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Coloring Book Art Nouveau
ISBN: PB: 9783791341019, Prestel Publishing, March 2011
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
PB:
£5,99
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Roberto Capucci Art into Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9780300169584, Yale University Press, March 2011
220 pp., 30.2x25.6 cm, 22 black&white illus., 182 colour illus.
Italian couturier Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of colour and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as "studies in form", and draws inspiration from a mu...
HB:
£40,00
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Caca Grande
ISBN: PB: 9788492480647, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2011
66 pp., 29.8x21 cm, colour illus.
This great universe consists of a circular journey in which the totality of things are the cause and effect of themselves. The work to date of Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, 1970) has been an interesting convergence of formal and conceptual tropes and...
PB:
£20,00
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Gutai Decentering Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.
"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...
PB:
£34,50
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Roy Lichtenstein Reflected
ISBN: HB: 9780981457864, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, March 2011
64 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 47 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Roy Lichtenstein Reflected" presents a selection of paintings that treat ideas of reflections and doubling. A strategy that spanned Lichtenstein's career, mirroring was explored in his "Reflections" series of the 1980s, in...
HB:
£35,00
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Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding Exposure
ISBN: PB: 9781906672997, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2011
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos
"Understanding Exposure" is an invaluable guide to taking better photographs using today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. Aimed at the novice or more experienced amateur photographer, jargon-free text explains the theory behin...
PB:
£14,99
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Independent Eye Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
ISBN: HB + CD: 9780300171396, Yale University Press, February 2011
144 pp., 31.2x25.6 cm, 105 colour illus.
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie's dynamic private collection of contemporary British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art. Spanning the past four decades, the collection includes m...
HB + CD:
£30,00
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Brush and Shutter Early Photography in China
ISBN: HB: 9781606060544, Getty Publications, February 2011
220 pp., 27.5x28.4 cm, 61 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
This title offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China. Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result...
HB:
£35,00
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China on Paper European and Chinese Works From the Late Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9781606060681, Getty Publications, February 2011
280 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 35 colour illus., 66 black&white illus.
This title explores the curiosity and collaboration that has existed between East and West for centuries. The striking illustrated books, maps, and prints featured in China on Paper are some of the most notable among the printed works produced at the...
PB:
£25,00
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Cartooning Philosophy and Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780300170993, Yale University Press, February 2011
96 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.
The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling – it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoonist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers...
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£10,99
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