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Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm
The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...
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£19,99
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Art of Pop-Up The Magical World of Three-Dimensional Books (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9788416851263, Hoaki, September 2017
160 pp., 21x15 cm, richly illustrated
With a refreshing perspective, "The Art of Pop-Up" shows the designs of pop-up creators all around the world with some of their most innovative designs and practical examples to construct them. Full of colour illustration and inspiring force, "The Ar...
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£21,99
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Modigliani Unmasked
ISBN: HB: 9780300225495, Yale University Press, September 2017
172 pp., 29.8x20.3 cm, 165 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
One of the great artists of the 20th century, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is celebrated for revolutionizing modern portraiture, particularly in his later paintings and sculpture. "Modigliani Unmasked" examines the artist's rarely seen early works o...
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£40,00
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Basic Instincts Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
ISBN: PB: 9781911300281, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), an artist of status and substance in his day, who is now largely unknown. It takes as its focus Highmore...
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£25,00
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FABERGE From St Petersburg to Sandringham
ISBN: PB: 9780946009718, Casemate, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, September 2017
144 pp., 26.5x21 cm, 150 illus.
In 1907 Edward VII commissioned Peter Carl Faberge – court artist-jeweller to imperial Russia – to produce miniature sculptures of animals on the royal estate at Sandringham. Designed to please Queen Alexandra, the project was suggested by the king's...
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£20,00
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Nature's Mirror Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781892850294, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2017
225 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 105 colour plates, 75 halftones
Since the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre...
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£30,00
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Ellsworth Kelly Last Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9781944929077, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, September 2017
64 pp., 26x26 cm, 22 colour illus., 16 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! These final paintings, made in the months leading up to his death in December 2015, further develop the non-compositional strategies he pioneered in the late 1940s and pursued throughout his life, including monochrome paint...
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£35,00
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Laura Letinsky: Time's Assignation The Polaroids
ISBN: HB: 9781942185222, DAP, Radius Books, September 2017
180 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 70 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky (born 1962) used Polaroid Type 55 film as part of her working process until the film was discontinued in 2008, exploring focus, composition, exposure and light in black-and-white in...
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£50,00
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Vertigo Au rendez-vous des amis
ISBN: PB: 9788831726412, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
176 pp., 26.9x20.8 cm, 147 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A poignant, new artistic enquiry. "Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis" presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting...
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£35,00
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Ferdinando Scianna The Venice Ghetto 500 Years After
ISBN: HB: 9788831724777, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
100 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 53 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The ghetto today: a story told in pictures, a history in the making. The forty-four black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected from the many pictures taken by Ferdinando Scianna on a succession of visits...
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£30,00
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