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Explorations in the Middle-Class City
ISBN: HB: 9788862421584, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, August 2017
160 pp., 22x17 cm
The book looks at the residential buildings erected in Turin for the middle classes in the decades after World War II: a period marked by a remarkable urban growth in which a signi cant part of newly produced housing was aimed at social groups lookin...
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£18,00
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Seeing Slowly
ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.
When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...
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£22,50
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Huun Art / Thought from Mexico
ISBN: PB: 9788416282968, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
208 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, illus.
HUUN is a new annual magazine-book that offers a space for artistic expression.Contributors include poets, critics, fiction writers, composers, and artists such as Vivian Abenshunshan, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Luigi Amara, Edga...
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£19,50
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Joan Fontcuberta PHotoBolsillo
ISBN: PB: 9788416248988, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2017
96 pp., 18x13 cm, black&white photos
Joan Fontcuberta s work conveys a critic to conceiving photography as evidence of reality. He aims to question the veracity attributed to photographs, by means of image and story manipulation as well as intense interaction with viewers. La Fabrica pr...
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£11,00
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Chupar del Bote
ISBN: HB: 9788417047023, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
112 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, illustrations throughout
Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain, participating in the ferment of counter...
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£30,00
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A4A Architecture for Animals
ISBN: PB: 9788862421157, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
192 pp., 22x17 cm, illustrations throughout
This book is a concise selection of twenty buildings designed to shelter animals. While being examples of contemporary architecture they also clearly illustrate the evolution of our relationship with animals. Man has always exploited and tamed animal...
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£19,99
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Caspar David Friedrich
ISBN: HB: 9783791383576, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
288 pp., 30.2x25.5 cm, 225 colour illus.
"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand", wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature". One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from wi...
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£35,00
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Mexico 1986-2016
ISBN: HB: 9788417047177, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
220 pp., 33x22.9 cm, photos
Over the past 30 years, French photographer Antoine d'Agata (born 1961) has undertaken various journeys in Mexico. As a photographer, d'Agata tends to focus on societal taboos like addiction and prostitution, and embroil himself directly in these dar...
HB:
£50,00
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100 Logos The Power of the Symbol
ISBN: PB: 9788862422505, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
120 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The book is a collection of 100 logos designed between 1965 and 2017 by one of the world renowned italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.
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£16,99
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100 Posters From the Eye to the Heart
ISBN: PB: 9788862422499, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
128 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The book is a collection of 100 posters designed between 1967 and 2017 by one of the world renowned italian graphic designer, Armando Milani.
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£16,99
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