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God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth Light in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300215281, Yale University Press, November 2015
384 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The "Qur'an" makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands. "God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth" explores the integral role of light in Islamic civ...
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£50,00
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Gates of the Lord The Tradition of Krishna Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300214727, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.
The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture-reaching back centuries and still vital today-in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than o...
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George Romney A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300209693, Yale University Press, July 2015
960 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus., 1600 black&white illus.
This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734-1802) to his long-overdue position – with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough – as a master of 18th-century British portrait p...
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£180,00
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Germaine Krull
ISBN: PB: 9780300215151, Yale University Press, July 2015
265 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 200 duotone illus.
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During...
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£30,00
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Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind
ISBN: HB: 9788024626772, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
350 pp., 23.3x17 cm, 160 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors incl...
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£37,50
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Gustave Caillebotte The Painter's Eye
ISBN: HB: 9780226263557, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
272 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 150 colour plates
Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum-goer...
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£45,00
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Gull Juju
ISBN: HB: 9783037784495, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2015
168 pp., 25.4x16.7 cm, 137 illus.
The Farallon Islands in the Pacific Ocean are often called "California's Galapagos" and are home to one of the world's largest colonies of nesting seabirds. It's hard to imagine a better setting for Lukas Felzmann's latest book. But the photographer...
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£29,00
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Graphic Design for Wine A Selection of Contemporary Wine Labels
ISBN: PB: 9788862421522, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, March 2015
160 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book is a collection of about one hundred graphic designs for wineries of various size from across the world. The graphic design approaches are equally varied, either photographic or minimal, based on line drawings or digital concepts, resulting...
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Graphic Design by Iain Cadby for Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
ISBN: PB: 9781861543684, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, March 2015
288 pp., 24x19 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
This book is about the subtle relationship of Graphic Design and Art, their collision and their mutual compliment.
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£29,00
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Gothic Wonder Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350
ISBN: HB: 9780300204001, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention, making and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documente...
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£40,00
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