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David King Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
ISBN: HB: 9780300250107, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 illus.
This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1...
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£30,00
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James Prosek Art, Artifact, Artifice
ISBN: HB: 9780300250794, Yale University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this cross-disciplinary catalogu...
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Anne Brigman The Photographer of Enchantment
ISBN: HB: 9780300249941, Yale University Press, June 2020
248 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 colour illus., 96 black&white illus.
In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869-1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer's life from Hawai'i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cu...
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Understanding Portrait Photography How to Shoot Great Pictures of People
ISBN: PB: 9780770433130, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2020
176 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Capture the perfect portrait even if it's with a selfie in this updated edition of a trusted classic, now with all-new photography. Great portraits go beyond a mere record of a face. They reveal one of the millio...
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Making of Modern Art Selected Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300246780, Yale University Press, May 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as "the best art writer of his generation". For more than 50 years, he has written trenchant and lively dispatches from the center of the international art world. In this new volume of k...
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£25,00
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Hannah Ryggen Woven Manifestos
ISBN: HB: 9783791359267, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
132 pp., 30x24 cm, 60 colour illus. 
Hannah Ryggen created numerous monumental tapestries in her lifetime. Originally trained as a painter, Ryggen began weaving on a standing loom on her self-sufficient farm on the West coast of Norway. She challenged the formal traditions of Norwegian...
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£42,50
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Masculinities Liberation through Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791359519, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
304 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 250 colour illus.
This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender identities to look at how ideas of masculinity have evolved since the 1960s. Each of its six themed chapters featur...
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£39,99
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Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana
ISBN: HB: 9780300247312, Yale University Press, February 2020
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.
With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French emigres brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the sta...
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City Beneath A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti
ISBN: HB: 9780300246032, Yale University Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 139 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.
Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden...
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JR: Chronicles
ISBN: HB: 9782954226699, DAP, Maison CF + Brooklyn Museum, November 2019
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist'...
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