Art & Photography Books
Twisted Spoon Press Responses * Kafka's Prague
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. RAJASTHAN: A Concise History
Book SynopsisRajasthan, also called Rajputana within living memory, is an ancient land with a veritable treasure of oral and written histories. The region has a long history, stretching back to the Old Stone Age, and its geography and environment have played a significant role in shaping its many facets-politics, literature, music, art, architecture, and a vibrant and living intangible cultural heritage.Rajasthan: A Concise History brings to you, in a nutshell, Rajasthan''s political, socio-cultural and economic history in a comprehensive, easy-to-read format. The book has also used archival, epigraphic, numismatic, art history, architectural and archaeological information to provide a general overview of one of India''s most colourful states.
£45.59
Tulika Books Vasudha Thozhur – Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy,
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£33.75
Copal Publishing Space Under a Tree
Book SynopsisThe various components and characteristics of trees have served a multitude of purposes for humans, for as long as we have been in existence. While the tree and its association with the human has been the studied and reflected upon in various disciplines of study, its spatial dimension is the object of this book, seen through the aesthetic, economic, political, socio-cultural and symbolic lenses, primarily in the Indian context. While looking at various Indian socio-cultural zones which are the result of climatic zones.
£71.24
Copal Publishing A Dialogue with Architecture
Book SynopsisThe book is a compilation of simple notes made by an architect while he is constantly trying to analyze his thoughts on architecture, the process of designing and his observations based on personal experience. In this book, the author Sachin Agshikar speaks about the origin of design by enumerating the importance of lines drawn in different planes that give shape to plans, sections and elevations. These ultimately help in choreographing three-dimensional spaces.
£33.24
Munch Museum Burst!: Abstract Painting After 1945
Book SynopsisBurst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Through texts and close to 100 illustrations, the book describes a vital creative exchange across the Atlantic that would entirely redefine painting. Big, expansive, paint-splattered surfaces; spontaneous actions captured on canvas; new ideas of freedom. A story of post-war recovery and Transatlantic dialogue. On both sides of the ocean, society was reacting to the horrors of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the coming of the atom bomb. The book shows how artists searched for new ways to deal with these shattering events. With works by Jean Dubuffet, Natalia Dumitresco, Helen Frankenthaler, Asger Jorn, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Barnett Newman, Georges Mathieu, Hedda Sterne and Clyfford Still, and more.Table of ContentsA Dialogue of Equals: Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel The Shape of Freedom? International Abstraction After 1945 Were There Really No Great Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction? People and Animals: Cobra Comments on Freedom Exhibited Artworks
£24.75
Munch Museum Edvard Munch The Scream
Book SynopsisEver since Munch first came up with the Scream motif at the end of the 19th century, countless artists, including Andy Warhol and Marina Abramovic, have modified it within their own work. In addition, the open-mouthed figure has cropped up in popular cultural productions such as Wes Craven's Scream film franchise, the poster for the kids' movie Home Alone, and in scores of satirical cartoons on everything from Brexit to Donald Trump's presidency and tax rises as well as on innumerable political banners and placards, most recently in protests about the climate emergency. In recent years, the Scream image has also taken a prominent place on digital screens in the form of its own emoji and as the basis of countless memes. At the same time, the quantity of souvenirs and other objects decorated with or shaped like Munch's figure of desperation has increased immeasurably. In short: these days The Scream haunts pretty much every layer of cultu
£22.46
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v Mel Odom Gorgeous
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£34.20
La Fabrica SHILPA GUPTA
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£31.50
£23.99
Hoaki Books S.L. Alejandro Magallanes Ordering the Chaos
Book SynopsisA book featuring the wide-ranging work of internationally renowned Mexican graphic designer, illustrator and artist Alejandro Magallanes. In this book featuring the work of internationally renowned Mexican graphic designer, illustrator, poet and artist Alejandro Magallanes, the author has selected from among thousands of posters, book illustrations, and works of art. It is divided into five sections that introduce the reader to a fascinating visual universe where Magallanes illustrates with words and writes with images. In texts throughout the book, the artist discusses the diverse nature of his projects and reflects on his graphic style. Through this vast array of work, we can see how Magallanes's process for creating illustrations and designing advertisements for important firms is always changing. The resulting images can be poetic, intelligent, childish, mainstream and even sometimes grotesque. They are examples of the different visions of an adult who refuses to stop being a chi
£22.49
El Croquis Unpack Me Again!: Packaging Meets Creativity
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£23.99
RM Verlag SL Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years
Book SynopsisThis much-anticipated publication will have an introductory text by well-known writer Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition "Women Surrealists in Mexico" and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's text will offer a unique insight into the life and work of Remedios Varo. Richly illustrated, the volume will present the painter's most important works. Through the forthcoming exhibition "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012 and then at a venue in Canada, Remedios Varo's work will also gain exposure to a wider audience.
£999.99
Promopress Lingerie and Beachwear: 1,000 Fashion Designs
Book SynopsisThis book presents 1,000 unpublished and original lingerie and beachwear designs by Dorina Croci with the collaboration of Elisabetta Drudi, author of best-selling international books, such as 4,000 Fashion Details (Promopress). Its content is intended to inspire fashion designers working in this field, showing details, colors and materials suitable for creating collections.
£21.24
Promopress Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption,
Book SynopsisThe planet has reached a critical point and it is up to us all to innovate and drive change in all aspects of life, including how we design, produce and purchase our clothing. The fashion industry and its procedures are changing rapidly thanks to the visionary mindset of innovators, the renewal of industrial processes, and a reconsideration of existing values. More and more customers are demanding the clothes they buy to be socially and environmentally aware: no child labour, minimal ecological impact, and safe working conditions are the basis of the sustainable values that customers are expecting from fashion companies. This book provides all the necessary insight for designers, fashion companies, retailers, and consumers that want to become more sustainable. It includes a comprehensive overview of the current actions taken by pioneering designers and brands, and how they are integrating basic sustainable principles, as well as eco- friendly and repurposed materials, to create a new generation of fashion products, including information on different fabric types, alternative production methods, and practical care advice for garments.
£21.25
Promopress Animals: 850 Handmade Illustrations
Book SynopsisThis hardback edition of our classic title is a collection of animals, hand-drawn by Joan Escandell in black and white in a vintage style, giving the book an air of a cabinet of curiosities or of nineteenth century natural history museums. It is the perfect companion for illustrators, graphic designers, artists and students looking for inspiration in the animal realm, and can also be enjoyed by children who will spend hours looking at the details of the drawings or colouring them in.
£16.99
Hoaki Creative Drawing: 100 Tips to Expand Your Talent
Book SynopsisIntended for creative professionals, this book offers 100 tips, resources and techniques for those who want to take their drawing skills to the next level. Through the work of contemporary artists, amateurs and even children, the author gives the basic concepts of this art form: colour, line and style. With his characteristical sense of humor, clarity and direct style, his lessons and tips will engage the reader.
£13.49
Hoaki Fabrics in Fashion Design: The Complete Textile
Book SynopsisIntended for fashion students and fashion designers, this fabric book is indispensable for sourcing and selecting textiles for fashion. It will guide you to the perfect fabric for every design, helping you find the ideal material to achieve the desired effect and recommending different ways to use it. With a revised and updated selection of photographs from fashion shows that exemplify current fashion trends in which the collections of such renowned designers as Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Vuitton, Vivian Westwood, van Herpen, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein appeared, the book shows you how some of the most emblematic names in fashion today use fabrics to achieve the highest expression of their creativity. This updated and enlarged edition also includes a detailed technical and historical introduction on the types of fabrics and their classification, the relationship between fabric and the fashion industry and the aesthetic, emotional, commercial and social aspects involved. This fabric bible is sure to become essential reading for all aspiring and experienced dressmakers and fashion designers.
£25.60
Hoaki Contemporary Watercolour on the Go: Capturing the
Book SynopsisThis book is an excellent tool for learning to sketch on location. Through the "no drawing first" technique, readers will learn to use only watercolour and a brush to draw in notebooks, make quick urban sketches, keep visual journals and create compelling outdoor urban work. Designed like a workshop on the go, with more than fifty progressive exercises, this book invites you to experiment with watercolour by translating space and movement through shapes and color into masses and values rather than contours and strict rules of perspective. The author, a theatrical scenic painter, urban sketcher and urban sketching teacher, shows you how to represent the world around us. She encourages the reader to observe the place, to understand it, to learn how to choose the subject when capturing the place’s soul, preserving the sense of the fleetingness of the instant described. The themes include vegetation, buildings, forms of people in movement and stop-motion.
£16.99
Hoaki New Fashion Illustration: 50 Essential
Book SynopsisThis fashion illustration anthology brings together the work of fifty contemporary artists, fashion designers and fashion illustrators. The book includes works by major figures in the industry such as Bil Donovan, Aurore de la Morinerie, Piet Paris, Daniel Egnéus, Cecilia Carlstedt and Amelie Hegardt, as well as young talents who have burst onto the scene with great success. The book begins with a brief introduction about the history and evolution of fashion illustration, followed by a series chapters devoted to the featured artists. Each chapter includes a brief presentation of the artist's career and style, an interview with the artist that touches on subject matter, sources of inspiration, techniques, influences and images of their work. All of the artists are from different backgrounds and generations, a fact made clear in the selection of works representing highly diverse styles and techniques (abstraction, realism, expressionism, figurativeness), reflecting the different ways of interpreting fashion from the point of view of fine arts.
£23.80
Hoaki Wildflower Watercolour Recognizing and Painting
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£15.29
Fundacion Juan March Ad Reinhardt: Art Is Art and Everything Else Is
Book SynopsisThe first retrospective in 30 years on the immensely influential abstractionist, theorist, art-world scourge and forefather of Minimalism The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in Europe, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else illustrates Ad Reinhardt’s tremendous influence on Abstract Expressionism as well as subsequent contemporary art styles. Reinhardt’s paintings are rarely representational and are instead composed of geometrics and eventually only color: canvases of all red, all blue, all black. Organized with the institutional support of the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, this catalog includes a selection of approximately 50 paintings and works on paper, spanning Reinhardt’s career from early drawings, paintings and collages to later works characterized by a progressive reduction of color and form. Another focal point of the volume is Reinhardt’s passions and artistic pursuits beyond painting, including his slides, writings on art, illustrations in newspapers, books, magazines and pamphlets, and his comics satirizing the art world and politics. Ad Reinhardt (1913–67) was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied art history at Columbia University from 1931 to 1935, after which he participated in the WPA Federal Art Project initiative. Reinhardt soon became an official member of the newly formed American Abstract Artist group alongside painters such as Josef Albers and Jackson Pollock. He exhibited regularly and taught at Brooklyn College for the remainder of his life.
£59.50
Loft Publications Back to Nature
Book SynopsisA curated collection of the finest international architectural studios which shows how their designs and projects seamlessly integrate with and complement the natural landscape.
£34.00
Loft Publications Beach Hotel Europe
Book SynopsisA celebration of Europe's coolest harbourside, clifftop and beach hotels, curated by an internationally renowned architecture photographer.
£30.00
At Last Books Final Copy
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£20.90
Strandberg Publishing The Little Book of Architectural History
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£24.00
Strandberg Publishing Vilhelm Hammershøi Painting as Poetry
Book SynopsisHenrik Wivel (b. 1954) is dr.phil. and author of a number of books on art, literature and existence, including Hammershøi in the David Collection (2017). He has been researching Hammershøi since 1982 and is one of the world's leading Hammershøi experts.
£36.00
Louisiana Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and
Book SynopsisSurveying the films, installations and performances of the superstar Icelandic artist Widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art, Icelandic performance and multimedia artist Ragnar Kjartansson takes a loving yet critical look at Western culture. His longform video installations explore the dynamics of repetition, often through music, and develop into feats of endurance, both physical and emotional. The Guardian deemed his 2012 work The Visitors “the best artwork of the 21st century.” Combining quintessential videos such as Me and My Mother and Bliss with lesser-known paintings and sculptures, the retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents three new pieces made for the exhibition (including the title work with the plywood flames burning on the catalog cover) and captures the litany of senses Kjartansson has embraced without hesitation in his 20-year career. New work created for the anthology includes a painted plywood monument to “an epic waste of love and understanding” and a new performance piece titled Scaredman. The richly illustrated catalog includes personal contributions and dialogues in response to each of the artist's works on display by leading contemporary artists and scholars. Curator Tine Colstrup discusses A Lot of Sorrow with Marina Abramović, and reflects on Terrible, Terrible with Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina. The book proves itself an invaluable guide to Kjartansson’s examination of love, identity, melancholy, masculinity and power. Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976), a native of Reykjavik, Iceland, studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm. He represented Iceland at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and participated in the 2013 Encyclopedic Palace of the World at the 55th Biennale di Venezia in 2013.
£42.30
Distributed Art Pub Kaari Upson Dollhouse
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£34.20
Strandberg Publishing Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne
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£45.00
Strandberg Publishing Archetypes Essential Works of Danish Design
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£32.00
Strandberg Publishing Beyond Words
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£36.00
At Last Books Rough Version
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£27.00
Sime Books New York Visual Notebook
Book SynopsisGotham, The Big Apple, the City of Dreamswhatever you call it, this metropolis never sleeps. So whether you''re penning your Broadway play, or just need a spot to jot your thoughts, vibe off the energy of NYC on every page. Part journal, part sketchbook, part colorful guide to iconic sights and landmarks, this innovative notebook includes stunning photographs and fun factoids. Visual Notebooks from SIME Books and Sunset & Venice help you save and organize your notes and memories to treasure forever. The combination of beautiful photography and blank pages gives you the scope and potential to transform this object into a distinctly personal visual journal. The unique natural paper of the cover and interior pages gives this notebook a special contemporary feel that makes for an enjoyable writing experience.
£13.57
SIME Books Los Angeles
Book SynopsisPart journal, part sketchbook, part colorful guide to iconic sights and landmarks, this innovative notebook includes stunning photographs and fun factoids. The unique natural paper of the cover and interior pages gives this notebook a special contemporary feel that makes for an enjoyable writing experience.
£13.57
ListLab INNER AREAS IN ITALY: A Test Bed for Analysing,
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£27.00
Silvana Leonardo da Vinci, Painter: The Complete Works
Book SynopsisOffers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analysis of Leonardo's work. Accompanied by spectacular illustrations. In the Quattrocento, an era when the representation of the human figure was dominated by timeless images based on Botticelli's example, Leonardo worked with light and colour to achieve a modelling that would restore three-dimensionality to the face and soften the rigours of perspective in a misty landscape, no longer a mere backdrop but a vivid pictorial transposition of careful scientific studies and refined psychological analyses. In Leonardo's pictures, it is the changing atmospheric conditions that complement and breathe life into the delicate rendering of the forms and the emotional experiences of the subjects. Thus the artist created powerfully expressive religious pictures and secular portraits that have a modern and disquieting quality in which the faces are true 'windows of the soul', highlighting a silent psychological dialogue between the painting's subject and the observer. Artistic innovations are sustained by a new sensitivity, as well as by study of the refraction of colour, to which much space is dedicated in the Florentine master's theoretical writings. The present book offers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic, and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analysis of Leonardo's work accompanied by spectacular illustrations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Biography; Gallery.
£27.00
Skira Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to 3D Printing
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£40.00
Skira Sophie Taeuber-Arp (bilingual edition): A Life
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£24.00
Skira Kakemono: Five Centuries of Japanese Painting.
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£24.00
Skira The Glass Ark: Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg
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£999.99
Skira F1 Heroes: Champions and Legends in the Photos of
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£24.00
Skira Villa dEste
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£32.00
Skira Kishio Suga
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£24.00
Skira Richard Avedon: Relationships
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£32.00
Skira Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
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£41.60
Skira Anu Poder
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£28.00
Skira Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich: Homage to
Book SynopsisSandro Miller (1958) is considered one of the world's foremost advertising photographers. He is known for his expressive images and his close collaboration with the actor John Malkovich and other members of the Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago.
£32.00
