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Look for Me All Around You Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
ISBN: PB: 9783791358512, Prestel Publishing, December 2020
270 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Accompanying "Look for Me All Around You", one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14, this book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-)continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic...
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£19,99
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Lin May Saeed Arrival of the Animals
ISBN: PB: 9780300250862, Yale University Press, November 2020
144 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus.
German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal subjugation, liberation, and harmonious cohabita...
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£25,00
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Late Works of J. M. W. Turner The Artist and his Critics
ISBN: HB: 9781913107161, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a highly personal final vision that ranks with the late styles of the greatest artists. I...
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£35,00
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Little Dancer A Children's Book Inspired by Edgar Degas
ISBN: HB: 9783791374499, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 16 colour illus.
Degas's ballerina paintings are well known and admired and his sculptural work Little Dancer Aged Fourteen – the only sculpture he exhibited in his lifetime – is particularly beloved for capturing the essence of a ballerina. This book tells the ficti...
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£10,99
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Learn to See, Learn to Draw The Definitive and Original Method for Picking Up Drawing Skills
ISBN: HB: 9788417656096, Hoaki, August 2020
208 pp., 24x24 cm, fully illustrated in colour
Drawing is a universal language, but not everybody feels capable of giving it a go. This is a useful and entertaining book about the pleasure of drawing, by showing, with some exercises, that anybody can draw through learning to see first. Based on t...
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£22,99
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Lectures on Art Selected "Conferences" from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667-1772
ISBN: PB: 9781606066461, Getty Publications, August 2020
480 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 colour illus.
Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Academie's "conferences", foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embod...
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£60,00
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Living Paper Craftsmanship with Creativity
ISBN: HB: 9789887928348, Bookport, SendPoints, July 2020
256 pp., 28x21.5 cm, colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! This book offers a glimpse into the culture of paper art and its mysterious creation, by introducing paper art from different aspects- from the invention of paper to various kinds of paper art across the world, the main te...
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£29,95
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Living Pictures Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300247572, Yale University Press, July 2020
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 95 colour illus.
When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Weste...
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£50,00
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Laurits Tuxen The Court Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9788763546782, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, July 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 247 colour plates, 36 halftones
Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927) was a phenomenally talented artist who, thanks to his skills within both painting and diplomacy, established himself as one of the most important European court painters in the nineteenth century – active, among other places...
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£68,00
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London's New Scene Art and Culture in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9781913107109, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companie...
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£35,00
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