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LC FOTO Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783037783443, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2013
416 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 500 illus
In "Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer" Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect's use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's attempts to take professional photographs during his travels in central Europe, the Balkans,...
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£39,00
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Looking East Rubens Encounter with Asia
ISBN: PB: 9781606061312, Getty Publications, March 2013
124 pp., 22.9x17.7 cm, 27 colour illus.,15 black&white illus.
This is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as...
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£14,99
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Landscape Photography Workshop
ISBN: PB: 9781907708978, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2012
176 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, illus.
Wow your friends and relatives with awe-inspiring landscape shots with this workshop within a book. Two of the UK's leading landscape photographers come together to share their wealth of experience and teaching skills in this new title".The Landscape...
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£16,99
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Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971
ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...
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£22,00
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Last Days of Pompeii Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection
ISBN: HB: 9781606061152, Getty Publications, September 2012
256 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually con...
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£30,00
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Lucio Fontana The Artist's Material
ISBN: PB: 9781606061145, Getty Publications, July 2012
152 pp., 25.5x19.1 cm, 76 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. Bes...
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£40,00
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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...
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£45,00
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Lee Friedlander Mannequin
ISBN: HB: 9781881337324, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, July 2012
112 pp., 33x22.8 cm, 103 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Lee Friedlander is one of the few artists in any medium to have sustained a body of influential work over five decades. To make the photographs in "Mannequin", he returned to the hand-held, 35-mm camera that he used in the...
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£44,99
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Landscape in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606061039, Getty Publications, May 2012
112 pp., 22.5x19 cm, 73 colour illus., 4 black&white photos
This is a stunning look at the evolution of the landscape as photographic subject. Like painters and draftsmen before them, photographers turned to the landscape as a source of inspiration after the invention of the medium in 1839. Since then, changi...
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£18,99
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Lucie Rie Modernist Potter
ISBN: HB: 9780300152005, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. During the course of her sixty-year career, she continually honed and refined...
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