Arts/Music

Beethoven: A Life

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beet...

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€31.40

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.Inventing the Alphabet provides the...

€41.90 -10%

€37.70

Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto...

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€18.90

Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840

Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first...

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€45.60

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work and lasting influence of the twentieth century’...

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€16.80

Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many wo...

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€16.90

The Mind of the Artist: Personality and the Drive to Create

What is "the artist type"? How is an artist's mind structured? What are the links between creativity...

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€29.90

Art of the Extreme 1905-1914: The European Art World 1905-1914

The ten most revolutionary years in art ever, covered by former Sotheby's director Philip Hook. A...

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€36.90

Shostakovich: A Coded Life in Music

Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed...

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€12.90

Sergei Rachmaninoff (Critical Lives)

Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not alw...

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€16.90

Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that ta...

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€14.40

The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering

What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Lui...

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€22.00

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during...

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€26.20

The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

A history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period. In The Polyhedri...

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€46.80

Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces

Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman...

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€19.50

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