Art & Photography Books
University of Toronto Press Light in Dark Times
Book SynopsisAt once historical and allegorical, Light in Dark Times is an illustrated ride crossing time, space, and place as the characters walk a difficult path while grasping a lifeline of hope on a journey through knowledge.Trade Review"Light in Dark Times contributes to our understanding of why the US is facing similar strategies of ‘conflating opinion with truth’ and the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that were used in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. It also offers a number of important remedies to counter them: be introspective, avoid the trivial, participate in envisioning an alternative world, and engage in activities without exaggerated self-importance." -- Rachel Breunlin, University of New Orleans * Anthropology and Humanism *“Light in Dark Times is one of the few books, anthropological or otherwise, I would call transcendent. Rarely has a volume been timelier, more engaging, or more accessible.” -- Robert Myers, Alfred University * General Anthropology *"This is a unique, non-fiction graphic novel that focuses on what anthropology study can lend to society. The artwork is particularly illuminating." -- 2020 VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Committee“If I were teaching graduate students in anthropology about the alluring, messy complexities within and about the discipline, this book would be a fine introduction. If I were teaching qualitative research methods and other means of narrating experience, the format and content would undoubtedly expand the student’s repertoires of representation.” -- Sue E. Estroff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Journal *Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Anthropology Characters Reflections On Being Introspective On Thinking in Dark Times On Truth, Lies, and the Danger of the Trivial On Envisioning an Alternative World A Lament To the Present To Posterity
£15.19
Manchester University Press Slaves of Fashion Art of the Singh Twins
Book SynopsisThis art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins. -- .
£33.25
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More Than 500
Book SynopsisColor Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor features master mixes for an array of skin colors in oil, acrylic, and watercolor—plus recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors.Also included are a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. With Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor and your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone for your portrait: Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject. Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color. Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you will need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows. Also featured in this book: Color theory Tinting, toning, and shading Graying skin tones naturally Identifying facial planes Mouth, nose, and ear color tones Eye and hair color tones Watercolor skin tone recipes With recipes for more than 500 color combinations, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair. Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.Table of ContentsInstructions Skin Tone Palettes Color Theory Mouth Color Tones Ear/Nose Color Tones Oil & Acrylic Skin Tone Recipes Color Tones Watercolor Skin Tone Recipes Creating Colors Index Oil/Acrylic Conversion Chart About the Author
£10.44
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Critical Engineering Works for Manufacturers
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. Originally written in the 400s (Al Hijri calendar), scientist Abul Wafaa Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al Bouzjany illustrated the fundamentals of geometric drawing using the ruler, compass and set square simply and easily, regardless of the proofs and reasons. This text includes 172 geometric issues, mostly belonging to two-dimensional plain geometry and three-dimensional spherical geometry. A fascinating historical study and important reference guide for modern-day engineers and designers working in the field of engineering and handicrafts constituting the basis of Islamic architecture.
£17.99
Running Press The Joker Talking Bust and Illustrated Book
Book SynopsisWith this talking collectible figure, Batman''s arch nemesis and supervillain extraordinaire, the Joker, is here! Kit includes:- 3-inch The Joker bust mounted on a base, with 10 diabolical sound bites- Phrases include Joker here! The Joke''s on you, Batman! Life''s a bowl of cherries, and this is the pits! I''m not mad at all, I''m just...differently sane!, Welcome to the madhouse, Batman!, and Let''s get this party started -- with a bang!- The Joker: Behind the Smile, 48-page book of The Joker history, featuring full-color illustrations throughout
£9.96
Ridinghouse Alison Wilding On Paper
Book SynopsisBest-known for her ambitious sculptural works, this volume explores how Alison Wilding's compelling drawing and extensive use of collage have been integral to her development for five decades.
£40.50
Getty Trust Publications Botanical Revolutions
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking work presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the indispensable contributions of plants.
£28.50
Smith Street Books Vivienne Westwood
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated celebration of the life and work of activist, provocateur, and fashion icon, Vivienne Westwood. Vivienne Westwood spent more than five decades breaking the rules and pushing the envelope of the fashion world. Renowned for her rebellious spirit and avant-garde designs, Westwood lived a life dedicated to a free artistic expression that continues to redefine fashion and inspire generations worldwide. She gifted us countless iconic moments and designs, from her days at the Kings Road SEX' shop and wearing no knickers to receive her OBE from the Queen, to her trailblazing 90s runway collections and her tireless pursuit of social and climate justice. Beginning with her working-class upbringing and traversing through the McLaren years, her contributions to early punk culture, her most iconic collections and her activism, amongst more, Vivienne Westwood is a new illustrated guide to a true one-of-a-kind.
£21.25
GOST Books Big Sky
Book Synopsis''His photographs have their own powers oftransformation. Towers of almonds, covered haphazardly with plastic sheetingand held down by car tires, become a misty valley; a rainbow ends not in a potof gold but at an opal-mine junk yard. Kids at the top of the stairs on aplayground slide call to mind brushtail possums caught in the beam of aflashlight. A man lies face down on his horse, and a hat has fallen to theground?it is the horse, not the man, who seems likeliest to have lost it.''Helen Sullivan The NewYorkerAdam Ferguson began photographing Australia?s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ?Outback??a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.His photographic survey, made over a 10-year period, depicts fading traditional events, shrinking small towns, Aboriginal connection to Country, the impacts of globalisation and the adversity of climate change to illustrate the complex realities of contemporary life in the ?Outback?.
£47.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Amoako Boafo
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£28.50
Hanuman Editions Grocery List
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£14.40
Remembering Wildlife Remembering Great Apes
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£42.75
Park Books The Beauty of Impermanence
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£38.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Allegorical Architectural Machine
Book SynopsisThe intersection of architecture and the machine has a history that stretches back to the Industrial Revolution, however the machine has recently begun to appear in new ways in speculative architectural drawing and modelling. This issue of AD considers the influence of the machine as an allegorical device for exploring alternative architectural practices, and includes a cross-section of viewpoints from emerging and established international practitioners and academics. Allegory, a technique native to literature, provides a critical method through which machine typologies can contribute to deeper architectural narratives, offering new lenses for challenging or reassembling conventional modes of thought.An allegorical architectural project can unveil a story that enhances our awareness of something important. This AD reveals how engagement with the machine as an allegorical device in architectural discourse provides an avenue for architecture to provoke new ideas in response to
£28.49
Yale University Press Lina Bo Bardi
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£38.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion History
Book SynopsisFashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai''i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from aTrade ReviewFashion History: A Global View is inspirational for new studies on fashion history by showing how new styles were initiated at times, in places and in ways that ordinarily are not included in fashion history. The book can further extend the way fashion history is taught at the colleges and the universities. * Markets, Globalization & Development Review *How wonderfully well-timed is this book! A milestone in the field, Fashion History marks a point to which fashion scholarship has been evolving, and at which we can now pause and take stock. -- Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne, Australia.This new fashion world history persuasively argues for a definition of fashion beyond the modern west. From Chinese lip fashions to ‘vernacular version of the standard suit’ (shorts and T shirts) this is an essential overview of the development and state of the field. Ranging in topic from the Ancient World to past and present East, South and South-east Asia, the book will surprise and delight. Notable for its clarity and precision, illustrated with fascinating examples, the book is essential reading for all students and devotees of fashion and its histories. -- Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Aalto University, FinlandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Joanne B. Eicher Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Europe and the People Without Fashion Part I. Understanding Fashion and Its History 2. The Lexicon of Fashion 3. Fashion Systems 4. How We Got Here Part II. Outside the Canon: Alternative Fashion Histories 5. Fashion Systems in Prehistory and the Americas 6. Fashion Systems and Trade Networks in the Eastern Hemisphere 7. Fashion Systems in East, South and Southeast Asia 8. Alternative Fashion Histories in Euro-America 9. Global Fashion 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£25.64
Intellect Analyzing NES Music
Book SynopsisFaced with severe technological constraints on system memory, composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for creating the illusion of variety. This book distills these techniques into a theory of harmony and form for the analysis of NES music. It then uses this theory to analyze five landmark scores of the NES era: Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior, Metroid, Mega Man 2, and Silver Surfer. Both theory and analysis are scaffolded by a detailed description of the NES hardware and its attendant constraints, highlighting the ever-evolving dialogue between technology, commercial demand, and artistic sensibility that characterizes video game music of the 1980s and 1990s.
£89.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd Chess and other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented in-depth guide to one of the world's most spectacular collections of ancient chess and games piecesTrade Review'Stunning' - Arab Weekly'Glorious … a unique and authoritative record of chess and gaming pieces … The beauty of this book, and the gaming pieces that it records, will make you gasp at the sheer radiance of The Al-Sabah Collection. In summary, this book is truly magnificent' - Yorkshire Times'Fascinating' - Apollo
£23.96
Birkhauser Verlag AG Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931
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£52.00
Arnoldsche Kindred Spirits
Book Synopsis? The first comprehensive monograph on Japanese ceramics in Chinese style and their history? 100 beautiful ceramics showcase the artistic relationship between Japan and China throughout the years? A valuable reference source for collectors and art historiansKindred Spirits showcases the remarkable flowering of Chinese style ceramics that took place in Japan after the mid-19th century. For over a thousand years, Chinese ceramics have been admired and emulated in Japan. This book discusses for the first time how this artistic relationship evolved during the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa eras. A selection of 100 works from the acclaimed Shen Zhai Collection demonstrates the range and quality of these ceramics, from elegant celadons to sophisticated underglaze blue porcelains. Detailed descriptions, makers? marks, and box inscriptions make this a valuable reference resource for collectors and art historians.
£56.25
Slanted Publishers UG REBEL PRINTS
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£37.80
D Giles Ltd Japanese Woodblock Prints 1680 1980
Book SynopsisA major new survey of an internationally significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints.
£25.50
Hirmer We Will Go Right Up to the Sun
Book SynopsisGeometric abstraction as a worldview: artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of non-representational art. The volume presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and takes into account in addition to the applied arts the female perspective of the Global South with promising new discoveries. Geometric abstraction emerged around the turn of the last century from an attitude that was permeated by renewal, utopia and resistance, and that aimed at the unity of art and life. Colourful, geometric and highly attractive this comprehensive view of the time between 1914 and the 1970s is lavishly illustrated and relates the narrative from a female, global, historical and contemporary perspective, revealing the dense network between women artists and gallerists.
£41.25
Park Books The Craft of Place
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£38.40
Museum of Modern Art Complexity and Contradiction at fifty: Studies
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£28.00
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Amy Sillman
Book SynopsisA prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production, from the late-1990s to the present. Valerie Smith’s text reveals Sillman’s uniquely time-based approach to painting, influenced and inflected as much by filmmakers and musicians and the processes of her other chosen disciplines as by strictly art-historical forebears. Sillman’s works perform an intensive cognitive and gestural interrogation of her chosen materials: discovering, undoing and reforming trains of painterly thought, often over long periods of time and across large numbers of linked works. Sillman’s painting emerges as a radically expressive force; a pointedly self-reflexive practice that reformulates contemporary painting as an ever-evolving continuum and never simply a finished work. Trade Review‘Amy Sillman is one of the most important, inventive, and intelligent painters of our time. This book offers a cogent yet probing introduction to her life and work. If you’re already a fan, you’ll learn more. If you don’t know her work yet, welcome to its rigorous, rabble-rousing, often ravishing ride.’ - Maggie Nelson‘Amy Sillman is among a handful of painters whose work is essential for our time. Her paintings are formally astute, witty, anecdotal, and deeply felt. Valerie Smith has done an excellent job of documenting Sillman’s circuitous evolution, focusing our attention on the ways in which the artist’s multi-faceted interests are embedded in her paintings.’ – David Salle
£42.75
Museum of Modern Art Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese
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£28.00
HENI Publishing Money in Art
Book SynopsisAs an inescapable aspect of everyday life, money has appeared in the background of art throughout its history within the context of mythological, biblical and historic scenes. In the last seventy years however, as consumer culture has spread internationally, many artists have given money the centre stage in their work to reflect on various economic, political, social and symbolic concerns that relate to different currencies and formats. In some of these artworks, physical money banknotes and coins plus cheques and credit cards is the actual art material, used by artists to question and subvert notions of value or to examine the aesthetics of these quotidian objects. Others have embraced burgeoning digital currencies in their artworks, looking forward to a possible future where money is wholly intangible. Money in Art: From Coinage to Crypto is an engaging new book that features a diverse selection of modern and contemporary art. Presented chronologically from Pop art onwards, wit
£16.99
Island Press Meet Me at the Library
Book SynopsisA revealing look at public libraries' unique impact in the social and civic realm and how their innovative and productiveprograms are creating strong, inclusive communities.
£18.05
Elemental Music Records Jazz Images By Jean-Pierre Leloir
Book Synopsis"Jean-Pierre was himself a musician, but his choice of instrument was a camera, which he never put away." - Michel Legrand "I am so happy to see Leloir's work published, because behind each image is a story - one that needs to be told and appreciated. Leloir was not just a photographer; instead he was a preserver of history. As a result, this book holds hundreds of stories that shine a light onto the lives of those who live in these pages. Leloir had a unique ability to preserve an entire atmosphere and its surrounding emotions. between the four corners of a picture, but beyond his talent as a photographers, he presented himself not as paparazzi, but a friend. He and my other brother Herman Leonard were two of a kind; they had the same passion for photography and an endless supply of vision." - Quincy Jones This book gives ample proof of Jean-Pierre Leloir's amazing ability to immortalise performers and to capture candid moments at the airport, backstage, and in the dressing rooms of the most legendary Paris jazz and concert venues: "I loved the people I photographed, so I made myself as available, yet as discreet as possible", he used to say. "I never wanted to be a paparazzi. I wanted them to forget my presence so I could catch those little unexpected moments." The selection of photographs showcased here has been carefully selected from Leloir's immense catalogue. Many of the images have never been previously published before, and can be easily catalogued as 'atypical' shots, as the musicians were captured primarily in spontaneous situations, away from the fanfare of the stage. Text in English with an introduction in English, French and Spanish.
£35.99
Imperial War Museum War In The Air: The Second World War in Colour
Book SynopsisAllied victory in the Second World War owed much to air power. The success of military and naval operations invariably hinged on control of the skies, and the rise to dominance of the Allied air forces meant that the Nazi war machine was effectively doomed. Following the success of The Second World War in Colour, this book presents a further selection of original colour photographs from the IWM collection, focusing on Allied aircraft and airmen. Alongside these striking images, War in the Air examines how crucial aviation was to winning the war, from the defence of Britain’s skies and maritime trade, to battlefield support in North Africa and Europe and the strategic bombing offensive over Germany. Shot from the ground and from the air, these powerful images bring a vital aspect of the Second World War to life.
£14.24
Ebury Publishing Outspoken
Book SynopsisHistory didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help us see the funny side to life. From Jesus to Winston Churchill to Martin Luther King Jr. and even Donald Trump, we've been raised with the words of important men ringing in our ears But where are all the women? Unless you're the type of person who loves researching suffrage speeches, you are unlikely to know many soundbites from women throughout history. Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women is going to change that. From Joan of Arc and Virginia Woolf, to Oprah Winfrey and Greta Thunberg, this is a celebration of outstanding and outspoken women everywhere.
£17.09
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Glenn Ligon All Over The Place
Book SynopsisAmerican artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark text-based paintings, which draw on the influential writings and speeches of twentieth-century historical and cultural figures including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Gertrude Stein. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in which Ligon's art will be displayed in dialogue with objects from the Fitzwilliam and Trinity College collections selected by the artist himself. Glenn Ligon is widely considered one of the most important figures in the contemporary art world. Informed by his experiences as an African American living in New York, his art is a sustained meditation on issues of interpretation through translation and quotation, the role of the past in the present, and the representation of the self in relation to culture and history, both as the conceptual underpinning and as a critique of modern society. His text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, engage provocatively and incisively with the written and oral legacy of writers and cultural icons, from Ralph Ellison to Richard Pryor, highlighting the social, linguistic and political constructions of race, gender and sexuality. The catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, while also serving as an introduction to the artist's oeuvre. A large-scale neon, Waiting for the Barbarians (2021), will be installed in the museum's grade-I listed portico and two dedicated galleries will be linked by interventions threaded throughout the museum's permanent collection, in which the artist has been invited to select artworks and objects following themes including annotation, cultural hybridity and legibility. By exploring Ligon's curatorial practice alongside his artworks, the exhibition showcases the ideas of one of the most significant Black artists working today in direct dialogue with museological tradition. Issues such as art making and aesthetics, as well as broader questions about race and its socio-political implications, will be further developed in the catalogue, which includes a series of essays and conversations between Ligon and a range of museum curators.
£23.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) History and Legacy of Isotype
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this open access book provides a fresh perspective on the early history of Isotype and pictographic communication, with new information about largely unknown episodes throughout its development. The picture-script Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), previously conceived as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, evolved through numerous publications and exhibitions in the early 20th century. Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner trace how its development responded to differing cultural and political climates, through a period when the idea of a universal language an artificial or planned language was linked to ideas of internationality and democratic planning. This book explores in depth, for the first time, the early picture-statistical work carried out at Austrian institutions during a new era of visual education and communication during and after World War II. Examining the work of Isotype's i
£20.89
Titan Books Ltd Star Trek Shipyards The Borg and the Delta
Book SynopsisFeaturing ships of the Borg and vessels of the Delta Quadrant, the first of two companion volumes of ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. This volume begins with the ships operated by STAR TREK's greatest villains: the Borg, including the Borg Cube and Sphere, the Borg Queen's Ship, the Renegade Borg Vessel and the Borg Tactical Cube. From there, it profiles more than thirty-five ships operated by the species Voyager encountered in the Delta Quadrant, featuring ships from A - Akritirian to K - Krenim. With technical overviews and operational histories, the ships are illustrated with CG artwork - including original VFX models made for the show. The vessels include warships, fighters, transports, hospital ships, patrol ships, racing ships, and shuttles. Each ship is illustrated with CG artwork, including original VFX models made for the TV show, and is presented with its technical data and operational history. A size chart showing Borg ships to scale is included, and an appendix of listin
£23.99
Yale University Press Tamara de Lempicka
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£45.00
Rizzoli International Publications Peter Moore
Book SynopsisA tribute to the visionary designer whose creative brilliance left an indelible mark on the world of sneakers, athletic wear and the sports industry, uniquely becoming one of the most influential and celebrated creative directors of both Adidas and Nike.
£46.40
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Neo Classics: From Factory to Legendary in 0
Book Synopsis"An oddly poignant book and a genuine surprise." — Classic Cars Neo Classics® are rare manufactured vehicles, one-of-a-kind high-end cars, special short-run cars, and “young classics.” They are vehicles that become legends — and coveted collectors’ items — the moment they leave the factory. Faster, more powerful, more exclusive: whether they’re called supercars or hypercars, these are turbo-charged fantasies in chrome. For most of us, however, they will remain dreams on wheels. In this book, René Staud brings the dream a little closer. Page after gleaming page, the “Master of Light” brings these shining stars to our coffee table — from the Bugatti Chiron to the Lamborghini Huracán Spyder to the Mercedes AMG One. The images are accompanied by expert texts from the seasoned automotive writer and aficionado, Jürgen Lewandowski. René Staud is considered one of the most sought-after automotive photographers and one of the most innovative in the industry. With the Magicflash® lighting system, he has given not only his art, but studio photography in general an important impulse. He has published six volumes with teNeues. With more than 70,000 copies sold, they are in turn classics of automotive literature. With texts by Jürgen Lewandowski, the automotive section editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung for over 20 years, and the author of roughly 100 books about cars. Among his books published by teNeues are the best-selling titles The Porsche 911 Book and The Ferrari Book – Passion for Design. Text in English and German.Trade Review"An oddly poignant book and a genuine surprise." - Classic Cars
£52.00
Rizzoli International Publications The Arctic
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£48.75
Rizzoli International Publications Solange
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£54.75
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Biennials/Triennials – Conversations on the
Book SynopsisIn the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions—particularly in the twenty-first century—has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of our discipline, a new geography of itinerant display that has profoundly altered the contours of architectural thought. Between format, space, and content, what are the various agencies and effects of these events? Biennials / Triennials asks these questions and others of a range of curatorial agents—including After Belonging Agency, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Sarah Herda, Adrian Lahoud, Ippolito Pestellini, and Andre Tavares—and visits crucial sites of recent exhibitions that reveal what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural –ennial.Trade ReviewBiennials/Triennials captures the zeitgeist, and has a place in architecture school libraries and theory courses as a reference point in scholarship on art and architecture exhibitions and multinational contributions. -- Diane Dias De Fazio * ARLIS/NA *
£14.24
Thames & Hudson Ltd Takenobu Igarashi A to Z
Book SynopsisThe complete retrospective of Japan's ingenious master of three-dimensional typography.Trade Review'A long-overdue overview of one of the most revered graphic designers of the 20th century' - Creative Boom'Charts the lasting influence of a truly visionary typographer, who gives each letter a life beyond the page' - Elephant
£36.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hand Drafting for Interior Design
Book SynopsisHand Drafting for Interior Design shows you how to create beautiful interior design drawings to share with clients. Detailed examples illustrate how to render furniture, floors, walls, windows, plants in floor plans and elevations, using a T-square and a triangle. Progressing from the most basic lessons on how to line up a T-square on the paper, you will learn the complete drafting process, from choosing the right tools to the finished drawing. This new edition builds on the strength of the prior editions by adding commercial examples, electrical and lighting plans, custom millwork, and process drawings. New to this Edition Explains how to use a lettering guide to easily improve your hand lettering skills Includes a discussion for using a metric scale and a conversion chart Expanded coverage of Architectural Elements drawn in plan view, including ADA push/pull clearances at doors, and stairs The kitchen and bath section incluTable of ContentsPreface Chapter one Drafting Tools Chapter two Lettering Chapter three Architectural Elements Drawn in Plan View Chapter four Furniture and Plants Drawn in Plan View Chapter five Drawing Interior Materials in Plan View Chapter six Interior Elevations Chapter seven Section Drawings Chapter eight Electrical and Lighting Plans Chapter nine Kitchens and Baths Chapter ten Process Drawings Chapter eleven Custom Millwork Chapter twelve Quick Sketching Chapter thirteen Putting it all Together Glossary
£61.74
Arnoldsche James Tower: Ceramics, Sculptures and Drawings
Book SynopsisJames Tower (1919-1988) is best known for his elegant forms in glazed earthenware. During a career spanning four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked unceasingly in a wide variety of media to achieve an elusive harmony of shape and surface, form and decoration, inert material and active design. His personal understanding of the purpose and meaning of abstraction embodies a perpetual dialogue between the visible world and the unseen dynamics which shape it. This centenary volume of essays considers Tower's entire output from a wide variety of perspectives, embracing paintings and drawings, as well as sculpture in bronze, terracotta and fibreglass. The contributions of leading critics and historians approach his work, situated at the junction of art, craft and design, in a broad historical and cultural context, illuminating key episodes in postwar British art, and Tower's unique place within it.
£25.20
HENI Publishing Damien Hirst Reverence Revelation Devotion
Book SynopsisHirst takes inspiration from the corporeal practice of the Abstract Expressionists in his latest paintingsJust as Jackson Pollock once said ?I am nature,? Damien Hirst (born 1965) sets out to ?use the nature in me,? tapping into both artistic expression and innate wildness. Reverence, Revelation, Devotion is a new large-format hardback publication showcasing the complete works from three new series of paintings: the Reverence Paintings, The Revelations and The Devotions. Hirst worked on several paintings at once, applying layers to the canvases simultaneously. The result is a series of gestural, abstract paintings produced through intuition and impulsiveness. The works in each series are both mechanical and naturalistic, by which Hirst explores the possibility of ?a person trying to paint like a machine.? Featuring nearly 200 full-color reproductions of the 144 artworks, the book includes an essay by British writer and art critic Jonathan Griffin, in which he compares these series to the work of Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois and Robert Ryman.
£56.25
Lars Muller Publishers Big-Game: Everyday Objects
Book SynopsisBIG-GAME is a Swiss design studio founded by three friends in 2004. This book presents their industrial design work on everyday objects. Through anecdotes, diagrams, and pictures made for the publication, the book gives an overview of fifteen years of practice and reveals the pleasure the designers take in creating items that become part of our everyday lives. From a wine bottle sold in supermarkets to a chair in the permanent collection of the MoMA, a set of cutlery for an airline to a timepiece for a Swiss watchmaker, a collaboration with Japanese potters to a piece of furniture sold at Ikea, the charming, humorous, and direct tone they use to explain their work is a fun way to express the industrial design process today. Based on a series of informal interviews, the main text by Anniina Koivu explains the design process within this modern-day design collective. The introduction by Susanne Hilpert Stuber, casts a light on the relationship between BIG-GAME and today's Swiss design industry, and puts it in an international context.
£19.00
Design Studio Press Talexi - The Concept Art of Alessandro Taini:
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£999.99
Profile Books Ltd Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts –
Book Synopsis'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us but they can also heal us. We project our hopes and fears onto buildings, while they absorb our histories. In Living With Buildings, Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. A father and his daughter, who has a rare syndrome, visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone, thought to contain healing properties, is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.Trade ReviewA remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating. * Robert Macfarlane *One of Iain Sinclair's best books ... His walks are described with pithy lyricism. His moving accounts of friends and their complicated relationship to housing estates, hospitals and ancient rural sites, describe our attempts to remain healthy and humane in increasingly hostile environments * New Statesman Books of the Year *Iain Sinclair feeds us a rich diet of shrewd insights ... He leaves you gasping with the punch and pungency of his images * Observer *
£10.44
