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Tropical Gift The Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria
ISBN: HB: 9783037782262, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 52 illus.
Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observ...
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£30,00
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Black in White America
ISBN: HB: 9781606060117, Getty Publications, August 2010
216 pp., 25.7x22.1 cm, 208 black&white illus.
This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...
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£25,00
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Conserving Outdoor Sculptures The Stark Collection at the Getty Center
ISBN: PB: 9781606060100, Getty Publications, August 2010
288 pp., 26.9x19 cm, 132 colour illus., 81 black&white illus.
This is a comprehensive and superbly illustrated account of the Getty Museum's research into outdoor sculpture conservation. When the J. Paul Getty Museum received twenty-eight sculptures created by a who's who of twentieth-century artists, it took o...
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£60,00
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Printing the Grant Manner Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
ISBN: HB: 9780892369805, Getty Publications, August 2010
120 pp., 31.1x28.7 cm, 47 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
This is a superbly illustrated survey of the monumental print works of Charles Le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV. This richly illustrated volume illuminates an extraordinary moment in the intertwined history of painting and printmaking in Europe. T...
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£40,00
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Dance around the Golden Calf by Lucas van Leyden
ISBN: PB: 9789086890408, Yale University Press, August 2010
68 pp., 23.6x16.8 cm, 72 illus.
Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the seventeenth century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands and was influenced by both Durer and Raphael. His paintings are lively, colourful, and full of na...
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£12,00
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Coloring Book Marc Chagall
ISBN: PB: 9783791370057, Prestel Publishing, August 2010
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
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£5,99
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Coloring Book Paul Gauguin
ISBN: PB: 9783791370316, Prestel Publishing, August 2010
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
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£5,99
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Meet Rembrandt Life and Work of the Master Painter
ISBN: PB: 9789086890576, Yale University Press, August 2010
112 pp., 21.2x14.8 cm, 85 illus.
Rembrandt was a painter and draftsman of undisputed genius, but what was he like as a person? The mystery of the moody and inspired Rembrandt continues to fascinate. Gary Schwartz tells the story of Rembrandt the man, artist, and legend in lively and...
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£12,00
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Worldly Art The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
ISBN: PB: 9780300107234, Yale University Press, August 2010
192 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.
Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (or...
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£16,99
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Gabriel Metsu
ISBN: HB: 9780300167245, Yale University Press, August 2010
244 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 160 colour illus.
Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) employed an unusual variety of styles, techniques, and subjects, making him a particularly difficult artist to characterize. From his early days in Leiden until his death in Amsterdam at the height of his career, his unparal...
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£60,00
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