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What Makes a Masterpiece?: Encounters with Great Works of Art

By Christopher Dell

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

By Martin Gayford

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

By David Hockney, Martin Gayford

What is Painting?: New Edition

By Julian Bell

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

By Alexandra Harris

Man Ray

By Penrose, Roland

Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko

By Robert Rosenblum

An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

By J. C. Cooper

A Middle-Earth Album: Paintings

By Wyatt, Joan

Selection (The Book of Kells)

By Brown, Peter

Picasso Anthology: Documents, Criticism, Reminiscences

By McCully, MARILYN

Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels (Painters & sculptors)

By Ashbery, John, Shannon, Joe, Livingston, Jane, Hyman, Timothy

Claude Monet: Life at Giverny (Painters & sculptors)

By Joyes, Claire, van der Kemp, Gerald

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces at the Musee d'Orsay

By Anon

Pathway Icons: The Wayside Art of India

By Mookerjee, Priya

Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movements

By Parry, Linda

The Designer's Guide to Japanese Patterns: Bk.1

By Allen, Jeanne

David Hockney by David Hockney: My Early Years

By Nikos Stangos

Celtic Art:From its Beginnings to the Book of Kells

By Megaw, Ruth, Megaw, J.V.S.

Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide

By Karl-Theodor Zauzich, Ann Macy Roth

Picasso: Life and Art

By Daix, Pierre

Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

By John Gage

Traditional Indonesian Textiles

By Gillow, John, Dawson, Barry

Arts of the Amazon (Braun, Barbara)

By Roe, Peter, Braun, Barbara, Roe, Peter

Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings

By Spivey, Nigel Jonathan

Arts and Crafts of China (World Design S.)

By Minick, Scott, Ping, Jiao

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

By Johanna Drucker

Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook

By Henry Moore, Kenneth Clark

The Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House

By Murdoch, John

Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-modernism

By Britt, David, Britt, David, Britt, David