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Style of Her Own
ISBN: HB: 9788416248483, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2016
256 pp., 28.5x21 cm, illus.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image. Similarly...
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£43,00
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Alejandro Marote A: 2008 / 2013
ISBN: HB: 9788416282340, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2016
216 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.
This evolution is articulated in four complementary blocks: the man, the city, the collapse of the straight line, and the return to nature. The man, uniformed in dark suits, possesses the creative power but remains subject to the very surroundings he...
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£35,00
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Bauhaus
ISBN: PB: 9783791382104, Prestel Publishing, March 2016
128 pp., 23.5x19.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
Now available in an updated edition, this book examines the tumultuous history of Bauhaus art and design. This lively introduction to the Bauhaus tells the story of a radical concept of artistic expression that would transcend the boundaries among t...
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£10,99
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Artist's Notebook of Matador R.
ISBN: PB: 9788416248445, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2016
24 pp., 40x30 cm, illus.
It is a sketched work which, just like life itself, does not stop and is constantly under construction; the solitude of the traveller, of explorers, within the solitude of the universe. The oeuvre of Usle, one of the most prestigious artists on the i...
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£44,00
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Isaac Mizrahi
ISBN: HB: 9780300212143, Yale University Press, March 2016
236 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 202 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Beginning with Isaac Mizrahi's first fashion collection, which debuted to critical acclaim in 1986, and running though the present day, this stylish, lavishly illustrated book presents his signature couture collections. Mizrahi's exuberant couture st...
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£30,00
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Aubrey Beardsley A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300111279, Yale University Press, March 2016
960 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 1100 black&white illus.
This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) a...
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£175,00
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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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Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...
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£20,00
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Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Technical Studies
ISBN: HB: 9780300220155, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
496 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch's works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bo...
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£120,00
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Unorthodox
ISBN: PB: 9780300219340, Yale University Press, March 2016
184 pp., 28x21.9 cm, 55 colour illus.
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking compilation explores the idea of nonconformity in art, religion, and philosophy. The book features 55 contemporary artists who work outside the norms of current practice, alongside both newly commissioned and p...
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£15,00
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