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The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

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Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Author: Lisa Brennan-JobsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 357g, 416 pagesPublished: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States, 2019'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might...
Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

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Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...
The Briar Club

The Briar Club

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Author: Kate QuinnFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 540g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with...
Andreas Eriksson: Cutouts

Andreas Eriksson: Cutouts

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Author: Kirsty BellFormat: Hardback, 214mm x 313mm, 1140g, 112 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021Painting in between abstraction and representation always offers a promise of thought and feeling. Emotionally, as well...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

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Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
The Magazine

The Magazine

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Author: Gwen AllenFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2016 Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the...
The Paris Gown: A Novel

The Paris Gown: A Novel

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Author: Christine WellsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 406g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and...
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

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Author: Michael HeringFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 319mm, 1420g, 172 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017The twins Gert & Uwe Tobias are among the most famous German artists in the field of...
John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

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Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication

QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication

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Author: Marc DaCostaFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 279mm, 1540g, 276 pagesPublished: Standards Manual, United States, 2022Communications between amateur radio (AKA ham radio) operators and citizen band stations have been crowding the...
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

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Author: Donald JuddFormat: Paperback, 216mm x 279mm, 890g, 240 pagesPublished: Distributed Art Publishers, United States, 2016Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005 and out of print for many years, this...
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

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Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...
The Paris Gown: A Novel

The Paris Gown: A Novel

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Author: Christine WellsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 406g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and...
Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection

Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection

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Author: Elizabeth WyckoffFormat: Hardback, 255mm x 290mm, 1280g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

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Author: Robert FiskFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 820g, 672 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE'...
Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey ArcherFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available...
New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Hossein AmirsadeghiFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 285mm, 1640g, 288 pagesPublished: TransGlobe Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Now in paperback!With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the...
Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

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Author: Jean PigozziFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 230mm, 1960g, 600 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2021Collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi is renowned for his eclectic art collection and for his social circle, which...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

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Author: The Africa InstituteFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 980g, 246 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2022For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in...
Azzedine Alaia Arthur Elgort: Freedom

Azzedine Alaia Arthur Elgort: Freedom

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Author: Arthur ElgortFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 327mm, 1080g, 240 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2023In the 1970s, despite not yet knowing each other, Azzedine Alaia and Arthur Elgort were about to go...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

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Author: David ZwirnerFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 314mm, 1010g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2016Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous...
Picturing People: The New State of the Art

Picturing People: The New State of the Art

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Author: Charlotte MullinsFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1270g, 192 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works of figuration grace the walls of...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

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Author: Michael BracewellFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1140g, 224 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2021Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the...
Digital Art

Digital Art

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Author: Christiane PaulFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 570g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. Here, Christiane Paul...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Architecture for Health

Architecture for Health

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Author: Christine Nickl-WellerFormat: Hardback, 1110g, 176 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2021Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments...
Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

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Author: Marianne HeskeFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2012The facsimile copy of a photographic private diary published for the first time in 1978 Usually it takes...
Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

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Author: Ralph GoertzFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 230mm, 1020g, 220 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2021Facing Britain brings together for the first time almost all important representatives* of British...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

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Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

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Author: Susie HodgeFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 197mm, 490g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012In the past, estimation of an artist's stature took great account of his or...
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

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Author: Kyung AnFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 196mm, 320g, 136 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why...
Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

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Author: Tristan MancoFormat: Paperback, 260mm x 310mm, 1550g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Make your Mark introduces the work of 45 artists who are extraordinarily diverse but...
Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

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Format: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1980g, 372 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2010Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon in 2010, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by...
Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

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Author: Marie-Puck BroodthaersFormat: Hardback, 256mm x 307mm, 2400g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most...
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

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Author: Sabine KnustFormat: Paperback, 197mm x 260mm, 450g, 96 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2015In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and...
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

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Author: Liz RidealFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 292mm, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2018Madam and Eve is a rich, varied and exciting overview of how women artists have depicted...
Bill Viola

Bill Viola

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Author: John G. HanhardtFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 285mm, 2130g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Bill Viola began experimenting with video art in the early 1970s; today, he...
Architecture for Health

Architecture for Health

$70.00 AUD$59.50 AUD
Author: Christine Nickl-WellerFormat: Hardback, 1110g, 176 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2021Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments...
ON&BY Christian Marclay

ON&BY Christian Marclay

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Author: Jean-Pierre CriquiFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 570g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2014The second in a unique series of anthologies which collects key writings by and on the...
Design Monograph: Gehry

Design Monograph: Gehry

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Author: Naomi StungoFormat: Hardback, 128mm x 186mm, 300g, 112 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of...
You Can't Say That: Memoirs

You Can't Say That: Memoirs

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Author: Ken LivingstoneFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 563g, 720 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic...
Golden Age

Golden Age

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Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 197mm, 202g, 272 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in...
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

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Author: Max DecharneFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 554g, 336 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a...