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Roni Horn
ISBN: HB: 9783791356600, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
300 pp., 24.5x18.4 cm, 117 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wideranging issues such as nature, ecology, identity, landscape, and language. Her sculptures, drawings, photographs, and installations intermingle material and context, aiming to complicate t...
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£55,00
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Real Birds in Imagined Gardens Mughal Painting Between Persia and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781606065181, Getty Publications, March 2017
116 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 31 colour illus.
Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526-1857) tend to trace a linear, "evolutionary" path and assert that, as European Renaissance prints reached and influenced Mughal artists, these artists abandoned a Persianate style in favo...
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£11,99
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Renaovate Inovate Reclaimed and Upcycled Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9783791383095, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 275 colour illus.
From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored h...
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£35,00
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Romanesque – Picasso
ISBN: PB: 9788480432870, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
257 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 170 colour plates, 20 halftones
This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using...
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£29,50
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Refashioning and Redressing Conserving and Displaying Dress
ISBN: PB: 9781606065112, Getty Publications, February 2017
200 pp., 25x15 cm
This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, "Re...
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£50,00
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Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815
ISBN: PB: 9781606065167, Getty Publications, February 2017
384 pp., 25x15 cm
The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti's"Storia del Restauro" have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises...
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£55,00
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Richard Patterson Matters of Life and Death
ISBN: HB: 9781910221129, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, February 2017
104 pp., 29.2x24.5 cm, 49 illus.
"Matters of Life and Death" is a limited-edition publication documenting the remarkable new and recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b. 1963). An engaging introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at th...
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£75,00
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Reservoir of Ideas Essays in Honour of Paul Williamson
ISBN: HB: 9781911300168, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
292 pp., 28.7x24.7 cm, 130 illus.
This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contributors, all friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, are prominent experts in their different fields,...
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£50,00
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Rafael Soriano The Artist as Mystic / El artista como mistico
ISBN: PB: 9781892850270, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2017
200 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 90 colour plates, 50 figures
Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world – his work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Ta...
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£26,50
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Raphael's Tapestries The Grotesques of Leo X
ISBN: HB: 9780300181999, Yale University Press, January 2017
200 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...
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£45,00
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