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Cook the Mountain The Nature Around You
ISBN: BOX: 9783791387161, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
560 pp., 33x28 cm, 2 volumes in jewellery packaging, printed on apple paper and bound with apple leather
Explore the hyperlocal approach of acclaimed chef Norbert Niederkofler, from his home in South Tyrol in the Italian Alps to the world and back. Norbert Niederkofler has dedicated his life and work to South Tyrol's culture and cuisine. He translates t...
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£99,00
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Textiles of India
ISBN: HB: 9783791386850, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
384 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 400 colour illus.
Dating back to the fifth millennium BCE, India's rich and vibrant textile tradition boasts an enormous range of techniques and extraordinary level of artistry. Drawn from one of the world's finest collections of Indian textiles, this book presents a...
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£75,00
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Basquiat Boom For Real
ISBN: PB: 9783791359502, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 312 illus., 237 in colour
Basquiat first came to prominence when he collaborated with Al Diaz to spray-paint enigmatic statements under the pseudonym SAMO. He went on to work on collages, Xerox art, postcards, performances, and music before establishing his reputation as one...
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£29,99
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A-Z of Modern Southeast Asian Art
ISBN: PB: 9789811147258, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2019
176 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
What is modern Southeast Asian art? This introduction is a starting point for readers to explore this rich but often overlooked subject. Conceived for the general reader, "An A-Z of Modern Southeast Asian Art" features 80 bite-sized accounts of the k...
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£21,00
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William Forsythe Choreographic Objects
ISBN: HB: 9783791357966, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
240 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 200 colour illus.
This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work...
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£39,99
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Klimt and Rodin An Artistic Encounter
ISBN: HB: 9783791357089, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
224 pp., 29x24 cm, 163 colour illus.
Although they worked in different media, Auguste Rodin and Gustav Klimt were two artists whose output generated both incredible enthusiasm and virulent denunciation in their lifetimes. On the centenary of their deaths, in 1917 and 1918 respectively,...
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£39,99
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Catching the Light A Journey Across Myanmar
ISBN: PB: 9786167339832, Prestel Publishing, River Books, September 2017
200 pp., 25.5x23.7 cm, black&white photos
Much has changed in Burma since Birgit Neiser first visited in 1981.The country is now known as Myanmar, and military rule - which lasted nearly half a century - has given way to a tentative democratic process. Returning in 2010, at the cusp of this...
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£22,00
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Klimt and the Women of Vienna´s Golden Age, 1900-1918
ISBN: HB: 9783791355825, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
320 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 97 black&white illus., 229 colour illus.
Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his most celebrated works and the focus of this book. Highligh...
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£45,00
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Display Didactics for a Relational Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862420761, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2013
320 pp., 22x17 cm, illus.
The sixteen didactic exhibitions illustrated in this book are a meditation on display, a design workshop's nal exercise. Installing a display is an acceleration of the ongoing labour of architecture that stimulates "collaborative doing and thinking"....
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£17,99
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Inwalkaboutcity 2.0 Landform Building, Time, Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862420778, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2013
320 pp., 24x17 cm, colour photos
Ten years after the strip park's construction, INWALKABOUTCITY 2.0 accurately describes an inventory of tools for architecture, reassembling the fragments of the original book in a new perspective."Time after time" is a dialogue about the future of a...
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£25,00
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