Art & Photography Books
Rizzoli International Publications Fresh Fly Fabulous 50 Years of Hip Hop Style
Book SynopsisOn a hot summer night in August of 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister, Cindy, put on a “back to school jam” in the rec room of their apartment block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. The rest is history. The birth of hip hop rippled out across the globe, influencing music and fashion for generations.Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style draws on the experiences and memories of those who were there, from a foreword by Slick Rick, to interviews with Disco Fever club owner Sal Abbatiello and designers Dapper Dan and April Walker, to chapters from Vibe stylist Emil Wilbekin and former editor of The Source Kim Osorio. Topics cover the range of hip hop’s influential style over the past half century, tracing the evolution from early hip hop style, born of aspiration, individuality, and practicality to contemporary fashion steeped in luxury brands.Hip hop style is a local story, told through spotlights on Times Square as an early Trade Review"Slick Rick writes the foreword to this vibrant exploration of the birth, spread and evolution of hip-hop style — from rec rooms to red carpets — through images and analyses from stylists, designers and more." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"To mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, an exhibition at New York's Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology and an accompanying Rizzoli monograph unpack the stories of designers like Dapper Dan and behind iconic looks like Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" jackets, created by rapper Christopher "Play" Martin, exploring the creative relationship between music and fashion." —HARPER'S BAZAAR
£34.00
Rizzoli International Publications Bryan OSullivan
Book SynopsisNew York and London–based interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan creates spaces that mix modern and historical influences, resulting in luxuriously chic interiors that are both glamourous and welcoming. This book, the designer’s first, showcases the groundbreaking work of a remarkable and rising talent.Old-school Hollywood glamour with a contemporary touch is the hallmark of interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan’s repertoire, on full display in his commissions for the Red Room at the Connaught Hotel, the much-admired Berkeley Bar & Terrace, and the art deco Painter’s Room at Claridges, all some of London’s most fabulous and plush spaces. With expertise in both architecture and interiors, O’Sullivan’s broader vision is reflected as well in selected residential projects, which range from a family house for a prominent restaurateur, a Fifth Avenue apartment in New York, and a historic early 1900s hôtel particulier in Pari
£40.00
Rizzoli International Publications Keiichi Tanaami
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive English-language monograph on Keiichi Tanaami's kaleidoscopic oeuvre, which merges Japanese postwar culture and American-style comics with a genre-defining artistic output. Artist, illustrator, graphic designer, filmmaker, and art director, Keiichi Tanaami is best known for his psychedelic creations that reach to the farthest corners of the mind. Since the 1960s, he has been composing works on paper, magazine covers, and phantasmagoric large-scale paintings as a response to his traumatic experience of living through the United States' atomic attack on Japan during World War II. He's since made a mark on the world, exhibiting across the globe. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yokohama Museum of Art, M+, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, among others. Tanaami's work is marked by an unexpectedly harmonic blend of eroticism, surrealism, psychedelia, and American comic art, combined with
£46.40
Rizzoli International Publications Pola Pan
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of iconic fashion photographer Mark Borthwick s early black and white work on Pola Pan polaroid film.
£78.75
Rizzoli International Publications Back to The Land A New Way of Life in the Country
Book SynopsisFor anyone heading to the country, this book is filled with ideas for farmstead living, including countless ways to cultivate nature s bounty, from environmentally sensitive experts and enthusiasts.
£34.00
Boydell Press Welsh Castles A Guide by Counties
Book SynopsisHistory of and gazetteer to all surviving Welsh castles - the majority 13c - arranged by county, with full OS details.The medieval castles of Wales are an imposing group of monuments. Although there are examples from the Norman period, the vast majority of the surviving castles date from the thirteenth century, a dramatic and turbulent period when Wales was nearly united under native rule before succumbing to Edward I's conquest: Caernarfon, Conway, Harlech and Beaumaris are justly famous, but equally fine examples can be found elsewhere, including Pembroke, Kidwelly andChepstow in south Wales; native Welsh castles feature prominently. This book provides a brief account and complete gazetteer of every surviving castle in Wales, from the impressive earthworks raised by the Norman invaders to the castle-palaces of the later middle ages, and including the remarkable town fortifications of Wales; it is arranged by county for convenience of reference, and offers full Ordnance Survey details. Lavishly illustrated. ADRIAN PETTIFER gained his degree in ancient and medieval history from Birmingham University.Trade ReviewExcellent as a book to have with you on your travels to give you at least basic and sometimes fairly detailed and extensive information of the site you have found or are looking for. * CASEMATE *Table of ContentsAnglesey; Breconshire; Caernarfonshire; Cardiganshire; Carmarthenshire; Denbighshire; Flintshire; Glamorgan; Merioneth; Monmouthshire; Montgomeryshire; Pembrokeshire; Radnorshire; over the border.
£27.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd English Castles
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and concise guide to all medieval English castles of which something can still be seen today, ranging from the massive keeps which still dominate the landscape to grassy earthworks and Border pele towers, and spanning the centuries from the Norman Conquest to the accession of the TudorsA well-written contribution to the literature on the subject, and will interest both the historically minded tourist and, as a reference book, the scholar. WAR IN HISTORY A comprehensive and concise guide to all medieval English castles of which something can still be seen today, ranging from the massive keeps which still dominate the landscape to grassy earthworks and Border pele towers, and spanning the centuries from the Norman Conquest to the accession of the Tudors. English Castles contains over five hundred main entries in county order, each giving a brief history and description of the castle. A short introduction supplies the historical background to the explosion of castle-building in the middle ages, and there is a glossary covering all aspects of castles in some detail. There are also full Ordnance Survey map references.Trade ReviewA well-written contribution to the literature on the subject, and will interest both the historically minded tourist and, as a reference book, the scholar. * WAR IN HISTORY *If you want detailed information about every castle in England then this book can't be beaten. * WWW.CASTLEXPLORER.CO.UK *Table of ContentsBedfordshire; Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire; Cheshire; Cornwall; County Durham; Cumberland; Derbyshire; Devon; Dorset; Essex; Gloucestershire; Hampshire; Herefordshire; Hertfordshire; Isle of Wight; Kent; Lancashire; Leicestershire and Rutland;; Lincolnshire; Middlesex; Norfolk; Northamptonshire; Northumberland; Nottinghamshire; Oxfordshire; Scilly Isles; Shropshire; Somerset; Staffordshire; Suffolk; Surrey; Sussex; Warwickshire; Westmorland and Furness; Wiltshire; Worcestershire; Yorkshire - East Riding and York; Yorkshire - North Riding; Yorkshire - West Riding.
£24.69
Spokesman Books Picturing the DPRK
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£15.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Church Monuments by Kemp Brian Author ON Aug011985 Paperback
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£999.99
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Prints of Wilhelmina BarnsGraham A Complete
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the printmaking career of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), with reference to the technical innovations that she pioneered. This work incorporates an illustrated catalogue of the artist's known work in etching, linocut, lithography, screenprinting and monotype, from 1946 to 2007.Trade Review'a well illustrated, solid piece of research and a thorough treatment of her work in print media'. Print Quarterly 2008Table of ContentsContents: Preface; The Early Years to 1958; Experimentation 1971-1978; Graal Press and Screenprints 1998-2004; Catalogue; Glossary; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
£44.96
Stobart Davies Ltd Fundamentals of Figure Carving
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£21.25
Stobart Davies Ltd Carving Facial Expressions
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£12.60
Stobart Davies Ltd Early European Decorated Tools
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£24.00
The Swedenborg Society New Jerusalem The Good City and the Good Society
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£8.50
The Swedenborg Society Swedenborgs Lusthus
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£25.26
Whitechapel Gallery Information
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£15.26
Whitechapel Gallery Spieker S Destruction
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Whitechapel Gallery Theaster Gates A Clay Sermon
Book SynopsisThe artist as activist, archivist, pedagogue, urban planner and maker: on the multifarious activities of Theaster Gates This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates exhibition at London?s Whitechapel Gallery, focusing on his clay-based work.The transformation of clay?from geological substance into utilitarian and artistic material?is the basis for much of Gates'' art and a powerful metaphor for his socially engaged work. Using his hands and his imagination, Gates reworks and revitalizes found objects, musical traditions, archive and library holdings and derelict buildings, giving them new form, meaning and purpose.Fully illustrated with examples of pottery, sculptures, installations, films and archive materials, the book also documents a new film by Gates and features essays from leading craft historians and writers. This in-depth exploration of Gates'' work is especially timely as a new generation seeks to synthesize making, identity and activism.Theaster Gates (born 1973) lives and works in Chicago, and is a professor at the University of Chicago. He has had solo shows at Gagosian (2020) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013). His work can be found in public collections worldwide, including the Menil Collection, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate, London; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
£36.00
Whitechapel Gallery Zadie Xa House Gods Animals Guides and Five Ways
Book SynopsisZadie Xa (b.1983) is a Korean-Canadian artist whose work investigates issues of belonging and identity, drawing influence from both the fantasy and the lived experience within the Korean diaspora through film and performance, sculptural installation, textiles and painting. Xa's brand new commission for Whitechapel Gallery will be an immersive experience informed by her ongoing engagement with indigenous histories and oral histories of the spirit world, and particularly those of local East London legends of apparitions and spectres.
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Whitechapel Gallery Activism
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£17.06
Whitechapel Gallery Andrew Pierre Hart BioData Flows and Other
Book SynopsisHart uses musical techniques to create a multimedia ambient environment evoking the history of Whitechapel Both a visual artist and an electronic music producer, Andrew Pierre Hart explores the interrelationship between sound and painting. His latest installation at London?s Whitechapel Gallery features colorful paintings, a collaborative mural, a bamboo sculpture and video of a dance performance.
£13.50
Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing Court Scenes The Art of Priscilla Coleman The
Book SynopsisPriscilla Coleman has been drawing court scenes for over 20 years. The pictures collected here mark many of the most important trials of that period.Table of ContentsPreface R. v Damien Hanson, Elliot White R. v Roy Whiting R. v Charles Ingram, Diana Ingram, Tecwen Whittock R. v Matthew Simmons R. v Peter Bryan R. v Abu Hamza R. v John Terry, Jodie Morris, Desmond Byrne OK! v Hello and others R. v Muktar Said Ibrahim and others Tom Cruise v Express Newspapers R. v Joyti de Laurey and others R. v Ken Dodd Coroners inquest into the deaths of Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage and Daniel McCann R. v Sion Jenkins Illian Taylforth v News International R. V Paul Gadd Jonathan Aitken v The Guardian and Granada TV Coroners inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi al-Fayed Inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi al-Fayed 2 R. V Nicholas van Hoogstraten John Reid v Michael Flatley The Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division): Richard Mcllkenny and others R. v Neil Acourt and others R. v Mark Oliver R. v Michael Stone R. v Kevintn Maxwell and others High Courfirt (Family Division): Miss B R. v A, B R. v Ian Huntley, Maxine Carr R. v Paul Burrell Jeffrey Archer v Express Newspapers R. v Lord Archer Roman Polanski v Conde Nast, Vanity Fair R. v Rosemary West R. v Barry George R. v Barry George 2 Neil Hamilton v Mohammed al-Fayed, The Guardian An Botham and Allan Lamb v Imran Khan R. v Ricky Freddie, Danny Freddie R. v Tony Martin R. v David Copeland McCartney v Mills-McCartney R. v Jane Andrews R. v Christina Guerrini and others Max Mosley v News International L v Laurence Fisher v Brooker Baigent and Leigh v Brown and others R. v Shipman R. v Bourgass and others R. v Kray R. v Peter Buck Lucasfilms v Ainsworth
£23.74
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Under the Guise of Spring
Book SynopsisA mesage to a Medici, unseen for 500 years has been found. It reveals the true purpose of Botticelli''s Primavera, while opening a window on the cryptic world of the Renaissance Pagan Revival.Trade Review"This was a delightful book to read and review. It is beautifully produced, with a large number of excellent colour photographs, together with a separate colour print of La Primavera included for reference. Throughout the book are close-ups of the parts of the picture under discussion, as well as a number of other works of art which are of interest. Not being a lover of art of this period, I was at first a little dubious as to whether I would find anything in it to excite me. I need not have worried." Rosemary Arthur, Faith and Freedom // "An engaging book that should appeal to Botticelli scholars and to anyone drawn to this cultural period in Renaissance Florence." Gabrielle Langdon, Art Criticism TodayTable of ContentsHow the Discovery Came About, Interpretations, A Very Private Location, The Medici - Violent Politics and Sublime Aspirations, Botticelli - Painter and Mystagogue, Classical Rebirth, First Encounter, A Madonna called Venus, The Esoteric Graces, A Medici as Mercury, Changing Natures, Cupid and the Bride, Flowery Language for a New Alliance, Appendices: Location and Dating, Poetry to Inspire a Painter, An Important Letter.
£19.00
Halsgrove Wildlife Wanderings
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Halsgrove Wandering and Wondering in Wales
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£31.49
McNidder & Grace Laura Knight A Life
Book SynopsisNow in paperback this revised and updated highly readable illustrated biography of the painter Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) who was one of the leading British painters of the twentieth century. The book explores her relationships, professional challenges and achievements during her lifetime.Trade Review'Barbara Morden has come up with a gem. it stands out and stays on the mind more than any photo or painting. This biography is a book that I recommend to all collectors and lovers of Laura Knight and her works.' R. John Croft, great nephew of Laura Knight
£13.49
McNidder & Grace Railway Journeys in Art Volume 9 Rails Across
Book SynopsisThe Poster to Poster series is a 9-volume definitive collection of British and worldwide railway posters. Volume 9 takes a journey from the east to west coast of the USA. The result is a stunning artistic guide to North American destinations and railway poster heritage. It's a mixture of travel documentary, artists' reference and poster database.Trade Review'A marvellous series, and lovingly compiled books', Michael Palin. 'Throughout the pages in this book, American railway posters represent some of the best creativity and graphic design found within the genre (just look at Sascha Maurer's creations in this volume advertising skiing and beaches alike)'. Nicholas Lowry, Swann Galleries NYC
£36.00
Anness Publishing The Palaces Stately Houses Castles of Georgian
Book SynopsisA history of Britain's architectural masterpieces from the Georgians to today, with 200 magnificent pictures.
£6.99
Anness Publishing The Life and Works of Degas An Illustrated
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£15.29
Seagull Books Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Timebased
Book SynopsisFrom cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the years has invigorated contemporary global art movements. The author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us.
£28.50
Seagull Books London Ltd Pulcinella
Book SynopsisAt the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben's exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character.
£20.90
Transworld Publishers Ltd Infinite Wonder
Book SynopsisThe first photo book by the Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking Year in Space. Through the photos Kelly took during his time in space, we can learn to see the world in a new way and we are afforded a glimpse into a life that most of us will never encounter but of which many of us dream.Trade ReviewEveryone’s favourite space captain and all-round hero NASA astronaut * Huffington Post *
£17.00
Orion Publishing Co The Story of Flowers
Book SynopsisThroughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture – as food, for medicine, to express feelings, as symbols, to commemorate and celebrate, and to decorate. Their shapes, colors, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as coloring and flavoring agents – marigolds fed to chickens make eggs more yellow and lavender was Elizabeth I''s favorite flavor of jam. Flowers are full of symbolic meaning: violets represent modesty, daises purity and daffodils unrequited love. And they have always played an important role in culture through myths and legends, literature and the decorative arts. This delightful new book brings together 100 of the world''s flowers to tell their remarkable stories. Each flower is richly illustrated in color and accompanied by facts about each species and what role it has played in our culture and history.
£22.50
Octopus Publishing Group Resourceful Living
Book SynopsisBrilliant ideas for revamping and restyling your home on a budget and without waste.
£17.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dress Fashion and Technology
Book SynopsisPhyllis G. Tortora is Professor Emerita at Queens College, The City University of New York, USA.Trade ReviewMost books on the history of fashion present dress as the dependent variable, the passive beneficiary of technological change. Tortora instead makes a convincing case for fashion being the driving force that has stimulated technology and propelled it forward. This book will become a classic and essential text for teaching the history of fashion. * Kathleen E. Campbell, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA *Tortora’s ambitious study examines the technological tools and processes involved in creating clothing and textiles. [...] Using exemplary case studies from throughout the centuries, Dress, Fashion and Technology will serve as an exceptional resource and textbook, particularly for students studying the history of dress. * Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Connecting Technology, Dress, and Fashion Part I, Before the Revolution Chapter 2: Dress and The Technologies Of Prehistory (Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic Period) Chapter 3: Technologies And Dress In Towns, Cities and Empires (Neolithic Period to C. 500 C.E.) Chapter 4: Technology And Dress Facilitate Fashion Change (Dark Ages to the Seventeenth Century in Europe) Chapter 5: Some Asian Developments in Technology, Dress and Fashion (End of the Neolithic Period until the 17th Century) Part II: The Industrial Revolution and First Steps Toward the Fashion Industry Chapter 6: Dress and Fashion Move The Industrial Revolution Forward (18th Century) Chapter 7: The Role Of Dress and Fashion in the Industrial Revolution (c. 1800 to 1860) Chapter 8: Dress, Fashion and Social Changes Follow the Industrial Revolution (Nineteenth Century) Chapter 9: Tools that Enable Fashion Change and Innovations in Dress (19th century) Part III, The Fashion Industry is Born Chapter 10: Tools and Processes Expand Options for Dress and Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 11: Transportation and its Effects (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 12: The Effects of Sports (19th to the 21st centuries) Chapter 13: Communications Technologies that Disseminate Fashion Information (19th to the 21st centuries) Part IV, High Tech Enters Chapter 14: Technology Contributes to the Globalization of Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 15: Environments Interact with Technologies (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 16 New Technological Frontiers for Dress And Fashion (21st century) References Acknowledgements
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Functional Clothing Design From Sportswear to
Book SynopsisSusan M. Watkins is Professor Emeritus in Apparel Design from Cornell University, USA, and Designer and Manager of Portable Environments, LLC, a consulting company focused on protective clothing design. Lucy E. Dunne is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, where she sits on the faculty of Design, Housing, and Apparel and Human Factors and Ergonomics, as well as holding affiliate membership in the graduate faculties of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Institute for Health Informatics.Trade ReviewI think it is a very good source for technical information and is a good introduction for the start of specific research. I see more cross over between functional and performance based garment design and ready to wear (sportswear apparel ) than ever before. -- Lisa Hayes, Drexel University, USAn excellent resource… The revision follows the logic and rationale of the original. -- Karen L. LaBat, University of Minnesota, USFunctional Clothing Design is a unique ‘must-have’ guideline for industrial, military and civilian clothing designers and engineers. It elevates the design of functional clothing to its rightful place as a complex multi-disciplined engineering process. As those of us in the field can attest, the approach outlined will be useful for developing a broad spectrum of clothing products that support and enhance human performance. * Suzanne M. Reeps *Essential reading…this text is indeed a bible. -- Sandra Tullio-Pow, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface About the Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. User-Centered Design Chapter 2. Providing Mobility in Clothing Chapter 3. Materials Chapter 4. Smart Clothing and Wearable Technology Chapter 5. Thermal Protection Chapter 6. Impact Protection Chapter 7: Living and Working in Hazardous Environments Chapter 8. Enhancing and Augmenting Body Functions Chapter 9. Commercial product development and production Glossary Reference List Index
£52.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Book SynopsisGrace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Nicolas P. Maffei is Senior Lecturer in Graphics at Norwich University of the Arts, UK.Trade ReviewReaders (and not just students) interested in looking contextually at the history of graphic design will surely benefit from Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei’s latest book. It offers much food for thought, a gold mine of relevant historiographical literature, a wide range of worthwhile subjects and thoughtfully maps approaches to graphic design in relation to culture, whether through theory or the historical study of genres of graphic design practice. * Journal of Design History *Includes an excellent historical framing of the discipline’s transformations, both as a professional field and as an object of scholarly research ... The “expanded field” approach allows first for a richer and more complex understanding of design processes, liberated from the mere concern of commercial constraints and objectives and aesthetics ambitions and successes ... [The book is] a perfect match of graphic design in all its diversity, a clever analysis of the multiple interfaces that structure the back and forth movements between design and society, and a smart example of good writing ... An excellent springboard to further analysis and an invitation to return to traditional examples whose interpretation is still confined to strictly commercial or essentially art-historical schemata. The iconography is well-chosen, and the central full color section is a pleasure for the eye and the mind. * Leonardo Reviews *In this critical yet accessible book, Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei shift the popular perception of graphic design from surface treatment to complex cultural practice. * D.J. Huppatz, Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context is a refreshing and insightful contribution to design history and a valuable resource for teachers, students, and scholars of visual communication. This engaging set of historical case studies expands the discipline to consider such topics as the colonization of public space in both print and digital media; the relationship between legibility and ambiguity in modern and postmodern design; gender, race, and desire in fashion photography and advertising; wide-ranging information graphics from maps and sign systems to the “quantified self”; slogan t-shirts; music packaging; corporate brand identity; concerns for environmental sustainability; visual techniques of persuasion in guide books and advice literature; and the evolving medium of the book. It offers a clearly written, accessible, and compelling argument that semiotics continues to provide a dynamic, flexible model for making sense of a world increasingly saturated by visual signs today. It is an excellent critical guide, the best written thus far, to the study of signs, which emerged in structural linguistics and anthropology of Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss in the early twentieth century, and which evolved in the work of Charles Peirce and Roland Barthes. Students as well as general readers will appreciate this clear and concise overview of a topic that can easily confound even the sharpest thinkers. * Rebecca Houze, Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Illinois University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations Reading Graphic Design in the Expanded Field: An Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei Part One: On Message and Off Message 1 - Branding as Sign System: Semiotics in Action, Grace Lees-Maffei 2 – The Responsive Brand: Uniformity and Flexibility in Logo Design, Nicolas P. Maffei 3 – Whose Wall? From Posters to Digital Displays and the Colonization of Public Space, Nicolas P. Maffei 4 - Slogan T-shirts: Billboards of Identity Politics, Nicolas P. Maffei Part Two: On Legibility and Ambiguity 5 - Seeing Clearly? Legibility, Word and Image in Postmodern Print Design, Grace Lees-Maffei 6 - Signifying Orientalism, Chinoiserie and Japonisme: Fashion Photography in Vogue as a Case Study, Grace Lees-Maffei 7 – A Good Read? Corporate Literature and Brand Stories: Alessi SpA as a Case Study, Grace Lees-Maffei 8 – Information Overload: Negotiating Visual Complexity in a Data Rich World, Nicolas P. Maffei Part Three: On Paper and On Screen 9 - How To? Visual Techniques of Persuasion in Guidebooks and Manuals, Grace Lees-Maffei 10 – Driving Sales: Print and TV Advertising of Cars to Women Drivers, Grace Lees-Maffei 11 - Picturing Music: The Rise and Fall of Music Packaging, Nicolas P. Maffei 12 - EBook, iBook, weBook, youBook: Declensions of Digital Design, Nicolas P. Maffei Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Green Man
Book SynopsisDelightful, oft-reprinted guide to the foliate heads so common in medieval sculpture. This was the first-ever monograph dedicated to the Green Man.Trade ReviewThe rarest, most recondite and fascinating art book, which is a folklore and magic book as well... An incredibly thorough study, with every example illustrated, of the weird foliate heads or masks found in the medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe, with leaves sprouting from them. * THE TIMES *
£20.00
Hal Leonard Europe Limited Simon And Garfunkels Greatest Hits
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Taylor & Francis Studies on Constantinople
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the Cityâs existence - for instance, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated. Ce volume, vouà à lâhistoire, aux monuments et à la topographTable of ContentsContents: The development of Constantinople as an urban centre; Constantinopolitana; Constantine’s column; Constantine’s porphyry column and the chapel of St Constantine; Constantine’s mausoleum and the translation of relics (with addendum); Three imperial Byzantine sarcophagi discovered in 1750; A newly-discovered Byzantine imperial sarcophagus; The Fourteenth Region of Constantinople; Epigrammes honorifiques, statues et portraits à Byzance; The columns of Justinian and his successors; Justinian’s equestrian statue; The date of the Studius basilica at Istanbul; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus at Constantinople and the alleged tradition of octagonal palatine churches; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus once again; On the history of the templon and the martyrion of St Artemios at Constantinople; A 12th-century description of St Sophia; The conciliar edict of 1166; A Russian graffito in St Sophia, Constantinople; A note on Panagia Kamariotissa and some imperial foundations of the 10th and 11th centuries at Constantinople; The date of the Anonymous Russian Description of Constantinople; The work of M.I. Nomidis in the Vefa Kilise Camii, Istanbul (1937-38); Addenda; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Structure in Architecture History Design and
Book SynopsisAll buildings must stand. An adequate structure was as necessary for the simplest primitive hut as it is for the tallest or widest-spanning modern building. However, this requirement became more difficult to satisfy as designers became more adventurous and the experience already gained became less directly applicable. The present papers look at the consequent evolution of design methods and the types of understanding that have been essential guides. A particular focus is the question of how earlier innovations, made without the benefits of modern theory, were possible. Other papers look in detail at the most outstanding of these achievements, such as the church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the dome of Florence Cathedral.Trade Review'During 40 years Rowland Mainstone has been a prolific and original writer on developments in the history of architectural structures. This collection of 22 of his papers demonstrates their quality and authority...These papers should help destroy the popular myth that we do not know how cathedrals and great works of antiquity were designed or built...They should be essential reading for everyone engaged in restoring and conserving buildings, and will be equally rewarding for the sheer pleasure of better understanding the enormity of our debt to the technical achievements of past centuries.' Architectural Review '...very readable and has much to interest the practising engineer or anyone with a visual sense and an enquiring mind.' Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings News 'With the depth of research reported, the great wealth of its references, and its illumination of such diverse themes and topics, the book must easily claim space in architectural libraries and provide stimuli for further studies. Significant assistance to the wide variety of studies which can be envisaged is given by the inclusion of three separate indexes, for 'subjects', 'bridges, buildings and places', and 'persons'.' Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: Intuition and the springs of structural invention; The springs of invention revisited; The role of tradition in the development of form in domes, shells, and space structures; Structural theory and design before 1742; Developments in structural design since the seventeenth century especially in Britain; Structural analysis, structural insights, and historical interpretation; On the structure of the Roman Pantheon; The structure of the church of St Sophia, Istanbul; The reconstruction of the tympana of St Sophia at Istanbul; Hagia Sophia: Justinian’s Church of Divine Wisdom, later the Mosque of Ayasofya, in Istanbul; Hagia Sophia’s first dome; The structural conservation of Hagia Sophia: past history and present needs; The first and second churches of San Marco reconsidered; Squinches and pedentives: comments on problems of definition; Westminster Hall roof; Brunelleschi’s dome of S. Maria del Fiore and some related structures; Brunelleschi’s dome; The dome of St Peter’s: structural aspects of its design and construction and inquiries into its stability; Sinan’s Suleymaniye Mosque and Justinian’s Hagia Sophia; Designs for ribbed vaults by Guarini and Leonardo; The reinforced flat arches of the east colonnade of the Louvre; The Eddystone Lighthouse; Additional notes and comments; Index of subjects; Index of buildings; Index of persons.
£145.00
Oneworld Publications By Any Other Name
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. ‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of specTrade Review‘Fascinating material, surveyed with relish and acumen.’ -- Times Literary Supplement‘Fascinating. Morley moves effortlessly from ancient Greece and Rome to the latest research in neurobiology, taking in alchemy and Pre-Raphaelite art, Modernist poetry and the Grateful Dead along the way. I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ -- Adrian Tinniswood, author of Behind the Throne‘Morley’s book is, in part, the story of how humans came to raise roses so consistently and abundantly that we demand them even in freezing February. First, though, By Any Other Name recounts the love affair with a flower that drove us to want to do that in the first place.’ -- Wall Street Journal‘An intellectual and artistic journey… digging around the history of how roses have become entangled with human life. By Any Other Name will be a source of inspiration for us.’ -- Kim Wook-Kyun, President of the South Korea Rose Society‘Quite brilliant… A powerful reminder of how humanity simply cannot exist without the support of nature’s beauty represented by this simple shrub.’ -- Jonny Norton, Head Gardener at Mottisfont Abbey‘By Any Other Name…explores the many facets that make the rose stand out from the rest. Morley expertly crafts the story of the rose from its humble beginnings to its present reality.’ * Washington Gardener *‘From the etymology of its name to the breeders’ search for perfection, via its role in poetry, prose and art, rose growers with a penchant for learning will find this a satisfying read.’ -- Choice
£21.25
British Museum Press Charles Masson Collections from Begram and Kabul
Book SynopsisThe book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson's 18338 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar now in the British Museum, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in Masson's archival manuscripts and in H.H. Wilson, but no longer in the collection.
£38.00
British Museum Press Munch and his World
Book SynopsisExamines the technical advances which allowed Edvard Munch to create an entirely new visual language.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Giulia Bartrum Chapter 1: Edvard Munch and the artists of La Revue Blanche: promoting prints in late 19th-century French avant-garde journals, by Jennifer Ramkalawon Chapter 2: L’Ymagier, Munch and the woodcut technique, by Ute Kuhlemann-Falck Chapter 3: Eugène Carrière and Max Klinger: two Symbolist printmakers within the orbit of Munch, by Anna Schultz Chapter 4: Sick prints, by Allison Morehead Chapter 5: There and not-there: Edvard Munch’s interruptions, by Patricia G. Berman Bibliography Index
£28.50
British Museum Press Chinas 1800s
Book SynopsisMaterial and visual culture of China's long 19th century is understandably overshadowed by the traumatic warfare, land shortages, famines and uprisings which impacted the lives of a population of around 400 million people. However, innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, rugs, silver, money, and photography) during a century in which China's art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences. Despite this however, until recently, the 19th century in China has been often defined and dismissed as an era of cultural decline. Building on the critically acclaimed British Museum exhibition China's hidden century: 17961912, this publication seeks to redefine perceptions about 19th-century Qing arts. Essays by some of the world's leading authorities on Qing culture reveal the social, cultural, religious, creative, economic and political
£38.00
Floris Books Chartres
Book SynopsisExplores the magnificent structure of Chartres Cathedral, suggesting its origins lie in Islamic architecture. Also explores how a particular building or space affects us spiritually.Trade Review'Read Gordon Strachan's book and then visit Chartres with an open mind and wide vision, to find personal insight. Illustrated with beautifully prepared drawings.'-- Clive Hicks, Caduceus, September 2004'It does not matter if you know nothing of sacred geometry; by the end of this book you will have effortlessly imbued a firm understanding of what it is, and how it is. [ ] It is a fascinating read. Strachan's clear explanations of measurements, together with excellent graphics, take the reader on a revelatory journey of mystical spirituality.'-- Logan Lewis-Proudlock, Light magazine, Winter 2003'An inspiring and informative resource for those interested in religious architecture.'-- The Beacon, July 2004'Will delight anybody who recognizes the influence of the built environment. Copious illustrations adorn the text, illuminate the discourse and delight the eye. Gordon Strachan has produced a labour of love, and it shows.'-- Clement Jewitt, Music and Psyche, 2004'Quite simply, we have here a magnificent building that was produced by a unique blend of masonic skills, religious ideas and earth energies. To walk through Chartres is indeed to walk through a sacred space.'-- Fortean Times, April 2004'Chartres cathedral in France is one of the most important and popular sacred sites in Western Europe. The Rev. Strachan's new study examines the spiritual geometry of the church and suggests its significance is connected to an ancient combination of pagan worship, earth energies and the mystical harmony of Christian and Islamic architecture. Highly recommended.'-- The Cauldron, August 2003'Surprisingly, there's no heresy in this book. It's beautifully produced. It opens our eyes to the story of our historic relations with Islam. The deeper theme of seeing God in the darkness as well as the light is important, and so is the link between the geometry of square roots and the mysteriousness of Gothic, and of God. God isn't in a box, and can't be contained.'The Very Revd Jim Mein, Christ Church Episcopal, Edinburgh'It is a beautifully illustrated book which explains both the beauty and the geometry of Gothic architecture as seen in Chartres.'The Rt Revd Brian Smith, Bishop of Edinburgh'A detailed yet reader-friendly exploration of the mathematics of Pythagorean, early-Christian and Sufi geometry, leading to applications in medieval Gothic architecture. The author ends by stating that people are drawn to explore cathedrals he feels there is something 'alchemical' in the very architecture of the buildings themselves. I have always felt this and now have a better idea of why. Five pentacles.'-- Cerridwen Connelly, Pentacle, Winter 2003Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Islamic Origin of the Pointed Arch2. Abbot Suger and the Historical Debate3. St Bernard and the Early Gothic Plan4. Of Cubes and Kaaba5. The Plan of Chartres6. Dionysius the Areopagite and the Unknown God7. St Denis, Chartres and the Darkness of GodEndnotes & Bibliography
£13.49
S Q Publications,US Bombshells Gallery Girls Collection
Book SynopsisPutting the leather in Leathernecks and the Gee in GI''s, SQP is delighted to present a new wing in the vast Gallery Girls museum, this time showcasing the women of wartime! From the naughty nose-art girls of WW2 to the hell-bent hellions of modern combat, Bombshells! contains mega-tons of magnificent warrior maidens, with artists like Pelaez, Mitch Byrd, Pedro Cuevas, J L Czerniawski, and a mighty battalion of others! Oh, you will stand to full attention even while seated, this band of sisters are so hot!
£8.99
S Q Publications,US The Art of Blas Gallego
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