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Lotte Laserstein Face to Face
ISBN: HB: 9783791358239, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
192 pp., 28x21 cm, 139 colour illus.
After being one of the first women to graduate from Berlin Art Academy in 1927, Lotte Laserstein began making a name for herself in Weimar era Berlin's thriving art scene. She was a remarkable portraitist, capturing everyday citizens of Berlin from m...
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£45,00
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Marcel Duchamp 100 Questions. 100 Answers
ISBN: HB: 9783791358437, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
304 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
As the inventor of the Readymade and a founder of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp's work is still provoking important discussions about what defines art. Accompanying the first exhibition of the important Stuttgart Duchamp Collection, this book also p...
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£45,00
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Martin Parr Tbilisi
ISBN: HB: 9783791384863, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
128 pp., 30x24 cm, 80 colour illus.
With curiosity and zeal, Martin Parr has been photographing people and the way we live for more than thirty years. One of the leading members of the Magnum Photos collective, Parr has traveled the world to investigate the international phenomena of l...
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£35,00
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Milein Cosman Capturing Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791357973, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
192 pp., 26x21 cm, 200 colour illus.
Highly regarded in England's classical music circles, Milein Cosman was a remarkable artist who drew primarily from life. Her portraits of fellow artists were fueled by her own passions for music, literature, and visual arts. This biography traces Co...
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£39,99
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Olympian Gods From the Dresden Sculpture Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791358284, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 66 colour illus.
For people in ancient Greece, ornately and imposingly fashioned statues depicting the gods symbolized power or ideal beauty. During the Roman Empire, when sculptors copied Greek models, the sculptures conveyed an aura of education and scholarship. Th...
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£22,50
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Picasso An Animated Coloring Adventure
ISBN: PB: 9783791373492, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
16 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 8 animations of 20 seconds each
Young artists become filmmakers in this cutting-edge coloring book that brings Picasso's world to life. In this wholly original coloring book, children's artwork can be turned into entertaining videos to play on a tablet or smartphone. Each page of t...
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£9,99
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Playing the Game The History of Adidas
ISBN: HB: 9783791358307, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
400 pp., 25x23 cm, 160 colour illus.
Founded in a small town in Bavaria, Germany, the adidas brand has, for nearly a century, been outfitting international sports stars and pop culture icons such as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, and Run-DMC as well as everyday men, women, and children...
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£39,99
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Textiles of Japan The Thomas Murray Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791385204, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
520 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 500 colour illus.
Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of th...
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£75,00
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Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...
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£35,00
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MIRIAM CAHN I AS HUMAN
ISBN: PB: 9788364177552, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2019
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and perform...
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£27,00
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