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Gustave Moreau History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism
ISBN: HB: 9780300204339, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
The acclaimed French painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) strove to renew history painting by creating epic art in a nonacademic manner. In this thought-provoking book, Peter Cooke explains how Moreau essentially created pictorial Symbolism through his...
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£55,00
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Anthony Friedkin The Gay Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300206371, Yale University Press, June 2014
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 black&white illus.
For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of...
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£35,00
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Piero Della Francesca Personal Encounters
ISBN: PB: 9780300199468, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
96 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 40 colour illus.
This book tells the story of Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) by focusing on four paintings he created over the span of his career. It also provides the first study of his small-scale devotional paintings, including the...
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£14,99
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Outside the Box Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists
ISBN: PB: 9780226099446, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
We are living in a golden age of cartoon art. Never before has graphic storytelling been so prominent or garnered such respect: critics and readers alike agree that contemporary cartoonists are creating some of the most innovative and exciting work i...
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£21,00
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Tokyo Adorned
ISBN: HB: 9781861543479, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, March 2014
132 pp., 38x30.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
A celebration of Tokyo and its thriving fashion subculture, this book takes its subjects off the city streets to focus on the personalities behind the clothing and capturing the magnetic culture of the city's fashion tribes. Included are Kumamiki –...
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£25,00
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Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780300187656, Yale University Press, December 2013
368 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners – Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini...
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£50,00
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Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain In Pre-Revolutionary Paris
ISBN: HB: 9781606061398, Getty Publications, December 2013
224 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, 145 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
This is a revealing look at porcelain collecting in the reign of Louis XIV through the 18th century. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis...
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£45,00
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Itinerant Languages of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300174366, Yale University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to cir...
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£30,00
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Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz
ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones
Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300195767, Yale University Press, October 2013
468 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour images, 250 black&white illus.
This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among...
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£60,00
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