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Thai Art and Culture | |||
| Historic Manuscripts from Western Collections | Art | |||
| Henry Ginsburg | ||||
| British Library 2000 138 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712346201 290x262mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| This richly illustrated study surveys historic Thai manuscripts currently held in Western collections, examining the evolution and colourful imagery of Thai Buddhist iconography and a diversity of non-religious texts. | ||||
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The Idea of Louis Sullivan | |||
| Art | ||||
| John Szarkowski | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 2000 162 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0500341796 303x230mm | ||||
| Published Price £39.95 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| In the early 1950s, long before he became famous as a curator and critic of photography, John Szarkowski made a portfolio of photographs of buildings Louis Sullivan had constructed in Chicago around 1900. With the encouragement of Frank Lloyd Wright, himself a protege of Sullivan, Szarkowski completed the work, photographing all the major buildings and accompanying them with a profile of the architect and excerpts from his writings on architecture and modern society. This is a new edition of that work, updated in design and with new duotone reproductions. | ||||
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The Pitti Palace | |||
| The Palace and its Art | Art | |||
| Marilena Mosco | ||||
| Philip Wilson 1997 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0856674699 274x196mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The Pitti Palace with its immense garden, the Boboli, dominates the left bank of the River Arno across from the old part of Florence. Originally begun in 1458 on the orders of Luca Pitti, a friend of the Medicis, the building was enlarged over the centuries and now houses, in effect, five museums in one magnificent palace. This guide provides an overview of the history of palace and garden and the collections, including paintings by Filippo Lippi, Raphael, Perugino and Titian as well as the Grand Ducal treasures and modern Italian works. | ||||
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Great Smaller Museums of Europe | |||
| Art | ||||
| James Stourton | ||||
| Scala 2003 272 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1857592840 280x240mm | ||||
| Published Price £29.95 | Sale Price £14.99 | |||
| James Stourton presents a personal tour of 35 of Europe's great small museums. None are national collections, but all are glorious in their own way and house some of the world's greatest art treasures. Illustrated with over 350 reproductions, the book describes the settings of the collections and the works they contain: among them the Impressionist masterpieces of the Courtauld Institute in London, Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in Rome's Galleria Borghese, works by Kandinsky and Marc in the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and, in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. | ||||
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Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |||
| The First Years | Art | |||
| Scala 1996 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1857591216 275x196mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Our Price £11.99 | |||
| In an illustrated introduction to Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, Stefan van Raay tells the story of the magnificent 18th century building, while Julian Spalding provides artist profiles and commentary on works from Peter Howson's Patriots to Fitness is Energy by the Chinese painter Hock-Aun Teh. | ||||
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Return Afghanistan, Retour Afghanistan | |||
| Art | ||||
| (Photographs by) | ||||
| Aperture 2004 128 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1931788499 220x297mm | ||||
| Published Price £22.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| After 24 years in exile, Afghan-born photojournalist Zalmai returned to his homeland in 2003. This is a personal account, told in a series of outstanding colour photographs, of the country he rediscovered: a proud, independent nation devastated by war, famine and drought, whose people exist on a knife-edge of uncertainty yet display a resilience and optimism that are inspiring. With a foreword by Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and an essay by Ron Moreau. Text in English and French. No jacket. | ||||
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A Photographic Journey through the Lands of the Bible | |||
| Art | ||||
| Hilla and Max Moshe JacobyText by Tim Dowley (Photographs by) | ||||
| Hanssler 1997 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 3775130101 332x235mm | ||||
| Published Price | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| Beginning in Sinai, photographers Max and Hilla Jacoby made a pilgrimage through 5,000 years of history, travelling past the Dead Sea, through Jordan and the ruins of Petra, to Judea, Bethlehem and the Sea of Galilee, ending their journey in Jerusalem. Their photographs offer powerful images of the biblical lands and stunning contrasts, from the caves of Qumran and the Roman ruins of Caesarea to the modern high-rise architecture of Tel Aviv. With text by Tim Dowley and foreword by Teddy Kollek, a former mayor of Jerusalem. | ||||
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Modern and Contemporary Prints | |||
| A Practical Guide to Collecting | Art | |||
| Phoebe Phillips; Tom Robb | ||||
| ACC 2004 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1851494588 255x210mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Collecting original prints is the one of the most exciting areas in the art market. Whether you are buying for pleasure or as an investment, this handbook provides a fund of valuable information. After an introduction to the subject, it covers printing techniques, dealers' jargon, insurance, valuation and spotting fakes. Other chapters deal with framing, hanging and preserving prints, and the book concludes with an A-Z of artists, information on galleries and dealers and a bibliography. | ||||
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There is No Eye | |||
| John Cohen Photographs | Art | |||
| John Cohen | ||||
| Powerhouse 2001 200 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1576871711 275x198mm | ||||
| Published Price £22.50 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Musician, photographer and film-maker, John Cohen (b.1932) has photographed people, particularly musicians, in Peru, Greenwich Village, Kentucky bluegrass country and other strongholds of traditional music in America over five decades. This book is a selection from those images, together with Cohen's commentary on his own life of music, art and travel and his encounters with, among others, Jack Kerouac and the Beat poets, Roscoe Holcomb, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters. Introduction by Greil Marcus. | ||||
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Images of Eden | |||
| An Enquiry into the Psychology of Aesthetics | Art | |||
| Arthur Edwards | ||||
| Skylark 2003 349 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0953611604 | ||||
| Published Price £34.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Aesthetics is traditionally regarded as an aspect of philosophy: Edwards's approach is different. He argues that any work of art is devised in the mind of the artist and interpreted in the mind of the beholder and must therefore constitute a device of communication between those two minds. He explores the implications of this idea in a wide-ranging, cross-cultural quest that extends from Freud's model of the psyche to the trigonometry of the Great Pyramid and from communication theory to the Ying Yang symbol. | ||||
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Dali | |||
| Art | ||||
| Gabriele Ebbecke | ||||
| Prestel 2004 72 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 3791330772 | ||||
| Published Price £4.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| Part of the Lifelines series of guides to the world’s major artists. This pocketbook looks at Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali with explanations of the imagery in his paintings, focussed interpretations of selected works and a guide to where Dali’s works can be seen today. 7"x3", colour throughout. | ||||
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Arresting Design | |||
| Illustration in the Market Place | Art | |||
| Alain Lachartre | ||||
| Scala 2006 253 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 2866563840 275x315mm | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| Illustrator, art director and devotee of French bande dessinee (comic book art), Alain Lachartre presents work by 60 artists whose creative powers have helped establish prestigious brands such as Chanel, Renault, Verve Cliquot and Le Bon Marche. Divided by product - from perfumes and cosmetics to technology and travel - the book explores the process of creating commercial art through sketches, designs and comic strips, through the comments of the artists themselves and by examining the essential exchange between client and illustrator. | ||||
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Taking Eyeglasses Seriously | |||
| Art, History, Science and Technologies of the Vision | Art | |||
| Raimonda Riccini (Edited by) | ||||
| Silvana 2002 190 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 8882154378 280x235mm | ||||
| Published Price €24.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Accompanying a major exhibition at the Milan Triennial, 'Eyeglasses Taken Seriously', in 2002, this is a volume of essays on the themes of the human eye and vision rather than a catalogue of the exhibition, although many of the artefacts on show are illustrated. The 17 contributions discuss topics including the history of eyeglasses, optical art, fashions, aesthetics and functionality, glasses in films, the history of eye surgery, computer vision systems and the manufacture and use of optical glass. | ||||
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Bascilla | |||
| The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St Peters | Art | |||
| R A Scotti | ||||
| Viking 2006 299 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0670037761 | ||||
| Published Price $25.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
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Tribes | |||
| Art | ||||
| Art Wolfe | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 1997 160 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0500542155 344x230mm | ||||
| Published Price £24.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| To celebrate the fast-disappearing traditions of dress and decoration in tribal societies, the renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe travelled the world documenting peoples such as the Masai and Samburu of Kenya, the Bomai and Huli of Papua New Guinea, the Quechua people of Peru and the richly tattooed Polynesian tribes. Wolfe offers a detailed commentary on the peoples depicted in his striking images and the book is introduced by a professor of anthropology, David Maybury-Lewis of Harvard University. | ||||
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