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100 Posters From the Eye to the Heart
ISBN: PB: 9788862422499, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
128 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The book is a collection of 100 posters designed between 1967 and 2017 by one of the world renowned italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.
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£16,99
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Thomas Annan Photographer of Glasgow
ISBN: HB: 9781606065235, Getty Publications, May 2017
216 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 198 colour illus.
Thomas Annan (1829-1887) was the preeminent photographer of Glasgow in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when the rise in industry and population dramatically altered the landscape of the "second city" of the British Empire. Often working in conju...
HB:
£40,00
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Robert Ryman
ISBN: HB: 9780300226713, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 120 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
A comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work. This remarkable volume, featuring new photography and original essays by a formidable array of scholars and curators, is the most expansive and thorough...
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£45,00
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Mountains in Art History
ISBN: PB: 9780819577290, Casemate, Wesleyan University Press, May 2017
152 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"The Mountains in Art History" is the first English-language work to focus on the mountains as subject matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual inspiration for painters. This collection of original essays is written entirely by Wesleyan Universit...
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£14,00
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Question the Wall Itself
ISBN: PB: 9781935963158, DAP, Walker Art Center, May 2017
244 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Question the Wall Itself" examines ways that interior spaces and decor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of...
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£40,00
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Another World Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300219067, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 166 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe. Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this gro...
HB:
£50,00
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13 Art Materials Children Should Know
ISBN: HB: 9783791372600, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.
This fun and educational journey through art history shows young readers how the materials artists use in their work have evolved over the centuries, around the world. The earliest artists wielded bones, pieces of ivory, and wooden sticks to create...
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£10,99
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Pol Bury Time in Motion
ISBN: HB: 9780300229127, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2017
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces throughout the world. Acclaimed as one of the first proponent...
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£40,00
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Irving Penn Centennial
ISBN: HB: 9781588396181, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
372 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 365 colour illus.
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous...
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£55,00
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Kokusai the Genius And Stag-Antler Carving in Japan (box set)
ISBN: HB: 9781912168033, Casemate, Ad Ilissum, April 2017
1132 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm
Kokusai lived in a time of immense social, cultural and artistic change, and his work – and indeed his own person – captures its contradictions. The Edo period was ending, the last breath of feudal Japan, and the Meiji Restoration launched the new na...
HB:
£750,00
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