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Made in Rome Residencies at the Spanish Academy in Rome, 2015-2016
ISBN: PB: 9788416248926, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
200 pp., 24x17 cm, colour and black&white illus.
This publication, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, curated by Manuel Blanco, brings together the projects made by the artists and researchers in residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome during the year 2015-2016. The works are expla...
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£19,50
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Haegue Yang
ISBN: HB: 9783791359656, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
160 pp., 26x26 cm, 100 colour illus.
Haegue Yang is renowned for her multifaceted works that vary in form from collage to kinetic sculpture, perceptively evoking historical and contemporary narratives of migration, displacement, and cross-cultural translation. Using a language of abstra...
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£29,99
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Thing Called Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791374437, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
56 pp., 28x21.3 cm, 26 colour illus.
What is life? It's constantly moving, growing, reproducing, and dying. It's happening now, all the time, and it's everywhere around us. From little helicopter seed pods that float through the air to blue whales in the ocean, the world is filled with...
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£12,99
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783791384832, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
344 pp., 29.5x28.5 cm, 170 black and white illus.
Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when h...
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£60,00
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Made in L.A. 2020
ISBN: PB: 9783791359106, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
208 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
Under the direction of co-curators Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler and with the help of Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, the Hammer Museum's 2020 Biennial brings together local artists from a variety of disciplines. This book spans sculpture, painting, inst...
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£22,50
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Portraits Unmasked The Stories Behind the Faces
ISBN: HB: 9783791386201, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
208 pp., 26x20 cm, 92 colour illus.
Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting's composition, style, and themes, often questions remain unanswered – who were these people and why were they painted? This entertaining book...
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£24,99
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All Around Bustletown: Autumn
ISBN: board book: 9783791374215, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
14 pp., 34x26 cm, 14 colour and black&white illus.
The leaves are blowing off the trees and the birds are flying south in Bustletown. Farmers are preparing the fields for winter and kids are back in school. And look, there's a water main break that's causing havoc and a chimney sweeper perched on a r...
board book:
£9,99
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Duro Olowu Seeing
ISBN: HB: 9783791359489, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
320 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 300 colour illus.
Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his international background and a confident eye for visual disciplines from...
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£29,99
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All Around Bustletown: Summer
ISBN: board book: 9783791374208, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
14 pp., 34x26 cm, 14 colour and black&white illus.
It's summer and that means flowers, picnics, thunderstorms, and bike rides. It's a busy time for construction workers, farmers, and house painters. Playgrounds are filled with kids and vacationers are boarding trains in droves. In the sky a pair of b...
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£9,99
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What's in the Egg? Pop-Up Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791374352, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
12 pp., 22x16 cm, 6 coloured pop-ups 
This dynamic book opens with a familiar and joyful sight – a baby bird hatching from an egg that sits in a nest high on a tree. The following pages hold even more delightful surprises, as each spread opens to reveal a different animal and the kind of...
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£14,99
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