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Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace
ISBN: HB: 9783791358376, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
248 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The 2019 opening of the Humboldt Forum heralds a massive achievement in cultural understanding. Bringing together more than 20,000 objects and designed to offer diverse exhibitions, events, and venues, this enormous complex will use state-of-the-art...
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£45,00
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Haegue Yang
ISBN: HB: 9783791359656, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
160 pp., 26x26 cm, 100 colour illus.
Haegue Yang is renowned for her multifaceted works that vary in form from collage to kinetic sculpture, perceptively evoking historical and contemporary narratives of migration, displacement, and cross-cultural translation. Using a language of abstra...
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£29,99
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Hundertwasser Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976
ISBN: HB: 9783791387055, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 14.5x11 cm, 95 colour illus.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter. He created original graphic works – lithographs, silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundertwasser original, the first book designed and...
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£16,99
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How to Spot an Artist This Might Get Messy
ISBN: HB: 9783791374406, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
40 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 40 colour illus.
With over 200,000 Instagram followers, Danielle Krysa has helped a lot of people overcome the fear that they "aren't creative." In books like Creative Block and Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk she calls out the self-criticism that keeps us from claim...
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£11,99
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Heather Phillipson
ISBN: HB: 9783791359526, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
240 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 illus. 
Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission...
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£35,00
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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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Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783791384832, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
344 pp., 29.5x28.5 cm, 170 black and white illus.
Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when h...
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£60,00
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Hannah Ryggen Woven Manifestos
ISBN: HB: 9783791359267, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
132 pp., 30x24 cm, 60 colour illus. 
Hannah Ryggen created numerous monumental tapestries in her lifetime. Originally trained as a painter, Ryggen began weaving on a standing loom on her self-sufficient farm on the West coast of Norway. She challenged the formal traditions of Norwegian...
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£42,50
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Hito Steyerl
ISBN: HB: 9783791359274, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
160 pp., 26x26 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Steyerl's large-scale works – Hell Yeah We Fuck Die (2016), ExtraSpaceCraft (2016), and Liquidity Inc. (20...
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£29,99
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Henry Darger
ISBN: PB: 9783791385839, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
320 pp., 30x23.3 cm, 280 colour and black&white illus.
Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings,...
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£35,00
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