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Wonders of Florence Pop-Up
ISBN: HB: 9788831719216, DAP, Marsilio Editori, March 2015
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts....
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£20,00
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Walker Evans Incognito
ISBN: HB: 9780871300577, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, March 2015
42 pp., 42.2x29.7 cm, 8 tritones
Not for sale in Estonia!
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£115,00
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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£30,00
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Words for Pictures The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels
ISBN: PB: 9780770434359, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, September 2014
224 pp., 26.6x21 cm, illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time".Words for Pictu...
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£19,99
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What May Come The Taller De Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political Print
ISBN: PB: 9780300207781, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2014
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.
Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) sought to create prints, posters and illustrated publications that were appealing and affordable, legible and politically topical, and above all formal...
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£6,99
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What Art Is
ISBN: PB: 9780300205718, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, "What Art Is challenges" the popular interpretation that art is an...
PB:
£10,99
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Warm Flesh, Cold Marble Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics
ISBN: HB: 9780300197891, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
This highly original book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather t...
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£40,00
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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: HB: 9783791348148, Prestel Publishing, March 2014
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 200 colour illus.
This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photograp...
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£29,99
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We Shall Photographs by Paul D'Amato
ISBN: HB: 9780978907471, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2014
102 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 47 colour plates
In "Barrio", photographer Paul D'Amato turned his lens to the largely Mexican-American Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and the Little Village, capturing their residents' homes and lives in multifaceted, dynamic images of weddings and graffiti artists...
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£34,00
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Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones
Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...
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£34,00
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