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Masters of Art Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791386577, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad a...
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£9,99
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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...
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£45,00
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Art of Illusion
ISBN: HB: 9783791386799, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work...
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£29,99
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Heather Phillipson
ISBN: HB: 9783791359526, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
240 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 illus. 
Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission...
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£35,00
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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...
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£28,00
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Flower Power The Magic Of Nature's Healers
ISBN: HB: 9783791373997, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
40 pp., 35x26 cm, 16 colour illus.
Olaf Hajek's fantastical and mesmerising art is familiar to many adults. Now young readers can enjoy his work while learning about the fascinating health benefits of flowers they encounter every day. Hajek's paintings spring to life, populated by ins...
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£14,99
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Soulmates Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin
ISBN: HB: 9783791359328, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
320 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 235 colour illus.
Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin occupy a prominent place in art history as a pioneering artist couple of the avant-garde movement. Early in her career in Russia, Werefkin attracted a great deal of attention for her Realist-inspired por...
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£45,00
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Julie Mehretu
ISBN: HB: 9783791358741, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
320 pp., 26.9x25 cm, 455 colour and black&white illus.
Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accom...
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£49,99
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Marcel Duchamp The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791358734, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
220 pp., 25.5x22 cm, 225 colour and black&white illus.
This book documents Barbara and Aaron Levine's extraordinary collection of Duchamp's work, one of the most significant private collections of the artist in the world, which has been promised to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Collected ove...
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£35,00
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Mountains By Magnum Photographers
ISBN: HB: 9783791384696, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 180 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Magnum Photos is arguably the most celebrated photographic cooperative ever created and these images represent the world's most iconic photographers capturing the world's most breathtaking peaks. Robert Capa portrays the glamour of skiing the Austria...
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£39,99
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