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50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384542, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 70 colour illus.
Published in a new edition, this book offers an introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art, and design. Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus School had an enormous impact on the arts and ever...
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£14,99
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I Was Raised on the Internet
ISBN: PB: 9783791358024, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
184 pp., 22.5x16.8 cm, 34 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.
Coinciding with a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this anthology of essays and reflections casts a discursive and critical light on the work of artists engaging with the internet and digital technologies today. Structured...
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£19,99
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Who is Surfing Who Adam Linder
ISBN: HB: 9783791357904, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
164 pp., 19x13 cm, 70 colour illus.
This monograph surveys the work of the Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer Adam Linder, whose nuanced and highly evocative work offers a critical reflection on the nature of live performance and the role of dance within museums. Every two yea...
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£27,50
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Why Materials Matter Responsible Design for a Better World
ISBN: HB: 9783791384719, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 250 colour illus.
This visually stunning investigation of natural and man-made materials will change the way you look at the world around you, while offering hope for the future of our planet. What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the...
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£39,99
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Alexander von Humboldt The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries
ISBN: HB: 9783791383545, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
736 pp., 34x24 cm, 600 colour illus.
This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmenta...
HB:
£160,00
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Wild Adventure Cookbook
ISBN: HB: 9783791384931, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
336 pp., 28.5x21 cm, 335 colour illus.
Bringing rich flavors to the great outdoors, this mouthwatering collection of recipes by Sarah Glover evokes the sights, smells, and tastes of the Australian wilderness. Sarah Glover loves to cook, whether it's on the edge of a windswept cliff, in a...
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£35,00
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William Cordova Now's the Time: Narratives of Southern Alchemy
ISBN: HB: 9783791357676, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
186 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 190 colour illus.
This gorgeously illustrated book explores the three main themes that have inspired William Cordova's work for decades: transmission, alchemy, and transcendence. Growing up in Miami, and of Afro-Peruvian descent, William Cordova's life has been marke...
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£35,00
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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: PB: 9783791384665, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.
Now available in an updated paperback edition and including new photographs, this thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-d...
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£17,99
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Jeffrey Gibson This is the Day
ISBN: HB: 9783791357652, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
224 pp., 35x26 cm, 205 colour illus.
This generously illustrated book explores new developments in Jeffrey Gibson's recent work. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and film, Jeffrey Gibson brings together overlapping and conflicting cultures, histories, and aesthetics. Most rec...
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£45,00
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Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9783791357850, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
520 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 179 colour illus.
Encompassing the entire career of the American surrealist painter Kay Sage, this catalogue raisonne features all her known mature works and the latest scholarship on a brilliant artist. While her career as a painter was often eclipsed during her lif...
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£120,00
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