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Perspective in Action Creative Exercises for Depicting Spatial Representation from the Renaissance to the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9781607749462, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2017
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! From the author of the best-selling Perspective! For Comic Book Artists, a fully-illustrated, graphic novel guide to the principles of perspective for artists, using multimedia projects to teach the fundamentals....
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£18,99
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Manga Art Inspiration and Techniques from an Expert Illustrator
ISBN: PB: 9780385346313, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2017
176 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! From the best-selling manga instruction author whose previous two manga books have sold over 100,000 copies comes this behind-the-scenes guide to the creation of 100+ original manga-inspired illustrations. The wo...
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£19,99
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Zhang Peili Record. Repeat.
ISBN: HB: 9780300226225, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2017
96 pp., 27.3x20.3 cm, 60 colour illus.
Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (b. 1957) manipulates perspective, close-ups, and framing to create astonishing recordings of banal repeated actions, such as breaking glass, reading, washing, shaving, and blowing bub...
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£20,00
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Making Magnificence Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior
ISBN: HB: 9780300225778, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture...
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£50,00
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Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781781452790, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2017
96 pp., 17.8x11 cm, black&white illus.
When one thinks about the First World War, one doesn't immediately imagine the soldiers recording the horrors of trench warfare by taking snaps with their pocket cameras. But that is exactly what happened. "The Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World Wa...
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£7,99
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Gaia
ISBN: PB: 9788416248827, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2017
256 pp., 33x24.8 cm, colour photos
From Ha-Long Bay in Vietnam to the Grand Canyon in Colorado, Gaia is a collection of the most beautiful and startling natural landscapes in the world.It is a book that not only photography enthusiasts will enjoy, but also nature and travel lovers as...
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£35,00
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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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Marsden Hartley's Maine
ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...
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£38,00
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Georgia O'Keeffe Living Modern
ISBN: HB: 9783791356013, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
320 pp., 26.5x23 cm, 217 colour illus., 112 black&white illus.
This book explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she design...
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£45,00
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Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image
ISBN: HB: 9780226373690, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 75 halftones
On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elem...
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£36,00
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