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Edward S. Curtis Events Beyond Words
ISBN: HB: 9783791357300, Prestel Publishing, June 2021
240 pp., 29x23 cm, 250 colour illus.
Featuring iconic and rarely seen images from the foremost photographer of North America's Native peoples, together with a rich selection of rare ephemera, this retrospective is an extensive and in-depth study of Edward Curtis's pioneering work. Edwa...
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£39,99
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Equivalents Photographs by Scott Mead
ISBN: HB: 9783791386553, Prestel Publishing, April 2021
128 pp., 24x24 cm, 126 colour illus.
In "Above the Clouds", Scott Mead contemplated the endless horizons outside of a plane's window. Now he turns his gaze back to earth, where the view is just as extraordinary. Inspired by William Eggleston, Mead's former teacher, this series of paired...
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£35,00
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Eduardo Arroyo Artist Book
ISBN: HB: 9788417048884, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
68 pp., 32.5x24.5 cm, 41 colour and black&white illus.
On this occasion, La Fabrica's exquisite, big-format series of Artist Books presents a selection of works by the famous Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo, a key author in Narrative Figuration, Neo-figurative art and pop art. In the early 1960s, his work...
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£31,00
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El Anatsui Art and Life (Revised and Expanded)
ISBN: HB: 9783791358253, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
320 pp., 30x25 cm, 190 colour illus.
An African artist who has garnered worldwide recognition while based permanently in Nigeria and whose work is in the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums, El Anatsui is best known for sumptuous tapestries made from used bottle t...
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Endless
ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones
For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...
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£21,00
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Emmanuel Van der Auwera A Certain Amount of Clarity
ISBN: HB: 9780300253948, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
288 pp., 29.8x20 cm, 160 illus.
The work of Brussels-based Belgian artist Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982) provides cautionary tales and tools for navigating information in post-truth times, making use of emerging technologies, the architecture of mass media, and more traditional...
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El Anatsui Art and Life (Revised and Expanded)
ISBN: HB: 9783791359786, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 221 colour illus.
An African artist who has garnered worldwide recognition while based permanently in Nigeria and whose work is in the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums, El Anatsui is best known for sumptuous tapestries made from used bottle t...
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Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions
ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones
Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...
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£32,00
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Ernst Haas New York in Color, 1952-1962
ISBN: HB: 9783791386546, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
208 pp., 29x24 cm, 175 colour illus.
Ernst Haas's color works reveal the photographer's remarkable genius and remind us on every page why we love New York. When Ernst Haas moved from Vienna to New York City in 1951, he left behind a war-torn continent and a career producing black-and-wh...
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Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...
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