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Graffiti Paris
Author, Fabienne Grevy Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 128 Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces-sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings-into...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Sketchbook
Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss
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A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. ** THE NEW...
A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini
Author: Carolyn Tillie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Savour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits
Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask
Author: Russell Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 *** 'An indispensable volume' Vogue 'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and...
Rose Wylie: painting a noun...
Author: Rose WylieFormat: Hardback, 171mm x 241mm, 460g, 76 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence...
Bad Blood: Rivalry and Art History
Why is there so much bad blood involved in the stories of artists and their artworks? Immerse yourself in 18 infamous artistic rivalries, dramatized with gripping moments of narrative, to...
10,000 Years of Art
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Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...
Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets Hardcover Journal
Celebrate your love of Harry Potter (TM) and the Chamber of Secrets (TM) with this hardcover journal. Open your journal to record your private thoughts and ideas in your own...
The Story of Art
Author: EH Gombrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1064 'Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the [sic] cave paintings to the 20th century...
Great Women Painters
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 348 A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
History of Modern Design Third Edition
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing,...
100 Days of Active Resistance
This new book brings together 100 images that represent the idea of active resistance. Inspired by Vivienne Westwood's manifesto (which was first published in 2008) from 8th September 2010 for...
Jack Milroy: Cut Out
'Jack Milroy: Cut Outs' is the first substantial publication on the work of the prolific British artist Jack Milroy who has been active for over 50 years. The book explores...
Menacing Love: a Statue by Falconet
One of the most famous statues from eighteenth-century France is the mischevious-looking marble cupid of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. It was made in 1757 by Etienne-Maurice Falconet for Madame de Pompadour,...
Betty Swanwick: Artist and Visionary
This monograph intends to rectify the neglect of a visionary twentieth century British artist in the tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. A friend and pupil of Edward Bawden,...
The Four Seasons: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing
This collection of woodblock prints celebrates the seasons and is designed as a Japanese-style accordion-fold book with open binding and slipcased with a booklet for the text. Embracing seasonal change...
Otto Wagner
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The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal
Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to...
Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now
Beautifully designed, this book has been written by the Indigenous staff at the Powerhouse and Melbourne museums. It presents a diverse range of Indigenous cultural expression from across Australia including...
Australian Modern Painting: Between the Wars 1914-1939
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Hokusai Prints Note Cards - 12 Cards: 12 Blank Cards in 6 Lovely
This beautiful stationery set includes six prints by Katsushika Hokusai. The artist behind the world-famous The Great Wave off Kanagawa , Hokusai lived and worked in what is now modern...
In the Garden of My Dreams: The Art of Nathalie Lete
Named a Best Gift Book by InStyle Nathalie Lete is the rare artist whose work is so distinctive and widely appealing that she has become a global brand, having garnered...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: [...]
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant,...
Cinemas in Britain: 100 Years of Cinema Architecture
Art Deco: 50 Works Of Art You Should Know
This new addition to Prestel's successful "50s" series focuses on Art Deco, an artistic movement that originated in France after World War I and spread throughout Europe and America. Presented...
Dali
Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...
Monastic
With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastery interiors and simultaneously separates them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and...
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
The presence of video in contemporary art has never been more ubiquitous than it is today. At a time when moving images have saturated daily life to an unprecedented degree,...
Robin Wood's CORES Recycled
Initially, they were the waste product of wooden bowls turned in an ancient technique by Robin Wood of the United Kingdom, an expert pole-lathe turner and author. Known for his...
My Paris Dream: Life, love and fashion in the great city by the Seine
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Dog
DOG is an unprecedented collection of Tetro's dog illustrations presented as art in a luxurious, deluxe format. Included here are finished drawings, sketches, and even some never-before-seen artworks created exclusively...