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1	Jenny Saville more books like this by Rizzoli Publications (Creator) At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace.Jenny Saville is ... see all copies from $23.10! new only from $23.10! \| SVS
2	Painting in Britain: 1530-1790 more books like this by Ellis Waterhouse The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.89! \| first editions
3	British Impressionism more books like this by Kenneth McConkey In the late-19th century, contact with French Impressionist ideas meant that British artists' discontent with academic Victorian art became transmuted into a new concept of the role of art and the artist. In a new awareness of painting, disparate artists merged and refined their ideas on colour, light and form into an Impressionistic style that is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.64! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 more books like this by Malcolm Warner, Anne Helmreich, Charles Brock From the medieval tendencies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the classicism of Frederick Leighton, Victorian painting is seen to have encompassed a broad range of subjects and styles. This elegant volume showcases the work of a great many Victorian painters, including J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, and James Tissot. Publication to coincide with ... see all copies from $3.88! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
5	Francis Bacon: 1909-1992 more books like this by Luigi Ficacci FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM. MIXING REALISM AND ABSTRACTION, BACON DELVES DEEP BENEATH THE SURFACES OF THINGS, OPENING UP THE HUMAN BODY TO REVEAL THE CHAOS THAT LIES WITHIN AND STRUGGLING WITH ALL THAT ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $6.29! \| SVS
6	Victorian Painters more books like this by Jeremy Maas see all copies from $2.32! new only from $24.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	A Century of British Painters more books like this by Richard Redgrave see all copies from $2.01! new only from $49.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Flowers from a Painter's Garden: The Wa: The Watercolors of Paul Gell, with Commentaries by the Artist more books like this by Ronald King, Paul Gell see all copies from $3.99! first editions
9	Millais : portraits more books like this by Peter Funnell, Sir John Everett Millais, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was one of the most celebrated figures of Victorian art. As a young man, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. In later years, he rose to wealth, acclaim, and social prestige as a landscapist, illustrator, and painter of subject and genre pictures and as the ... see all copies from $8.25! new only from $11.98! \| first editions
10	David Hockney more books like this by Paul Melia (Editor), David Hockney This consideration of Hockney's work from 1960 to the early nineties dispels myths and opens up new lines of inquiry concerning his contributions to post-modern art. Filled with beautiful colour plates of his paintings, the book draws on extensive research and the artist's personal archives. In a broad chronological format, the book reveals the ... see all copies from $6.64! new only from $14.42! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting more books like this by Nicholas Tromans (Editor), Rana Kabbani, Fatema Mernissi With its unprecedented focus on the history of Orientalism in British art, this handsome book places the British within the story of how the genre was established in the 19th century--a story heretofore dominated by the French. Featuring both well-known and rarely seen paintings, together with sketches and photographs, this volume examines the ... see all copies from $41.92! new only from $41.92! \| SVS
12	Victorian landscape watercolors more books like this by Scott Wilcox, Christopher Newall, Yale Center For British Art see all copies from $23.05! new only from $539.97! \| first editions
13	Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century more books like this by Professor Lisa Tickner In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of ... see all copies from $39.98! new only from $56.95! \| first editions
14	British Painting: The Golden Age from Hogarth to Turner more books like this by William Vaughan The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into the forefront of European art. The main figures are Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence, Blake, Constable and Turner. William Vaughan discusses the key personalities and analyses the class ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $10.20! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	British Paintings at the Huntington more books like this by Robyn Asleson, Shelley M Bennett (Editor), Rosamond Westmoreland (Notes by) Some of the most famous British paintings in the world are to be found at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The Huntington Collection, begun by railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington in 1908, today holds over 170 portraits and landscapes that include such icons of British art as Thomas ... see all copies from $83.68! new only from $83.68!
16 view cover	Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists more books like this by Deborah Cherry Painting Women is about the experience of women painters working within the oppressive confines of Victorian patriarchy. Drawing on letters, journals and biographies, Deborah Cherry examines a number of women painters at work between 1840 and 1900 and the images of women which they produced, and unravels the ways in which the artists' working ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $56.95! \| first editions
17	Every Picture Tells a Story: Images of Victorian Life more books like this by John Hadfield see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Anglomodern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States more books like this by Professor Janet Wolff Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the social, ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $6.67!
19	British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art more books like this by Wilder Green (Designed by), Scott Wilcox, Yale Center for British Art see all copies from $8.15! first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Stanley Spencer: An English Vision more books like this by Fiona MacCarthy, Sir Stanley Spencer Stanley Spencer, a central figure in the current revival of European figurative painting and a precursor of such artists as Lucian Freud, is among the most important English painters of the twentieth century. In this book, Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasizes the links between his life ... see all copies from $18.75! new only from $54.31! \| first editions
21 view cover	A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Maritime Paintings more books like this by Alan Granby, Ben Simons Art collector Glen Foster developed a consummate eye, combining a yachtsman's experience on the water with the instincts of an art connoisseur. Before its breakup upon his death in 1999, Foster's collection of historic American and British yachting and marine art was regarded as one of the finest in the country, and established new auction ... see all copies from $26.38! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880 more books like this by Professor Michael Rosenthal (Editor), Scott Wilcox (Editor), Christiana Payne (Editor) This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers, and literary. scholars discuss a wide range of topics: the role of landscape in the construction of a national identity; tourism and the politics of the picturesque; the relation of scientific observation to ... see all copies from $13.84! new only from $13.84! \| first editions
23	Glorious Nature more books like this by Katharine Baetjer, Timothy J Standring, Professor Michael Rosenthal This aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $58.87! \| first editions
24	New British Painting more books like this by Edward Lucie-Smith A book on new developments in British painting in the 1980s which will also act as a critical survey of the work of 20 British painters under the age of 45 whose work will be on tour in the United States in 1989. These artists and their work will be discussed in the book, which will also include reference illustrations of examples of work by other ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $389.96! \| first editions
25	Victorian Painting more books like this by Graham Reynolds see all copies from $8.20! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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