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Ergonomics in Product Design
ISBN: HB: 9789887849377, Bookport, SendPoints, May 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 1200 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! In the last two hundred years, the field of ergonomics has become a multidisciplinary science, incorporating elements of anatomy, physiology, psychology and engineering, all with the goal of making products and systems fit...
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£34,95
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European Porcelain In The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588396433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2018
312 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 321 colour illus.
The quest to discover the process of making porcelain was one of the defining aspects of post-Renaissance Europe, and it had significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications. This beautifully illustrated book showcases ninety works, span...
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£50,00
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Emmanuel Honorato Vazquez A Modernist in the Andes
ISBN: HB: 9788417047344, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, April 2018
142 pp., 30.8x22.7 cm, photos
This book introduces the virtually unknown work of Ecuadorian photographer Emmanuel Honorato Vazquez (1893-1924), whose anticlerical, bohemian milieu epitomized a moment in which conservative Ecuadorian society was awakening to confront modernity.
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£55,00
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Excellences and Perfections
ISBN: HB: 9783791384184, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
240 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
This book presents the fiercely intelligent internet-based performance of artist Amalia Ulman, which she eventually revealed to be a critical artwork about issues of online identity. Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfo...
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£22,50
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Electra 1 In These Great Times
ISBN: PB: 9789728909598, Prestel Publishing, Monade, March 2018
181 pp., 27x20 cm, illus.
"In These Great Times" is the topic of the first edition file, published in March 2018. This topic unfolds from the quote of a famous text of the Viennese writer of early XX century, Karl Kraus. This "great times" gathers a number of texts that help...
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£14,00
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Eco Design: Lamps New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9788416504596, Hoaki, December 2017
160 pp., 26.6x23.2 cm, richly illustrated
Green products and initiatives have become a key aspect of virtually all areas of our lives, and our interior surroundings are no exception to this. This book presents cutting-edge lighting and lamp designs that through their use of recycling techniq...
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£19,99
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Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780300197624, Yale University Press, October 2017
424 pp., 29.4x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus.
From the 1770s through the 1840s, German, Austrian, and Swiss artists used the medium of printmaking to create works that synthesized poetry, literature, music, and the visual arts in new and captivating ways. Finding an eager audience in the growing...
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£55,00
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Eros Visible Art, Sexuality, and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300219951, Yale University Press, October 2017
464 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 340 colour and black&white illus.
Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, J...
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£60,00
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Eduardo Momene PHotoBolsillo
ISBN: PB: 9788416248957, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2017
112 pp., 18x13 cm, black&white photos
Eduardo Momen e is an extraordinary portraitist who masterfully combines classicism and modernity. With each of his black-and-white studio portraits, he searches for timeless elegance and preciosity, captivating contemporary viewers. Although his wor...
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£11,00
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Experience
ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.
In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...
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£19,00
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