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Alex Da Corte Free Roses
ISBN: HB: 9783791355337, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
112 pp., 27x24 cm, 75 colour illus.
A generously illustrated book on the dynamic work of neo-pop artist Alex Da Corte, whose immersive installations and provocative objects seamlessly blend high and low culture as they explore themes of love, sex, family, death, and desire. For his la...
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£42,50
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Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.
The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...
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£55,00
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Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the "Belle Epoque"
ISBN: PB: 9780300223668, Yale University Press, August 2016
128 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.
The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) created works that epitomize the theatricality, elegance, and decadence of late-19th-century Paris. This beautifully illustrated book features a selection of Toulouse-Lautrec's drawin...
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£20,00
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Typography: Exploring the Limits Graphic Design Elements Series
ISBN: HB: 9788416504480, Hoaki, August 2016
240 pp., 27.9x21 cm, richly illustrated
"Typography" brings together the most creative typography projects from all over the world. Whether they are used in branding, advertising, packaging or other creative designs, the typefaces featured here have the power to catch the eye and inspire t...
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£34,99
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Revolutionary Horizons Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba
ISBN: HB: 9780300216813, Yale University Press, August 2016
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 68 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.
Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimatel...
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£50,00
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New York A Century of Aerial Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791382937, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
240 pp., 32.5x24 cm, 20 black&white illus., 160 colour illus.
From the ground, New York City can feel like a chaotic jumble of traffic, pedestrians, one-way streets, parks, and buildings of every shape and size. But above the city, away from the cacophony and the commotion, New York can be tranquil and awe-insp...
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£29,99
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Baule Monkeys
ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...
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£50,00
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Desert of Pharan Unofficial Histories Behind the Mass Expansion of Makkah
ISBN: PB: 9783037784853, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2016
400 pp., 24x17 cm, 400 illus.
Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation – Mecca, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histori...
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£45,00
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Hans Hofmann The Artists Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606064870, Getty Publications, August 2016
140 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This gorgeously illustrated book examines the practice and materials of a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre-World War I M...
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£30,00
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Paul Klee Irony at Work
ISBN: HB: 9783791355436, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
312 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 54 black&white illus., 257 colour illus.
Known for its whimsy and levity, Paul Klee's art is often considered gleefully childlike. This groundbreaking volume argues that Klee's style emerged from a philosophical school that originated with early German Romanticism and consisted of perpetual...
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£45,00
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