Individual artists, art monographs Books
Anomie Publishing Abigail Reynolds Walking A Cappella
Book SynopsisWalking A Cappella, by St Ives-based artist Abigail Reynolds, features contributions by curator Sophie J. Williamson, novelist Joanna Kavenna, and curator and writer Hammad Nasar.
£36.00
Brepols N.V. Subjects from History: The Decius Mus Series
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£310.87
Strange Attractor Press The Neon Hieroglyph
Book SynopsisA series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD from the author of Our Fatal Magic.From the cellular to the galactic, via Paleolithic cave markings to the trace impressions left by drone photography on our mind’s eye, incorporating dancing plagues, communist psychedelic witches, hyper-sexual fungi, chthonic descents, and skyward ascents, The Neon Hieroglyph weaves together a series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus Ergot, the chemical basis of LSD. The Neon Hieroglyph constructs a house of lyrical reflections for our ghosts to inhabit, a place where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide, where gothic affect and fractal dread form a mausoleum for psychedelic specters. And also the Sun! The Sun is a ghost that haunts the night! Framed with new essays by artist and writer Caspar Heinemann and anthropologist Amy Hale, Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph continues a journey into the post-patriarchal fictions that animated her first collection Our Fatal Magic.
£19.55
Sternberg Press Flowering Under Stress
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£19.00
MIT Press Stinkhorn
£24.70
MIT Press What Looks Good Today May Not Look Good Tomorrow
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£17.56
Art Gallery of New South Wales O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making
Book SynopsisThis book brings fresh perspectives on the works of celebrated modernists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, illuminating some of the artistic and cultural parallels and common themes between American and Australian modernism while exploring each artist’s unique contribution to international developments of modernism. While O’Keeffe, Preston and Cossington Smith developed highly individual styles, they are connected by their choice of subject, their experimentation with light, colour and form, and their commitment to presenting alternative ways of seeing the world. Each modernised their sense of place, developing new art forms that expressed their respective nations. In considering the similarities and distinctions in their art, this publication aims to bring a deeper understanding of modernism’s dispersal and reinvention as it developed beyond the metropolitan wellspring of Europe. Through a selection of wondrous images and engaging and enlightening essays, this book explores the distinct contributions made by O’Keeffe, Preston and Cossington Smith to the movement of modernism throughout their prolific careers.
£28.50
Smith Street Books Artist Bingo
Book SynopsisThis bingo game is a trip to the museum from the comfort of your own home.Celebrate modern history’s greatest and most beloved artists through the most cultured game known to humanity: Bingo!Here you’ll find the world’s best painters, sculptors, performance artists and photographers assembled together – in a handy game box! From Banksy to Basquiat, Haring to Hockney, and Yayoi to Yoko, Artist Bingo is the perfect chance to see your favorites and discover lesser-known artistic geniuses along the way. Bingo has never been more high-brow!With 8 doubled-sided randomized bingo cards, and 48 tokens with art-centric flavor, this game can keep you and your friends playing all night long. (This box set includes more detailed instructions on how to play.)
£25.08
Evening Post Books Alice
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£54.00
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Frank Boyden: The Empathies
Book SynopsisA ceramic artist and printmaker, Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his prints over the past twenty years, including animals, the landscape, and most recently, the human figure. In this suite of 96 drypoints, Boyden set out to depict horrendous and abhorrent images of humanity: "characters from creation's ineptitudes, vagaries, vengeances, and sad jokes." In the process of creating the series of three-inch-by-two-inch plates, the artist came to the realization that a process that was born in anger and disillusionment had metamorphosed into a state of empathy. Included in this exhibition catalog are prose pieces by Kim Stafford and David James Duncan, and well as a discussion with the artist on his use of the drypoint technique.Table of ContentsThe Empathies: A Suite of Ninety-six Drypoints / Frank Boyden The Long Sleep of Asia / Kim Stafford The Empathies 96 Tears: myths, quotes, and a story in honor of "The Empathies" / David James Duncan The Art of Drypoint: A Roundtable Discussion / Frank Boyden, Julia D'Amario, and Tom Prochaska, moderated by Prudence Roberts
£999.99
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life
Book SynopsisHenk Pander has lived in Portland, Oregon, for 45 years but describes himself as a "reluctant immigrant" from his native Holland. He has maintained a cultural double vision. He records and interprets American technology, materialism, topography, and disaster in paintings and drawings that radically revise aspects of traditional Dutch painting in order to make hard-hitting American art. At the same time, he frequently paints specifically European scenes and subjects. His painted narratives range from memories of Nazi-occupied Holland, to a conflation of the American West with Deep Space, to the burning of the New Carissa off the Oregon coast. Combining personal and art historical memory with the subject matter of modern life, Pander creates works that are profound in their seriousness, dramatic intensity, and expressive power.Trade Review"He's a serious painter, bringing a tragic, European lens to mostly American subjects: technology, materialism, disasters— making grotesqueries out of the quotidian that fall somewhere between George Bellows and Francis Bacon." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *
£25.99
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Marie Watt: Lodge
Book SynopsisMarie Watt is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon. Born in 1967 to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation (Haudenosaunee), she identifies herself as "half cowboy and half Indian." Formally, her work draws from Indigenous design principles, oral tradition, personal experience, and western art history. Her approach to art-making is shaped by the proto-feminism of Haudenosaunee matrilineal custom, political work by Native artists in the '60s, a discourse on multiculturalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, as well as a strong belief in interaction with her audience. Like Jasper Johns, she is interested in "things that the mind already knows." Unlike the Pop artists, she uses a vocabulary of natural materials (stone, corn husks, wool, cedar) and forms (blankets, pillows, bridges) that are universal to human experience and noncommercial in character. Marie Watt: Lodge offers the first comprehensive view of her work, covering a period extending from the mid-1990s to the present.
£19.79
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal
Book SynopsisManuel Izquierdo (1925-2009) was a major talent and charismatic personality in Oregon’s modern art movement in the second half of the twentieth century. This book traces his compelling story of poverty-stricken origins in Madrid, his introduction to woodworking by his cabinet-maker grandfather, his childhood escape from Spain following the Spanish Civil War and emigration from France during World War II, and his life as a sculptor and printmaker in Portland from the 1940s to the twenty-first century. Inspired by mythology, nature, and art ranging Goya to Surrealism, Izquierdo’s work is sometimes somber, often festive, and always fascinating with a combination of tradition, modern art, and a world view informed by his odyssey from war-torn Europe to the Pacific Northwest.
£999.99
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Louis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism
Book SynopsisLouis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism explores and assesses the art and life of the iconic Pacific Northwest modernist painter and printmaker who engaged with American and European modern art from Surrealism to Post-Modernism. Based in Portland, Oregon, Louis Bunce maintained strong ties with artists of the New York School, counting Jackson Pollock as colleague and friend. In his fifty-year career, Bunce (1907-1983) created a wide-ranging body of work that both reflects and illuminates twentieth-century modernism. He pioneered serigraphy as a fine art in the Northwest and as a painter infused painterly abstraction with references to the topography and light of the Northwest.
£32.40
Hallie Ford Museum of Art C.S. Price
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£49.18
McSweeney's Publishing Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
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£29.99
KTD Publications True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four
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£999.99
Tin House Books Whitman Illuminated Song of Myself
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£23.96
Museyon Guides French Riviera and Its Artists
Book SynopsisArt, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote d'Azur Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote d'Azur that's sure to delight travellers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France - artist Henri Matisse, who was inspired by the Riviera's colour and light; writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired 'Tender is the Night'; Coco Chanel, whose Saint-Tropez tan became an international fashion trend; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. These luminaries celebrated life and created art amid paradise, and this book is the ultimate guide to the Riviera's golden age. AUTHOR: John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist and filmmaker; he has called Paris home since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including the autobiographical Immoveable 'Feast: A Paris Christmas', 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris', 'Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light', and 'The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s'. REVIEWS of 'Chronicles of Old Paris' and 'The Gold Moments of Paris': "This richly illustrated and beautifully formatted work" - Library Journal "This lovely, gorgeous and intelligent book examines the Paris of old and not so old, with its many fascinating figures and tales." -Chicago Tribune "Excellent walking tours are accompanied by engaging anecdotes .." - France Magazine "While this is a nonfiction book, it reads like fiction, whereby the reader journeys through Paris at different times in its history, through the stories of famous people and places." - ForeWord Review 100 + illustrations and photos
£16.14
Msu Broad David Lamelas: Fiction of a Production
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£999.99
Pelican Publishing Company Simon of New Orleans
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£38.25
Schaffner Press Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon
Book SynopsisThis is an intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin, renowned American painter, considered one of the great women artists of the 20th and 21st Century. A resident of both New Mexico and New York City, Martin has always remained an enigma due to her fiercely guarded private life. Henry Martin, award-winning writer, and art scholar, having access to those who were close to Agnes Martin—friends, family, former lovers—gives us a full portrait of this universally revered artist. Readers will learn of her bouts with mental illness, her several significant lesbian relationships, and her lifelong yearning for recognition despite her reclusive lifestyle and need for privacy. Arriving in the wake of major international retrospective exhibitions of her work from London's Tate Modern, LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Guggenheim in New York City, this book provides a perspective of Agnes Martin that has not been seen in earlier, more academic works or fine-art monographs. Certain to be a mainstay for readers of the arts, and admirers of the creative spirit, this book also includes rare photographs from Martin's family and friends, many of which have never appeared in a book before.
£17.99
University of Nevada Press Tree Lines
Book SynopsisTree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband and wife team of Valerie and Michael Cohen employ a unique process whereby she draws in isolation, gives him her drawings, and he then writes whatever he’s inspired to create. Neither offers the other any kind of feedback or instruction. The result is an accessible and deeply engaging work that is also extremely well researched; the Cohens bring a lifetime of scholarship in literature, history, and the environment to this work. The drawings are black-and-white, pen-and-ink representations of high alpine ecosystems. The prose is stripped bare, abbreviated in an epigrammatic style that is poetic and spontaneous. Trees represented here are the Western Juniper or Sierra Juniper, the Limber, and the Bristlecone Pine—three species of long-lived, slow-growing conifers that grow across the Great Basin. While they represent only a small portion of the vegetative culture high in the western mountains, the Cohens use representation as abstraction as is utilized by writers and artists to convey a unique kind of microcosm of our natural environment. This book compares to such classics as Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and Berger’s Ways of Seeing, which open up lines of observation, analysis, and art for a new generation of readers.Trade ReviewThis truly unique and powerful book is the culmination of a lifetime of close observation, scholarship, and artistry. This is a significant contribution to the literature, not just of California, Nevada, and the Great Basin, but to the world, and particularly to the crucial intersection of art, humanities, science, and the environment."" - Jon Christensen, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
£999.99
University of Nevada Press Women Artists of the Great Basin
Book SynopsisThirty-two women artists scattered over 200,000 square miles introduce a powerhouse of three-dimensional art in Women Artists of the Great Basin. A wave of women’s art has begun to paint the land with a giant brush, and nowhere have the winds of change been more evident than in the Great Basin, where a sense of freedom and rugged individualism has swept across the playas and through cities and towns. This book is a stunning visual rendering of a wide range of visionary women artists of all ages and backgrounds, and readers will discover their dynamic works and get to know them on a personal level. Sculptors, painters, fabric artists, glassblowers, marble and stone workers, and even a renowned Twinkie artist are represented here, all producing artwork that is jam-packed with originality. Fulkerson and Mantle, longtime artists and residents of the Great Basin themselves, offer a behind-the-scenes intimate glimpse into these women’s lives and artwork—showing not only what they create, but why they create it. Too often overlooked, the women covered here prove there is much richness, life, and creativity in what has often been dismissed as a barren desert. Their stories of overcoming great obstacles unfold right alongside images of their art. Many circle outside the conventional world of galleries, museums, and art publications and have created varied paths to their success. They are indeed true originals, rooted in a land of unique geography, a stew of cultures, and stories like no other.Trade ReviewFulkerson and Mantle set out to discover and communicate the rich stories of each artist’s life journey, as well as their journey to or within the Great Basin, and how each of those journeys influenced both the practice and the products of artistic vision. They present a range of methods and creative expression as well as a diversity of truth."" - Patricia A. Atkinson, Nevada Arts Council
£999.99
Glitterati Inc Bitty Butterflies
Book SynopsisFollowing in the success of internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem, Butterflies is the third book in his art/nature series, following Bunnies and Birds (also published by G Editions). This is an extraordinary presentation in terms of the oversized format, vast amount of artworks included, five-color printing throughout, a ribbon marker, edging on the three exterior sides of the book block, and an acetate jacket that can be removed so that consumers can have a “painting” without text on their coffee table. It is important to note that Butterflies follows two very successful publications that are mainstay collaborations between author and publisher. According to Tank Magazine: “Hunt Slonem is unabashedly in love with his subjects…and it shows.”
£29.79
Silver Sprocket Exxxs: A Pornographic Sketchbook
£25.64
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Coral Gables and Rome: The Drawings of Thomas A.
Book SynopsisThomas A. Spain, architect, recently retired from the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he’d been a faculty member since 1966. His enormous talent and unwavering devotion to teaching design and drawing have left an indelible impact on the students he taught over the past two generations. Especially known on campus for his drawings of Rome, through his almost yearly visits from 1991 to 2014 with his students, Spain’s extensive and brilliant collection of work focuses on memorable locations, revisited and redrawn over the years. The work demonstrates how time and acute observation lead to new ways of seeing, while revealing the circumstantial relationship between author, subject and medium.
£50.00
Apollo Publishers The da Vinci Legacy: How an Elusive 16th-Century
Book SynopsisFor the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon.Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth using atmospheric effects; and dramatic contrasts between light and dark.But how did Leonardo, a painter of very few works who died in obscurity in France, become the internationally renowned icon he is today, with the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper the most visited artworks in the world, attracting nearly a billion visitors each year, and Salvator Mundi selling as the most expensive artwork of all time, for nearly half a billion dollars?This extraordinary volume, lavishly illustrated with 130 color images, is the first book to unravel these mysteries by diving deep into the art, literature, science, and politics of Europe from the Renaissance through today. It gives illuminating context to both Leonardo and his accomplishments; explores why Leonardo’s fame vastly overshadowed that of his contemporaries and disciples; and ultimately reveals why despite finishing very few works, his celebrity has survived, even thrived, through five centuries of history.Table of ContentsIntroduction Leonardo in Amboise The Legacy of Leonardo’s Studio The Leonardeschi after Leonardo Leonardo and the Artists of the High Renaissance Leonardo in the Literature of the 16th Century The Leonardo Legend and the Art of Engraving The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper in the Baroque Era Leonardo’s Legacy in the 19th Century Leonardo da Vinci in the 20th century The Legacy of Leonardo Select Bibliography Endnotes Index
£18.99
Outland Entertainment The Funky Fish Book
Book SynopsisArtist Kennon James set out to draw fish and that is what he did. In a pure artistic exercise turned playful and eye-catching coffee table book, Kennon brings you a wonderful fish-filled book that will surprise and delight readers of all ages.
£19.76
Artemesia Publishing, LLC Dinosaurs and Other Felonious Mischief
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£22.46
Rutgers University Press Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge
Book SynopsisThroughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experience the art museum. One of her famous early pieces, for instance, transformed a room in her very own Moscow apartment into an art installation. Released in conjunction with Nakhova’s first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work, spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media. It also includes essays by a variety of world-renowned curators and art historians, each cataloging Nakhova’s artistic innovations and exploring how she deals with themes of everyday life, memory, viewer engagement, and moral responsibility. It concludes with a new interview with Nakhova herself, giving new insight into her creative process and artistic goals. Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge provides a vivid look at the work of a visionary artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgements 5 Thomas SokolowskiMuseum on the Edge 8Julia TulovskyIrina Nakhova’s Complexity: The Photograph and the Museum 14Jane SharpIrina Nakhova’s Battle of the Invalids 18Natalia SidlinaFirst Comes the Feeling: A Dialogue with Irina Nakhova 22Gabriella FerrariPlates 26 Seven Masterpieces: An Audioguide by Irina Nakhova 2013 70 Works in the Exhibition 74 Selected Exhibitions 76 Contributors 81
£999.99
Rutgers University Press Dialogues: Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov,
Book SynopsisArtists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work. In the early 1970s, conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov chose the latter option, turning their limited resources into an asset by pioneering an entirely new artistic genre: the album. Somewhere between drawings and novels, Kabakov and Pivovarov’s albums were also the basis for unique performance pieces, as the artists invited select audiences to their Moscow apartments for private readings and viewings of the albums, helping to cultivate an alternative artistic community in the process. This exhibition catalog brings together Kabakov and Pivovarov’s key works for the first time, putting the two artists in dialogue and recreating their artistic community. It not only includes nearly hundred pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the Russian texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Taken together, they give viewers a new appreciation of the different aesthetic strategies each artist used to depict the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments Ksenia NourilBetween the Lines: The Intermediality of Ilya Kabakov’s AlbumsKsenia NourilIlya Kabakov in Conversation with Ksenia Nouril KABAKOV PLATES The Beloved Agent in LoveTomáš GlancViktor Pivovarov in Conversation with Tomáš Glanc PIVOVAROV PLATES Catalogue of the Exhibition Selected Bibliography About the Authors
£999.99
Massey University Press Little Doomsdays
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£27.99
Editions Flammarion Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema:
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£18.98
Jrp Ringier Jim Lutes
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£999.99
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Yao Jui-chung
Book SynopsisTaiwanese contemporary artist Yao Jui-chung has gained international renown for his imaginative, bold and incisive, and often humorous critiques of his country’s complex and contested identity and history. Born in 1969, Yao grew up during a tumultuous period, when Taiwan transformed from authoritarianism to democracy. His art, which comprises photography, video, installation, and painting, draws inspiration from history, politics, and society, and from China’s and Taiwan’s ancient artistic and religious traditions and mythical worlds. As well as being an artist, Yao also works as a curator and writer and has published several books on Taiwanese art. This monograph is the first-ever comprehensive study of Yao Jui-chung’s work in English, examining his practice over the past three decades. Featuring more than 200 images, it offers an essay by scholar, curator and Taiwan art specialist Sophie McIntyre and an in-depth interview with the artist by Hou Hanru, the artistic director of Rome’s MAXXI. The book will appeal to specialists, collectors, and students of art, as well as scholars and students in Taiwan and China studies, politics, and history.
£999.99
Bohlau Verlag Pietro Testa: Maler in Rom und Lucca (1612-1650)
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£91.78
Bohlau Verlag Der Maler Lucien C. Kapp zwischen Mur und
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£49.91
Bohlau Verlag Wilhelm Stiassny 1842-1910: Judischer Architekt
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£61.51
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Geschichte Der Venezianischen Malerei: Band 2:
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£93.10
Bohlau Verlag Künstler!: Kreativität zwischen Mythos, Habitus
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£45.40
Bohlau Verlag Kunstlerinnen Und Migration: Olga Von Boznanska
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£75.33
Bohlau Verlag Van Gogh: Manie Und Melancholie: Ein Portrat
Book SynopsisZwischen Depression und ekstatischem Schaffensrausch
£67.49
Bohlau Verlag Der Russe Kandinsky: Zur Bedeutung der russischen
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£71.41
Bohlau Verlag Jack B. Yeats: Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen
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£95.94
Harrassowitz Anfangs - Beginnings: Eine Auswahl Von Arbeiten
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Julius Kurth (1870-1949): Berliner Japansammler,
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£999.99
Harrassowitz Welfen Sammeln Durer
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£999.99
