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VOID Remarkable Graphic Styles Series
ISBN: HB: 9789887849490, Bookport, SendPoints, October 2018
224 pp., 25x18.5 cm, 589 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! What is Void? It is an oriental aesthetic tradition. Also it is a modern style popular in art and design since the 1960s, namely minimalism. The aesthetics of void helps extract the essentials, maximize functionality, and...
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£19,95
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Steve Kahn The Hollywood Suites
ISBN: HB: 9783791357997, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
160 pp., 28x28 cm, 248 colour illus.
This generously illustrated book chronicles Steve Kahn's "The Hollywood Suites" series, which comprises of photos taken in rent-by-the-hour apartments in a run-down section of Hollywood from 1974 to 1977, featuring porn-industry models and the archit...
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£39,99
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Seen from Behind Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300236552, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This...
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£50,00
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Hello Lilac – Good Morning Yellow Colors and First Words
ISBN: HB: 9783791373515, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
32 pp., 26x20 cm, 32 colour illus.
This charming introduction to the world of color and a child's first words is brimming with bright, playfully inviting illustrations of everyday objects. Introducing children to colors and in the process expanding their vocabulary, this book will de...
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£10,99
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Serious Play Design in Midcentury America
ISBN: HB: 9780300234220, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 153 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transfo...
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£30,00
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Condition of Being Here Drawings by Jasper Johns
ISBN: HB: 9780300229301, Yale University Press, October 2018
120 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, 45 colour illus.
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic genre in its own right, rather than as a preparatory medium for other works. This catalogue gathers nearly 40 of Johns's drawings, spanning 60 years of his illustrious caree...
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£20,00
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Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy An Illustrated Biography
ISBN: HB: 9783791382012, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
192 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 68 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.
An illustrated biography of one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, this book looks at the life and work of Inge Morath. The late playwright Arthur Miller, speaking of his wife Inge Morath, said "She made poetry out of people and their pla...
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£39,99
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Where's the Architect? From Pyramids to Skyscrapers (Look and Find Book)
ISBN: HB: 9783791373010, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
32 pp., 39.5x28.5 cm, 32 colour illus.
This wonderfully illustrated and captivating introduction to the wonders of architecture will have young readers poring over each spread and learning as they go. From the top of China's Great Wall to the base of the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx,...
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£14,99
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Thonik Why We Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785560, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2018
320 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 illus.
Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize and form the world around us – and why do we call that a profession? In this book, thonik, the Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, resear...
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£30,00
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William Forsythe Choreographic Objects
ISBN: HB: 9783791357966, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
240 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 200 colour illus.
This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work...
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£39,99
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