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Beyond Illustration Designs & Applications
ISBN: HB: 9789881683403, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2014
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! "Beyond Illustration: Designs & Applications" is more than a display of illustration works and techniques. The focus is on exploring the relationship between illustration and design, and how illustration works in design to...
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£29,95
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Experience Fashion Stores
ISBN: HB: 9789881294418, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2014
320 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! The colors and diversity in the charming world of fashion make it a fascinating realm. Experience Fashion Stores features store designs characterized by LOHAS styles, the Ladies World, and the Gentlemen s Kingdom. Each of...
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£34,95
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13 Art Movements Children Should Know
ISBN: HB: 9783791371580, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.
The latest volume in this successful series introduces young readers to major movements in art history – from Romanesque to Pop art. Filled with gorgeous color reproductions and packed with fascinating information, this beautiful book presents a chr...
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£10,99
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Impressions of a Lost World A Century of Chinese Photography, 1860-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300196566, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
240 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and travelling in China increased, early photographs of China were...
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£45,00
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Ravaged Art and Culture in Times of Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9780300204476, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
352 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 230 colour illus.
The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of the conflict that would become known as World War I. In addition to the devastating loss of human life, the Great War...
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£55,00
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Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
ISBN: HB: 9780300204315, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor – the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin – and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era. The passionate Carpeaux comes alive in this handsome new...
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£50,00
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Duchess's Shells Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages
ISBN: HB: 9780300192230, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour images, 35 black&white illus.
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural...
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£30,00
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What Art Is
ISBN: PB: 9780300205718, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, "What Art Is challenges" the popular interpretation that art is an...
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£10,99
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After Constructivism
ISBN: HB: 9780300195774, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 97 black&white illus.
When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In a handsome and elegantly argued book, Brandon Taylor examine...
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£50,00
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Andy Warhol The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987
ISBN: HB: 9783791349718, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
176 pp., 33x25 cm, 175 colour illus.
Published for the first time in a single volume, this definitive collection of original posters produced by Andy Warhol reveals the artist's remarkable contribution to the art of poster design. Throughout his career, Andy Warhol easily crossed the b...
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£39,99
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