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Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne Nature Transformed
ISBN: PB: 9780300250848, Yale University Press, August 2021
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Francois-Xavier (1927-2008) and Claude (1925-2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive and often whimsical works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group...
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£25,00
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Equivalents Photographs by Scott Mead
ISBN: HB: 9783791386553, Prestel Publishing, April 2021
128 pp., 24x24 cm, 126 colour illus.
In "Above the Clouds", Scott Mead contemplated the endless horizons outside of a plane's window. Now he turns his gaze back to earth, where the view is just as extraordinary. Inspired by William Eggleston, Mead's former teacher, this series of paired...
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£35,00
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Wood Engraving The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving
ISBN: PB: 9781684580484, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; and ho...
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£23,00
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Guardians of Memory
ISBN: HB: 9788417048594, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
196 pp., 28x22 cm, colour and black&white illus.
"Guardians of Memory" explores the tradition of the Panzudos Mercedarios, mystical creatures that every 22nd of September flood the streets of La Merced district in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (Mexico), announcing the festivities of Our Lady...
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£31,00
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Refaire le monde
ISBN: PB: 9783035802740, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Staging an exhibition as choreography, as drama, as opera, as a place where reality, politics, aesthetics, art, film, and music can address the issues of our day through documentaries, dialogues, science, activism, and creativity: This is the dream,...
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£28,00
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Object Lessons The Bauhaus and Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9780300254167, Yale University Press, January 2021
300 pp., 26x18.4 cm, 150 illus.
Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought t...
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£35,00
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Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
ISBN: HB: 9780300254501, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 170 colour illus.
In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial Symphony in White pai...
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£40,00
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Financing Our Common Future
ISBN: PB: 9783037786680, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 240 illus.
This book explains in simple but precise terms what finance is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet. Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, spec...
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£17,00
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Masters of Art Modigliani
ISBN: PB: 9783791386591, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his youth in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906, d...
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Bauhaus Experimental House Bauhausbucher 3
ISBN: HB: 9783037786277, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
82 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.
Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius's right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home "Haus am Horn" was built fo...
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