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Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace
ISBN: HB: 9783791358376, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
248 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The 2019 opening of the Humboldt Forum heralds a massive achievement in cultural understanding. Bringing together more than 20,000 objects and designed to offer diverse exhibitions, events, and venues, this enormous complex will use state-of-the-art...
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Poster 200 Years of Art and History
ISBN: HB: 9783791359861, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
384 pp., 30x22.5 cm, 480 colour illus.
The poster is a versatile marketing tool widely used from the 19th century to today for everything from political events to movies. A good poster has many layers, it goes beyond advertising and makes statements about style, history, fashion, and tast...
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£45,00
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Scary Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791374642, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
20 pp., 26.1x17.6 cm, colour illus.
Snakes, bats, and spiders aren't that frightening – but just wait till you see what they're like on the inside! This delightfully ghoulish book is filled to the brim with creatures perfect for some Halloween fun. Whether it's a big bad wolf or a skel...
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£9,99
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Christina Quarles
ISBN: PB: 9783791359120, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
120 pp., 27.5x19.2 cm, 60 colour illus.
A member of the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene, Christina Quarles's art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, ciswoman of mixed race. Her large-scale, exuberantly colored paintings reflec...
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£19,99
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Interiorities Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejao
ISBN: HB: 9783791359557, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour illus.
The artists featured in this book approach the inner self through a variety of media. The work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby comprises vibrantly patterned paintings on paper that negotiate the complex cultural terrain of a life formed between two worlds...
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£29,99
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Alps in Panoramic Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9783791385877, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 100 colour illus.
As downhill skiing became popular in 20th-century Europe, resorts in the Austrian, German, French, and Swiss Alps commissioned paintings of their ski runs to turn into maps. The best of these paintings are now featured in this book showing the artist...
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£35,00
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Drawings of Al Taylor
ISBN: HB: 9783791359496, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
176 pp., 27.5x24 cm, 192 colour illus.
This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, highlighting...
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Claude Monet The Truth of Nature
ISBN: HB: 9783791358703, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
280 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Capturing fleeting natural impressions played a central role in the art of Claude Monet. He deeply engaged with the landscape and light of different places, from the metropolis of Paris to the Seine villages of Argenteuil and Giverny. This lavishly i...
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£39,99
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Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech (Special Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9783791359007, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
496 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 1935 colour and black&white illus.
For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything". This special-edition monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue secti...
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£115,00
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Our Bauhaus Memories of Bauhaus People
ISBN: HB: 9783791385280, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
336 pp., 21x13.5 cm, 60 black&white illus.
Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely...
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