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Wearing Propaganda Textiles in Japan, Britain and the United States (1931-1945)
ISBN: HB: 9780300109252, Yale University Press, December 2005
400 pp., 30.6x26.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fab...
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History of the Surrealist Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780226174129, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
816 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 232 colour plates, 777 halftones
From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozo...
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£73,50
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Transience Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226360713, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
216 pp., 27.9x19 cm, 72 colour plates, 46 halftones
In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the Davi...
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£42,00
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Angels and Demons in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892368303, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imag...
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£16,99
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Juan Van Der Hamen Y Leon and the Court of Madrid
ISBN: HB: 9780300113181, Yale University Press, November 2005
432 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 125 colour images, 125 black&white illus.
The artistic life of the Spanish court in the 1620s, once depicted as a drab and featureless backdrop against which to depict the genius of Velazquez, was actually one of the most creative and dynamic periods of foment of the entire seventeenth centu...
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£60,00
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European Art of the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780892368310, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, stil...
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£18,99
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8vo On the Outside
ISBN: HB: 9783037780190, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2005
532 pp., 16x12 cm, 395 illus.
On the outside surveys 8vo's work from 1984-2001, including Octavo, the international journal of typography and its influence in the emergent typographically-led design movement in the UK and internationally during the late 1980s and through the 1990...
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£23,00
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Designing Modern America Broadway to Main Street
ISBN: HB: 9780300108040, Yale University Press, November 2005
230 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 136 black&white illus.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of 'America' and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadw...
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£45,00
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Jewish Identity Project New American Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300109160, Yale University Press, November 2005
240 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 138 colour images, 37 black&white illus.
While American Jews are commonly considered a homogeneous ethnic group, the reality today is far more complex. Conversion, adoption, intermarriage and immigration, have transformed the fabric of Jewish communities, as they have the United States as a...
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£35,00
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Alfons Mucha
ISBN: PB: 9788072152506, DAP, Torst, November 2005
160 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 99 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Though Alfons Mucha, known as Alphonse Mucha, (1860-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer and decorator, his photography is not as well known. In this new, expanded edition...
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£17,50
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