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Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226439471, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 73 halftones
Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...
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£34,00
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Hello Lilac – Good Morning Yellow Colors and First Words
ISBN: HB: 9783791373515, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
32 pp., 26x20 cm, 32 colour illus.
This charming introduction to the world of color and a child's first words is brimming with bright, playfully inviting illustrations of everyday objects. Introducing children to colors and in the process expanding their vocabulary, this book will de...
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£10,99
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Sophie Podolski Le pays ou tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
ISBN: PB: 9780300241266, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
144 pp., 27x18.7 cm, 129 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.
This bilingual publication offers an unprecedented exploration of the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski (1953-1974), who has lingered in obscurity since her untimely death at the age of 21. Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked...
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£22,00
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52 Assignments Street Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781781453520, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2018
128 pp., 21x14 cm, colour illus.
"52 Assignments: Street Photography" is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalised journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovatio...
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£12,99
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Contemporary Muslim Fashions
ISBN: HB: 9783791357829, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
320 pp., 33x25.5 cm, 306 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated book presents Muslim fashion as an essential part of contemporary style. This dazzling exploration of contemporary Muslim modest dress, from historic styles to present-day examples, accompanies a major exhibition and reveal...
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£39,99
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Legible – Visible Between the Film Frame and the Page
ISBN: PB: 9788494423437, University of Chicago Press, Tenov Books, September 2018
124 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 214 halftones
"Legible – Visible" explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time – and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art i...
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£16,50
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Edi Hila
ISBN: PB: 9788364177538, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2018
148 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 68 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! This catalog accompanies "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation", the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Ea...
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£22,00
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David Smith Origins and Innovations
ISBN: HB: 9783906915128, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, August 2018
200 pp., 29.3x24.7 cm, 106 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Origins and Innovations" brings together David Smith's (1906-1965) early paintings, drawings and sculptures, alongside seminal later works that reimagine the possibilities of abstraction in three dimensions. This presentat...
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£50,00
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Delacroix Drawings The Karen B. Cohen Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781588396808, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Known as the master of French Romanticism for his energetic paintings, Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was also a consummate draftsman. This handsome book, one of the few to explore this topic in depth, provides new insight into Delacroix's drawing prac...
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£25,00
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Obsession Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781588396525, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2018
132 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 110 colour illus.
Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), the unusual and complicated man who collected them. Thayer was a wealthy publish...
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£20,00
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