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Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding Composition
ISBN: PB: 9781781450512, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, April 2014
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos
Professional photographer David Taylor's concise, jargon-free text guides the reader through the basics of composition, why it matters, and how to attune the mind to the art of looking. Beginning with a guide to choosing a camera – and how different...
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£14,99
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Coloring Book Hieronymus Bosch
ISBN: PB: 9783791371764, Prestel Publishing, March 2014
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines. This delightful children's activity book is published to mark t...
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£5,99
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Memory of My Wardrobe
ISBN: HB: 9781861543462, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
112 pp., 21x15 cm, full-colour illus.
"The Memory of My Wardrobe", a project by Finnish photographer Ida Taavitsainen, explores the personal narratives given to clothing inherited or simply handed down to her by her family. Over the years, she acquired a lot of clothes, many once belongi...
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£28,00
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American West in Bronze, 1850-1925
ISBN: HB: 9780300197433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 245 colour images and black&white illus.
"Themes of the American West" have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tribut...
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£45,00
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Rebirth Recent Work by Mariko Mori
ISBN: HB: 9780300196887, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 80 colour images, 15 black&white illus.
Contemporary artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) has transformed herself many times since her memorable debut on to the international art scene in the mid-1990s. Over the past two decades, Mori has made a significant shift in the focus of her work, moving a...
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£40,00
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Paintings from Mughal India
ISBN: PB: 9781851240876, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
184 pp., 21x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.
A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalist...
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£10,00
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John Singer Sargent Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN: PB: 9780878468096, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2013
88 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 70 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) became Boston's favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building's g...
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£8,99
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Afterlife of Piet Mondrian
ISBN: HB: 9780226008691, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
316 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 65 halftones
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our underst...
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£39,00
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My Dear Mr. Hopper
ISBN: HB: 9780300181487, Yale University Press, July 2013
96 pp., 23.2x19.7 cm, 20 colour images, 5 black&white illus.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive. He rarely spoke about his personal life, and his close friends were few and love interests fewer. Until now, ther...
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£16,99
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Jackson Pollock
ISBN: PB: 9780300192506, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Jackson Pollock's revolutionary 'drip paintings' put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the formal structures of European art. But it was not only his vibrant canvases that made him a celebrity during his life and a legen...
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£12,99
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