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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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Wall as Living Place Hollow Structural Forms in Louis Kahn's Work
ISBN: PB: 9788862422031, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2016
120 pp., 21x15 cm, black&white illus.
There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenu...
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£14,99
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Where's the Artist? From Cave Paintings to Modern Art (Look and Find Book)
ISBN: HB: 9783791372334, Prestel Publishing, September 2015
32 pp., 39.5x28.5 cm, 32 colour illus.
This delightful and engaging introduction to the history of art for children comes in a beautiful oversized format and features intricate illustrations with hidden details. Children love to pore over detailed illustrations, especially when they cont...
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£14,99
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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: HB: 9783791348148, Prestel Publishing, March 2014
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 200 colour illus.
This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photograp...
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£29,99
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Weegee Murder is My Business
ISBN: HB: 9783791353135, Prestel Publishing, September 2013
264 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 267 duotone illus.
Drawn from the International Center of Photography's archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City's quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a...
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£39,99
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Where is the Frog? A Children's Book Inspired by Claude Monet
ISBN: HB: 9783791371399, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.
Based on the beloved series of water lily paintings by Claude Monet, this children's book draws readers into the atmosphere and colors of Monet's garden at Giverny, where a lovely but vain frog tries to insert herself into the artist's work.
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£10,99
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Woman of Angkor A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9786167339252, Prestel Publishing, River Books, January 2013
500 pp., 21.1x14.3 cm
"Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds". The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray, whom neighbours lik...
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£8,95
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