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Pop Art Is
ISBN: HB: 9780300138993, Yale University Press, January 2008
180 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, more than 100 colour illus.
On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what "Pop Art Is". This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his...
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£45,00
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War Paint Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300108903, Yale University Press, July 2007
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 35 colour, 175 black&white illus.
In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on...
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£40,00
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Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps
Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...
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£25,00
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Ted Fair Jubilee
ISBN: HB: 9780970165640, DAP, J&L Books, June 2007
64 pp., 23.5x20.3 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Jubliee" is Ted Fair's first book, comprised of color photographs taken between 2000 and 2003 across the United States. The selection of photographs is meant to be read as one would read the lines of a poem; each image off...
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£17,50
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Pieter de Hooch A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy
ISBN: PB: 9780892368440, Getty Publications, April 2007
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 34 colour illus.
This volume examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. "Pieter de Hooch" also looks at the subject matter of the piec...
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£17,99
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Super Normal Sensations of the Ordinary
ISBN: PB: 9783037781067, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2007
128 pp., 20x14.8 cm, 264 illus.
Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azu...
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£22,00
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Mar Magdalena Campos-Pons Everything is Separated by Water
ISBN: HB: 9780300123456, Yale University Press, February 2007
160 pp., 29.8x24 cm, 80 colour illus.
With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe ques...
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£50,00
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Artists' Techniques and Materials
ISBN: PB: 9780892368600, Getty Publications, January 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
An artist's materials – from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase – are not just the results of their work. They are the physical embodiment...
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£16,99
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Picasso and American Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.
Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...
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£50,00
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Painting Summer in New England
ISBN: HB: 9780300116922, Yale University Press, March 2006
136 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 81 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
With its stunning coastlines, mountains, lakes, forests, and scenic villages, New England has been an inspiration for American artists since the 19th century. This lively book considers the ways in which painters have responded to the region's summer...
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£40,00
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