Field of work that creates expressive work for its beauty or emotional power (use Q838948 for the resulting work)

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The Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris: gateway and interior. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres after E. Shirond.

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

Estampes, affiches, dessins originaux, tableaux / Pierrefort.

The Mechanics' Institute and School of Science and Art, Keighley, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Lockwood and Mawson.

Bildnerei der Geisteskranken : ein Beitrag zur Psychologie und Psychopathologie der Gestaltung / von Hans Prinzhorn.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Imperial Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia. Wood engraving by Laing after L. von Klenze.

Cherubs and demons hold up pictures in front of a youth; a woman embroiders; representing the age of twenty. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.

The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.

Thai art and culture : historic manuscripts from western collections / Henry Ginsburg.

Art of Nepal : a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection / by Pratapaditya Pal.

The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

Thinking path / Shirley Chubb ; edited by Les Buckingham.

Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

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Art

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Thai art and culture : historic manuscripts from western collections / Henry Ginsburg.

Art of Nepal : a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection / by Pratapaditya Pal.

The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

Thinking path / Shirley Chubb ; edited by Les Buckingham.

Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

Art

Images from the collections

Images about Art

Works from the collections

Thai art and culture : historic manuscripts from western collections / Henry Ginsburg.

Art of Nepal : a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection / by Pratapaditya Pal.

The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

Thinking path / Shirley Chubb ; edited by Les Buckingham.

Demon of painting : the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai / Timothy Clark ; [foreword by Lawrence Smith].

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