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Samuel Palmer Shadows on the Wall
ISBN: HB: 9780300209853, Yale University Press, June 2015
368 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 80 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works of u...
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£50,00
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Spectacular! Stage Design Concerts / Events & Ceremonies / Theaters
ISBN: HB: 9789881383488, Bookport, SendPoints, May 2015
272 pp., 30.5x23.8 cm, 300 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! Apart from the vision of their creative directors and designers, stage productions involve the complex interplay of numerous individuals and technologies working in tandem to produce a memorable show. From set and lighting...
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£39,95
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Stephen Irwin
ISBN: HB: 9783000479977, DAP, re projects, May 2015
144 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 110 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Artist Stephen Irwin (1959-2010) worked in sculpture, drawing and installation, but he is best known for his work altering vintage pornography: using steel wool to rub off a magazine page's shiny coating and taking most of...
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£40,00
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Sophie Calle Suite Venitienne
ISBN: HB: 9781938221095, DAP, Siglio, May 2015
96 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and notating their movements, Sophie Calle ran into a man at an opening whom she had followed earlier that day. "During the course of our conv...
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£30,00
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Scenographics Handmade and 3D Graphic Design – A New Approach
ISBN: HB: 9788415967316, Hoaki, April 2015
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated
"Scenographics" explores the possibilities of creating a set which utilizes creative design in a multi-dimension perspective. Going behind the scenes of the design process it explores the creative and strategic elements of set design, and provides da...
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£39,99
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Soviet Posters 23 Pull-Out Posters
ISBN: PB: 9783791381107, Prestel Publishing, February 2015
48 pp., 35x28 cm, 23 colour illus.
This large-format book of Soviet propaganda posters allows the reader to remove individual posters and is at once a revealing historical document and a sublime example of graphic art at its best. Dating from 1917 to the end of the Cold War, the post...
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£19,99
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Shaping the Body An Intimate History of the Mechanics of Underwear
ISBN: PB: 9780300204278, Yale University Press, February 2015
272 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 207 colour and black&white illus.
This unique, erudite and entertaining book offers fascinating insights into the tortuous transformations employed by both men and women to sculpt their figures and accommodate the ever-shifting dictates of fashion. With high design, wit and style, "S...
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£40,00
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Strange Eggs
ISBN: HB: 9780300197853, Yale University Press, February 2015
56 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In 1957-1958, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the "Strange Egg...
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£30,00
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Sarah Charlesworth Stills
ISBN: HB: 9780300207767, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
64 pp., 22.2x19.7 cm, 30 colour illus.
This concise yet breathtaking book is the first publication of Sarah Charlesworth's (1947-2013) photographic series collectively entitled "Stills". Charlesworth made a name for herself as a member of the New York-based Pictures Generation artists whe...
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£15,99
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Soho Chronicles 10 Films by William Kentridge
ISBN: HB: 9780857421760, Seagull Books, February 2015
438 pp., 22x22 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fict...
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£112,50
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