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Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways Loneliness and the Cinematic
ISBN: PB: 9780300229110, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 colour illus.
In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel "Madame Bovary". Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation...
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£50,00
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Real Birds in Imagined Gardens Mughal Painting Between Persia and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781606065181, Getty Publications, March 2017
116 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 31 colour illus.
Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526-1857) tend to trace a linear, "evolutionary" path and assert that, as European Renaissance prints reached and influenced Mughal artists, these artists abandoned a Persianate style in favo...
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£11,99
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Otto Dix The Evil Eye
ISBN: HB: 9783791356303, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
240 pp., 27x23 cm, 153 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
Focusing on one of the most intense and productive periods of Otto Dix's career, this richly illustrated book features paintings, watercolors, and graphic works that mark the artist's transformation from Dadaism to New Objectivity. Otto Dix's career...
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£45,00
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Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780300227420, Yale University Press, March 2017
1500 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 1317 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work...
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£575,00
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Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honore Sharrer
ISBN: HB: 9780300223132, Yale University Press, March 2017
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.
Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reass...
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£35,00
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Ed van der Elsken Camera in Love
ISBN: HB: 9783791383255, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
288 pp., 30x24 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated monograph accompanies a full retrospective on the acclaimed Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Known for his unconventional technique and gritty, evocative images of people and places, Ed van der Elsken...
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£40,00
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Pics or It Didn't Happen Images Banned from Instagram
ISBN: HB: 9783791383071, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
300 pp., 15.3x15.3 cm, 270 colour illus.
Featuring photographs that have been banned from Instagram, this generously illustrated book explores modern censorship. Instagram's user guidelines prohibit posting "violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, porn...
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£16,99
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Hard Life
ISBN: HB: 9783037785140, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 30x22 cm, 230 illus.
By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial an...
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£35,00
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Renaovate Inovate Reclaimed and Upcycled Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9783791383095, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 275 colour illus.
From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored h...
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£35,00
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Art of Folding Volume 2: New Trends, Techniques and Materials
ISBN: HB: 9788416504640, Hoaki, March 2017
176 pp., 22.5x24.5 cm, richly illustrated
"The Art of Folding" presented a wide range of creators who are inspired by origami and whose work with various materials draws on traditional techniques. Drawing on examples from nature, this second volume focuses on folders' know-how as it applies...
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£27,99
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