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David Lynch Someone is in my House
ISBN: HB: 9783791384702, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
304 pp., 30x24.3 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker, directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in h...
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£49,99
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Textiles of Japan The Thomas Murray Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791385204, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
520 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 500 colour illus.
Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of th...
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£75,00
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Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300229349, Yale University Press, November 2018
1888 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 870 colour illus.
Six decades of both iconic and intimate works by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), who is still producing at the age of 88, are given their full due in this magnificent multi-volume publication. Featuring exquisite full-page illustrations of all 813 known draw...
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£1 200,00
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Knight for the Ages Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry
ISBN: HB: 9781606065754, Getty Publications, November 2018
192 pp., 29.2x20.8 cm, 94 colour illus.
The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453), a story that reads more like a fast-paced adventure novel. Prod...
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£45,00
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Arthur Osver
ISBN: HB: 9780936316444, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, November 2018
224 pp., 29.7x24.6 cm, 120 colour plates
The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicag...
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£37,50
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One Day at a Time Manny Farber and Termite Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791357669, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
280 pp., 27x21 cm, colour illus.
A companion to an exhibition inspired by the work of celebrated American painter and critic Manny Farber, this book explores Farber's concept of "Termite Art", an argument for the vital importance of art drawn from the everyday. "Termite Art", in Fa...
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£45,00
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Old Paris and Changing New York Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott
ISBN: HB: 9780300235791, Yale University Press, October 2018
156 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray's Paris studio in the early...
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£40,00
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Andy Warhol, Publisher
ISBN: HB: 9780226542843, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 43 halftones
Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely b...
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£34,00
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Eye on the West Photography and the Contemporary West
ISBN: HB: 9780300232851, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 29.2x27.9 cm, 34 colour and black&white illus.
The histories of the North American West and photography have been intertwined since photography reached America. From the middle of the 19th century, images of the West have continuously played a significant role in defining the ways the region is p...
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£50,00
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Great English Interiors
ISBN: HB: 9783791381985, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
224 pp., 28x28 cm, 180 colour illus.
Step into British history with this marvelous collection of photographs of the country's greatest interiors. Famed photographer Derry Moore and renowned interior designer David Mlinaric offer a panoramic tour inside some of Britain's finest manor ho...
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£39,99
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