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Public Without Rhetoric
ISBN: PB: 9789899948549, Prestel Publishing, Monade, August 2018
224 pp., 25x19 cm, 180 photo plates, 12 technical drawings
"Public Without Rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight t...
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£32,00
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Howardena Pindell What Remains to Be Seen
ISBN: HB: 9783791357379, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
288 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 250 colour illus.
This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights mov...
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£45,00
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Borrowed Light
ISBN: HB: 9783791357423, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
372 pp., 29.9x28.5 cm, 102 colour illus., 270 black&white illus.
This visual history of photography from its inception to the present day is a treasure trove of 400 color and black-and-white images, carefully sequenced and profoundly evocative. Culled from the idiosyncratic collection of photographer and curator...
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£55,00
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Masterworks of Architectural Drawing from the Albertina Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791357218, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
328 pp., 29x25 cm, 187 colour illus.
Since the medium began, artists have used architectural drawings to document the urban and rural past and to envision the future. Covering a period that runs from the 16th-century to today, this collection of 140 architectural drawings presents a pan...
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£45,00
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1968 The Fire of Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9788417047320, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, December 2017
72 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, illustrations throughout
Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954) compiles archival photographs of political movements from Paris to Mexico City in 1968, highlighting details through the addition of color, text and drawing.
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£35,00
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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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£25,00
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Max Beckmann The World as a Stage
ISBN: HB: 9783791356976, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
Many of the paintings by Max Beckmann show the world of the theater, the circus, and vaudeville. He assumed the position of the spectator and his paintings were the stage. He was driven by pageantry and this is the first publication to show how Beckm...
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£39,99
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Barbara Takenaga
ISBN: HB: 9783791357003, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 28.7x25.1 cm, illustrations throughout
At once conceptual and decorative, Barbara Takenaga's swirling, patterned paintings have been called "psychedelic" and "cosmic". Takenaga's approach to painting is both highly structured and disciplined. In this collection of seventy paintings, the e...
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£27,50
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Chupar del Bote
ISBN: HB: 9788417047023, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
112 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, illustrations throughout
Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain, participating in the ferment of counter...
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£30,00
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Last Days of Summer
ISBN: HB: 9783791382180, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
224 pp., 30x23 cm, 220 colour illus.
Akila Berjaoui's incredibly sensual photographs often feature sand, sun, water – or a combination of all three. In her first book, this highly sought-after fashion photographer, armed with her favorite old analogue cameras, takes us to breathtaking s...
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£35,00
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