Schneider ; authors, Njideka Akunyili Crosby [and ten others].
Date:
[2020]
Physical Description:
213 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

36. The American school : artists and status in the late-colonial and early national era / Susan Rather.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rather, Susan
Date:
[2016]
Physical Description:
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

37. Material inspirations : the interests of the art object in the nineteenth century and after / Jonah Siegel.

Material inspirations : the interests of the art object in the nineteenth century and after / Jonah Siegel.
Creator:
Siegel, Jonah, 1963-
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
xxviii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

38. Comic acting and portraiture in late-Georgian and Regency England / Jim Davis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Davis, Jim, 1949-
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

39. Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910 / Holly Shaffer.

Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910 / Holly Shaffer.
Creator:
Shaffer, Holly
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
viii, 298 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

40. Art in modern culture : an anthology of critical texts / edited by Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris.

Art in modern culture : an anthology of critical texts / edited by Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris.
Date:
c1992
Physical Description:
341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

41. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.
Creator:
Highmore, Ben, 1961-
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

42. Art in Britain 1660-1815 / David H. Solkin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Solkin, David H.
Date:
[2015]
Physical Description:
377 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

43. British art of the long 1980s : diverse practices, exhibitions and infrastructures / Imogen Racz.

British art of the long 1980s : diverse practices, exhibitions and infrastructures / Imogen Racz.
Creator:
Racz, Imogen
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

44. Researching art markets : past, present and tools for the future / edited by Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau, Adriana Turpin.

Researching art markets : past, present and tools for the future / edited by Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau, Adriana Turpin.
Date:
2021
Physical Description:
xv, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

45. Chinese art objects, collecting, and interior design in twentieth-century Britain / Helen Glaister.

Chinese art objects, collecting, and interior design in twentieth-century Britain / Helen Glaister.
Creator:
Glaister, Helen, aut
Date:
2023
Physical Description:
xx, 162 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

46. Revolution und Restauration 1785-1855 / Klaus Lankheit.

Revolution und Restauration 1785-1855 / Klaus Lankheit.
Creator:
Lankheit, Klaus
Date:
1988
Physical Description:
287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

47. The making of women artists in Victorian England : the education and careers of six professionals / Jo Devereux.

The making of women artists in Victorian England : the education and careers of six professionals / Jo Devereux.
Creator:
Devereux, Joanna, 1962-
Date:
[2016]
Physical Description:
viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

48. The Victorian painter's world / Paula Gillett.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gillett, Paula, 1934-
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
xiii, 299 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

49. English art and English society, by T. Ashcroft.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ashcroft, T. (Thomas), 1890-
Date:
[1936]
Physical Description:
2 p. l., xvii, 234 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

50. Art and the sacred journey in Britain, 1790-1850 / Kathryn R. Barush.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barush, Kathryn R. (Kathryn Rebecca), 1981-
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

51. Victorian artists' autograph replicas : auras, aesthetics, patronage and the art market / edited by Julie F. Codell.

Victorian artists' autograph replicas : auras, aesthetics, patronage and the art market / edited by Julie F. Codell.
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
xv, 298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

52. Anthropology, art and cultural production / Maruška Svašek.

No cover image available
Creator:
Svasek, Maruska
Date:
c2007
Physical Description:
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

53. Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819 : black jokes, white humour / Temi Odumosu.

Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819 : black jokes, white humour / Temi Odumosu.
Creator:
Odumosu, Temi
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

54. Artangel and financing British art : adapting to social and economic change / Charlotte Gould.

Artangel and financing British art : adapting to social and economic change / Charlotte Gould.
Creator:
Gould, Charlotte
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
x, 154 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

55. Ruskin, Turner & the storm cloud / edited by Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Richard Johns.

Ruskin, Turner & the storm cloud / edited by Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Richard Johns.
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
120 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

56. Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England : the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk.

Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England : the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk.
Creator:
Quirk, Maria
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
xiii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

57. Patrons and painters; a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the baroque.

No cover image available
Creator:
Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000
Date:
1963
Physical Description:
xix, 454 p. 64 plates (incl. ports.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

58. The expendable reader : articles on art, architecture, design, and media (1951-79) / John McHale ; ed., Alex Kitnick.

The expendable reader : articles on art, architecture, design, and media (1951-79) / John McHale ; ed., Alex Kitnick.
Creator:
McHale, John
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
295 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

59. Cultural differentiation and cultural identity in the visual arts / edited by Susan J. Barnes and Walter S. Melion.

Cultural differentiation and cultural identity in the visual arts / edited by Susan J. Barnes and Walter S. Melion.
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
149 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

60. The conversation piece : making modern art in 18th century Britain / Kate Retford.

The conversation piece : making modern art in 18th century Britain / Kate Retford.
Creator:
Retford, Kate, 1974-
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
xi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

61. Visibility / Johny Pitts.

Visibility / Johny Pitts.
Creator:
Pitts, Johny
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

62. Democratising beauty in nineteenth-century Britain : art and the politics of public life / Lucy Hartley.

Democratising beauty in nineteenth-century Britain : art and the politics of public life / Lucy Hartley.
Creator:
Hartley, Lucy
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

63. Melancholy Wedgwood / Iris Moon.

Melancholy Wedgwood / Iris Moon.
Creator:
Moon, Iris
Date:
[2023]
Physical Description:
240 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

64. Value art politics : criticism, meaning and interpretation after Postmodernism / edited by Jonathan Harris.

No cover image available
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
xi, 423 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

65. Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950 / edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.

No cover image available
Date:
c2009
Physical Description:
xvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

66. Court, country, city : British art and architecture, 1660-1735 / edited by Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, and Martin Myrone.

No cover image available
Date:
[2016]
Physical Description:
544 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

67. History of illustration / Susan Doyle, editor, Jaleen Grove, associate editor, Whitney Sherman, associate editor.

History of illustration / Susan Doyle, editor, Jaleen Grove, associate editor, Whitney Sherman, associate editor.
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
xxxvii, 554 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 31 cm
Collection:
Reference Library