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Pandora's Box Jan Dibbets on Another Photography
ISBN: HB: 9782759603343, DAP, Paris Musees, August 2016
256 pp., 31.8x22.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Jan Dibbets' dissenting and unashamedly biased "Pandora's Box" offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire history of art photography, arguing that scientific photography was the realm where the medium's real...
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£22,00
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Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.
In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...
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£55,00
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Picturing
ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates
The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...
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£18,50
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Simply Calligraphy A Beginner's Guide to Elegant Lettering
ISBN: PB: 9781607748564, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 2016
96 pp., 22.8x18.9 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! This simple guide to calligraphy teaches just the basics, allowing novices to jump right in and make their own wedding invitations, hand-label envelopes, write their own place cards and explore their creative sid...
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£12,99
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Dance American Art, 1820-1960
ISBN: HB: 9780300211610, Yale University Press, March 2016
304 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.
As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major...
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£40,00
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Arthur Dove Always Connect
ISBN: HB: 9780226142197, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 58 colour plates, 87 halftones
Arthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature. C...
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£34,00
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Maria Bartuszova Provisional Forms
ISBN: PB: 9788364177262, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2016
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-1996) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporar...
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£22,00
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Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei
ISBN: HB: 9780300219357, Yale University Press, January 2016
312 pp., 28x22 cm, 192 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) are two of the most internationally renowned artists of the past 100 years, famous not only for their artwork but also for influencing the culture of their time. This exciting book is the first to consi...
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£45,00
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Hidden Nature A Colouring Book for Grown-Ups
ISBN: PB: 9788415967729, Hoaki, November 2015
90 pp., 25x25 cm, richly illustrated
Throughout 90 pages full of imaginative illustrations and lavish patterns inspired by natural motives, "Hidden Nature" will open the door to exploring our artistic side and re-awake that child inside us that still holds our creative imagination. With...
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£9,99
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Visual Contemplations Paintings Inspired by Gregory of Nyssa's "The Life of Moses"
ISBN: PB: 9781908326843, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
80 pp., 24x16.8 cm, colour illus.
A novel presentation of 20 original paintings, arranged as a story that delights the eye, engages the mind and feeds the heart Stunningly original works, direct and vivid in composition, yet profoundly resonant With the skill of an iconographer, the...
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£20,00
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