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Art Purposes Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts
ISBN: HB: 9783791358178, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitor...
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£45,00
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NYC Walks Guide to New Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783791384900, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
224 pp., 23.5x13.4 cm, 80 colour illus.
It can be hard to keep up with New York City's surge of cutting-edge architecture since the turn of the millennium. This portable, easy-to-use guide directs readers to the city's newest architectural gems, all completed in the 21st century with some...
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£14,99
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Gauguin A Spiritual Journey
ISBN: HB: 9783791357959, Prestel Publishing, November 2018
224 pp., 27x22 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This dazzling book showcases dozens of Paul Gauguin's most celebrated works and presents a new consideration of the artist's relationships. This vibrant examination of Paul Gauguin's life and work features more than fifty pieces from the Ny Carlsber...
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£45,00
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Congo Tales Told by the People of Mbomo. Racontes par les gens de Mbomo
ISBN: PB: 9783791357898, Prestel Publishing, July 2018
176 pp., 32x24 cm, 87 colour illus.
Launching a new education and conservation project that connects people from different cultures, this dazzling series by renowned photographer Pieter Henket gives ancient folklore a modern-day spin. The Congo Basin in Central Africa harbors approxim...
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£39,99
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Paper Material, Medium, Magic
ISBN: HB: 9783791383064, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 50 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Wide-ranging and multi-faceted this intriguing and beautifully produced book will change the way you relate to paper in an increasingly "paperless" society. While sheets of paper are disappearing from our homes and offices, the medium is experiencin...
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£35,00
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Inventory of Shimmers Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791356112, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
104 pp., 30.5x20 cm, 40 colour illus.
Compiling the work of 15 international artists, this generously illustrated book provides a multi-faceted lens through which to explore ideas of affect and intimacy. Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality that correlate...
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£27,50
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Do Gallery Sitters Sit All Day? Things People Really Do in a Museum
ISBN: PB: 9789811145148, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, March 2018
36 pp., 25x25 cm, colour illus.
What is a docent? What does an artwork conservator do? Take a look behind the scenes of an art museum to discover what goes on inside. With colourful illustrations featuring the beautiful architecture of National Gallery Singapore, "Do Gallery Sitter...
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£12,00
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New Guinea Highlands Art from the Jolika Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791350554, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
672 pp., 30x24 cm, 600 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisc...
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£95,00
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Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors
ISBN: HB: 9783791356068, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation's oldest collections of drawings, this richly illustrated and highly engaging volume explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by ask...
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£45,00
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Creatures of the Deep A Pop-up Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791372310, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
16 pp., 30x21 cm, 7 colour pop-up
The magnificent prints of Ernst Haeckel, who captured the amazing forms of the natural world, spring to life in this exciting pop-up book that reveals the vibrant intricacy of his work. The book "Art Forms in Nature" is a collection of prints, made...
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£22,50
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