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Art Nouveau New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9783791381558, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
304 pp., 32x22 cm, 241 colour illus.
Now available in a new edition, this sumptuous volume explores key aspects of Art Nouveau – decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising, and more – with an in-depth approach and stunning illustrations. The Art Nouveau movement became...
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£35,00
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Ai Weiwei On the Table
ISBN: HB: 9788415691969, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2015
208 pp., 30.5x22.1 cm, illustrations throughout
"Ai Weiwei: On the Table" surveys the full scope of Weiwei's career, from his early days in 1980s New York to his present-day status as the best-known and most influential Chinese artist in the world. Work by this media-savvy activist calling for gre...
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£42,00
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Coloring Book Hokusai
ISBN: PB: 9783791372150, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus.
Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines. This delightful coloring book introduces children to one of the...
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£5,99
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Graphic Design for Wine A Selection of Contemporary Wine Labels
ISBN: PB: 9788862421522, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, March 2015
160 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book is a collection of about one hundred graphic designs for wineries of various size from across the world. The graphic design approaches are equally varied, either photographic or minimal, based on line drawings or digital concepts, resulting...
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£19,99
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Banteay Chhmar Garrison Temple of the Khmer Empire
ISBN: PB: 9786167339207, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2015
192 pp., 23.6x17.2 cm, illustrations throughout
Banteay Chhmar is the second monument of ancient Cambodia's greatest king, Jayavarman VII. This temple, built in the late 12th-Century by one of Cambodia's most original stone carving and architectural workshops, lay in ruins for almost a thousand ye...
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£19,95
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BARCELONA Portrait of a City
ISBN: HB: 9788415691679, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2015
352 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, black&white photos
This is a stunning photographic celebration of everything that makes Barcelona one of the most inviting, exciting and inspiring cities in the whole world. Barcelona is special, its architecture, monuments, streets, its style, its history, its spirit,...
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£43,00
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Burma's Spring Real Lives in Turbulent Times
ISBN: PB: 9786167339559, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2015
200 pp., 20.8x14.4 cm
Burma's Spring documents the struggles of ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstance. Rosalind Russell, a British journalist who came to live in Burma with her family, witnessed a time of unprecedented change in a secretive country that had b...
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£9,95
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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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Frank Gehry
ISBN: HB: 9783791354422, Prestel Publishing, February 2015
256 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Featuring fifty of Frank Gehry's most important projects, this lavish monograph presents the full range of the architect's work from the past six decades. Arranged chronologically, this book follows the arc of Gehry's career, from his early resident...
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£40,00
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Keith Haring I Wish I Didn't Have to Sleep
ISBN: PB: 9783791372198, Prestel Publishing, January 2015
40 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Whether you're young or just young at heart, this collection of Keith Haring's playful artwork will help you see his paintings through fresh eyes. Children's reactions to art can be incredibly insightful and few artists attract a young audience as m...
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£7,99
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