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Small Wonders Life Portrait in Miniature
ISBN: HB: 9784865050776, Nippan IPS, August 2017
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 200 black&white and colour illus., language: English
You can row a boat made of chili. You can enjoy picnic lunch under broccoli trees. You can hit the piano keys made of barcode. You can skate on a shiny rink, which is actually the surface of a CD. In this miniature world life looks as usual too - yet...
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£14,99
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Seeing Slowly
ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.
When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...
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£22,50
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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha
ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.
Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...
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£22,50
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Soccer Legends 20 Postcards Book
ISBN: PB: 9788416851133, Hoaki, June 2017
20 pp., 10.2x16.5 cm, 20 colour illus.
Soccer players are not only sportsmen; they are real legends, inhabitants of our modern Olympus, and capable of turning sport into great art. With these twenty postcards Arevalo's unique instinct for faces, movement and color remind us of some of the...
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£8,29
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Suite for Piano Alma-Tadema and a Gilded Age Music Room
ISBN: HB: 9780300226676, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.
During the 19th century, New York City's grand mansions on Fifth and Madison Avenues boasted sumptuous interiors, often with each room decorated in a different historic style. Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famousl...
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£30,00
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Slant Rhymes
ISBN: HB: 9788416248865, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, April 2017
112 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illustrations throughout
"Slant Rhymes" is a conversation between two world renowned photographers, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, a married creative couple who have authored 18 books. Selected from photographs taken during the W...
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£34,00
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Smart Product Design
ISBN: HB: 9789887757283, Bookport, SendPoints, March 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 500 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! "Smart Product Design" looks at the latest innovations in smart home, health and wellbeing, sports and fitness, business, travel and more. Featuring almost 100 products with details and concept sketches as well as intervie...
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£34,95
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Simplicity Graphic Design Elements Series
ISBN: HB: 9788416504527, Hoaki, March 2017
240 pp., 27.9x21 cm, richly illustrated
The smaller the number of graphic elements, the stronger the impact of each element. From Mies van der Rohe to the Nordic and Japanese design schools, more and more designers have applied minimalism in their works to infuse them with a clear style, b...
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£39,99
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Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honore Sharrer
ISBN: HB: 9780300223132, Yale University Press, March 2017
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.
Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reass...
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£35,00
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Sensitive Geometries Brazil 1950s-1980s
ISBN: HB: 9783952363034, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, March 2017
44 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 14 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Sensitive Geometries" explores the legacy of artistic movements at one of the most pivotal moments in Brazilian history. Designed as a facsimile of the 1959 exhibition catalog for the first Neo-Concrete exhibition at the M...
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£20,00
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