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Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)
ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones
Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...
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£28,00
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Futebol Urban Euphoria in Brazil
ISBN: HB: 9783037784310, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2014
64 pp., 23x17 cm, 32 illus.
In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans; when there is no field, they make one. Soccer mark...
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£18,00
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Funk & Wag from to Z
ISBN: HB: 9780300204506, Yale University Press, June 2014
328 pp., 27.9x41.9 cm, 549 black&white illus.
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopaedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set...
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£60,00
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Flexible Packaging
ISBN: HB: 9789887757276, Bookport, SendPoints, May 2014
256 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 750 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! "Flexible Packaging" investigates the use of pliable materials to create unique packaging solutions for a variety of consumer goods. Easily modified materials such as fabric, paper, plastic and aluminium can readily be app...
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£34,95
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Family in the Picture, 1958-2013
ISBN: PB: 9780300204834, Yale University Press, May 2014
378 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 369 tritone illus.
This book is designed and conceived to complement. In the "Picture", his 2011 volume of self-portraits, Lee Friedlander's "Family in the Picture" is the family album of one of the most restless and inventive figures in the history of photography. The...
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£50,00
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Frida Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791349701, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 130 colour illus.
A beautifully illustrated and attractively priced volume onthe life and work of Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo is one of the art world's most enigmatic figures. Beautiful, talented, tragic and strong, she broke barriers as a woman and as an artist and her...
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£10,99
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Funny Machines for George the Sheep A Children's Book Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci
ISBN: HB: 9783791371665, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.
This delightful introduction to the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci teaches young readers about the painstaking but rewarding art of design and discovery. George the sheep is happy living outside in his meadow except for one thing: when it rains, he...
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£10,99
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Fischli & Weiss: Rock on Top of Another Rock Valdresflya & Kensington Gardens
ISBN: HB: 9788275475426, DAP, Forlaget Press, February 2014
176 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss' first public sculpture in the United Kingdom, "Rock on Top of another Rock", installed in Hyde Park, near the Gallery. This work was undertaken in tandem w...
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£40,00
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Fernand Leger and the Modern City
ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.
With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...
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£50,00
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First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565
ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...
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£25,00
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