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Food Futures Sensory Explorations in Food Design

Sweetapple Kate, Warriner Gemma

ISBN: HB: 9788416504657, Hoaki, April 2017
264 pp., 25.5x21 cm, fully illustrated in colour

"Food Futures" is a compilation of unique design projects that act as visual stimulus for designers and food enthusiasts alike, illustrating the possibilities that new technologies open up to designers and the different ways society perceives food. T...

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Fashion

Fake Silk The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

Blanc Paul David

ISBN: HB: 9780300204667, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations,...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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Fashion

Fashion The Ultimate History of Costume. From Prehistory to the Present Day

Brunelli Pier Pietro

ISBN: PB: 9788415967828, Hoaki, November 2016
256 pp., 27x19 cm, richly illustrated

Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. Spanning the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, this book analyzes the importance and meaning of this intriguing area of human behavior. With an in-depth approach...

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History of Art

French Art of the Eighteenth Century The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Conisbee Philip, Causey Faya, Gage Deborah, Holmes Mary Tavener, Kahng Eik, Nicholson Kathleen, Ribeiro Aileen, Siegfried Susan, Poulet Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780300220179, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 134 colour illus.

This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presen...

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Fashion

Fit for a Queen Her Majesty Queen Sirikit's Creations by Balmain

Leventon Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9786167339634, Prestel Publishing, River Books, November 2016
232 pp., 30.9x23.7 cm, colour photos

In 1960, Their Majesties King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand embarked on a historic, six-month-long state visit to 15 Western nations. Her Majesty, the first queen of Thailand to visit the West since the 1930s, anticipated that her...

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Fashion

Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style

Calahan April, Cannell Karen Trivette, Sui Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780300197709, Yale University Press, October 2016
440 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 225 colour illus.

A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. Thes...

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History of Art

Medieval

Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe

Bagnoli Martina, Normore Christina, Newman Barbara, Casagrande Carla, Dillon Emma, Brilliant Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...

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History of Art

Fragonard Drawing Triumphant

Stein Perrin, Dupuy-Vachey Marie-Anne, Williams Eunice, Brosnan Kelsey

ISBN: HB: 9781588396013, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of hi...

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History of Art

Francis Bacon Unsichtbare Raume / Invisible Rooms

Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Conzen Ina

ISBN: HB: 9783791355764, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 28x23 cm, 150 colour illus.

This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century's greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. Arguably one of the most influenti...

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