Art & Photography Books
Pie International Co., Ltd. Fishes of Edo
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£23.38
PIE Books 100 Writing & Crafting Papers Through the Year:
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£24.00
Pie Intl Inc Sumie
£23.99
Tuttle Publishing Action Origami
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£15.08
Tuttle Publishing My Journey Through Japanese Art
£16.12
Art Gid Erik Bulatov: Come to Garage!
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of his career in the 1960s, Russian artist Erik Bulatov has investigated the potential of painting as social commentary. A founder of the school of Moscow Conceptualism-alongside Ilya Kabakov, Collective Actions, and Komar & Melamid among others-Bulatov developed what has been described as conceptual painting, using text and image to explore spatial preoccupations that mirror his understanding of social relations. This book follows the making of the artist's largest work to date: a thirty-two-feet high monumental diptych made in his trademark graphic style, reminiscent of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's advertising posters from the 1920s. Introducing an innovative assessment of Bulatov's oeuvre, this richly illustrated publication includes an essay by Garage curator Snejana Krasteva exploring his use of monumental scale, an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and several of Bulatov's texts spanning the period 1978-2006, which are translated into English for the first time.Table of Contents1) FOREWORD, Kate Fowle. 2) INTERVIEW: CAPITAL LETTERS, Erik Bulatov and Hans Ulrich Obrist. 3) ERIK BULATOV AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, Snejana Krasteva. 4) SELECTED POEMS, Vsevolod Nekrasov. 5) AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Erik Bulatov. 6) FROM THE ARTICLE "SURFACE-SPACE-LIGHT", Erik Bulatov. 7) THE PAINTING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE PAINTING! Erik Bulatov. 8) ON RUSSIAN ART, Erik Bulatov. 9) BIOGRAPHY. 10) SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. 11) LIST OF WORKS. 12) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
£11.40
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery Shadowless
£40.00
Munch Museum The Experimental Self: The Photography of Edvard
Book Synopsis"I have an old camera with which I have taken countless photographs of myself. It often produces astonishing effects", Edvard Munch states in a 1930 interview. "Someday when I am old and have nothing better to do than work on an autobiography, all my photographic self-portraits will see the light of day again." The autobiography was never realised, but the self-portraits have found their way to the pages of The Experimental Self. The Photography of Edvard Munch, which demonstrates the fundamentally experimental nature of the artist’s photographic practice. As a photographer, Munch embraced the freedom provided by the amateur position, and the unpredictable aspects of analogue photographic technology. By playfully approaching his own image in picture after picture, Munch extends his explorations of self-hood in other media through photography. The resulting photographs provide unique access to Munch’s radical artistic vision, which this book studies through eminent essays by Patricia G. Berman, Tom Gunning and MaryClaire Pappas. Table of ContentsWHAT MUNCH’S CAMERA SAW SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS I THE SPECTRAL SELF. MUNCH’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE INVISIBLE SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS II #PICOFTHEDAY. EDVARD MUNCH AND THE SELFIE
£17.95
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Art in a Disrupted World – Poland 1939–1949
Book SynopsisWith Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born artists that were created in concentration camps and ghettos, in exile, and during the years of social, political, and cultural disintegration immediately following the war. She draws attention to the ethics of artistic practice as a method of fighting to preserve one’s own humanity amid even the most dehumanizing circumstances. Breaking out of entrenched historical timelines and traditional forms of narration, this book brings together drawings, paintings, architectural designs, and exhibitions, as well as literary and theatrical works created in this time period, to tell the story of Polish life in wartime. Employing an accessible, essayistic style, Pietrasik offers a new look at life in the ten years following the outbreak of World War II and features artists—including Marian Bogusz, Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz, and Józef Szajna—whose work has not yet found substantial audiences in the English-speaking world. Her reading of the art and artists of this period strives to capture their autonomous artistic language and poses critical questions about the ability of traditional art history writing to properly accommodate artworks created in direct response to traumatic experiences. Trade Review"Makes a far-reaching contribution to the twentieth-century European art history." * Critique d'Art *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on TranslationIntroductionChapter 1 Instances of Material Resistance: Portraiture in the Concentration CampsMaterial ResistanceDrawing FacesThe Face and Facelessness in the Portraits of Xawery DunikowskiGestures of Resistance: Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz’s SketchbookThe (Self-)portraits of Józef SzajnaChapter 2 The Dialectics of Ruins and Rubble in Postwar Representations of WarsawRuins and RubbleWarsaw Accuses: Ruins On DisplayAffective Chronicles of a Place and TimeIn a Heap of RubbleChapter 3Homelessness, Homecoming, and the “Joy of New Constructions”The Destruction of Houses and the Politics of HomelessnessImagining Homes for the HomelessArt as a Home for AllProgrammatic Lack of ProgramModernism Against Itself(Un)doing ModernismFrom Friction to FactionSocial Fabric and the Canvas SurfaceBibliographyList of Works Index
£21.60
La Fabrica Choi Ok Yeung Art Nature
Book SynopsisChoi's monumental public sculptures revitalize the environment through discarded man-made waste and natural materialsKorean environmental artist Choi Ok Yeung (born 1959) captivates viewers with his large-scale installations, from a bamboo forest of metal pipes to a sculpture of Zeus made with 200 tons of stacked wood. This monograph is a broad representation of his work, which continues to regenerate over time.
£36.00
Tenov Books Earth Matter
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£32.30
Hoaki Design, Create, Thrill: The Power of Graphic
Book SynopsisIn this book, the author presents the perspectives of several authors and designers on how to achieve an emotional graphic design. Even though they are not absolute truths and there is no guarantee that if a designer follows those principles people will be emotional attached to the work, they will certainly bring them closer to that. Emotional design is a design that reflects on the crucial role emotions have in the human ability to understand the world, promising to enhance the quality of life of its audience. A successful emotion-driven design improves the relationship between the audience and the ‘product’, creating deep emotional bounds between the two. There are already many theories talking about emotional design in product design, industrial design, and even web design. But what about graphic design? This book aims to bring the graphic designer closer to delivering an emotion-driven design.
£19.12
Hoaki Light in Art: Perception and the Use of Light in
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book takes readers on a tour through the history of art to learn how artists have used light (and its lack of it as shadow) to make a statement about their subject matter or create a specific mood, with examples by masters such as Giotto, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Courbet, Turner, Klimt, and many more. It also includes theoretical approaches starting with Plato and Aristotle, moving on to Descartes, Newton, Goethe and Chevreul. Throughout history, artists have played with light, approaching it as both a subject and tool to create the desired atmosphere, convey ideas, and inspire emotions in the viewer. In medieval frescoes, rays of light stood for the presence of the divine, while 17th-century Dutch painters used light to indicate depth and construct an impactful setting. The Impressionists wanted to depict light itself and the way it plays upon the surfaces of objects in the form of colour. Photography and film have used light, both natural and artificial, to make things visible in the first place. This volume delves into these and many more topics and constitutes a perfect reference book for artists, students, scholars, and art lovers.
£21.25
RM Verlag SL Battered Latin America
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£33.25
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. Ignasi Aballí: Corrección / Correction
Book SynopsisSpain attended the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale with the artist Ignasi Aballí, with a solid and long career, and with a proposal curated by Bea Espejo, a great connoisseur of the artist’s work. In Corrección / Correction, Ignasi Aballí dialogues with the architectural space of the Spanish pavilion, making his project an opportunity to investigate the places that surround us. With his intervention he modifies the space of the Pavilion itself and, by extension, its location in the Biennial and its relationship with the city. The book includes texts by curator Bea Espejo, writer Ruth Estévez, publisher Moritz Küng, artist Alejandro Cesarco and a conversation between Aballí and Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the MNCARS. In co-edition with AECID. Text in English and Spanish.Table of ContentsText for Nothing, Bea Espejo / Bigger Inside than Out, Ruth Estévez / Manuel Borja-Villel and Ignasi Aballí, Conversation / Venecia, Walking with Books, Moritz Küng / The Motivation of the Frame, Alejandro Cesarco
£31.50
Hoaki Decoding Logos: From LOGO Design to Branding
Book SynopsisThis compelling book takes the reader on a journey showing how each logo has come into being and the process revealing best practices for extending a logo into a complete brand identity system. Logos are becoming increasingly simple, to the point where you might wonder just how much simpler they can get. A subtle tweak to a logotype is starting to feel like too much design. The appeal of a simple logo is that it feels more honest. Using client case studies from renowned designers, this is a must-have book for any graphic designer, student or logo fanatic in a fully revised, updated edition containing interviews with graphic designers in which they share their creative processes and thoughts on how a successful logo should be developed.
£19.12
Hoaki Artists on Creative Process
Book SynopsisA collection of artists' portraits, where they talk about the difficulties to be and remain creative and how to overcome blocks.
£21.24
A Botanical Stroll Through The Prado
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£16.85
Louisiana Arthur Jafa MAGNUMB
Book SynopsisAn essential overview of Jafa''s sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American lifeThough he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death. Composed of found images and videos, his oeuvre revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As Jafa put it in his 2003 text My Black Death: The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity, our uniqueness, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced.This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars. Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa (born 1960) grew up in Mississippi, where his lifelong fascination with found imagery manifested in his childhood hobby of assembling binders of photographs culled from various sources. As a cinematographer and director of photography, Jafa has collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, Solange Knowles and Spike Lee, among many others. His work on Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dust won him the Best Cinematography award at Sundance. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, he was awarded the Golden Lion for The White Album. Jafa lives in Los Angeles.
£31.50
ListLab SMART AND SAFE: Performative-Suit Design for
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£26.60
White Star Iconic Fashion
Book SynopsisFashion icons aren't just people; they're also revolutionary items like the Burberry trench coat and Givenchy's little black dress. This book explores their history, anecdotes, and cultural impact with illustrations and photos.
£22.49
Forma Edizioni Ali Banisadr. Beautiful Lies
Book SynopsisBeautiful Lies documents Teheran-born, New York-based artist Ali Banisadr’s 2021 show in Florence in honour of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri. The “beautiful lies” beneath which truth is hidden is an expression used by Dante in describing his writing - and allegorical poetry in general - and it is perfectly suited to Banisadr’s work. His powerful brushwork and strong colours go below the surface of his personal reality, revealing violence and isolation, anguish and wonder, but also memories and imagination. For this show, which was split between two venues, he was commissioned to create an installation of site-specific paintings (also called Beautiful Lies). The text is by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento in Florence.
£32.40
Forma Edizioni Marginalia
Book SynopsisFour Calabrian artists who trained during the 1970s, four different poetic paths and a communion of intentions. After Marginalia, the first group exhibition held in 1979, their path split across Italy, to reunite in 2021 in an exhibition bearing the same title. Francesco Correggia held the chair of Decoration Department in Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He initially focused on performances and site- specific actions, before turning to painting. Luigi Magli lives in Cosenza. He’s interested in semiotics and the language of art, investigating matter and its expressive possibilities through his ‘personal expressionism’. Rocco Pangaro lives in Rende. He teaches Artistic Anatomy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro. His research is wedged in the relationship between the artistic intervention and the place that hosts it. Giovanni Vatrella moved to Gorizia. He incorporates reality in his works, showing and concealing it at the same time behind thin canvases. The book, edited by Bruno Corà, highlights the affinities and divergences of these artists. It is accompanied by a rich apparatus of significant archive images.
£24.00
Forma Edizioni Klaus Münch
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the artistic career of Klaus Münch through a selection of his work, ahead of an exhibition opening in Spoleto, Italy in October 2023. Born in Freiburg, Germany, after attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where he graduated in sculpture, he studied in Munich, specialising in painting. Since then, he has chosen to live and work in Italy, where he pursues his personal artistic investigation of the world. His work moves in the fertile furrow between sculpture and painting. Starting from the examples of Mario and Marisa Merz, Gilberto Zorio, Giovanni Anselmo and comparing himself with artists of the same age such as Vittorio Messina and Eduard Winklhofer, Münch analyses the complex relationship between creation and space, between colour and shape. Includes essays by Marco Tonelli, Ivo Iori and the curator Bruno Corà himself. Text in English and Italian.
£30.00
Skira Editore Hidden Italy
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£40.00
Skira 1000 Vases (Bilingual edition)
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£33.60
Skira Burri: Material Poetry
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£23.80
Skira Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller
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£32.00
Skira Preben Holst: The Stranger
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£30.00
Skira Genius of the Place Irqah
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£38.40
Skira Walasse Ting Parrot Jungle
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£24.00
Skira Obey
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£32.00
Skira Baselitz Schonebeck 19621966
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£28.00
Skira The Echo of Our Voices
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£45.00
Skira Reem Al Faisal
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£48.75
Damiani Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream
Book SynopsisIn Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875-1900, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with visual iconographic material - from Wilde’s earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in 1900 after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Great Britain. Italy, and the larger world outside of London, was essential to the sensitivity and awareness of Wilde’s identity, to his contributions to the prison reform, to his challenges to the social norms and sexual stereotypes in his last years. Latin formed the basis of a proper English gentleman’s education-and Italy presented a landscape which animated and exacerbated social and personal conflict for young men such as Wilde. It also offered a great deal of sexual liberty compared to the oppressive moral atmosphere of England at that time. The images Miracco has incorporated in this volume (including photos that Wilde received from the gay German photographer, Von Gloeden) are mainly unknown from private collections, and together with letters, reminiscences, magazine and newspaper articles (along with derogatory articles about Wilde written by the Italian press) play a key role in placing Wilde’s character, and an entire generation, in a complex context - not only literary, but also visual. Reading about Naples, Rome, Palermo, Sicily, and Capri of that time, you see it as it must have appeared in the eyes of the writer. Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875-1900 is a major addition to the canon of one of the world’s greatest literary figures. The introduction to the book is by Philip Kennicott the Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic of The Washington Post.
£18.70
Damiani Bonnie Briant: Lump Sum Lottery
Book SynopsisOver the course of a decade, photographer Bonnie Briant collected everything she saw, resulting in an extensive catalogue of photographs. Her first monograph, Lump Sum Lottery is quiet and subtle selection of images produced during those ten years. Self-reflexive and diaristic in nature, Lump Sum Lottery represents the many idiosyncratic, intimate moments that make up a life—the in-between spaces, the moments you feel but can’t necessarily put into words; time passing in a wild rush, with everything changing yet, somehow, staying exactly the same. The photographs become personal touchstones, a mode of organising, controlling (to an extent), and collecting the world. Each picture stands alone, infused with its own story, but quietly come together, like a steady stream, as a whole.
£22.50
Damiani Alexis Rockman: Works on Paper
Book SynopsisWith a career spanning over three decades, internationally acclaimed artist Alexis Rockman is well known for his complex, large scale paintings and works on paper depicting the collision between civilization and nature. The artist synthesizes elements of human history, natural science and landscape painting; a passionate interest in climate change and globalization; and a healthy dose of art history and science fiction, to create images that reveal our world balancing on the precipice. Beyond their lush surfaces, radiant washes of color, and technical inventiveness belies a dark humor, an intense curiosity and a probing intelligence that serves to heighten the power and urgency of his invented narratives. Works on Paper is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s graphic work, documenting his extraordinary accomplishments as a draftsman through a meticulous selection of watercolors, gouaches, oil drawings, field studies, and sketchbooks. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the book reproduces 120 works, many of which have never before been published. Included are his earliest watercolors from the 1980s, often of hybrid and mutated animals; Field Drawings, created in Guyana and other remote locations from mud sourced on site; the ominously beautiful and apocalyptic Weather Drawings; painterly works relating to his epic The Great Lakes Cycle; and Lost at Sea, his most recent body of work reimagining famed and historic shipwrecks. The book includes a visual appendix of Rockman's graphic influences, with commentary by the artist. Works on Paper is a valuable addition to scholarship on the artist, providing a critical understanding of a visionary oeuvre made at the intersection of art, nature and science.
£36.00
Damiani Steve Schapiro and Theophilus Donoghue: seventy
Book Synopsis'Seamlessly woven together, the book explores their [father and son] shared passion for humanism and social activism, using the photograph as a means to foster intimate connections and explore meaningful truths -- a lesson Steve learned studying with illustrious photojournalist W. Eugene Smith.' - i-D Vice 'The dynamism of the images and the inventive sequencing make this not just a book of great photographs, but a great photography book full of energy and verve... a fitting tribute to [Shapiro's] legacy' - B&W Photography Famed photojournalist Steve Schapiro and his son Theophilus Donoghue have collaborated on seventy thirty, a photo project that is 70% Schapiro, 30% Donoghue. Seventy thirty depicts the various faces and expressions of humanity, from metropolitans to migrants, unseen homeless to conspicuous celebrities, such as Alec Guinness, Allen Ginsberg, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, René Magritte, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, and the Velvet Underground. Schapiro photographs early New York skateboarders while Donoghue documents current Colombian breakdancers. Father and son both capture philosophically poignant moments that rouse reflection. Schapiro includes his classic photo “Man on Iceberg,” which was the opening double-page spread of a Life story on existentialism. In a similar fashion, Donoghue contributes his contemplative “Hindsight Intersection,” which was recently featured in ARTSY’s 20 21 Artists in Support of Human Rights Watch benefit auction. Shooting in monochrome with an occasional dash of colour, Schapiro and Donoghue portray the proud and lofty as well as the humble and humorous. Alternately profound and playful, Schapiro and Donoghue’s photographs capture a vast range of human emotion and experience. Like his father, Donoghue is equally concerned with social justice issues. For this project, Schapiro has selected images from the 60s civil rights movement and, with Donoghue, provided photos from today’s Black Lives Matter protests and environmental rallies. Apart from numerous stateside locations, their project includes images from India, Italy, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. Together father and son provide a touching overview of humanity throughout the world from the 1950s to present day.
£33.75
Damiani Patrick Cariou: Works 1985-2005
Book Synopsis"Patrick's work offers a mesmerising journey around the world in search of the divine, offering a timeless portrait of people living on the fringe, creating life on their own terms." - i-D For more than 25 years, French photographer Patrick Cariou has traveled to far out places around the globe, documenting people living on the fringes of society and making a way for themselves. Whether photographing surfers, gypsies, Rastafarians, or rude boys of Kingston, Cariou celebrates his subjects as they are: peoples of the earth who meet the struggles of life with honor, dignity, and joy. Bringing together works from his groundbreaking monographs including Surfers, Yes Rasta, Trenchtown Love, and Gypsies, Works 1985-2005 takes us on a scenic journey around the world, offering an intimate and captivating look at cultures that distance themselves from the blessings and curses of modernism. Given access to these hermetic realms, Cariou presents a fascinating portrait of resistance in a multiplicity of forms. The landscape plays a vital role in Cariou’s work, revealing how people live shapes their identity and destiny in equal part. Whether following the waves, living in the mountains, or surviving urban and rural poverty, Cariou’s subjects reval the importance of preserving one’s native culture at a time of Western cultural hegemony. The spirit of pride and defiance comes alive in his work; each of the peoples portrayed have found a way to survive despite the brutality facing them and the earth alike.
£44.00
Damiani Andrew Dosunmu: Monograph
Book SynopsisThe first retrospective volume on the photography of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer and music-video director Andrew Dosunmu. 'The beauty of Monograph—a new art book by acclaimed Nigerian and New York photographer, filmmaker, stylist, and creative director Andrew Dosunmu—lies in the uncanny juxtapositions of distinct realms. Wholly separate images shown side by side form their own dynamic relationships.' - VOGUE Monograph looks back at 20 years of previously unpublished and sumptuously colorful portraiture and more, including stills from music videos and the 2022 Netflix film Beauty. Dosunmu has published his photography with iconic music and fashion magazines such as The Face, Vibe, Fader, Vogue Hommes, Paper and Interview, and has been commissioned by international brands such as Nike and Adidas. Throughout his career, Dosunmu has developed a prolific personal body of work that until now has never been published, though it has been sought after by private collectors and museums. The images compiled in Monograph portray uniquely stylish individuals in Dakar, Mumbai and Cartaghena. United by Dosunmu’s acute instinct for color into a compelling aesthetic vision, these portraits celebrate global culture with tremendous sensuality. The book includes a conversation between Dosunmu and Arthur Jafa.
£40.00
Damiani Matthew Brookes Expression of Freedom
Book SynopsisAn homage to melliferous, unifying art of dance, as captured over the course of 10 years and across four continents. A follow-up to the photographer Matthew Brookes's Les Danseurs, published in 2015, Expression of Freedom once again deep-dives into the melliferous world of dance, celebrating the togetherness and inclusivity found through the art form. In the last ten years, Brookes traveled across four continents for this grand photographic project, capturing dancers in motion within their geographic contextsParis, Milan, London, South Africa, New York, Brazil and Los Angeles. The dancers showcased are representative of a diverse array of backgrounds and ages; acclaimed professionals share space with street performers. Dancers include: Marie-Agnes Gillot, Aurelie Dupont, Carolyn Carlson, Roberto Bolle, Friedemann Vogel, Hugo Marchand, Germain Louvet, Guillaume Diop, Leroy Mokgatle, Matthew Ball, Megan Lecrone. They are representatives of the most prestigious dance companies in the
£36.00
Five Continents Editions More than Meets the Eye
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£40.50
Rizzoli Fornasetti
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Lannoo Publishers Nordic Colours
Book SynopsisFollow-up to the bestseller Nordic Moods, this new work helps you find your own colour palette rooted in the here-to-stay Nordic tradition.
£40.50
Stichting Kunstboek BVBA The Bouquets of Chenonceau
Book SynopsisAfter twenty years in his flower shop in Saint-Avertin, florist Jean-Francois Boucher left the family business to follow his heart and focus solely on his art, without having to put energy in the obligatory commercial flower work. And where better to do this than at the stunning Chateau de Chenonceau, one of those fairytale type castles in the French Loire Valley. Since 2015 Jean-Francois has been floral scenographer of the estate. Together with his small team he creates new floral compositions for the castle's rooms every week. These 'staged' flowers emphasise the history of the estate just like any other piece of art or furniture does. Their designs blend in perfectly with the interior and decoration and are in beautiful harmony with the room's colour code, its perfume and its function. Sometimes they even wink at poetry, art or the historical events that took place in these spaces. The Bouquets of Chenonceau is a magnificent coffee table book that will please both lovers of history and fans of floral design. Text in English and French.
£33.75
BIS Publishers B.V. Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat.
Book SynopsisRevised edition: 20 additional methods, three new case studies and a new chapter to introduce life-centred design. This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change.This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change. It documents 80 methods that cover all stages of a design process, providing actionable guidance for applying the methods across a range of projects. The methods are complemented by seven case studies to demonstrate their application in different domains, from designing interfaces for autonomous vehicles to addressing health and wellbeing. Free templates and resources, available at designthinkmakebreakrepeat.com, make this a great resource for design educators as well as practitioners leading workshops in their organisation or looking for inspiration to transform their practice.In this revised edition, the authors look beyond the human-centred design paradigm and provide an introduction to life-centred design. This extended focus is reinforced through design methods for considering the broader ecosystem in which products and services are used, including the use of natural resources, ethical concerns and the long-term impact of design decisions.
£23.99
Stockmans Luc Tuymans
Book SynopsisThis publication appears on the occasion of Luc Tuymans'' retrospective exhibition in Hungary. With innumerable analyses by art historians, we thought the most fitting and exciting accompaniment to this display would be a collection of writers'' reflections on Tuymans'' work. Since one of the things to make this retrospective display special is its being the artist''s debut in Central-Europe, Hungary and Poland, we made a point of inviting authors from the region to comment on his art. We gave complete liberty to our authors to decide what to reflect on: a picture, Tuymans'' activity as a painter, or some other aspect of his personality.
£17.10
