Art & Photography Books
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Book SynopsisThe artist and author, Owen Grant Innes, began life in Nova Scotia, ''the most British of the Canadian provinces.'' As a young boy in the 1960s, Innes felt an enormous sense of not belonging and found that through history, culture, and Queen Elizabeth II, he was connected to a wider world and, in that, found a sense of belonging. This book is a product of the unique relationship between sovereign and subject, acting as a ''love letter'' to the Queen. Including 24 beautiful artworks dedicated to the Queen''s life, from her birth to coronation, to the recent passing of her husband, Prince Philip. Alongside each painting is a quotation from Her Majesty or a reflection from the author. This book is a wonderful ode to the monarch and a tribute to the impact of her long reign.
£31.50
Two Rivers Press The Tapestry of Life A Botanical Artists
Book SynopsisWhat are the ingredients for a successful career as a botanical artist? In The Tapestry of Life, Susan Christopher-Coulson shares her compulsion to collect and then record the botanical treasures she finds and details some of her favourite tools and methods, making this book both beautiful and useful.
£16.19
The School of Life Press On Family
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at family life through portrait photography and interviews.
£16.20
University of Wales Press An Indigo Summer
Book Synopsis‘There is a certain feeling – standing between rows of richly dyed blue cloth – that you are within an enclave of protection, that within this ocean you can feel calm; a separation from the outside world.’ One summer, a mother and daughter are reunited in the small village of Betws Gwerful Goch in North Wales following the death of a father and grandfather. Ellie returned from studying at university, while Jeanette had been studying the art of indigo dyeing in Japan. In this lyrical memoir, Ellie Evelyn Orrell transports readers to their hillside garden, reflecting on a summer spent learning to work with indigo, and witnessing the power of creativity in moments of mourning and recovery. In it, she weaves together stories of resettling in a once-familiar landscape; the healing powers of art; the historical, mythological and present day properties of indigo; and the presence of this indelible colour within the Welsh landscape. An Indigo Summer is an absorbing meditation on art, rural life and roots, grief, creativity and the artistic process.
£13.49
Danann Media Publishing Limited Chanel: The Fashion Icons
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£18.69
Danann Media Publishing Limited McQueen: The Fashion Icons
Book SynopsisThe Fashion Icons McQueen is magnificently adorned with some of Lee Alexander McQueen's most riveting designs, and the narrative illuminates the personal and professional struggles of a man who dared to defy accepted norms in the cavernous halls of fashion and give the world a new sense of the grandeur of which human creativity is capable.
£18.69
Danann Media Publishing Limited Gucci
Book SynopsisFounded in Florence, Italy, as a luggage brand and equestrian outfitter in 1921, Gucci has evolved into one of the world's most celebrated fashion houses synonymous with classic design, elegance, luxury and quality.
£18.69
Danann Media Publishing Limited Painting The Compact Beginners Guide
Book SynopsisIn The Compact Beginner's Guide to Painting, we'll guide you throughthe basics of the most popular mediums, from watercolours to oil. We'llexplore the kit you need to give yourself a head start, and reveal thetechniques you need to master to unleash your inner artist.
£15.29
Sona Books Louis Vuitton
Book SynopsisThe Louis Vuitton label was founded by Vuitton in 1854 in Paris. In 1858, Vuitton introduced his flat-topped trunks with Trianon canvas, making them lightweight and airtight. Louis Vuitton' s graphic symbols, including quatrefoils and flowers (as well as the LV monogram), were based on the trend of using Japanese Mon designs in the late Victorian era. The company is still known for its signature monogram bags today. Louis Vuitton has evolved into one of the world' s most celebrated fashion houses synonymous with classic design, elegance, luxury and quality. Louis Vuitton - beloved by the great, the good and the uber glamorous boasts an instantly recognisable signature style all of its own. This book, beautifully illustrated with images of some of the world' s iconic fashion items, charts the story of Louis Vuitton' s origins and how the brand became the influential, innovative haute-couture power house it is today.
£19.12
Counter-Print From Italy
Book SynopsisFrom Italy is a celebration of creativity from Italy, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Featuring 18 creatives & their work including: Parco Studio, CRSL, Matteo Vandelli, Maxim Dosca, BRH+, Cabaret Typographie, La Tigre, Happycentro, Multi Form, Atto, CamuffoLab, Olimpia Zagnoli, Tassinari/Vetta, Federico Barbon, Mauro Bubbico, Multiplo, Eremo & Camilla Falsini.
£11.25
GOST Books Haiti
Book SynopsisBruce Gilden first journeyed to Haiti in 1984 to document the famous Mardi Gras festivities in Port au Prince. Fascinated by the country, he returned many times and his landmark monograph Haiti, a culmination of these photographs made during this period was first published in 1996. Gilden has continued to return to Haiti, and this new expanded edition of his book includes 40 new images made up until 2010, completing Gilden’s vision of the country. Though only an hour’s flight from Miami and the US mainland, Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti was freed from French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th Century but this independent came at a cost of an ‘independence debt’ which was not paid off until 1947. In addition, chronic instability, dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas.
£42.75
GOST Books We the Spirits
Book SynopsisSeeking out villages and towns where festivals are at their most folkloric or least visited by outsiders, Gardner collaborated with ethnographers and local experts to engage with and understand each festival. A selection of his vast archive of photographs made over a period of 15 years will be published in We the Spirits. Collectively, his images dispel stereotypes of Carnival and illustrate the complex diversity of local customs united by universal themes.
£47.50
GOST Books Fugue
Book SynopsisFugue by Lydia Goldblatt is a body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing.
£42.75
GOST Books Frontier
Book SynopsisFrontier blends cinematic portraits of cowboys and expansive landscapes with experimental worksto create a visual representation of the mythical American West. The book is the first monographby photographer Jim Krantz who has spent his life and work immersed in the landscape and cultureembedded in American national identity.
£61.75
GOST Books Cyanotype Imperfections
Book SynopsisPhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections by British Photographer Mandy Barkeraims to raise awareness of fast fashion, synthetic clothes, and the harmful effect of microfibres inthe oceans.
£42.75
GOST Books Mutiny
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£42.75
Candy Jar Books The Invisible Artist
Book SynopsisSince 1976, Jeff Cummins has been a prolific artist on many book covers, album covers, and posters. Not only does this book cover his ''Doctor Who'' work; inside you''ll also find stories of The Beatles, of Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, and you will discover the role Jeff had in the marketing of the blockbuster film ''Back to the Future''.
£16.19
Sternberg Press Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with
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£13.50
Sternberg Press Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
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£23.00
Sansom & Co Into the Light: The Art of Egon Altdorf
Book SynopsisFrom sculpture to woodcuts, glass design to poetry, the work of German artist Egon Altdorf crossed boundaries. ‘Making culture behind the barbed wire’ was how Altdorf endured wartime captivity, inspiring a life dedicated to art that was innovative, spiritual and redemptive. Exhibiting in London alongside sculptors Barbara Hepworth, Lynn Chadwick and Reg Butler at the Unknown Political Prisoner exhibition (1953), he adopted an increasingly abstract approach, rooted in Biblical symbolism yet embracing different faiths, notably in designs for the outstanding interior of Wiesbaden’s new synagogue. Exploring Altdorf’s work in ten interdisciplinary chapters, this book illuminates the still-overlooked contribution of artists who reshaped postwar existence: the lost generation.Table of ContentsGraham Ward: Introduction 1 Judith LeGrove Egon Altdorf: The lines of life 2 Deborah Lewer The prodigal and the prophecy: Egon Altdorf’s woodcuts and German art debates, c.1948–52 3 Dorothea Schöne Change and (re)reflection in the sculptural work of Egon Altdorf after 1945 4 Judith LeGrove A vital Conversation: Egon Altdorf and British sculpture in the early post-war years 5 Julia Kelly Symbolism of the cosmos in Egon Altdorf’s post-war sculpture 6 Elaine Morley Egon Altdorf and the transformative power of art: the postwar literary context 7 Nicolette David Beyond language: the relationship between art and poetry in Egon Altdorf’s work 8 David Jasper The art of Egon Altdorf: symbolism and spirituality 9 Ulrich Knufinke Wiesbaden’s new synagogue (1966) and its design by Egon Altdorf 10 Judith LeGrove Into the light: Egon Altdorf’s memorials to the future Arie Hartog Epilogue
£28.00
Sansom & Co Adam Bruce Thomson
Book SynopsisAdam Bruce Thomson (1885-1976) was one of the most quietly impactful artists of his generation. Born in Edinburgh, he was among the earliest intake of students to train at the newly established Edinburgh College of Art. He went on to have a long-running teaching career at the College, supporting and encouraging successive cohorts. In his own practice, Thomson worked across a range of media, producing etchings, drawings, watercolours and oil paintings. A committed member of several artist-led societies, he exhibited widely and was well-respected by his peers. To date, however, his contribution to twentieth-century Scottish art remains largely unexplored. _Adam Bruce Thomson: The Quiet Path_ celebrates the achievements of this talented yet modest figure. It provides an in-depth account of his life and career, charting his creative development and examining his role as a teacher, mentor and friend to other artists. The book is fully illustrated, and draws from previously unseen archival material. It accompanies a major exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Centre in 2024.
£17.00
Sansom & Co John Hitchens Grounds for Art
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£36.00
Sansom & Co Bill Coldstream Remembered
Book SynopsisBill Coldstream Remembered: Portraits of a Painter is a collection of essays and shorter reminiscent pieces reflecting on the life and legacy of William Coldstream (1908-1987) by a wide range of those who knew and learned from him, whether by direct contact or through his work. Coldstream, known as Bill to his friends, and The Prof to generations of students at The Slade where he was Professor of Fine Art from 1949-1975, was a founder member of the Euston Road School, a mover and shaker at the GPO Film Unit, where he worked closely with Britten and Auden in the 1930s, and later a major figure in the London art world as it went through controversial changes from the 1960s onwards. In this collection he is remembered as much for his hilarity, humanity, and gift for friendship as for the lasting mark he made on the cultural landscape of a world in flux. In a delightfully diverse selection of studies and characteristic snapshots Bill emerges as a complex figure, a man of warmth and wit, a painter of obsessive rigour, a raconteur, and a champion of the underdog. Contributors include former students, fellow painters, and historians of modern British Art.
£24.00
Sansom & Co Peter Cameron
£27.00
Watkins Media Limited Spirit Behind the Lens
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£22.49
Watkins Media Limited Body High
Book SynopsisHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love?In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise.
£12.71
RIBA Publishing 100 Site Analysis Essentials: An architect's
Book SynopsisHow do I follow a brief? What is the site’s context? What’s its history and what is adjacent to it now? How have other designers responded to similar site conditions? Conducting a site analysis is an essential part of the design process. Through careful examination, observation and documentation, you can cultivate a deeper understanding of the place you are designing. Designed to help students understand what a ‘site analysis’ is and why it is valuable to their design proposals, this book provides 100 easy-to-follow rules of thumb with simple line drawings and illustrations to help. Through a series of lenses, strategies and ideas, this book provides step-by-step guidance through the process to increase your understanding of a place and how to deliver the appropriate solution for your site. Supported by case studies with examples of tackling specific problems, you will develop the tools to explore, rationalise and convince others that your approach is right for the project.Table of ContentsFramework Introduction Focus of the Study Chapter 1: Context Rules 1 - 44 Chapter 2: Routes Rules 44 - 55 Chapter 3: Environment Rules 56 - 77 Chapter 4: Groupings and Usage Rules 78 - 85 Chapters 5: Interface Rules 86 - 100 Chapter 6: Putting into Practice
£26.60
3D Total Pub Light and Shade for Characters
Book SynopsisA handy, accessible, and beautifully illustrated artist?s guide to using light and shade to push character designs to a professional level.This shorter-form book from 3dtotal Publishing, from our new series Create & Learn Collection, takes readers through clear and simple methods to achieving top-quality lighting in their drawing and digital paintings.The invaluable content is written and illustrated by professional artists, including an in-depth introduction by Kenneth Anderson (aka Character Cube), a character designer and illustrator based in Scotland, UK, who specializes in the creation of characters for animation, gaming, and traditional publishing. After covering the fundamentals of light and shade, he explores the ways lighting and shading can be used to describe form, push character stylization, and enhance storytelling.This is followed by eight invaluable tutorials from global artists, including Iranian concept artist Taraneh Karimi, Serbian illustrator Ognjen Sporin, and Italian character designer Isabella Agosti. They cover a range of topics, including ?Controlling tonal structure of a character with light and shade?, ?Using light within a character design?, and ?Using light and shade in a stylized 3D character?.With a compact format and short, clear tutorial steps, this book is ideal for those wanting a quick reference guide or more relaxed approach from a tutorial book. It?s an ideal gift for an artist friend just discovering their digital-painting skills, or a must-buy for artists wanting to discover how the professionals create spot-on lighting and shade in their designs.
£18.15
3D Total Pub Linocut Printmaking
Book SynopsisThis beautiful photography-filled book will inspire and inform printmakers of all abilities, with step-by-step projects from popular linocutting experts.This shorter-form book from 3dtotal Publishing, from our new series Create & Learn Collection, takes readers through a clear and simple guide to achieving top-quality prints with the linocutting technique. The invaluable content is written and illustrated by professional artists, including an in-depth introduction by Gareth Barnes (aka Spindle Printer), a printmaker who works from his home studio in Leeds, UK. His work is inspired by history, folklore, the natural world, and vintage illustration, and he sells his work at print fairs around the UK. He discusses the materials used for linocutting, followed by techniques from start to finish, including carving, prepping paper, tips for mixing colours, and pressing and drying. All accompanying by stunning photography of the process in action.We then have specific projects from global artists, including Dutch printmaker Esther van Dam, Anna Hermsdorf from Germany, and Mary Ann Testagrossa from California, USA. Their tutorials include simple and more advanced version of multiblock prints and reduction prints, as well as a jigsaw print and the technique of reprinting a pattern on fabric. Photographs accompany each step of each process, alongside clear written instructions from the artist.With a compact format and short, clear tutorial steps, this book is ideal for those wanting a quick reference guide or more relaxed approach from a tutorial book. It''s an ideal gift for an artist friend just discovering their printmaking passion, or a must-buy for linocutters wanting to discover how the professionals create their stunning prints.
£18.15
FotoVue Limited Photographing East Anglia: The Most Beautiful
Book SynopsisPHOTOGRAPHING EAST ANGLIA is a photography-location and visitor guidebook An essential companion for anyone with a camera who is visiting East Anglia- whether you are using a high-end DSLR or a mobile phone camera. The landscape of East Anglia is unique, giving photographic opportunities not found anywhere else in the UK. Its extensive coastline, lapped by the North Sea, and stretching from the Wash in the north then south to the Thames Estuary, is home to wild marshes, sandy beaches and dunes, beach huts and old harbours filled with boats. Numerous nature reserves allow access to some of the best birdwatching in the UK. Inland, the fens, heaths, villages, waterways and woodlands inspired the paintings of John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. You will find medieval castles, ancient villages, stately homes such as Sandringham House - the private home of Queen Elizabeth II - and the historic cities of Cambridge and Norwich. The Broads National Park is an extensive wetland area, cut by seven rivers, where under big East Anglian skies, windmills and windpumps look over a timeless landscape of reedbeds and grazing marshes. FEATURING: - 150 locations and over 800 beautiful photographs - Topographic maps - Sat nav and map co-ordinates - Sun compass - Best times to visit and seasonal highlights - Photographic tips - Accessibility notes - Travel information - The best places to stay, eat and drink
£25.16
FotoVue Limited Photographing Wiltshire: The Most Beautiful
Book SynopsisExplore and discover the most beautiful places in Wiltshire. Visit and photograph the ancient and mysterious sites of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill; the great houses and gardens at Longleat, Bowood, Wilton, Stourhead; villages and churches; Georgian Bradford-on-Avon and the chalk White Horses and the Fovant Badges etched into the hillsides. You will enjoy photographs of the strip lynchets along the downs where sheep have grazed for centuries; the big open farmland, the Ridgeway, the chalk streams; Salisbury Plain and Salisbury Cathedral. With over 500 colour photographs, Photographing Wiltshire is the definitive visitor and photo-location guidebook to photographing this fascinating county. Introductory sections explain the story of Wiltshire's varied landscape, exceptional cultural heritage and diverse wildlife. It will appeal to Wiltshire residents, outdoor enthusiasts, photographers and anyone who loves Wiltshire and would like to understand it better.
£25.16
Prototype Publishing Ltd. The Sea is Spread and Cleaved and Furled
Book SynopsisThe sea is spread and cleaved and furled is an interdisciplinary book and film-work by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. It is a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice-over and compendium of notes-to-the-self. Written and filmed across thirteen countries, from the Greek Islands to South East Asia to the Black Sea, the Balkans and the Baltic, it is at once a travelogue and an exploration of stagnating memory, of mental fracturing and its corollary: the exuberant performance of the self. It is both a love poem, an intermedia obsession with *cats*, and the personal and philosophical exploration of alienation, moving from Andrew Marvell to Cardi B, from Foucault and Back to the Future to the inane and repetitive close reading of Drake. The sea is spread and cleaved and furled is a poem and a film about the veneer of dialogue, narcissism and pleasure, about contemporary economies of capital, human movement and desire, and the resistance of the sensible or affective world to language itself.
£10.80
Counter-Print From Switzerland
Book SynopsisFrom Switzerland is a collection of work from some of the most talented agencies in Switzerland, such as Raffinerie, Supero, Offshore Studio, Badesaison, Studio Fiexen and many more.
£11.25
Counter-Print Greetings from Javier Jaén Studio
Book SynopsisThe visual language of Javier Jaén is a symbolic and playful one. This celebrated artist has worked for clients such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Greenpeace. This timely monograph presents the preparation, thought process and resulting artwork from one of the creative world’s most fertile minds. The book has been lavishly illustrated with hundreds of coloured images to help showcase the depth and variety inherent with Jaén’s output and comes with a free concertina-folded sticker sheet featuring many of the artist’s iconic designs. Bilingual edition: Spanish and English
£28.00
Counter-Print Malika Favre: Kama Sutra A-Z
Book SynopsisIn Kama Sutra A–Z Malika Favre blends typography, illustration, design and erotica in this exquisitely produced limited edition. The 'Kama Sutra A-Z' was initially developed by Malika Favre in 2013 as an art project and exhibition. Seven years later, she decided to gather this body of work into a limited edition book co-published with Counter-Print. The 26 letters are displayed as individual art pieces and accompanied by erotic excerpts, carefully curated by the artist, with a strong emphasis on female poets. The result is an eclectic and timeless collection of writings, from ancient times to today, including contributions from renowned poets such as Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephanie Burt, Warsan Shire, Kyle Dargan and Michael Faudet amongst many more… The dialogue created by this approach emphasises the timeless relevance of Erotica and is meant as a celebration of joy, pleasure and sensuality. As Vatsyayana once wrote, 'So long as lips shall kiss, and eyes shall see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee'. The book was designed by Counter-Print and printed in Italy. The cover has been gold foiled and the book is end-blocked in matt black.
£36.00
Sainsbury Centre Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies
Book SynopsisHenry Moore's humanist sculpture changed the course of art in the twentieth-century and raised the status of British sculpture internationally. Friendships and Legacies explores Moore's relationships with collectors Robert and Lisa Sainsbury and photographer John Hedgecoe and how they had impact on the public presentation of Moore and his work, who became one of the most prominent sculptors of the twentieth century. Moore became friends with Robert and Lisa Sainsbury after their first purchase of his work in 1933. They formed a close friendship and went on to acquire 22 important works by the artist. The Sainsburys gifted their personal collection to the University of East Anglia where Moore's works now form a key part of the displays both inside and outside the Sainsbury Centre. Henry Moore and John Hedgecoe had a close friendship spanning almost forty years. Hedgecoe took many photographs of Moore, producing four books about the artist and his work. Many of these photographs have become iconic, contributing to the public perception of Moore. Friendships and Legacies also includes 24 extended catalogue texts about each of the works by Moore in the Sainsbury Centre collection. The book is richly illustrated with archive images and new photography.
£21.25
Sainsbury Centre Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in
Book SynopsisRhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 celebrates the dynamic abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain over a seventy-year period. Including constructed reliefs and sculpture, kinetic and participatory art, painting and printmaking, the publication explains the dialogue and collaboration between artists working in radical ways across the generations to continually reinvent Constructivist art.Rhythm and Geometry is drawn from the collection at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia.Featured artists include Robert Adams, Rana Begum, Charles Biederman, Lygia Clark, Natalie Dower, Stephen Gilbert, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore, Jean Spencer, Takis, Victor Vasarely, Mary Webb, Stephen Willats, Gillian Wise and Li Yuan-Chia.
£22.10
Paper Visual Art Journal well I just kind of like it: Art in the home and
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£14.25
Theatrum Mundi Sonic Urbanism: Resonances In A New Field
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£7.06
Theatrum Mundi Sonic Urbanism: The Political Voice
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£8.22
Theatrum Mundi Embodying Otherness
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£8.99
FUEL Publishing Auto Erotica: A grand tour through classic car
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind – a car book like no other – offering a deeply nostalgic look at beautiful vintage cars through the superb literature, leaflets and pamphlets that sold them to us. Auto Erotica covers the gamut of motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. These rare ephemeral booklets are full of unusual graphic ideas and concepts. Their fabulous photography, dazzling colour charts, daring typography, strange fold outs and inspiring styles symbolise the automobile aspirations of generations of Britons. The book is also packed full of era-defining classic cars, from those we love to those you can’t remember. Expect fast Fords, the XJS, the TR8, MGs, minis, Maxis, Renaults, Beemers, VWs, Vivas, Citroens, DeLoreans and a whole lot more – amazing motors from the past and even some from the future – as you've never seen them before.
£21.21
FUEL Publishing Soviet Seasons
Book SynopsisIn Soviet Seasons Kotov’s photographs reveal unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain. From snow-blanketed Siberia in winter, to the mountains of the Caucasus in summer, these images show how a once powerful, utopian landscape has been affected by the weight of nature itself. This uniquely broad perspective could only be achieved by a photographer such as Kotov. Singularly dedicated to exploring every corner of his country, Kotov often hitch-hikes across vast distances. On these journeys he chronicles not only the architectural achievements of the Soviet empire, but also its overlooked or simply undocumented constructions. Arseniy Kotov: ‘In this book I reveal the beauty and diversity of this vast region, showing both cities and nature at different times of the year. I have travelled widely across Russia and its neighbouring countries, where I captured the landscape of post-Soviet cities and witnessed the seasonal changes.’Table of ContentsWinter – Siberia • Spring – Central Russia • Summer – Caucasus • Autumn – Ukraine
£21.21
Yale University Press Giovanni Battista Maini 16901752 and Roman
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£95.00
Themerson Estate Franciszka Themerson
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£39.90
Palm Studios Neighbours
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£23.75
The Photographers' Gallery A Cat A Dog A Microwave...Cultural Practices and
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£16.00
CentreCentre The Art Beneath
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£26.59
