The arts: general topics Books
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. The Art of Protest: A Visual History of Dissent
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£26.99
Design Studio Press Rey’s Anatomy
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£27.19
University of Massachusetts Press The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial
Book SynopsisFrom around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memorial process for the murders at Utøya, James E. Young has been called on to help guide the grief stricken and survivors in how to mark their losses. This poignant, beautifully written collection of essays offers personal and professional considerations of what Young calls the ""stages of memory,"" acts of commemoration that include spontaneous memorials of flowers and candles as well as permanent structures integrated into sites of tragedy. As he traces an arc of memorial forms that spans continents and decades, Young returns to the questions that preoccupy survivors, architects, artists, and writers: How to articulate a void without filling it in? How to formalize irreparable loss without seeming to repair it?Richly illustrated, the volume is essential reading for those engaged in the processes of public memory and commemoration and for readers concerned about how we remember terrible losses.
£24.65
University of Massachusetts Press Palace of State: The Eisenhower Executive Office
Book SynopsisTowering over the White House, the colossal granite Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) was first constructed to house the departments of State, War, and Navy in the nineteenth century, and it now serves as the home of the Executive Office of the President. Having outlasted decades of plans threatening alteration or outright demolition, the building survives as one of the foremost examples of Second Empire design in the United States.Palace of State details the building's rich architectural and historical legacy - from the beginnings of federal civic architecture in Washington to its construction as the world's largest office building after the Civil War, and culminating in the recently completed restoration process that began in the 1980s. Featuring beautifully rendered architectural drawings, historic images, and lush contemporary photography, this illustrated history presents a comprehensive study of an iconic landmark that continues to serve in its role as a monumental setting for statecraft.
£999.99
Echo Point Books & Media Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
£25.95
Chiron Publications Living Psyche: A Jungian Analysis in Pictures Psychotherapy
£23.47
WW Norton & Co Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Book SynopsisRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic intensity. In “Notes on Trap”, McCarthy borrows a conceit from Susan Sontag to dissect the significance of trap music in American society, while in “The Master’s Tools”, Velázquez becomes a lens through which to view Kehinde Wiley’s paintings. Essays on John Edgar Wideman, Terrance Hayes and Claudia Rankine survey the state of black letters. In “The Time of the Assassins”, McCarthy, a black American raised in France, writes about returning to Paris after the Bataclan massacre and finding a nation in mourning but dangerously unchanged. Taken together, these essays portray a brilliant critic at work, making sense of our dislocated times while seeking to transform our understanding of race and art, identity and representation.Trade Review"McCarthy’s analyses and observations are masterfully articulated, as are his dissents… With a younger readership at the top of his mind but an open invitation to all, McCarthy seems determined to draw attention to African-Americans’ ‘true strength’ and ‘worth.’ He well knows that if despair brought on by a troubled world is to be kept in check, the right prescriptions must be offered, the right traditions advanced, the right lessons drawn, and from the right people." -- Jerald Walker - The New York Times Book Review"McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard, draws on a broad array of cultural and historical influences — from Kara Walker to Nas to Sappho — in these essays, which he began writing in 2014. He approaches the country’s cultural changes in the intervening years through the lens of the arts and intellectual culture, opening with a provocative question: “What do people owe each other when debts accrued can never be repaid?”" -- 16 New Books to Watch For in March - The New York Times"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." -- Zadie Smith"Remarkable... Their cumulative range and force are as exhilarating as they are compelling... The finest essays in this book function like origami, folding together the apparently disparate into a unique and seemingly inevitable form... In sum, they illuminate, almost like a guide for the novice, the rich contemporary cosmos of black American art, literature, and philosophy." -- Claire Messud - Harper’s Magazine
£20.89
Skyhorse Publishing Grumpy Cat's NOT-to-Dot Book: Demanding
Book SynopsisShe may be gone, but we will never forget one of the world’s most beloved and famous felines—grumpy cat!With this book, connect the dots to form the outline of Grumpy Cat’s grumpy face, body, fur, and more. Once you’ve formed these intricate illustrations, you can fill the images of this cranky little kitty with your favorite colors.It’s the perfect activity book for the perpetual grouch to have some fun, relieve a little stress, and add a faint glimmer of happiness in their otherwise sour existence. It’s also a nice gift for those who enjoy the company of cats, curmudgeons, or a combination of both.The book features forty black-and-white images to form and fill with color, perforated pages, as well as an answer key if you can’t manage to solve the mazes. So, relax and embrace your gloomy nature with Grumpy Cat’s NOT-to-Dot Book and maybe—just maybe—you’ll be able to crack a smile once in awhile.
£11.65
Cognella, Inc How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and Themes
Book SynopsisWritten for those new to art and art history, How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and Themes uses thematic organization to explore works of art from prehistoric cave paintings to modern artists such as Christo. The book provides definitions of “art” and “artist,” explains the role of the art historian, and addresses common themes in the visual arts.Readers learn to decode art through visual analysis and to use the language of the visual arts in writing. They consider issues such as the destruction and restoration of art, art theft, forgeries and misattributions, and the fate of numerous works of art during and after World War II. Each chapter includes review lists of relevant vocabulary and art works and essay questions for use on tests or as writing prompts. There are also suggestions for further reading and viewing. How to Speak Art is accessible and easy to navigate, making it ideal for introductory courses in art appreciation and visual arts, and survey courses in art history.
£94.05
Museum of Modern Art The Thoughts of Gilbert & George
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£41.76
Pitchstone Publishing Help!!! There's an Elephant in My House!
Book SynopsisHow did this happen? One minute our house felt so clean, tidy, and safe—and then suddenly, a giant elephant arrives and starts wrecking everything! He's smashing the walls! He's trampling the garden! He's breaking our piggy bank! He won't let some of our friends into the bathroom, and he's forcing others to stand outside the front door! He's polluting our drinking water! He's stinking up the air! He's destroying everything! Help!!! There's an Elephant in My House! is a children's book for adults who have had enough of the giant elephant and want to get him out of the house before he destroys everything!Trade Review"With so many adults acting like children, a kids' book for grown-ups feels entirely appropriate right now." Ann Heche, actress, Six Days/Seven Nights, Wag the Dog, Psycho"Tukel is an anarchic force in the arts, and here, as always, he pushes us into uncomfortable spaces with his trademark mad gleam in his eyes." Daniel Kraus, author, Rotters, Trollhunters, The Shape of Water
£999.99
Semiotext (E) Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom
£15.29
Semiotext (E) Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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£17.06
Arc Humanities Press Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art: A
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£95.51
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life
Book SynopsisIlluminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, motherhood, teaching, working, creating art, and activism.No one knows more than strippers about being looked at: as objects of desire, objects of curiosity, as angels or Jezebels or hookers with hearts of gold. In this anthology, twenty-three dancers whose careers span decades, geographies, and identities demand to be seen. Through stories from first nights on the job to the day they hung up their sky-high heels—or decided they never will—these writers offer glimpses into lives of camaraderie and celebration, joy, pride, despair, frustration, self-doubt, and fear. Their unfiltered perspectives on their lives, onstage and off, are a powerful counternarrative to the whorephobia that shrouds the conventional portrayals of strippers in crime movies, TV shows, music videos, newspaper articles, and legislative debates. Each of these illuminating essays and interviews peels away tired myths and salacious speculation and presents the naked truth: that sex work is real work and strippers are real people. Contributors:Cookie Mueller • Kathy Acker • Jo Weldon • Susan McMullen • Maggie Estep • Chris Kraus • Jodi Sh. Doff • Terese Pampellonne • Jill Morley • Susan Walsh • Debi Kelly Van Cleave • Elissa Wald • Essence Revealed • Sassy Penny • Jacq Frances • Reese Piper • Lindsay Byron • The Incredible, Edible Akynos • Antonia Crane • Lily Burana • A M Davies • Kayla Tange • Selena the Stripper
£19.76
Graywolf Press See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human ConditionSee/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day-including artists such as Eugene Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb-the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images.Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer's The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag's On Photography, and John Berger's Understanding a Photograph, See/Saw shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.
£20.40
Graywolf Press On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing practices of freedom by which we negotiate our interrelation withindeed, our inseparability fromothers, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culturefrom recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisisis itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
£21.60
Graywolf Press On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women?s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom?s long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept?s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing ?practices of freedom? by which we negotiate our interrelation with?indeed, our inseparability from?others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture?from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis?is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
£15.30
Graywolf Press Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays
Book SynopsisAn electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constrictionThis collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt; a daughter on a road trip with her father; a professor playing with puppets in the wilds of Vermont; an interloper on a police ride-along in Detroit; a collector of the dreams of scientists at a biostation. As she watches cell phone video recordings of murder and is haunted in her sleep by the news, she reflects on her formative experiences with aesthetic and spiritual discovery, troubling those places where Blackness has been conflated with death.Sabatini Sloan?s lively style is perfectly suited to the way she circles a subject or an idea before cinching it tight. The curiosity that guides each essay, focusing on the period between the 2016 election and the onset of the pandemic, is rooted in the supposition that there is an intrinsic relationship between the way we conceptualize darkness and our collective opportunity for awakening.
£15.30
University of Delaware Press Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation
Book SynopsisThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy IsenstadtI. Archives in Practice1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating”Julian Yates2. “Archive Vision”Wendy Bellion3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice”Julie L. McGee4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine”Torsten Cress5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding andusing archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it”Cindy Ott6. “Historical Form(s)”Laura HeltonII. Archives in Objects7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan”Jennifer Van Horn8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive”Kiersten Thamm9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment”Alexandra Ward10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History inGerman-American Illuminated Manuscripts”Alexander Lawrence Ames11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive”Halina Adams12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame”Rosalie HooperIII. Archives in Places13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic”Sarah Wasserman14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt”Spencer Wigmore15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground RailroadLandscapes in Delaware”Catherine Morrissey16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment”Michelle Everidge Anderson17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave”Kaila T. Schedeen18. “Buried Archives”Lu Ann De CunzoIV. Archives in Circulation19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster”Natalie Elizabeth Wright20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language AtlanticWorld”Oliver Scheiding21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar”J. Ritchie Garrison22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the SyrianCivil War”Jesse Kraft23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700-1850”Michael Emmons24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform”Jessica ConradAfterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects”Bernard L. HermanNotes on ContributorsIndex
£73.60
University of Delaware Press Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation
Book SynopsisThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy IsenstadtI. Archives in Practice1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating”Julian Yates2. “Archive Vision”Wendy Bellion3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice”Julie L. McGee4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine”Torsten Cress5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding andusing archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it”Cindy Ott6. “Historical Form(s)”Laura HeltonII. Archives in Objects7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan”Jennifer Van Horn8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive”Kiersten Thamm9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment”Alexandra Ward10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History inGerman-American Illuminated Manuscripts”Alexander Lawrence Ames11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive”Halina Adams12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame”Rosalie HooperIII. Archives in Places13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic”Sarah Wasserman14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt”Spencer Wigmore15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground RailroadLandscapes in Delaware”Catherine Morrissey16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment”Michelle Everidge Anderson17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave”Kaila T. Schedeen18. “Buried Archives”Lu Ann De CunzoIV. Archives in Circulation19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster”Natalie Elizabeth Wright20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language AtlanticWorld”Oliver Scheiding21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar”J. Ritchie Garrison22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the SyrianCivil War”Jesse Kraft23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700-1850”Michael Emmons24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform”Jessica ConradAfterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects”Bernard L. HermanNotes on ContributorsIndex
£39.90
Bold Type Books It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS
Book SynopsisShortlisted for theJ. Anthony Lukas PrizeThe story of art collective Gran Fury?which fought back during the AIDS crisisthrough direct action and community-made propaganda?offers lessons in love andgrief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury?s art and activism from iconic images like the ?Kissing Doesn?t Kill? poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP?s strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.
£27.00
Catapult Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Book Synopsis"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author''s own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed).Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham''s debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin''s abstract paintings to James Turrell''s transcendent light works, and Anne Carson''s Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean''s Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham''s electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness. "Each of the essays in this debut collection reads like a mini-memoir . . . in which the author reflects on her experiences of young love, trauma, and transcendence through discussions of art and music . . . with an intimacy that is at once tender and expansive." —New York magazine
£20.80
Earth Aware Editions New on Earth: Baby Animals in the Wild
Book SynopsisGlimpse into the lives of the very youngest members of these majestic, endangered wild species.For the last twenty years, Suzi Eszterhas has dedicated her life and her work as a wildlife photographer to capturing the family life of wild animals throughout the world, mainly those that are endangered. Often spending weeks, months, or even years with a single animal family, she has photographed many unique moments in the lives of young animals. New on Earth is a collection of her most spectacular photographs—from groundbreaking images of tiger cubs in their den in India, to newborn cheetahs on the African savanna, to brown bear cubs seeing the world for the first time in the Alaskan wilderness. Suzi Eszterhas will donate 30% of her proceeds from this book to the Wildlife Conservation Network, one of the most respected wildlife conservation organizations in the world.
£20.70
Insight Editions Sideshow: Fine Art Prints, Vol. 2
Book Synopsis“Sideshow Collectibles sells some of the best nerd swag around.”—Collider.com Discover a stunning gallery of pop culture art prints from Sideshow Collectibles’ incredible stable of creators.No creative studio explores the intersection of high art and pop culture like Sideshow Collectibles. Now, Sideshow presents a jaw-dropping gallery of prints in this deluxe art book. OVER 100 AMAZING ART PRINTS: Featuring pieces inspired by Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and more, this collection of art prints will let you experience fan-favorite characters in a whole new way. GO BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE WORLD’S GREATEST ARTISTS: Including lauded artists such as Alex Ross, Olivia De Berardinis, Adi Granov, Paolo Rivera, and more, this book will show you how top-tier illustrators brought their creative visions to life, from conceptual sketches to the finished piece. BUILD YOUR SIDESHOW COLLECTION: A prestige addition to any Sideshow collection, Sideshow: Fine Art Prints, Vol. 2 is a must-have coffee table book for fans, offering an engrossing experience of a unique gallery of pop culture art.
£40.00
Bibliotech Press The Decoration of Houses
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£15.57
Astra Publishing House Astra 2: Filth: Issue Two
Book SynopsisAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. It's the most covetable accessory of the fall — dark and playful, pretty and smart. The Filth issue features work by Elif Batuman, Sheila Heti, Raven Leilani, Aracelis Girmay, Samuel R. Delany, Brontez Purnell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Clarice Lispector, McKenzie Wark, Mariana Enríquez, Safiya Sinclair, Maggie Millner, and many more. There is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when it is let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets? There’s a reason why people revel in their own filth. It’s a place for revellingTrade Review“Astra argues for reviving the pleasure of engaging with literature while also holding a beautifully made object.”— T Magazine"A tour of contemporary international literature for the price of a single paperback. If you’re bored by a certain sameness, a deflating parochial quality to what you’ve been reading lately, give Astra a chance."— Ron Charles, The Washinton Post"A who's who of global superstar writers."— NY Post“Astra is like a gorgeously curated jewel-box you can’t wait to unpack. There is no other magazine like this.”— ELIF BATUMAN, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Possessed, The Idiot, and the forthcoming novel, Either/Or.“Destined to shine brightly in the literary firmament, Astra Magazine is here to remind us that we should always read and write with a joyful disregard for borders of any kind.”— HERNAN DIAZ, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of In the Distance and Trust"Astra is the magazine we need right now. It’s full of stunning work from a broad range of voices, a magazine both intimate and universal, in the way all good writing is."— NATHAN ENGLANDER, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank“As a writer whose work is often difficult to classify, I am attracted to Astra Magazine’s agenda of publishing writers who exist in the ”inter,” whose writing defies neat categorization. The debut ”Ecstasy” issue is stirring in its international orientation & ambitious in its scope and content. ”— LAURA LINDSTEDT, Finlandia Prize winning author of Oneiron and My Friend Natalia“Astra Magazine is vital. As an American citizen born outside the US, I am especially attracted to their idea of publishing writing that rejects borders, and that a writer should not, can not, represent an entire country. The first issue allows space for each extraordinary writer to speak only for themselves.”— IMBOLO MBUE, Bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were
£15.29
Atria Books The Last Spirits of Manhattan
£23.92
Gallery Books The One and Only Vivian Stone
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£16.14
Gallery/Scout Press The Talent
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£23.19
Atria Books The American No
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£26.09
Speedy Publishing LLC Art Journal Book
£12.34
The New York Review of Books, Inc Affinities: On Art and Fascination
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£16.11
Weldon Owen, Incorporated Canines of New York
Book SynopsisFor people who love dogs and New York, this is a visual celebration of the vibrant dog community of New York City, CANINES OF NEW YORK collects more than 500 photographs taken by acclaimed Brooklyn-based photographer Heather Weston in every borough of this dog-loving city.A visual celebration, Canines of New York collects more than 300 photographers taken by acclaimed Brooklyn-based photographer Heather Weston throughout the five boroughs of this incredible, dog-loving city. Featuring pups in every part of the Big Apple, from iconic landmarks to their owners’ brownstone steps, this is the perfect gift for every dog lover.
£17.99
Rocky Nook Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light: A Photographer's
Book SynopsisIn Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light, photographer and author Nick Fancher builds on the success of his previous book (Studio Anywhere: A Photographer’s Guide to Shooting in Unconventional Locations) as he continues to offer candid, practical, and valuable lessons on how to create successful and fresh photographs armed with only minimal gear, a resourceful mind, and a creative spirit. The heart and soul of Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light resemble its predecessor, but this time Nick focuses his approach on hard light, demonstrating how to use it in innovative and flattering ways, working with subjects ranging from products to people. You’ll learn: How to work with both available light (e.g., the sun) and manufactured light (such as inexpensive small flash) How to shape, bounce, and manipulate your unmodified flash to get the results you want The importance of proper light placement and ambient balance How to create dramatic, intentional photographs with hard light DIY techniques for making your own gobos and photo hacks (such as with a reflector) How to incorporate colored gels into your work to create expressive and innovative imagery Post-processing tricks and techniques that Nick uses to achieve the final look of the image Included in the book are behind-the-scenes photos, lighting diagrams, and Lightroom settings for many scenarios, so the reader can follow along from idea through the shoot and on to the final edit. There is also a feature throughout the book called “Making a Scene” where, upon being presented with an “empty” scene, you’re challenged to figure out where you might place your subject and your light(s) in order to achieve a specific effect or result. At the back of the book, Nick shows you how he chose to tackle each scenario. The goal is to train yourself to look at the everyday, commonplace locations and scenarios you encounter and begin to see them full of photographic potential.
£24.00
Rocky Nook Best Business Practices for Photographers, Third
Book SynopsisThe photography industry is advancing and changing more — and more quickly — than ever. Right along with changes in camera technology, photographers are witnessing shifts in the business landscape that can be a challenge to understand and navigate, whether they're just beginning their business or growing it after 25 years of shooting.Best Business Practices for Photographers, 3rd Edition, is an updated and expanded version of John Harrington's bestselling books on the topic. For the first time, Harrington brings together both Best Business Practices for Photographers and More Best Business Practices for Photographers, creating a complete and comprehensive guide for photographers starting, maintaining, and growing their business in order to achieve financial success and personal satisfaction. In great detail and with a friendly, conversational voice, Harrington covers all the key points of the business of professional photography, and he provides today's best practices that you need to know.
£40.00
Rocky Nook Watercolor Snacks: Inspiring Lessons for
Book SynopsisRelax and take a bite out of this tasty guide to creating watercolor paintings of your favorite treats! Watercolor Snacks is for food lovers, beginning artists, and anyone who wants to explore the world of watercolors through easy and accessible prompts and exercises. This colorful guide walks you through basic watercolor techniques and how to apply them to create beautiful, delicious-looking paintings.Noted artist and instructor Volta Voloshin-Smith details everything needed to create mouthwatering images for every meal of the day, from a syrup-drenched stack of golden waffles and steaming cup of coffee at breakfast to a brightly colored sprinkled donut and a rainbow of popsicles for dessert. This first-ever watercolor food guide also includes: Easy watercolor tips, tricks, and techniques Recommended supplies (the ingredients ) Color theory basics Maximizing mindful benefits of watercolor How-to lessons for 30 foods from breakfast to dessertAnd much, much more! Whether you re a beginner interested in learning a fun new skill, or an experienced painter ready to explore a fun new subject, this book will give you everything you need to create adorable paintings.
£17.85
Rocky Nook The Official Unicorn Spit Guide: Genius
Book SynopsisCreate colourful masterpieces with the official guide to using Unicorn SPiT!Unicorn SPiT is a paint, gel stain, and glaze concentrate all in one bottle! It creates a multifaceted, 3-dimensional effect on wood, glass, metal, fabric, pottery, wicker, concrete, laminate, and more. Fans love that it’s nontoxic and comes in a variety of outrageous colours. Now, for the first time, Unicorn SPiT inventor Michelle Nicole spills the secrets about the best tips and tricks for using this magical substance to create all new works of art. This book details everything you need to know, including:• How to use Unicorn SPiT as a paint, alcohol ink, glaze, stain, dye, antiquing agent, watercolour, resin tint, and beyond• Over 50 projects for transforming any object, including: furniture, clothing, glassware, decorative wood, metal, and more• Handy instructions for mixing colours to create unique new shades• Detailed charts showcasing how Unicorn SPiT can be used on a variety of wood types and surfacesAnd much, much more!
£24.00
University of Arkansas Press Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern American
Book SynopsisSaturated in patriotic colors, Superman and Wonder Woman are about as American as baseball and apple pie. Superman, created in 1938, materialized as the brawny answer to the Great Depression, and when Wonder Woman arrived three years later, she supported her adopted country by fighting alongside Allied troops in World War II. As the proverbial mother and father of the superhero genre, these icons appeared to a society in crisis as unwavering beacons of national morality, a quality that lent them success on the battlefield—and on the newsstand.As new crises arise our comic-book champions continue to be called into action. They adapt and evolve but remain the same potent, if flawed, symbols of the American way. The artists in Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, an exhibition organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, wrestle with Wonder Woman’s standing as a feminist icon, position Superman as a Soviet-era weapon, and question the immigration status of both characters. Featuring more than seventy artworks that range from loving endorsements to brutal critiques of American culture, this exhibition catalog reveals the enduring presence of these characters and the diverse ways artists employ them.
£47.20
Faithlife Corporation Spirits in Bondage
Book SynopsisA rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar Lewis--not the mature Christian but the young atheist cynic, who fought in the harrowing Great War. In these poems Lewis dreads the dangerous world that keeps us from living meaningful lives. Introduced by Karen Swallow Prior, this beautiful print edition of Spirits in Bondage will nuance our understanding of C. S. Lewis.
£19.79
Insight Editions Masters of Comics
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£18.90
Insight Kids Adventures in Drawing: A Guided Sketchbook
Book SynopsisExplore Scott C.’s world of imaginative art with this charming coloring and activity book. A master of unique and charismatic illustrations, paintings, comics, and more, Scott C. has delighted fans around the world for over two decades. Adventures in Drawing: A Guided Sketchbook brings the artist’s imaginative world to his young fans, encouraging them to tap into their creative potential and discover their own hidden talents by participating directly in the making of art. Through a series of original vignettes, prompts, and guided activities, Scott C. turns the creative process into an irresistibly fun and relaxing journey through a series of whimsical lands—from medieval kingdoms to enchanted realms above the clouds—that are sure to inspire both the young and the young-at-heart and bring out everyone’s inner artist.
£14.40
Insight Editions Sideshow Collectibles Presents: Capturing
Book Synopsis“Sideshow Collectibles sells some of the best nerd swag around.”—Collider.com Discover a stunning lineup of iconic characters from film, television, and comic books, brought to life through incredibly realistic sculptures and figurines by Sideshow Collectibles.Renowned for incredibly lifelike art pieces, Sideshow Collectibles presents an all-star gallery of the most powerful demigods, defenders, and more in this deluxe photography book. • Over 125 fan-favorite characters: Dynamic photography showcases statues inspired by Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Sideshow’s best-selling Court of the Dead series, classic films such as Alien, and beyond. • Go behind the scenes, and discover unparalleled artistry: Through interviews with Sideshow’s key creatives, fans will learn how a talented team of sculptors created these works of art, bringing characters from comic book pages and movie screens into the real world through unparalleled precision and artistry. • Build your Sideshow collection: A prestigious addition to any Sideshow collection, Capturing Archetypes, Volume 4 is a must-have book for fans, offering a unique experience of jaw-dropping pop culture art pieces.
£40.00
Earth Aware Editions Mask: Chris Rainier
Book Synopsis2020 IBPA Awards Winner! Mask presents a striking collection of rare masks steeped in ancient tradition, captured through the lens of one of the world’s most celebrated documentary photographers.Celebrated photographer Chris Rainier has documented indigenous and endangered cultures worldwide. What began as a focus on the masks of New Guinea—where modernity threatened to erase ancient rituals and cultures—became an expansive journey to find and photograph traditional masks that has taken Rainier across six continents over the past thirty years. The result is this mesmerizing photographic collection of masks—some of them ancient, some newer, many hidden at the edges of the known world and rarely revealed to outsiders. Traditional masks are so often seen behind the glass of museum cabinets, divorced from their spiritual significance. But the masks in this collection are still being danced today, in countless cultures all over the world. Rainier conveys them pulsing with the rhythms of life, full of power and spiritual relevance. Through his stunning photography—at once mysterious and unguarded—Rainier takes us on a pilgrimage to experience masks and mask rituals: from those found at initiation rituals in Burkina Faso to Bön Buddhist masks long hidden in a Nepalese monastery in the high Himalayas, the raven and bear regalia of North American First Nation potlatches, and the terrifying, child-chasing Krampus masks of the Austrian Alps. Accompanying these striking images are a foreword by renowned essayist Pico Iyer, ethnographic notes from anthropologist Robert L. Welsch, and fascinating stories recounting Rainier’s journeys to distant lands to preserve and celebrate these objects of beauty and power and the cultures that produce them.
£49.60
Insight Editions Marvel Comics: The Variant Covers
Book SynopsisFor the first time ever, explore the amazing visual history of Marvel Comics variant covers in this definitive collection.Comprising some of the most sought-after and valuable comic art in the world, variant covers are a time-honored tradition in comics publishing. The variant cover phenomenon began in 1986 and was immediately embraced by fans everywhere; it was then bolstered in 1991 by Marvel Comics’ X-Men #1 setting the world record for the best-selling comic of all time, which is attributed to the astonishing collection of five variant covers released for the issue. The notion of variant covers caught on and has now become a regular part of Marvel Comics’ diverse output, with a spectacularly creative set of alternate covers being created for many key issues. These works of art are collected in Marvel Comics: The Variant Covers, which showcases some of the finest and most famous variant covers ever produced alongside exclusive interviews from leading comic artists and industry experts. Featuring an astounding selection of covers starring fan-favorite characters, such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the X-Men, and many more, Marvel Comics: Variant Covers: The Complete Visual History is a must-have for casual fans and comic book aficionados alike.
£32.30
Earth Aware Editions Night on Earth: Photographs by Art Wolfe
Book SynopsisEvery night, an often unseen buzz of activity takes place all around the globe. This gorgeous collection of photographs takes the reader on a magical journey from dusk to dawn.To create this gorgeous new book, acclaimed photographer Art Wolfe traveled to every continent to explore and document the nighttime world of animals, humans, and nature. From a blazing sunset over Antarctic ice to Tokyo’s nighttime street racers to coffee with Brazilian cowboys as the dawn breaks, this book is an unparalleled feast for the eyes, and a never-before-collected glimpse into a world that comes to life as most of us are sleeping. Highlights include: - Africa: Hustle and bustle in Morocco’s nighttime markets. - Asia: Balinese fire dancers. - The Americas: Bison in an icy sunrise. - Europe: Volcanic eruptions in Iceland. - Antarctica: Colonies of penguins awaking to the dawn. - Oceania: Star trails over the Australian Outback.
£33.60
Fantagraphics All The Presidents
Book SynopsisEvery single US president. From the first, to the worst.
£21.24
Fantagraphics-Fu Through the Very Heart of It
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£999.99
