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Life and Death of Buildings On Photography and Time
ISBN: PB: 9780300174359, Yale University Press, August 2011
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architectur...
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£28,00
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Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim
ISBN: PB: 9788392404415, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
312 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 177 halftones, 20 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The book "Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim" is an attempt to read the works of one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation, and whose ar...
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£22,00
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1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change
ISBN: PB: 9788392404408, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
504 pp., 23x18 cm, 278 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! "1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change" is a selection of texts and presentations from the seminar "1968-1989" organized in Warsaw, July 2008, by the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Claire Bishop. The...
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£19,00
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Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects
ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...
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£22,00
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As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s
ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...
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£22,00
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Basic Anatomy for the Manga Artist Everything You Need to Start Drawing Authentic Manga Characters
ISBN: PB: 9780823047703, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, August 2011
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus., 320 black&white illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! This most basic and complete book on manga anatomy ever written is targeted to beginners, the widest segment of manga fans. The latest from bestselling author Chris Hart is not your father's anatomy book, it's an...
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£18,99
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Great Transformation Head Office Space
ISBN: HB: 9789881892362, Bookport, SendPoints, July 2011
340 pp., 25x25 cm, colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! With the rapid development of IT industry, office revolution has been becoming more intensively, irreversibly. At present, new mode and environment is the trend in office design, therefore, some of office units are indepen...
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£34,95
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Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State The Politics of Beauty
ISBN: HB: 9781606060599, Getty Publications, July 2011
416 pp., 27.4x19.7 cm, 17 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history and its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late...
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£60,00
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Tony Cragg Sculptures and Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300178982, Yale University Press, July 2011
100 pp., 30x24 cm, 90 colour illus.
Born in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of today's most celebrated and popular sculptors. Before studying art he worked as a laboratory technician, which has had an enormous influence on his practice. His work fuses art and science in a rich and arresting wa...
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£25,00
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Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...
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