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Thing Called Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791374437, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
56 pp., 28x21.3 cm, 26 colour illus.
What is life? It's constantly moving, growing, reproducing, and dying. It's happening now, all the time, and it's everywhere around us. From little helicopter seed pods that float through the air to blue whales in the ocean, the world is filled with...
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£12,99
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Heather Phillipson
ISBN: HB: 9783791359526, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
240 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 illus. 
Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission...
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£35,00
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I Can Make You Feel Good
ISBN: HB: 9783791386089, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Even before becoming the first African American photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue in September 2018 with an iconic portrait of Beyonce, Tyler Mitchell was making a name for himself as a photographer and video director focusing on youth culture...
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£45,00
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Michael Kenna Buddha
ISBN: HB: 9783791385082, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
192 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 black&white illus.
Michael Kenna is an English photographer, now based in Seattle, USA, best known for his black-and-white landscapes. More than 60 books and monographs have been published on his photographic work, including "Forms of Japan", "Rouge", and "Holga" (all...
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£40,00
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Asian Modern, Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9789811406072, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
450 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
John Clark's magisterial "The Asian Modern" reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes meticulo...
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£28,00
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Hermitage Cookbook Symbols. Traditions. Recipes
ISBN: HB: 9785912083266, Prestel Publishing, Arca, July 2020
320 pp., 21.5x20.5 cm, 410 colour and black&white illus.
"The Hermitage Cookbook" is a hymn to the unity of material world seen through the prism of art, literature, ethnographic observations and historical documents. The book covers a wide range of culinary recipes – ancient, national, family and royal. A...
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£29,99
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Modern in Southeast Asian Art Collected Texts
ISBN: PB: 9789811406645, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
350 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
Who spoke of the modern? When was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection features texts spanning the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. They...
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£28,00
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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...
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£28,00
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William Kentridge The Head & The Load
ISBN: HB: 9783791387185, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
348 pp., 31x23 cm, 240 colour illus.
For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installation, films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa,...
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£49,99
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Surf Like a Girl
ISBN: HB: 9783791385952, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 280 colour and black&white illus.
If you thought surfing was a male-dominated sport, think again. The thirty women surfers profiled in this thrilling collection can rip a wave with the best of them. Hailing from all over the world, each surfer is featured in spectacular photography a...
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£35,00
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