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Suffering from Realness
ISBN: HB: 9783791358192, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 24x18 cm, 172 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
In an age of national divisiveness, artists are creating moments of political resistance while also trying to forge paths towards reconciliation. This exciting and provocative collection shows how fifteen US-based multi-disciplinary artists are addre...
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£29,99
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Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech
ISBN: HB: 9783791358574, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
480 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 275 colour illus.
Virgil Abloh's story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in Rockford, Illinois, he launched his career as a member of Kanye West's creative team in 2002. Ever since, his diverse professional and artistic endea...
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£49,99
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Flower Power
ISBN: HB: 9785912083631, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
224 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, colour illus.
This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing flower portraits , manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world. Devoted to flowers, the book is beau...
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£12,99
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It Speaks to Me Art that Inspires Artists
ISBN: HB: 9783791356594, Prestel Publishing, May 2019
168 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 100 colour illus.
Imagine your favorite artist leading you through a museum to the very work of art they can't stop thinking about. That's the experience at the heart of It Speaks to Me. In lively and intimate interviews, some of today's most acclaimed artists share t...
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£19,99
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Thomas Joshua Cooper Refuge
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791358185, Prestel Publishing, May 2019
100 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 60 colour illus.
Throughout his career, Thomas Joshua Cooper has focused on the landscape through the lens of historical and cultural geography and cartography. Working exclusively outdoors with an 1898 AGFA field camera, Cooper has established a unique aesthetic and...
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£29,99
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Birds of a Feather...
ISBN: HB: 9785912083648, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
304 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm
The symbolism surrounding the bird is unequalled by any other creature. Godlike, mysterious, benevolent or evil, they can be associated with fire, with freedom, with fragility and have been a recurrent symbol in mythology, literature and art through...
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£12,99
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100 Years, 100 Artworks A History of Modern and Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791384849, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
216 pp., 27x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and performance pieces from all over the world. The works are carefully selec...
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£27,50
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Disappearing – California c. 1970 Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
ISBN: PB: 9783791358543, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
176 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas Jan Ader and Jack Goldstein, in 1970s Southern California....
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£35,00
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Jonathas de Andrade
ISBN: PB: 9783791358390, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
Themes of memory, love, economic inequality, and political upheaval are threaded throughout de Andrade's work, which is often situated in Recife, his hometown in the northeast corner of Brazil. This includes the artist's most recent works, The Fish,...
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£19,99
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Leonardo Da Vinci The Complete Paintings in Detail
ISBN: HB: 9783791384979, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
288 pp., 34x24.5 cm, 230 colour illus.
While Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most studied and renowned artists, there are many myths surrounding his work. Beginning with his birth and early maturity in the workshops of the Florentine masters, Alessandro Vezzosi delves into the prove...
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£65,00
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