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Martin Puryear Multiple Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9780300184549, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
160 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 140 colour illus.
American sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) creates work that combines the clean elegance of minimalism and the simplicity of traditional materials. His stunning sculptures explore themes of identity, ethnicity, and history, and are rich with social a...
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£20,00
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Handmade Lampshades Beautiful Designs to Illuminate Your Home
ISBN: PB: 9781784940690, GMC Group, GMC, October 2015
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 745 colour illus.
Lampshade maker and self-proclaimed junk shop junkie, Natalia Price-Cabrera (aka Mols & Tati-Lois) discovered a huge gap in the market when she set about making lampshades. There were so few inspiring books out there that she decided to put together...
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£14,99
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After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...
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£15,00
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£26,00
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Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind
ISBN: HB: 9788024626772, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
350 pp., 23.3x17 cm, 160 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors incl...
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£37,50
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Art is Trash
ISBN: HB: 9788415967347, Hoaki, June 2015
192 pp., 27x18 cm, richly illustrated
Urban art is conquering the world. Big cities and small towns are home to street art communities. Pioneering artists or forerunners of particular mediums or techniques emerge. "Art is Trash", a concept that contains the artist's experiences, his refl...
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£19,99
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Keys to a Passion
ISBN: HB: 9780300215427, Yale University Press, May 2015
284 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus.
This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Bonnard, Pi...
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£35,00
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Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936-1969
ISBN: HB: 9780300209716, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.
Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the...
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£50,00
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Ai Weiwei On the Table
ISBN: HB: 9788415691969, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2015
208 pp., 30.5x22.1 cm, illustrations throughout
"Ai Weiwei: On the Table" surveys the full scope of Weiwei's career, from his early days in 1980s New York to his present-day status as the best-known and most influential Chinese artist in the world. Work by this media-savvy activist calling for gre...
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£42,00
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Make Comics Like the Pros The Inside Scoop on How to Write, Draw, and Sell Your Comic Books and Graphic Novels
ISBN: PB: 9780385344630, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2014
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 200 illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Every aspiring comic book creator wants to know: what separates the beloved comics of major publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant and Image from all the rest? Fan-favourite comic book writers Greg Pak and Fred Van...
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£19,99
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Foundation Course Portrait Photography
ISBN: PB: 9781781450895, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, November 2014
176 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 200 photos
Portrait photography aims to capture the expression, personality and mood of a person or group of people. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or contex...
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£16,99
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