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Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map
This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...
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£45,00
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Some Japanese Flowers Photographs by Kazumasa Ogawa
ISBN: HB: 9781606061305, Getty Publications, March 2013
48 pp., 17.2x18.7 cm, 38 colour illus.
This is a majestic collection of images from one of Japan's most important early photographers. Captivated in his youth by the new technology of photography, Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) became one of the most enterprising and important early photograp...
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£11,99
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Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings
ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...
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£19,00
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Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.
Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...
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£28,00
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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.
In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...
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£37,00
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£65,00
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Frantisek Skala Headlands, The Land of Heads
ISBN: HB: 9788087164907, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
152 pp., 22.9x22.6 cm, 163 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Headlands" is Czech artist Frantisek Skala's (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads mad...
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£17,50
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Frantisek Skala
ISBN: PB: 9788074670046, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
228 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 405 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skala (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children's illustrati...
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£45,00
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Adolf Wolfli Creator of the Universe
ISBN: HB: 9788087164952, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
372 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Adolf Wolfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was Wolfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled "A Psychiatric Patient as Artist", authored by h...
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£50,00
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Goshka Macuga A Exhibit
ISBN: HB: 9781938922107, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 2013
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Goshka Macuga: A Exhibit", accompanies the first museum survey exhibition of the work of Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967). Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have...
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£27,00
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Creative Lettering Techniques & Tips from Top Artists
ISBN: PB: 9781454704003, GMC Group, Lark, March 2013
144 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Hand-lettering techniques are a popular and visually dynamic way to add textual elements to crafts, from journals to mixed-media art. Sixteen accomplished contributors – including calligraphers, painters, collagists, card makers, fiber artists and gr...
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£14,99
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