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Rome: The Eternal Beauty Pop-Up
ISBN: HB: 9788831726733, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2018
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The first pop-up book on Rome, a 3D guide for children and adults with evocative images and texts that stimulate the reader's curiosity. Rome presented through the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-u...
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£20,00
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Looking at Men Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body
ISBN: HB: 9780300112948, Yale University Press, August 2018
272 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 212 colour and black&white illus.
Beginning in 1800, "Looking at Men" explores how the modern male body was forged through the intimately linked professions of art and medicine, which deployed muscular models and martial arts to renew the beau id al. This ideal of the virile body der...
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£45,00
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10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art We Don't Need Another Hero
ISBN: PB: 9783954762354, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2018
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 180 colour illus., language: English / German
The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will take place at multiple venues throughout Berlin from June 9 until September 9, 2018. It invites the public to engage the artists and other contributors in an open exchange of ideas. "I want to rethin...
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£27,50
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Viviane Sassen Hot Mirror
ISBN: HB: 9783791384764, Prestel Publishing, June 2018
160 pp., 33x24 cm, 95 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.
Viviane Sassen is one of today's most innovative photographers and this stunning book looks back at a decade of her work, including new collages and previously unpublished photographs. This mid-career retrospective volume focuses on Viviane Sassen's...
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£39,99
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Biographic: Kahlo Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453414, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, June 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...
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£9,99
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Poetry of Nature Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781588396549, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2018
224 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.
"The Poetry of Nature" offers an in-depth look at more than 40 extraordinary Japanese paintings that represent every major school and movement of the Edo period, including Kano, Rinpa, Nanga, Zen, Maruyama-Shij?, and Ukiyo-e. The unifying theme is a...
PB:
£25,00
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Big Garden
ISBN: HB: 9783791373324, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
32 pp., 42x30 cm, 12 colour illus.
Take a journey through the garden in this captivating extra large format children's book and discover the endless delights, surprises, secrets, and gifts it yields all year long. This wonderfully insightful and brilliantly illustrated book on garden...
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£19,99
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2017 California-Pacific Triennial Building as Ever
ISBN: PB: 9783791356761, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
144 pp., 33x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Featuring the work of 25 artists from diverse backgrounds, this triennial addresses the topic of architecture and permanence by exploring history and preservation, the concept of home and displacement, and the influence of power, economics, and polit...
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£27,50
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Promote, Tolerate, Ban Culture and Art in Cold War Hungary
ISBN: HB: 9781606065396, Getty Publications, March 2018
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In the fall of 1956, Hungarians led a successful rebellion against Soviet control. How-ever, after only ten days of freedom, the uprising was brutally crushed, and the Soviet-aligned minister Janos Kadar assumed power. Focusing on the Kadar era (1956...
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£40,00
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Outliers and American Vanguard Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226522272, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
448 pp., 30.4x25 cm, 450 colour plates
Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it ha...
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£49,00
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