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Ai Weiwei Resetting Memories
ISBN: PB: 9788417047931, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2021
264 pp., 22x16 cm, 132 colour and black&white illus.
For his exhibition at Mexico City's MUAC, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) addressed two national traumas: the destruction of cultural heritage during China's Communist Revolution and the murder of 43 students in Mexico. These are represented respectively by a...
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£22,00
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Berlin Fragments A Heterography of an Architectural Form
ISBN: PB: 9788862423434, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
180 pp., 21x14.8 cm
Every building and every architect has a tale. Bringing these tales together, determining where they overlap, may give us telling urban tales. What can be told is what has the right to remain, to avoid oblivion, allowing words about buildings and cit...
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£17,99
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Exlibris 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423359, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2020
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, the...
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£17,99
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Asian Modern, Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9789811406072, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
450 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
John Clark's magisterial "The Asian Modern" reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes meticulo...
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£28,00
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Maria Sibylla Merian 22 Pull-Out Posters
ISBN: PB: 9783791386003, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
46 pp., 35x28 cm, 22 colour illus.
More than three centuries after Maria Sibylla Merian established herself as a scientific trailblazer – and after more than two centuries of obscurity – the work of this pioneering naturalist and artist is being rediscovered. Merian's work, "The New B...
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£19,99
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Le Corbuffet Edible Art and Design Classics
ISBN: HB: 9783791384726, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 28x20 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.
It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi – artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook – hosted for friends after she stumbled across an elaborate menu crafted for Walter Gropius in 1937. Combining a curiosity about art and...
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£29,99
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Teresita Fernandez Elemental
ISBN: HB: 9783791358840, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Teresita Fernandez's dazzling large-scale sculptures and installations employ diverse materials – charcoal, ceramics, chrome, steel, onyx, wood, resin, and enamel – with an utterly immersive effect. Accompanying a retrospective of Fernandez's career,...
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£39,99
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Totem Spirit Animals of Ancient Civilisations
ISBN: HB: 9783791374017, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
36 pp., 32x23 cm, 36 colour and black&white illus.
Ancient cultures regarded animals as emblems of power and magic. An array of animals helped shape entire societies and religions. Now, this boldly inventive book helps young readers grasp just how important animals were to those that came before us....
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£10,99
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London's Great Theatres
ISBN: HB: 9783791383866, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 143 colour and black&white illus.
This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and wide-ranging. One of the most prominent photographers of...
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£29,99
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My Town's (Extra) Ordinary People
ISBN: HB: 9783791373836, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
48 pp., 27x23 cm, 20 colour illus.
Nico lives in a small coastal town, a place like any other, with ordinary neighbors and friends. But are they really ordinary? As Nico meanders through his town he introduces readers to his friends. There's Josean, who works on the docks and who coul...
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£11,99
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