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Understanding Portrait Photography How to Shoot Great Pictures of People
ISBN: PB: 9780770433130, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2020
176 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Capture the perfect portrait even if it's with a selfie in this updated edition of a trusted classic, now with all-new photography. Great portraits go beyond a mere record of a face. They reveal one of the millio...
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£25,00
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Unnatural History Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791385198, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 illus. 
For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most t...
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£35,00
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Uruk The First City of the Ancient World
ISBN: HB: 9781606064443, Getty Publications, January 2020
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 450 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.
This remarkable book unveils the origins of urban life in our ancient past. Over one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholar...
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£60,00
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Unthought Environments
ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones
"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...
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£30,00
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Universos
ISBN: HB: 9788417047924, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
176 pp., 28.4x21.8 cm, 151 colour and black&white illus.
Universos is an exploration of the photographer's visual universe, constructed around the resonances generated by phenomena and expressed through a dialogue of images. The book traces the development of the creative processes through which Jimenez ha...
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£32,00
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Unto This Last Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
ISBN: HB: 9780300246414, Yale University Press, September 2019
332 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 280 colour illus.
This book presents an innovative portrait of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as artist, art critic, social theorist, educator, and ecological campaigner. Ruskin's juvenilia reveal an early embrace of his lifelong interests in geology and botany, art, poetry,...
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£40,00
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Ursula: Issue 3
ISBN: PB: 9780578485065, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, August 2019
120 pp., 30.2x23.1 cm, 60 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The third issue of "Ursula" is full of time capsules. The cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Don Eyles, the pioneering software engineer who wrote the code that conveyed the lunar module safely to...
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£16,00
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Urs Fischer Sculptures 2013-2018
ISBN: HB: 9780996413046, DAP, Kiito-San, May 2019
450 pp., 31.1x25.4 cm, 358 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Featuring over 100 works and documentation of forty exhibitions and installations both public and private, New York-based artist Urs Fischer (born 1973) presents six years of work in this substantial volume. Arranged chron...
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£53,00
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Upcycling with Style A Step-by-Step Workbook
ISBN: PB: 9781869664961, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
192 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 illus.
Rather than mimicking interior design trends this book provides both the inspiration and practical information to upcycle tired objects and give them a new lease of life. Give an old couch a revamp, make quirky cushions, revitalise a tired garden cor...
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£12,99
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Understanding Illuminated Manscripts A Guide to Technical Terms (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781606065785, Getty Publications, October 2018
128 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 110 colour illus.
What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the te...
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£14,95
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