Art & Photography Books
Coracle Press A Table of Books in Ballybeg
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£14.25
Jargon Society Places of Departure Ergin CavuÅŸoÄŸlu
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£9.00
Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S. Garden Legacy
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£42.38
Taylor & Francis Job of the Planning Commissioner
Book SynopsisA popular and practical guide on how to be an effective planning commissioner. Filled with checklists and outlines, it''s both a good introduction and a handy reference. Includes a training checklist for new commissioners, criteria for keeping a master plan in working order, lists of tools to guide growth, advice on how to deal with professional staff, and dos and don''ts for conducting successful public meetings. This edition sharpens the focus on how commissioners and their staffs can operate under four core principles for planning commissioners: citizen involvement, smaller is better, living in a market-driven system, and orderly growth.Table of ContentsPreface , Introduction to the Revised Edition , What Are These Amateurs Doing in Government? , Understanding the Language of Planning and Zoning , A Layperson's Guide to the Planning Process and the Tools That Make It Work , Prerequisites to Doing an Effective Job , Intramural Coordinating or the Art of Not Passing the Buck , Public Meetings and Public Relations , Due Process or How to Be Fair , Nuts and Bolts: Zoning and Development Review , Doing a Good Job on Small-Town and Rural Commissions , Sample Rules and Regulations for a Planning Commission , Sample Organization of a Planning Commission Agenda , Sample Environmental Assessment Form , Project Checklist , An Anatomy of the Classic Southwestern Land Fraud Scheme , Example of a Report on a Quasi-Judicial Action with Facts, Findings, and Recommendations 1 , Some Relevant Questions About You and Your Planning Commission , Author's Note
£37.99
Blast Books,U.S. Walker Evans Last Photographs Life Stories
Book SynopsisA unique meeting of two transformative talents in American photography, Walker Evans (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) and Michael Lesy (Wisconsin Death Trip), with a selection of Evans's little-seen Polaroid portraits and last worksTrade ReviewWalker Evans is one of the most vaunted American photographers in history. His name is evoked with reverence; his influence continues to shine through in work by contemporary photographers to this day, its imprimatur now firmly established in the canon of American photography.While Evans’ most well-known output is the kind of “straight” work that [Lincoln] Kirstein described them as, these color photos in Lesy’s book seem to be far more intimate and less studied, more lyrical and personal. There is a real warmth and intimacy to them that the instantaneous nature of the Polaroid helped achieve. But maybe they are also that way because they are the traces of a man on his way out of life embracing his last experiences and encounters. At any rate, I find them to be a penetrating look into the art of an American luminary. Lesy’s book extends that feeling in its second half by compiling portraits and stories of key figures in Evans’s life.Of particular interest to me are the color portraits that Evans made with the SX-70. These are presented along with other Polaroids that deal with some of the familiar themes his earlier work dealt with. But the portraits seem more vulnerable and intimate. Evans made these portraits at parties where he mingled with friends and students.If you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself crawling down a rabbit hole reading all of these stories. That’s exactly what happened to me while paging through the book. I got so enthralled with the stories, it was an hour and a half before I lifted my head from the pages the first time I encountered the book! -- Kenneth Dickerman * Washington Post *For most viewers, Walker Evans will always be a man of the 1930s, an era-defining genius who lost his way as life changed. Yet his late work—and particularly the images he made using a Polaroid SX-70 in 1973-74, just before his death in 1975—has had admirers, passionate but rare. . . . Flat, deeply shadowed, eerie, they resonate with a desperate immediacy that seems more in keeping with contemporary sensibilities than does the classical austerity of the more renowned work of four decades earlier. -- Barry Schwabsky * Bookforum *Walker Evans (1903–75) was one of the greatest of 20th-century American photographers. His images of people and scenes of rural and urban life during the Great Depression have become our collective visual memory of the era. Historian/biographer Lesy’s . . . highly readable biography is enriched by the author’s personal connection with Evans. Lesy met the photographer (the encounter is vividly sketched here) in Evans’s last years, an éminence grise still actively making pictures, teaching, and creatively experimenting. Life stories constitute the major part of this biography, filled with intimate and frank details about Evans and his friends, colleagues, and lovers. Includes over 50 of Evans’s late-career, color, SX-70 Polaroid instant-film images. VERDICT: An excellent and accessible brief introduction that is a personal glimpse into the life of Evans and his circle. --Library Journal -- Library Journal * Library Journal *Toward the end of his life, Walker Evans began using a Polaroid camera. The images he photographed were distinct from the stark black-and-white shots he built his name on in the 30s and 40s…. By contrast, the Polaroid shots had an eerie warmth to them. The instant camera had its shortcomings — bleached colors and imprecision — but he found an elegance in street arrows and faces and junkyard detritus. The photos served as a curious and elegiac capstone to a career that ended with his death in 1975. . . . Lesy and Evans met in the early 70s when both were teaching at Yale. By then Evans no longer had the same presence in American photography he once did, but in a way that was liberating, and the flexibility the camera gave him was a useful tool for his seeking spirit. . . . If Lesy has an overarching interest in writing this book beyond the Polaroids . . . , it’s in showing the lifelong intersection of Evans’ work with the people who in various ways supported it. The bulk of the book’s prose are vignettes of friends, patrons, and colleagues, accompanied by Evans’ portraits of them. History now frames Evans as an early- to mid-century phenomenon, a precursor to Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. Lesy wants to emphasize that he was a lifelong poet of loneliness and desolation. Every face he photographed, be it in 1929 or 1973, was caught seeking something; every inanimate object a symbol of a need unmet. . . . The Polaroid may have been dismissed for its imprecision and disposability. But it was the perfect format for an artist who recognized ephemerality, whose images were infused with the idea that all things end. -- Mark Athitakis * On the Seawall *
£28.79
University of Pennsylvania Press Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Book SynopsisThis stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts.Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.Table of ContentsEarly dynastic Mesopotamia / by Richard L. Zettler -- Ur of the Chaldees / by Richard L. Zettler -- The royal tombs of Ur / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Steve Tinney -- The burials of a king and queen / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Paul Zimmerman -- Art of the royal tombs of Ur : a brief interpretation / by Donald P. Hansen -- Cylinder seals / by Holly Pittman -- Jewelry / by Holly Pittman -- Metal vessels / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler -- Stone vessels / by Richard L. Zettler -- Shell containers / by Kevin Dante and Richard L. Zettler -- Tools and weapons / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler.
£39.90
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Collective Vision Creating a Contemporary Art
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£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Theatrical Baroque
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the dialogue between the newly-invigorated European theatre of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and the plastic arts. The interactions between the spectator and the spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual are discussed.
£16.50
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Grid Matrix Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics
Book SynopsisShaping everyday landscapes from cities to factories, the grid - an arrangement of individual elements along perpendicular lines - has been a basic structure of modern life. This book traces the relationship of these different yet intertwined methods of organizing the visual world and how we represent it in art.
£13.33
New York Review Books Renoir My Father
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£19.55
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Matthew Metzger Heirloom
Book SynopsisCatalog for an exhibition of Matthew Metzger's paintings at the Renaissance Society. Published on the occasion of Matthew Metzger's exhibition Heirloom at the Renaissance Society, this is the first book dedicated to the artist's paintings, which echo and explore various kinds of abstraction. Anchored by the new paintings Metzger made for this exhibitiona set of works conceived as an installation for the Renaissance Society's space that also serve as the subject of an essay by curator Karsten Lundthe book also features four other series of paintings by the artist, each of which further charts his evolving aesthetic and conceptual strategies. For this publication, Metzger has also invited six writersincluding Kris Cohen, Fumi Okiji, Hamza Walker, Jan Verwoert, and Anna Zettto reflect on how abstraction functions more broadly, whether as a psychological tendency, a social phenomenon, or a technological side effect, among many other possibilities.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome Printing
Book SynopsisIn 1540 Antonio Lafreri migrated to Rome and began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. This volume places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. It traces their journey from the creator and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, and, dealers.Trade Review"Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is not only a remarkable achievement in the history of print publication, it stands as one of the great landmarks in the early record of European antiquarianism." - Peter Parshall, National Gallery of Art"
£19.00
Twin Palms Publishers William Eggleston 2 14
Book SynopsisA tribute to Eggleston's brief experimentation with pocket-sized photographsBorn and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, photographer William Eggleston began taking pictures in the early 1960s after reading Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. After switching from black-and-white film to color film in 1966, he occasionally used a two and one quarter inch format for photographs. This collection of square snapshots from 1966 to 1971 invokes the intimate quality of Eggleston's work, while maintaining the vibrance and skill that led Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski to call him the first color photographer. This attractive clothbound, square-shaped hardcover volume includes 45 four-color plates with text by Los-Angeles based novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner. Now in its eighth edition, 2 adds more classic Eggleston images to the canon of color photography.William Eggleston (born 1939) encountered photography and
£57.38
Dia Art Foundation,U.S. Joan Jonas The Shape the Scent the Feel of Things
Book SynopsisA 15th-anniversary edition of Jonas' landmark monograph documenting her performance response to Aby WarburgReissued for the 15th anniversary of this volume and during Joan Jonas' (born 1936) first major US museum show in 15 years, this catalog documents the deep, immersive performance The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, originally commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and responding to German art historian Aby Warburg''s essay on his visit to the American Southwest. The book includes a statement from the artist, scene-by-scene descriptions with photos, a conversation between Joan Jonas and Jason Moran (who composed music for the performance) and an essay by Lynne Cooke, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and former curator at Dia. With a new reflection from the artist looking back on this groundbreaking performance, the anniversary edition is a tangible manifestation of the ongoing significance of Jonas'' work.
£999.99
Illinois State University, University Galleries An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky
Book SynopsisA group exhibition exploring the mysteries and militarization of outer spaceAccompanying the eponymous group exhibition at University Galleries of Illinois State University, this catalog features 29 works by artists that critically engage in poetic, scientific and geopolitical views of the cosmos. Artists include: Amy Balkin, Jen Bervin, William Cordova, Ala Ebtekar, Trevor Paglen and Cauleen Smith.
£25.50
Lisson Gallery Carmen Herrera
Book SynopsisRecent works by the great exponent of hard-edged architectural abstractionThis publication highlights a selection of works by Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera (born 1915) from the past decade. At 105 years old, Herrera has developed her signature geometric style over the course of decades spent in New York City and postwar Paris, as well as her hometown of Havana; however, it was only in the early 2000s that she began to receive acclaim for her work. The origins of her process trace back to her early studies in architecture at the Universidad de La Habana in Cuba from 1938 to 1939. She often credits this training as where she learned to draw and to think abstractly, stating, I wouldn't paint the way I do if I hadn't gone to architecture school. While Herrera's process is often characterized by meticulous constraint and distillation of color and shape, it is perhaps best described as a perfect synergy of artistic and scientific creativity.
£45.00
Trustees of the Royal Armouries The Art of Fencing The Forgotten Discourse of
Book SynopsisCamillo Palladini's unpublished 'Discourse on Fencing' is crucial to a modern understanding of Renaissance rapier play. For the first time, this stunning book reproduces the manuscript in its entirety. It is perfect for students of fencing, lovers of Italian art, 16th-century researchers, and historical reenactors and interpreters.Trade ReviewHistorians of swordsmanship have been waiting since 1882 to see Palladini in print, and here it is at last. Scholars will find it refreshing to study an unfamiliar Renaissance fencing treatise which constructively mocks the mathematical fantasies of Camillo Agrippa. -- Sydney Anglo
£52.25
Atmosphere Publishing The Cornish Coast
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£999.99
Birmingham Picture Library Invention design Elkington of Birmingham
Book SynopsisThe discovery and of electroplating in Birmingham was founded on the experience in Birminghamâs âtoyâ industry, Elkingtonâs brought together new discoveries and innovation to produce a world-beating business. Elkington products are shown throughout the book.
£14.25
John Adamson Publishing Consultants Noble Households
Book Synopsis... excellent publication ... As a tribute to the eminent John Cornforth, it could not be a more appropriate commemoration of his achievements during 40 years of studying English houses, both as houses and as temples to the muses of artistic creation. Charles Cator, Country Life John Cornforth (1937-2004), the eminent architectural historian and passionate advocate of the historic interior, believed that inventories were an unrivaled primary resource for the interpretation of the historic interior. The book serves as a tribute to his lifelong interest in the field. Cornforth saw the importance of inventories in inspiring not just changes in approach to the history of the great house, but in underpinning the interpretation of the way in which these houses were used and lived in. Now that there is such fascination with the history of food and life below stairs, the contents of the kitchen and scullery assume as much interest as the grand rooms of entertainment. These inventories provide an opportunity to compare the arrangements of the interiors of the great country houses and town houses of the same noble families in different generations. They will inspire yet fuller interpretations of the households they document, and appeal to country house visitors and historians of interiors, patronage and collecting, and creative designers.Trade Review'John Adamson in Cambridge has produced and printed a handsome volume ... The index demonstrates the value of inventories for an understanding of the furnished interior'. John Harris, The Art Newspaper; 'This book is an important step in the wider recognition of archival studies in relation to the social and cultural history of England ... Murdoch provides succinct and helpful editorial and summary introductions for each inventory (with one provided for Drayton House by Bruce Bailey) ... The index is also invaluable and provides the key to comparing the houses'. Andrew Moore, The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Montagu Inventories; Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton House, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746; Part II: The Drayton Inventories; Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724; Part III: The Ditchley Inventories; Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772; Part IV: Norfolk Inventories; Houghton Hall, 1745 and 1792; Holkham Hall, Norfolk and Thanet House, London, 1760; Part V: Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727; Part VI: The Marlborough Inventories. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and Marlborough House, London, 1740; Bibliography; Photographic credits; Glossary; Index.
£51.00
Intel Publications Covert Imagery Photography The Investigators and
Book SynopsisThis manual is primarily designed for Investigators, Enforcement Officers and Intelligence Operators who use digital stills (SLR) cameras and video cameras in order to obtain photographic evidence.Table of ContentsDigital Photography Digital SLR cameras Correct Exposure Aperture - Shutter Speed Relationship Exposure Modes Depth of Field Telephoto Lenses Focal Length ISO & Up Rating Metering Exposure Compensation Low Light Photography Infra Red Photography Image Processing RAW Format Continuity of Evidence Covert Video Imagery
£999.99
Film and Video Umbrella Encyclopaedia and other works Alan Currall
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£11.40
Film & Video Umbrella Decoy Jane Prophet
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£9.95
Film & Video Umbrella It could happen to you A K Dolven
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£11.35
Film & Video Umbrella Pidgin Erika Tan
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£9.95
Hazard Books Sinbiba Sin Babe Sister of In Biba A Graphic
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£32.00
Longer Moon Farther Valerie Phillips Hi You are Beautiful How are
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£20.00
Four Corners Books Come Alive
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£15.95
Zidane Press Art Theory For Beginners
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£8.54
Queen's Temple Publications Malcolm Arnold
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£9.36
White Lane Press Robert Lenkiewicz Selfportraits
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£17.50
Richard Dennis From Atoms to Patterns Crystal Structure Designs
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£19.00
Richard Dennis Haslam M Arts and Crafts Book Covers
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£13.30
Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd The Ceramics Book
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£999.99
Carpet Bombing Culture Untitled Iii. This is Street Art
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£16.10
Carpet Bombing Culture Cement Eclipses Small Interventions in the Big
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£12.30
AirSpace Publications Social Substance
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£25.00
Dent-De-Leone Bart Wells Institute
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£16.15
Four Corners Books Prison Landscapes Alyse Emdur
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£15.00
JDF & Associates Ltd Railway Journeys in Art Volume 1 Scotland
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£33.25
JDF & Associates Ltd Railway Journeys in Art Volume 4 The Eastern
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£33.25
Bill Birkett Publishing The Grasmere Yearbook
Book SynopsisGrasmere, at the heart of the Lake District National Park and World Heritage Site, is one of the most celebrated valleys in the region. This is a personal photographic diary by award-winning photographer Bill Birkett of the changing seasons in Grasmere.
£23.40
Folly Books Ltd Stone to Build London Portlands Legacy
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£23.75
Caique Publishing Ltd Palmyra 1885 The Wolfe Expedition and the
Book SynopsisPALMYRA 1885, by Benjamin Anderson and Robert G. Ousterhout, is the first published record of the five fruitful days that father of American archaeological photography, John Henry Haynes, spent in Syria's ancient desert city, whose most important monuments were destroyed by the self-styled Islamic State in 2015.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Photographer; The Wolfe Expedition; Palmyra and its Desert Queen; The Topography of Palmyra; Beasts, Men and Stones: Palmyra in Photography and Imagination; The Wolfe Expedition in Palmyra
£18.95
TransGlobe Publishing Ltd Korean Art
Book SynopsisKorea's transformation over the last thirty years has been unique in the world and this is the most comprehensive English language survey of contemporary art from Korea ever published120 artists, museum and gallery directors, curators and collectors are represented in this lavishly illustrated book making it a vital resource for both those in the know and readers wishing to acquaint themselves with Korea's contemporary scene for the first time. As a nation prospers, so does its art. Although Korean contemporary artists take both global and local issues into account in their work, what makes Korean art unique are its diversity and its individuality, informed and enriched by rigorous experimentation and cultural exploration. In recent years, Korean contemporary art's vibrancy has been recognised in the international arena, with artists such as Do Ho Suh, Kimsooja, Michael Joo and Koo Jeong-A appearing as major figures. The book presents profiles of these internationally recognised fi
£38.40
Hemisphere Publishing Hampstead Heath
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£28.50
FUEL Publishing Soviets
Book SynopsisA must have for collectors of Baldaev's and Vasliev's work: anyone who has the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia I-III and Drawings from the Gulag, will need this to complete their collection
£17.06
Unity Print and Publishing Ltd Wild About Kew The Village by the Thames
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£999.99
