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Edward S. Curtis Events Beyond Words
ISBN: HB: 9783791357300, Prestel Publishing, June 2021
240 pp., 29x23 cm, 250 colour illus.
Featuring iconic and rarely seen images from the foremost photographer of North America's Native peoples, together with a rich selection of rare ephemera, this retrospective is an extensive and in-depth study of Edward Curtis's pioneering work. Edwa...
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£39,99
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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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En Passant Impressionism in Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9783791359618, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
360 pp., 28x23 cm, 335 colour illus.
Is there such a thing as "Impressionist sculpture"? Since 1881 when Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, the term has existed along with the discourse around it. This book is dedicated to t...
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£45,00
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Lina Bo Bardi  Habitat
ISBN: PB: 9783791359649, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
352 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 398 illus.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practic...
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£45,00
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East German Modern
ISBN: HB: 9783791385358, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.
The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and effici...
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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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Titian and the Renaissance in Venice
ISBN: HB: 9783791358130, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 198 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.
It is hard to imagine more profoundly influential artists than the Venetian painters of the 16th century. Whether creating sweeping devotional altarpieces or intimate portraits, the Venetian painters changed the way artists employed color and composi...
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£45,00
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Lotte Laserstein Face to Face
ISBN: HB: 9783791358239, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
192 pp., 28x21 cm, 139 colour illus.
After being one of the first women to graduate from Berlin Art Academy in 1927, Lotte Laserstein began making a name for herself in Weimar era Berlin's thriving art scene. She was a remarkable portraitist, capturing everyday citizens of Berlin from m...
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£45,00
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Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1914
ISBN: HB: 9783791358291, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
208 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 159 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact on each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduce...
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£39,99
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Bauhaus Architecture 1919-1933
ISBN: HB: 9783791384818, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
152 pp., 28x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Now available in an expanded and revised edition, this book contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Hans Engels and provides a detailed survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing...
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£29,99
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