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Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300134216, Yale University Press, December 2008
360 pp., 28x24 cm, 450 illus.
Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. By birth he was Anglo-French, and he epitomized the new spirit...
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£85,00
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Subversion and Subsidy Contemporary Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9781905422715, ISBN: HB: 9781905422708, Seagull Books, November 2008
240 pp., 18.6x15.2 cm
Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themsel...
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£22,50
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£75,00
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Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm
Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...
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£20,00
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£22,50
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Theatre of Roots Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage
ISBN: PB: 9781905422760, ISBN: HB: 9781905422753, Seagull Books, November 2008
432 pp., 23x15.6 cm, 24 halftones
After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an "Indian" theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their "roots" in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, p...
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£22,50
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£71,00
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Around the World in 80 Days
ISBN: HB: 9781402754272, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2008
224 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Jules Verne – and his one-of-a-kind hero, Phileas Fogg – take children on an action-packed, whirlwind race around the world. For as long as anyone can remember, Foggs daily ritual has never varied by even a minute. Then, on a whim and a bet, he sets...
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£8,99
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Oliver Twist
ISBN: HB: 9781402754258, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2008
464 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Thanks to its colourful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens Oliver Twist has captured readers hearts for over 150 years. Todays children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable wo...
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£8,99
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Nottingham City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300126662, Yale University Press, October 2008
256 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This is a lively, authoritative and practical guide to the buildings of Nottingham, from its medieval beginnings to the innovative architecture of the 21st century. Outstanding buildings range from the famous Castle, a Baroque palace on an unforgetta...
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£16,99
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Conversations with My Father, Adonis
ISBN: HB: 9781905422906, Seagull Books, October 2008
232 pp., 19.4x14.8 cm
Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father. All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1...
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£19,00
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Duties and Delights The Life of a Go-Between
ISBN: HB: 9781905422890, Seagull Books, October 2008
424 pp., 19x15.7 cm
Tzvetan Todorov is one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Beyond his work in cultural and literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Todorov's influence is extraordinarily far-reaching specifically because of the clarity of his writing and his r...
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£30,00
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I Corinthians
ISBN: HB: 9780300140446, Yale University Press, September 2008
688 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus., maps
This new translation of "First Corinthians" includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated wi...
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£55,00
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