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Equivalents Photographs by Scott Mead
ISBN: HB: 9783791386553, Prestel Publishing, April 2021
128 pp., 24x24 cm, 126 colour illus.
In "Above the Clouds", Scott Mead contemplated the endless horizons outside of a plane's window. Now he turns his gaze back to earth, where the view is just as extraordinary. Inspired by William Eggleston, Mead's former teacher, this series of paired...
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£35,00
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Guardians of Memory
ISBN: HB: 9788417048594, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
196 pp., 28x22 cm, colour and black&white illus.
"Guardians of Memory" explores the tradition of the Panzudos Mercedarios, mystical creatures that every 22nd of September flood the streets of La Merced district in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (Mexico), announcing the festivities of Our Lady...
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£31,00
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Masters of Art Modigliani
ISBN: PB: 9783791386591, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his youth in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906, d...
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£9,99
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El Anatsui Art and Life (Revised and Expanded)
ISBN: HB: 9783791359786, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 221 colour illus.
An African artist who has garnered worldwide recognition while based permanently in Nigeria and whose work is in the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums, El Anatsui is best known for sumptuous tapestries made from used bottle t...
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£45,00
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Snow
ISBN: HB: 9783791386492, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
160 pp., 31x29 cm, 100 colour illus.
Renowned for his gorgeous mountain scenes and spectacular photos of winter athletes, Peter Mathis has chosen black and white film to capture the essence of snow in this book. These stunning duotone images render a traditional Alpen landscape into pai...
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£39,99
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I Can Make You Feel Good
ISBN: HB: 9783791386089, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Even before becoming the first African American photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue in September 2018 with an iconic portrait of Beyonce, Tyler Mitchell was making a name for himself as a photographer and video director focusing on youth culture...
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£45,00
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Hermitage Cookbook Symbols. Traditions. Recipes
ISBN: HB: 9785912083266, Prestel Publishing, Arca, July 2020
320 pp., 21.5x20.5 cm, 410 colour and black&white illus.
"The Hermitage Cookbook" is a hymn to the unity of material world seen through the prism of art, literature, ethnographic observations and historical documents. The book covers a wide range of culinary recipes – ancient, national, family and royal. A...
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£29,99
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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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Visual Protest The Art of Banksy
ISBN: HB: 9783791386065, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
240 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 360 colour illus.
Not for sale in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia! Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest o...
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£29,99
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Albrecht Durer
ISBN: HB: 9783791359311, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 260 colour illus.
During his lifetime, Durer found tremendous success as a painter and printmaker, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. His drawings and studies reveal his interest in human proportio...
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£49,99
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