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Rubens
ISBN: PB: 9783791386614, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draftsman, as well as a valued diplomat. This accessible examination of his life and work looks at every aspect of Rubens's oeuvre; from his commiss...
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£9,99
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Unstable Presence
ISBN: HB: 9783791359113, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
184 pp., 39.4x29 cm, 120 colour illus.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's installations engage the audience in unique and seductive ways – measuring their heart rate, surveilling their faces, even circulating their breath. Often characterized by particular interactions between the work and the viewer...
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£29,99
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Return to the Source New Energy Landscapes from the Land Art Generator Initiative Abu Dhabi
ISBN: HB: 9783791359380, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is one of the world's most exciting design competitions and for its 2019 challenge, entrants from around the world were asked to create a renewable energy-producing artwork for the UAE's Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. The...
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£45,00
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Robert Irwin Site Determined
ISBN: HB: 9783791356716, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
120 pp., 25.5x19.5 cm, 10 black&white illus., 66 colour illus.
Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed...
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£35,00
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Release the Beast
ISBN: HB: 9780992264819, Prestel Publishing, Beatnik, August 2017
28 pp., 22.3x22.3 cm, illus.
"Release the Beast" is a fun and quirky picture book which allows a child to respond to his frustrations by unleashing his imaginary beast. Examining the emotion of anger in a positive and humorous way that children will relate to, "Release the Beast...
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£9,99
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Roni Horn
ISBN: HB: 9783791356600, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
300 pp., 24.5x18.4 cm, 117 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wideranging issues such as nature, ecology, identity, landscape, and language. Her sculptures, drawings, photographs, and installations intermingle material and context, aiming to complicate t...
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£55,00
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Renaovate Inovate Reclaimed and Upcycled Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9783791383095, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 275 colour illus.
From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored h...
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£35,00
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Renaissance and Reformation German Art in the Age of Durer and Cranach
ISBN: HB: 9783791355399, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 190 colour illus.
Featuring more than a hundred outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and treasures of the Age of the Reformation, this publication comprises masterpieces by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hans Hol...
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£39,99
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Reckoning Women Artists of the New Millennium
ISBN: PB: 9783791347592, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
256 pp., 23.7x19.3 cm, 185 colour illus.
The authors of "After the Revolution" return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that "The battles may not all have been won... but barricades are gradually coming down, an...
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£29,99
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Rise and Fall of Apartheid Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791352800, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
544 pp., 28x24 cm, 90 colour illus., 410 black&white illus.
Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive exploration of the birth, evolution, and demise of apartheid in South Africa. Photographers played an...
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£45,00
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