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Excellences and Perfections
ISBN: HB: 9783791384184, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
240 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
This book presents the fiercely intelligent internet-based performance of artist Amalia Ulman, which she eventually revealed to be a critical artwork about issues of online identity. Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfo...
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£22,50
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Electra 1 In These Great Times
ISBN: PB: 9789728909598, Prestel Publishing, Monade, March 2018
181 pp., 27x20 cm, illus.
"In These Great Times" is the topic of the first edition file, published in March 2018. This topic unfolds from the quote of a famous text of the Viennese writer of early XX century, Karl Kraus. This "great times" gathers a number of texts that help...
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£14,00
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Eduardo Momene PHotoBolsillo
ISBN: PB: 9788416248957, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2017
112 pp., 18x13 cm, black&white photos
Eduardo Momen e is an extraordinary portraitist who masterfully combines classicism and modernity. With each of his black-and-white studio portraits, he searches for timeless elegance and preciosity, captivating contemporary viewers. Although his wor...
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£11,00
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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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Egg
ISBN: HB: 9783791372945, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
96 pp., 26x19 cm, 50 colour illus.
Beautiful, whimsical, and entertaining, this book of illustrations by Britta Teckentrup shows eggs in all their fragility, complexity, and variety. Is there anything as simple as an egg? Is there anything as complex? In this gorgeous picture book,...
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£11,99
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Every Night Temo se la Dinner
ISBN: PB: 9788416248766, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, April 2017
160 pp., 23.4x16 cm, photos
Through nonlinear micro-narrations, Mexican photographer Sof a Ayarzagoitia (born 1987) composes a series of experiences – in the shape of a performance – which she then captures with her camera. This series documents Ayarzagoitia's encounters with 1...
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£34,00
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Ed van der Elsken Camera in Love
ISBN: HB: 9783791383255, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
288 pp., 30x24 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated monograph accompanies a full retrospective on the acclaimed Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Known for his unconventional technique and gritty, evocative images of people and places, Ed van der Elsken...
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£40,00
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Egon Schiele Landscapes
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383460, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
208 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 112 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.
Now available in an updated edition, this visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele brings to light a little-known aspect of this famous painter's oeuvre. Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schie...
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£14,99
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Eat In My Kitchen
ISBN: HB: 9783791382005, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 140 colour illus.
Meike Peters's site, Eat In My Kitchen, captures the way people like to eat now: fresh, seasonal food with a variety of influences. It combines a northern European practical attitude, from the author's German roots, with a rustic Mediterranean-inspir...
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£27,50
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Erik Kessels Image Tsunami
ISBN: FLEXI: 9788416282531, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, February 2016
313 pp., 23x17 cm, colour photos
We are living in the midst of a photographic renaissance in which we have become accustomed to consuming imagery with the same greed and gusto that we consume fast food. In order to cope with the deluge of images being force fed into our retinas on a...
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£20,00
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