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Chose Commune Carnets
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£39.20
Insight Editions Tarot del Toro Coloring Book
£15.11
Insight Editions Coloring Van Gogh
Book SynopsisCelebrate the art of a world-renowned master with Coloring Van Gogh! This official coloring book reimagines Vincent van Gogh’s famous, influential works of art into more than 60 relaxing and intricate coloring pages full of original mandalas and patterns alongside his classic compositions, showcasing the artist’s popular paintings hosted at the Van Gogh Museum.Color more than 60 pages of intricate, detailed illustrations that bring the beauty and wonder of Vincent van Gogh’s artwork to life in this official coloring book, made in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam! Featuring all-new mandalas and patterns combining van Gogh’s most famous pieces—including Sunflowers, Self Portrait with a Grey Felt Hat, Head of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, Gauguin’s Chair, and more—alongside his original compositions, fans can color in their favorite impressionist pieces. Coloring
£13.67
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£17.40
Rocky Nook Drawing the Portrait
Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to learning how to easily draw stunning, realistic faces.
£21.25
Rocky Nook Nikon Z8 PocketGuide
Book SynopsisDesigned for photographers who haven't memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z8, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guidehelps you get the shot when you're out and about. Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklistIdentify every button and dial on your cameraLearn the essential modes and settings you need to knowDive deeper with additional features of your cameraExecute step-by-step instructions for shooting multiple exposures, in-camera HDR, time-lapse movies, and moreFollow tips and techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)
£11.69
Liberties Journal Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
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£13.29
Hanuman Editions The Frontier Index
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£11.39
Edition Patrick Frey Nicolas Frey: Monsters in Suits
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£34.20
Museum Tusculanum Press Danish Studio Ceramics 1950 - 2010
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£57.79
Onomatopee Modes of Criticism 5: Design Systems
Book SynopsisWithin graphic design, the concept of systems is profoundly rooted in form. Starting from a series of design research residencies in the context of the Porto Design Biennale, this volume proposes a variety of perspectives - social, cultural, political - to challenge this deeply engrained tradition. Contents:1. Graphic Design Systems, and the Systems of Graphic DesignFrancisco Laranjo2. Design Systems, Porto Design Biennale Research ResidenciesLuiza Prado & Pedro Oliveira, ACED, Ruben Pater, Demystification Committee3. One Size Fits AllRuben Pater 4. Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-flap DisplayShannon Mattern5. Anything with a Shape Cannot Be BrokenIan Lynam6. Co-Creating Empowering Economic Systems Strategies for Action Brave New Alps7. Lining OutGeorgina Voss
£14.25
Insight Editions Van Gogh Memory Journal Reflect Record Remember
Book SynopsisRecord three years’ worth of memories with this beautiful one-line-a-day memory journal featuring one of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces. Vincent van Gogh was not only one of the most well-known, beloved artists of all time; he was also a prolific and insightful writer. Over the course of his life, he wrote thousands of letters reflecting on the details of his experiences. Use this stunning Van Gogh memory book to record three years of our own thoughts or experiences most worth remembering. Each page includes a daily entry for a single thought or highlight over three successive years. At the end of three years, you’ll have a condensed, comparative record of memories to reflect on. JOURNALING MADE EASY: Make journaling a consistent part of your routine with this simple journal designed to encourage you to write just one line a day. Whether you choose to write each morning, afternoon, or evening, take a brief moment of reflection to
£14.39
Yale University Press Art Can Help
Book SynopsisA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned societyTrade Review“Robert Adams’s photo practice reoriented landscape photography to the effects of man on the environment. In the essays collected in Art Can Help he shares his responses to other photographers’ work. . . . About Terri Weifenbach’s picture of a bumblebee in flight: ‘What does the photographer help us find? First of all, astonishment.’”—William Meyers, Wall Street Journal (Holiday Gift Book selection)
£12.34
Yale University Press Edvard Munch
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch’s often neglected pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist’s landscapes, seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time and ours.
£33.25
Yale University Press Murakami
Book SynopsisThis fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade
£33.25
Pearson Education Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2025
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£50.39
MIT Press The Beauty of Chemistry
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£33.75
MIT Press Ltd A Book about Ray
Book SynopsisThe first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. ?New York?s most famous unknown artist,? was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson?s practice as one that was constantly shifting?whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art. A Book about Ray takes an elliptical path, circling around rather than trying to arrest in flight the elusive artist and his purposefully ephemeral art. By crafting the book in this way, Levy evokes Ray Johnson?s art in the moment of its making and draws readers into the artist?s world, while making them feel, from the beginning, that they somehow already know their way around that world. In exploring Johnson?s scene, readers will also encounter the artists who influenced him, like Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, and his friends and peers like Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. The work of such figures will look forever different in light of Johnson?s subversive take on their shared aesthetic.Suitable for readers both new to Ray Johnson and those already familiar with his work, A Book about Ray is a complete and vital portrait of an American original.
£37.50
MIT Press Ltd Monumental Graffiti
Book SynopsisWhat graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.What is graffiti?vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be.Monumental Graffiti unpacks today?s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in?and whose are excluded from?public space. Written from twenty years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordon Matta-Clark, William Pope.L, Cy Twombly, and many more.Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.
£28.80
MIT Press A Black Gaze
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£19.55
MIT Press Mortevivum
Book SynopsisA powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.Since photography’s invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the understanding that blackness and suffering—and death—are inextricable. Brown traces this idea from the earliest images of the enslaved to the latest newspaper photographs of black bodies, from the United States and South Africa to Haiti and Rwanda, documenting the enduring, pernicious connection between photography and a global history of antiblackness.Photography's history, inextricably linked to colonialism and white
£15.29
MIT Press Ltd The Lies of the Artists
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£27.20
Yale University Press Writing Art History
£23.75
Phaidon Press Ltd Every Day a Word Surprises Me Other Quotes by
Book SynopsisAdvice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new bookTrade Review"The ideal keepsake for readers, writers and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words... Inspirational."—Artsbeat"The perfect recipe to get the creative juices flowing... Contains hundreds of insightful quotes by famous writers and personalities, from Jane Austen to Julian Barnes, Leo Tolstoy to Patti Smith, Virginia Woolf to Henry David Thoreau... [From] motivational to purely relatable."—CentMagazine.co.uk"Not just another book of trite quotes... Unlike much of this genre, it offers both useful advice and insight... Every Day A Word Surprises Me takes a very simple, not to say hackneyed format, and makes something really quite entertaining and useful out of it... Thanks to some imaginative categorisation and sourcing that takes in published interviews, private journals and letters, any writer will find something of use here... Thanks to the provision of proper sources for all the quotes, including links to web pages for many, they become starting points for further investigation... The book becomes a gateway to as rich an investigation of the art of writing as the reader wishes to make it. This is a book that will benefit from being read with a smartphone in one hand, ready for background googling and link following."—CreativeReview.co.uk"As an antidote to creative block, Phaidon has sought to collect 700 quotes in order to guide readers through the most existential questions about life and love, self-doubt, booze, and the everlasting haunt of rejection... Other than outworn 'inspirational quotes' on websites like Goodreads or Brainyquote, the pocket-size guide mainly contains exclusive words extracted from little-known letters, memoirs and personal notebooks." —DazedDigital.com"A prolonged witty publication, containing quotes of the ego and arrogance. But to my surprise I found a collection of over 700 insightful quotes by writers through the ages and from across the globe... By page three I already had seven friends that I wanted to pass this book onto once I had finished it... A delightful book with its mix of font's throughout, irregular type size and hardback cover it's a graphic nerds' dream... Every Day a Word Surprises Me is one of those rare books containing no images that you will want to come back to time and time again."—55factory.net"The varied typography on every page makes it all the more readable and fun to dip into."—Mature Times"This collection is full of its own surprises and hard earned advice, communicated with the eloquence and clarity that only the world's finest writers could summon... inspirational and insightful."—Project Calm"This is the perfect coffee table or bedside table book: to take and give, or to borrow, to re-read often and without a precise scheme."—Slow-Words.com"An inspiring collection of selected wisdom fom a host of well-known and iconic writers... On a wide variety of subjects, feelings and experience."—The Essential Journal"Discussed in the back page column NB, with much focus on 'authorial advice'."—TLS (Times Literary Supplement)"In this compilation, striking imagery, insightful humour and paradoxical wisdom abound... The thematic structure makes for many rewarding contrasts of both attitude and tone.. There is plenty of witty brevity here... Variety of presentation is everything. Through a range of font forms, cases, sizes and layouts, the design reflects and enhances the one or message of the words in question... While there are countless websites offering "inspirational writer quotes" for free, these kinds of details more than justify the duration of collection quotes in book form."—TLS (Times Literary Supplement)
£13.46
Phaidon Press Ltd Hans Haacke
Book SynopsisA monograph surveying the storied career of German artist Hans Haacke, on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition
£47.96
Saqi Books Colour Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
Book SynopsisThe experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour.
£20.00
Power Publications Light Darkness
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£22.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Building Science Graphics
Book SynopsisBuilding Science Graphics: An illustrated guide to communicating science through diagrams and visualizations is a practical guide for anyoneâregardless of previous design experience and preferred drawing toolsâinterested in creating science-centric illustrated explanatory diagrams. Starting with a clear introduction to the concept of information graphics and their role in contemporary science communication, it then outlines a process for creating graphics using evidence-based design strategies. The heart of the book is composed of two step-by-step graphical worksheets, designed to help jump-start any new project. The author website, featuring further resources and links, can be found here: https://www.buildingsciencegraphics.com/. This is both a textbook and a practical reference for anyone that needs to convey scientific information in an illustrated form for articles, poster presentations, slide shows, Trade Review"This book is a masterclass in the field of scientific visualization. Ms. Christiansen’s approach is insightful, approachable, thorough, and inclusive. There is something here for everyone, from the true novice to those who have been practicing scientific visualization for years. Each page is bursting with useful and interesting content. As an unsurprising bonus, the book’s design is a delight; it is a pleasure to read and peruse the images and layout. I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in what it takes to create visuals that effectively and beautifully communicate science."-- Jill K Gregory, MFA, CMI; President, Association of Medical Illustrators; Associate Director of Instructional Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai."Much like a successful science graphic, Building Science Graphics delivers compelling information on many different levels. From quick tips to deep dives, Christiansen shares well researched, clear examples, as well as actionable workflows and memorable anecdotes from her career. A great read and valuable resource for designers and researchers alike."-- Beth Rakouskas, Creative Director, Science"Whenever Jen Christiansen was the art director for an article I was editing, I knew that no matter how imposing the illustrative challenge, she would find a visually stunning way to bring it to glorious, lucid life. In her hands, explanatory illustrations sing out a tale of discovery, one that inspires with the grace and elegance of its comprehension. With this marvellous book, Jen generously shares her approach to beautiful, informative design, and it does something I once wouldn’t have imagined was possible: It makes me appreciate and love her work even more."-- John Rennie, Deputy editor, Quanta Magazine; Former editor-in-chief, Scientific American; Adjunct instructor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University."This beautifully illustrated book is like a Swiss Army Knife— all the necessary tools of the trade are there, and they fit together seamlessly. Communicating science visually has unique challenges and considerations, which makes this book a must-read for creators of science visuals. The step-by-step approach is accessible to all levels, from students to researchers to professional artists and designers."-- Kelly Krause, Creative Director, Nature."This book will help readers and practitioners understand how to apply design principles during the process of developing and producing information graphics for diverse audiences, and offers perspectives about the design processes employed by graphics editors."-- Spencer Barnes, Associate Professor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."I love this approach—it’s as methodical as good science. Breaking it down into manageable chunks is one thing, turning those chunks into an actual workflow is much more important and that is in here. Trying to find resources that go through a methodical approach to designing information graphics is difficult. Trying to find ones that go beyond basic charts and into in-depth illustrations is even harder."-- Mark E. Johnson, Senior lecturer, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia."Working with scientists and researchers myself, one of the many questions I get asked is where and how to start—this book will help to answer some of those questions and concerns. The fact that it is written by Jen Christiansen adds real value. The book is explained in a cohesive and logical way. This will allow the reader to follow the process, as you would for real, building an infographic from scratch—step-by-step."-- Nigel Hawtin, information design consultant; former Graphics Editor, New Scientist."Jen Christiansen’s book is a compelling resource with helpful visual strategies and suggestions to create effective scientific illustrated explanatory diagrams. The extended step-by-step visual worksheets are must-haves for both expert and non-specialist audiences interested in visually communicating science. Her clarity and level of detail to articulate each step combined with her specialized guidance on how to work with design principles make this book one of its kind."--Sheila Pontis, Sense Information Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA."The book provides a practical guide targeted at individuals without an explicit art/design background and tailored towards the need of science communication. I consider this a very worthwhile endeavor and believe that many scientists (including my graduate students and myself) will draw considerable utility from this book."--Stefan Bruckner, Professor of visualization, Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen."Meticulously written and intricately designed... Building Science Graphics will be most valuable in education establishments. It should be on the reading list of every science communication MSc and every communication design BA course.”-- Book Review, Eye Magazine, 14 December, 2023"An excellent resource for scientific illustration students, scientists who want to improve their visual-creation skills, and science communication enthusiasts. It would make an excellent introductory textbook for any visual science communication or illustration course/program, and it certainly belongs in the library of any sci-artist."-- Book Review, Journal of Natural Science Illustration, Vol. 55, No. 2"Building Science Graphics is a very clear and accessible guide to visual science communication that still honours the complexity of this field."-- Book Review, Journal of Science Communication, 22 (05)"Many of the ideas and frameworks are applicable to data visualization. I especially recommend this book as a resource to anyone in the field of science communication—it’s a very comprehensive guide with beautiful examples and clear guidance from an author whose expertise clearly comes through along with her deep reflections on design, process, and the field as a whole."-- Book Review, Nightingale Magazine, February 16, 2023Table of ContentsPart 1. Underpinning. 1. Introduction. 2. What are Science Graphics. 3. Science Communication Fundamentals. 4. Graphic Design Fundamentals. 5. Perception Science. 6. Making Sense of Visual Complexity. 7. Organization and Emphasis. 8. Color. 9. Typography. 10. Visual Style. 11. Storytelling Strategies. 12. Practicalities. Part 2. Illustrating Science. 13. Special Considerations for Science Graphics. 14. Types of Science Graphics. Part 3. D.I.Y. (do it yourself). 15. The Process of Building Graphics. 16. Step-by-Step Guide for Building. 17. Step-by-Step Guide for Adapting. Part 4. Joint Efforts. 18. Collaborations.
£38.99
Union Square & Co. Work from Home Desk Pad
Book SynopsisThis 104-page desk pad features a delightful array of cats and desk accessories all colorfully rendered in artist Carly Beck's signature style, with lots of room for daily notes, lists, and doodling. The repeating image features room for notes and doodles throughout a five-day work week.
£12.53
Profile Books Ltd Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art all burst forth. Simultaneously the Old Master market boomed, and art itself was politically weaponised in advance of approaching war. What was the conventional art against which Modernism was rebelling? Why did avant-garde artists become so obsessed with themselves? What persuaded a few bold collectors to buy difficult modern art? And why did others pay so much money for Old Masters? Art expert Philip Hook brings to bear a unique perspective on the art of a unique and extreme decade.Trade ReviewConsummately well-informed and readable, replete with shameless gossip and memorable anecdote ... This book is a mesmerising pleasure -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator Books of the Year *This is a spirited history told with the rush and hustle of a true enthusiast ... Hook pulls his material together with verve and élan * Times *Erudite and amusing ... unfailingly enjoyable ... rich in anecdote and candid in opinion ... an invigorating introduction to the subject -- Rupert Christiansen * Spectator *A fresh and often wry look at [the] avant-garde quartiers of Paris * Sunday Times *Philip Hook makes modern art understandable and accessible to us all ... His lifetime of proximity to works by great masters has made him a well informed afficionado. [An] easily readable, engaging book -- Art Flynn * Irish Examiner *Excellent ... readable and accessible to both non-academic and scholar -- Carola Huttmann * Bookmunch *Praise for Rogue's Gallery Hook...writes suavely and racily ... has a fabulous ear for anecdotes ... his entertaining book has a Wodehousian tone that makes even the most heinous act it describes glint with comedy -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times *Fascinating and elegantly written...both wise and timely -- William Boyd * Guardian *Wonderfully entertaining ... full of cracking stories -- Hannah Rothschild * Mail on Sunday *Fascinating ... Hook writes with honesty and wry detachment -- Robert Eustace * Telegraph *A pleasure to read -- Michael Prodger * Times *
£22.50
Chronicle Books Color Curious
£23.62
Phaidon Press Ltd Korean Feminist Artists
Book SynopsisExplore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora
£47.96
Afterall Publishing Helen Chadwick
Book SynopsisAn illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick?s erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation.In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954?1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes?the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of phenomena?but took them in a new, flamboyant direction. In this illustrated volume, Marina Warner examines one part of Chadwick?s installation, The Oval Court. This work was erotic, playful, and fierce; it showed imaginative ambition on an exceptional scale and a unique, piquant sensibility, both raunchy and delicate.Despite the work?s recognition as a feminist monument of rare intensity, it has rarely been shown or discussed since the author?s catalogue essay for the original exhibition. Warner here reconsiders Chadwick?s influence as an artist who helped to shift conventional aesthetics and transvalue despised, even abominated forms. Exploring the work?s richly layered composition in light of intervening years, Warner shows how Chadwick?s imagination has shaped many artists? ideas and ethics, and emboldened their adventures with materials.
£15.29
Strange Attractor Press Lost Envoy revised and updated edition
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£28.80
No Place Press Exit Interview
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£19.55
Diaphanes Radical Desires
£22.80
Transcript Verlag Interdisciplinary Exhibitions and the Production
Book SynopsisHow can exhibitions not only stage existing knowledge, but also raise questions that might eventually lead to new research? This question has become ever more relevant due to the museum sector's growing interest in the development of thematic exhibitions that combine narratives and objects from art, science, cultural history, and everyday life. Using theories from interdisciplinarity studies, Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary. The development of such exhibitions can be understood as collaborative research processes.
£37.50
Pie International Co., Ltd. Mushroom Postcards
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£14.34
Rocky Nook The Night Photography Book
Book SynopsisTake your night and low-light photography to the next level!There's a whole other side to photography that many people shy away from night photography. But if you can master just a few techniques and settings, you can harness the power of night photographyand excel at photographing subjects in low-light environments. The Night Photography Book, award-winning landscape, astro, and aerospace photographerErikKunahas createda comprehensive guide to mastering the art of night photography. This book covers all the essential techniques and tips that you need to know to capture stunning night photographs, including astrophotography, Milky Way landscapes, light streaks, light painting, and shooting in low-light environments. With easy-to-follow steps and beautiful examples, this book will help you learn how to adjust your camera settings, use the right equipment, and compose your shots for breathtaking results.There's even a chapter dedicated to capturing great photos at night with your smartphone.Whether you're a beginner or an experienced photographer, The Night Photography Bookis an essential resource for taking your night photography skills to the next level. TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1: Why Night Photography?Chapter 2: The GearChapter 3: SettingsChapter 4: Planning Your ShotsChapter 5: Shooting in Low LightChapter 6: AstrophotographyChapter 7: Light PaintingChapter 8: Nighttime CityscapesChapter 9: Night PortraitsChapter 10: Star Trails, Timelapses, and MoreChapter 11: Night Photography on a PhoneChapter 12: Shooting for PostChapter 13: Post-ProcessingChapter 14: Printing and SharingChapter 15: Photo RecipesChapter 16: Final Thoughts
£22.50
Columbia University Press Different Views in Hudson River School Painting
Book SynopsisExamines the Hudson River School artists' practice of creating thematically related pairs and series of paintings. This volume reveals the subtleties of the works and discusses their shared iconography, the ways in which artists responded to one another's paintings, and how the paintings reflected 19th-century American cultural and social milieus.Trade ReviewAn expansive and beautifully presented anthology of the art and the artists who pioneered the first native style of American landscape painting...A perfect edition to personal, academic, and community library Art History collections, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting is very highly recommended and informative reading. -- Michael J. Carson The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction American Scenery Different Views I. Introductory Pair: Cole and Church II. Times of Day III. Weather Conditions, Atmosphere, and Mood IV. Seasons V.Nature without Man VI. Man's Activities in Nature: Pleasure VII. Man's Impact on Nature: The Machine in the Garden VIII. Interpretations of the Same Scene by Different Artists IX. Samplers Endnotes Selected Bibliography List of Paintings Acknowledgments
£27.00
Yale University Press Radical Art and the Formation of the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisAn authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the avant-garde in Paris and LondonTrade Review“If you haven’t any space on your shelves, we suggest making some - and sharpish…Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde…focuses on a group of people looking forward rather than back. Taking the artistic vanguard as his starting point, author David Cottington looks to two cities - Paris and London - in his exploration of the meaning of modernity and 20th-century European culture.”—Inigo.com ‘There is no more sophisticated and compelling historian of the avant-garde now at work than David Cottington. This is a sustained, elegant, and erudite account of its subjects, wide-ranging, unfailingly insightful, and certain to be the standard work.’ – David Peters Corbett, The Courtauld Institute of Art‘A subtle and multifaceted exploration of how early twentieth-century avant-gardes coalesced in the distinctive cultural and political circumstances of pre-World War I London and Paris, Cottington’s wide-ranging book makes a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of critically important episodes in the history of art.' – Nancy J. Troy, Stanford University‘Cottington’s new and unparalleled study lays bare the social conditions that led to the rise of the radical artistic avant-garde. A formidable book indispensable to all readers interested in the social history of modern art.’ – Sascha Bru, University of Leuven
£33.25
Yale University Press Caspar David Friedrich
Book SynopsisTrade Review “A triumph of bookmaking.”—Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal“In a detailed study of exemplary works by Friedrich and on the basis of an impressive knowledge of relevant natural-philosophical literature, Amstutz elaborates [her] thesis in her pleasantly readable and beautifully designed book. The lasting value of this monograph lies in the fact that it pursues the hypothesis of a natural-philosophical interpretation of Friedrich's works for the first time with consistency.”—Johannes Grave, Art Newspaper“A work of intellectual depth and subtlety, it models how art history can engage more creatively and expansively with scientific and philosophical ideas about the natural world. Amstutz enjoins us, like Friedrich, to seek out unexpected resemblances.”—Stephanie O’Rourke, Art HistoryWinner of the 2019 Novalis Prize for innovative research on European Romanticism in any field, sponsored by Novalis GesellschaftShortlisted for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize, sponsored by the The University of WaterlooFinalist for the Klaus Heyne Prize for Research on German Romanticism, sponsored by Goethe-Universität Frankfurt“In beautiful and, at times, poetic prose, Nina Amstutz masterfully explores Friedrich’s late work through the lens of German Romantic nature philosophy and the life sciences. Her revisionary analysis establishes a new place of central importance for these paintings.”—Marsha Morton, author of Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism“Amstutz persuades the reader that Friedrich’s paintings explore the mutual constitution of self and nature, of body and earth; that they do via Romantic philosophy’s blend of metaphysical and empirical inquiry.”—Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University
£49.50
Yale University Press Berlinde De Bruyckere Angels Throat
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of renowned Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work since 2014, inspired by the figure of the angel
£42.75
Yale University Press Untimely Moderns
Book SynopsisA novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architectureTrade Review“A fascinating and polyphonic group portrait, Untimely Moderns has repercussions for the historiography of architecture schools across the western world.”—Mari Lending, author of Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction
£47.50
Yale University Press Rodin in the United States
Book SynopsisA compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience
£42.75
Yale University Press Near East to Far West
Book SynopsisA new look at French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United States
£45.00
Yale University Press Modigliani Up Close
Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of how the iconic artist created his works over the course of his full career
£38.00
Yale University Press Michelangelo Pistoletto
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£54.00
