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My Big Book of the World's Greatest Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791373959, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
48 pp., 32x22.5 cm, 48 colour and black&white illus.
This children's book is the perfect stepping stone to a lifelong appreciation of art. Each major art period unfolds in a gently colored spread featuring famous artists and artworks while other spreads present specific scenes that incorporate similar...
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£14,99
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Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again
ISBN: HB: 9783791358758, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen vid...
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£42,50
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Shot in Soho Photographing Life, Love and Lawlessness in the Heart of London
ISBN: HB: 9783791358895, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 26x19 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
During a time of development and change that has the potential to transform the unique character of London's Soho, this book delves into the area's storied past as a place of disobedience and eccentricity. Opening with a look at Soho through the year...
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£24,99
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Teresita Fernandez Elemental
ISBN: HB: 9783791358840, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Teresita Fernandez's dazzling large-scale sculptures and installations employ diverse materials – charcoal, ceramics, chrome, steel, onyx, wood, resin, and enamel – with an utterly immersive effect. Accompanying a retrospective of Fernandez's career,...
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£39,99
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Designs for Different Futures
ISBN: PB: 9780876332900, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 30x23 cm, 191 colour and black&white illus.
"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contempora...
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£30,00
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Lari Pittman Declaration of Independence
ISBN: HB: 9783791356891, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
208 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.
One of the most prolific and exuberant painters of the past three decades, Lari Pittman creates works that mirror the social fabric of his time. This dazzling volume follows Pittman's trajectory as his visual language evolved and his technical master...
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£49,99
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen Regency Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9780300218725, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 180 colour illus.
This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane Austen's beloved books, focusing on the long Regency between the years 1795 and 1825. During this period, accelerated change saw Britain's turbulent entry into the modern...
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£30,00
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Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech (Special Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9783791359007, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
496 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 1935 colour and black&white illus.
For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything". This special-edition monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue secti...
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£115,00
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Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300231007, Yale University Press, October 2019
232 pp., 27.3x22.2 cm, 272 colour and black&white illus.
The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such n...
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£40,00
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Elizabethan Globalism England, China and the Rainbow Portrait
ISBN: HB: 9781913107031, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.
Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters – from the Caribbean to Asia – created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated...
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£50,00
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