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		The Green Fuse
		Pastoral Vision in English Art, 1820-2000		Art
		Jerrold Northrop Moore
		Antique Collectors' Club 2007  255 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1851495320  300x240mm		Qty
		Published Price £35.00		Our Price £14.99
	From Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) to Graham Arnold (b.1932) and the Ruralists, this book traces the green heritage in English art over the last two centuries, showing how artists have drawn on the land - often specific landscapes of home - to nourish their vision. Moore follows this continuity in English art through illustrated discussions of the lives and work of Palmer, William Hyde, FL Griggs, Edward Gordon Craig, Paul Nash, John Piper, John Minton and the neo-Romantics, Graham Arnold and David Inshaw.

		European Church Architecture 1900-1950
		Towards Modernity		Art
		Albert Gerhards; Horst Schwebel; Illus. Klaus Kinold
		Prestel 2006  224 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  3791336878  300x240mm		Qty
		Published Price £45.00		Our Price £19.99
	The first half of the 20th century is a little-considered period in the history of church architecture, yet it produced an extraordinary variety of creative responses to the demands of traditional worship in an industrialized world, from the rich historicism of Art Nouveau to the clean, simple lines of Scandinavian modernism. In this survey, architectural descriptions, illustrated with photographs and plans, are complemented by articles by theologians exploring the ways in which evolving religious belief conditioned the style of the buildings. Bilingual text - German and English.

		Faces of the Living Dead
		The Belief in Spirit Photography		Art
		Martyn Jolly
		British Library 2006  160 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0712348999  247x227mm		Qty
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	Technical advances between 1870 and 1930 brought an array of fads, among them the art of capturing ghostly apparitions in photographs. In a world ravaged by war, the chance to contact lost loved ones was readily embraced, and celebrity spirit photographers were both revered as miracle workers and reviled as frauds, exploiting the bereaved. Drawing on collections in The British Library and other archives, this book examines the evolution and popularity of spirit photography and reproduces works by its leading exponents.

		100 Posters of Paul Colin
				Art
		Jack Rennert
		Images Graphiques 1977  112 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0966420225  314x276mm		Qty
		Published Price $30.00	Slightly off-mint	Our Price £7.99
	One of France's greatest poster artists, Paul Colin (1892-1985) was also a prolific stage set designer and founder of the Ecole Paul Colin graphic design studio in Paris. Illustrating his highly individual style, this book presents 100 of Colin's bold, vibrant posters, with an introduction and notes by Jack Rennert describing the subject matter of each poster and discussing its meaning and impact in the context of contemporary French society. Off-mint.

		Breaking the Rules
		The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde: 1900-1937		Art
		Stephen Bury (Edited by)
		British Library 2007  176 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0712309802  255x188mm		Qty
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	Between 1900 and 1937 the avant garde consisted of a series of overlapping movements such as Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism and Surrealism. Denied mainstream publication, these groups became adept at creating alternative outlets - manifestoes, magazines, artist's books and photo books. This study looks first at the printed work of the avant-garde, demonstrating its importance to the various groups; it then surveys the avant garde in 29 European cities, from Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius in the Baltic States to Zurich.

		Illumination from Books of Hours
				Art
		Janet Backhouse
		British Library 2004  160 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0712348492  189x150mm		Qty
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	Taking their name from a single text - the Hours of the Virgin Mary - Books of Hours reflect both the personal piety and the fashionable tastes of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe. With reproductions of manuscript pages from 140 examples, introduced by former curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, Janet Backhouse, this book acts as an introduction to some of the most beautiful and historically interesting Books of Hours in the collections of The British Library.

		It's Quicker by Rail
				Art
		Beverley Cole
		Capital Transport 2006  60 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  9781854143  200x200mm		Qty
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	Once seen on station platforms from London to Newcastle, posters for the LNER represented the zenith of 1920s and 30s commercial art. Created by some of the most talented artists in the country, they were brilliant examples of composition, novel perspective and bold use of colour. This collection, featuring posters by artists including Frank Newbould, Tom Purvis and Fred Taylor, illustrates how the 'golden age of steam' was also a golden age of graphic design.

		Men for Men
		Homoeroticism & Male Homosexuality in the History of Photography Since 1840		Art
		Pierre Borhan
		Jonathan Cape 2007  289 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0224081659  310x248mm		Qty
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	The once clandestine field of homoerotic photography has benefited and developed greatly with the emergence of the serious study of sexual behaviour and is intricately linked to religious, scientific, political and social change. In this work almost 350 photographs, many explicitly erotic, accompany a commentary on the development of gay emancipation, progressive moral liberalization and the assertion of artistic freedom over the course of the 20th century. Sexually explicit, extreme content.

		Palaces of Naples
				Art
		Donatella Mazzoleni; Mark E Smith; Ugo Carughi
		Rizzoli 1999  324 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0847822168  328x274mm		Qty
		Published Price £63.90		Our Price £19.99
	From the Palazzo Penne, built in 1409, to the 16th century Palazzo Corigliano with its opulent duke's study, to the eclectic Castello Aselmeyer begun in 1899, Naples is home to a stunning array of grand residences. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by Mark E Smith, this volume introduces 30 such buildings, telling the stories of their owners, occupants and architects, and examining some of the outstanding works of art - such as the Veiled Christ in the Sansevero Chapel and the ceiling frescoes of the Reggia Portici - which they contain.

		Portraits: A History
				Art
		Andreas Beyer
		Harry N Abrams 2003  413 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0810945398  333x278mm		Qty
		Published Price £90.00		Our Price £40.00
	From its mythical origins to the hyperreality of Chuck Close's 'heads', Andreas Beyer sketches 'a panoramic history of the portrait in painting' and presents a selection of some 300 masterpieces. He describes the artists, sitters and contexts, discusses masters of the genre such as Jan van Eyck, Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt and Ingres, and shows how these paintings - whether self-portraits, portraits of rulers, group or private portraits - are 'exemplary solutions to a central purpose in the history of art'. Translated from the German by Steven Lindberg.

		Somewhere There's Music
				Art
		Larry Fink; George E Panichas
		Damiani 2006  160 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  8889431563  300x250mm		Qty
		Published Price £35.00		Our Price £16.99
	Photography - like jazz - is an act of improvisation, turning the fleeting moment into art. This collection of more than 100 evocative black-and-white prints by one of America's leading photographers is testimony to a lifetime's engagement with the music. An unashamedly personal selection, it captures dancers in clubs, session players in studios and street musicians from New York to New Orleans, alongside jazz greats such as Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and Sarah Vaughan.

		Arts in the '20s
		Architecture and the Decorative Arts in Europe		Art
		Roberto Papini
		Verbavolant 2005  480 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0954428838  341x248mm		Qty
		Published Price $150.00		Our Price £40.00
	First published in 1930 and presented here in near-facsimile, Papini's selection of 1920s architecture, interiors, furniture and decorative arts ranges from buildings by Gropius to needlepoint lace from Czechoslovakia and Italy. With over 800 photographs (12 in colour).

		Kalahari
		Wild Africa		Art
		Lorenz A Fischer; Judith Burri
		Bucher 2007  191 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  3765815934  316x295mm		Qty
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	Dominated by vast salt and sand plains and inhospitable to all but the hardiest stock of buffalo, elephants, rhinos, lions and leopards, the Kalahari is Africa at its most spectacular. This compilation of Fischer's stunning wildlife photography, with text by Judith Burri, introduces the various habitats of the region - the savannas, saltpans and rivers and the Okavango Delta, the sprawling oasis of canals, swamps and lagoons at the centre of the Kalahari.

		Patents
		Ingenious Inventions: How They Work and How They Came to Be		Art
		Ben Ikenson
		Black Dog 2004  288 pages
		Hardback    1579123678		Qty
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	Partially bound in bubble wrap (patent name 'Method for Making Laminated Cushioning Material'), this engrossing book presents six A-Zs of patents - including revolutionary inventions such the aeroplane ('Flying Machine', patent no. 821,393), patents for human welfare (adhesive bandaging, the seatbelt); making-life-easier devices (the bicycle, flush toilet and Post-it notes) and leisure items (Cornflakes, television, the Slinky). Each entry gives information on dates, inventors etc, and describes how the thing works; and there are profiles of important inventors and chronologies of technical advances.

		Nano Nature
		Nature's Spectacular Hidden World		Art
		Richard Jones
		Collins 2008  208 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  000727842X  265x255mm		Qty
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	At the furthest reaches of human technological achievement, the scanning electron microscope can magnify up to an astounding 200,000 times, producing images of the strange and complex structures of another world: a nano world normally invisible to the naked eye. The book is in two parts: 'Nano form' reveals the patterns and structures of single cells, hairs, pollen and spores; 'Nano function' reveals the precise mechanisms of nature - the tools, weapons and sense organs of plants and animals.

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