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Dot Art: Sticker Seurat – Bathers at Asnieres
ISBN: PB: 9783791385747, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
28 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 14 colour illus.
Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres is one of the most famous and popular paintings in London's National Gallery. This activity book allows adults and children to understand how the artist used colors to create vibrant and luminous scenes. Opening w...
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£10,99
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, June 2020
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work. The text in here, driven in this track, do...
PB:
£16,99
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Christina Quarles
ISBN: PB: 9783791359120, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
120 pp., 27.5x19.2 cm, 60 colour illus.
A member of the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene, Christina Quarles's art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, ciswoman of mixed race. Her large-scale, exuberantly colored paintings reflec...
PB:
£19,99
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783791384832, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
344 pp., 29.5x28.5 cm, 170 black and white illus.
Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when h...
HB:
£60,00
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Made in L.A. 2020
ISBN: PB: 9783791359106, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
208 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
Under the direction of co-curators Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler and with the help of Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, the Hammer Museum's 2020 Biennial brings together local artists from a variety of disciplines. This book spans sculpture, painting, inst...
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£22,50
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Portraits Unmasked The Stories Behind the Faces
ISBN: HB: 9783791386201, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
208 pp., 26x20 cm, 92 colour illus.
Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting's composition, style, and themes, often questions remain unanswered – who were these people and why were they painted? This entertaining book...
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£24,99
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Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory
ISBN: PB: 9783791358826, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
300 pp., 30x22 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Including newely comissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass's art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, wr...
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£42,50
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All Around Bustletown: Autumn
ISBN: board book: 9783791374215, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
14 pp., 34x26 cm, 14 colour and black&white illus.
The leaves are blowing off the trees and the birds are flying south in Bustletown. Farmers are preparing the fields for winter and kids are back in school. And look, there's a water main break that's causing havoc and a chimney sweeper perched on a r...
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£9,99
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Citizen Woman An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9783791385303, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
256 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 180 colour illus.
One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shif...
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£29,99
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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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