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Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions
ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones
Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...
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£32,00
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Years Now
ISBN: PB: 9780578643441, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2020
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 30 halftones
The 2020 exhibition Harold Mendez: The years now presented a suite of existing and newly commissioned works – including photography, sculpture and sound – by visual artist Harold Mendez at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Mendez's practi...
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£20,00
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Watercolor Basics Learn to Solve the Most Common Painting Problems
ISBN: PB: 9781440301315, GMC Group, North Light Books, November 2020
128 pp., 27.6x21.1 cm, colour illus.
Witness paintings change from bad to good as well-loved master watercolorist and teacher Charles Reid shows you how to correct problems to create fresh, spontaneous works, while offering an intimate inside glimpse into his processes. With expert advi...
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£21,99
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No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels: Macbeth
ISBN: PB: 9781411479883, GMC Group, Spark Notes, November 2020
208 pp., 22.6x15 cm, colour illus.
Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel – now with color added – is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teens. Includes: - An illustrated cast of ch...
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£10,99
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Analog Algorithm Source-Related Grid Systems
ISBN: PB: 9783037785935, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
304 pp., 24.1x15.7 cm, illus.
This book is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger an...
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£40,00
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Call Ampersand Response
ISBN: PB: 9783037785911, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
392 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, illus.
"Call Ampersand Response" is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found image...
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£35,00
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How to Secure a Country
ISBN: HB: 9783037785973, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
220 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illus.
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...
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£30,00
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Painting in Stone Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300248166, Yale University Press, October 2020
448 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 215 colour illus., 117 black&white illus.
Spanning almost five millennia, "Painting in Stone" tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the mar...
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£50,00
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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...
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£45,00
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Fashion Details 4000 Drawings (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9788417412685, Hoaki, October 2020
384 pp., 28.5x19.5 cm, fully illustrated in colour
This redesigned and full-colour second edition by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi is an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques required to render fashion details. It contains all the knowledge required to make accurate technical draw...
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£29,99
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