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Wall Art
ISBN: HB: 9789881892331, Bookport, SendPoints, June 2011
256 pp., 26x19 cm, 300 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! "Wall Art" brings together an eclectic mix of the extensive designs and patterns to have graced walls across the globe. Transmitting the tastes, interests and character of its owners- the outside visitor is treated to a vi...
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£24,95
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Walker Evans Cuba
ISBN: PB: 9781606060643, ISBN: HB: 9781606060018, Getty Publications, May 2011
96 pp., 28.1x26.4 cm, 73 duotone photos
This is a stunning exploration of quintessential American photographer Walker Evans' images of Cuba in the 1930s. In 1933, Walker Evans travelled to Cuba to take photographs for "The Crime of Cuba", a book by American journalist Carleton Beals whose...
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£18,99
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£27,50
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Weddings Vintage People on Photo Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851243693, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2011
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...
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£10,00
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Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam
ISBN: HB: 9780300170603, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 28.4x22.6 cm, 55 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.
This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cos...
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£50,00
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Women and Hats Vintage People on Photo Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851243624, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2010
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...
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£10,00
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Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures
ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones
Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...
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£30,00
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What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005
ISBN: PB: 9780300162479, Yale University Press, October 2010
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 tritone illus.
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decade...
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£17,00
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Worldly Art The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
ISBN: PB: 9780300107234, Yale University Press, August 2010
192 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.
Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (or...
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£16,99
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William Merritt Chase Volume 4: Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300110197, Yale University Press, June 2010
255 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 211 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.
This is the fourth and final volume in the complete catalogue of the work of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Included in this handsome book are interiors, primarily paintings of his renowned Tenth Street Studio, and still life paintings, in partic...
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£65,00
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