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Fashion in Steel The Landsknecht Armour of Wilhelm von Rogendorf
ISBN: HB: 9780300230864, Yale University Press, September 2017
128 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art – the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtie...
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£30,00
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Drone Photography and Video Masterclass
ISBN: PB: 9781781453001, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2017
176 pp., 28x21.6 cm, colour illus.
The drones are coming! Over 6 million were shipped around the globe in 2015, a number forecast to rise to 67 million annually by 2021. Drones are changing the way we interact with the world, and – with one of their key applications being aerial photo...
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£16,99
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Heroic Works Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017
ISBN: HB: 9781851242498, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2017
112 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 250 colour illus.
Throughout the ages, every culture has created myths and legends which recount the great deeds of its heroes and their epic struggles with larger-than-life forces. Designer Bookbinders 3rd International Competition, held at the Bodleian Library in 20...
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£30,00
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Giovanni da Rimini Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints
ISBN: PB: 9781857096224, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2017
64 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 35 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's "Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints" (c. 1300­1305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail o...
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£12,95
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Abend ohne Land / Westward no World
ISBN: HB: 9783954761821, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2017
120 pp., 31x24 cm, 75 colour illus., language: English / German
The pictures that form the painterly universe of Filip Zorzor (b. Bucharest, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) synthesize his perceptions with the intuitions of his keen senses. They are paintings of human existence, social, political, rich in timbre...
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£37,50
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Holy Shit
ISBN: PB: 9783944721897, Bookport, seltmann and sohne, May 2017
144 pp., 20.9x17.5 cm, colour illus.
No shit: Poetry is so yesterday. The only thing that`s cool nowadays: Poetry. Thoughts as deep as a beer bottle, sketches as beautiful as a long night out. And true wisdom as ugly as the morning after. HOLY SHIT Is a compilation of the only nonsen...
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£32,50
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Rauschenberg / Dante Drawing a Modern Inferno
ISBN: HB: 9780300221565, Yale University Press, May 2017
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.
Dante's "Inferno" inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between 1958 and 1960, "XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Infe...
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£35,00
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Bauhaus Travel Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.
A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...
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£19,99
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Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones
In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...
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£36,00
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Biographic: Leonardo Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781452905, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
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 eac...
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£9,99
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