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Object Lessons The Bauhaus and Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9780300254167, Yale University Press, January 2021
300 pp., 26x18.4 cm, 150 illus.
Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought t...
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£35,00
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Financing Our Common Future
ISBN: PB: 9783037786680, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 240 illus.
This book explains in simple but precise terms what finance is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet. Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, spec...
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£17,00
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Bauhaus Experimental House Bauhausbucher 3
ISBN: HB: 9783037786277, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
82 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.
Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius's right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home "Haus am Horn" was built fo...
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£30,00
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Karl Blossfeldt Variations
ISBN: HB: 9783037786369, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
504 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
In the 1890s, Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His clos...
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£40,00
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Painting, Photography, Film Bauhausbucher 8
ISBN: HB: 9783037785874, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
134 pp., 23x18 cm, 100 illus.
Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist mak...
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£35,00
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New Design: Neoplasticism, Nieuwe Beelding Bauhausbucher 5
ISBN: HB: 9783037785867, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
68 pp., 23x18 cm, 100 illus.
Although Piet Mondrian was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Starting with a philosophical foray in which he describes art as a figurative expression of human existence, Mondrian embed...
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£28,00
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Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory
ISBN: PB: 9783791358826, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
300 pp., 30x22 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Including newely comissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass's art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, wr...
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£42,50
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What Images Really Tell Us Visual Rhetoric in Graphic Design, Art and Advertising
ISBN: PB: 9788417656041, Hoaki, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm, fully illustrated in colour
How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...
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£24,99
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N. C. Wyeth New Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780300243680, Yale University Press, June 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.8 cm, 158 colour illus.
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wy...
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£30,00
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Textiles of Japan The Thomas Murray Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791385204, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
520 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 500 colour illus.
Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of th...
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£75,00
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