The Arts Books
The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd North Of The River: Bristol England
Book SynopsisShot entirely on 35mm film, North of the River is a celebration of the natural beauty of everyday Bristol, both the well known places and the places without a specific name or address. It is also an intimate reflection of Paul’s experience in Bristol. Whether wandering through the quiet cold of early mornings, or sitting in the glow of the setting sun and looking over the rolling hills, these photos embody the places he considers home.
£26.00
EatSleepArchitecture Fragments of Glasgow
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£28.50
Silver Press Steering the Craft
Book SynopsisUrsula K. Le Guin's essential guide to the writer's craft, now publishing in the UK for the first time. A guide for writing groups as well as solo writers, with a brand-new introduction from leading SFF writers Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler and Molly Gloss.
£12.59
HarperCollins Publishers Picasso
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£11.69
Smith Street Books The Japanese Art of Pickling Fermenting
Book SynopsisDiscover the centuries-old practices of Japanese pickling and fermenting, and learn to make delicious, preserved vegetables at home. In The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting, preserving expert Yoko Nakazawa shares her lifelong passion of pickling and fermenting ingredients using age-old techniques that have been passed down the generations. Yoko grew up in rural Japan and helped her parents preserve the glut of their vegetable patch every season using ancient Japanesefermenting techniques. Upon moving to Australia, Yoko started to grow and preserve her own vegetables and began sharing her knowledge and recipes for pickling and fermenting all kinds of produce. In this book Yoko explains the difference between pickles and ferments, and guides us through the preserving process, from salt ratios and chopping techniques to fermenting times and storage. Along the way, Yoko shares personal stories from her childhood and experiences growing and fermenting vegetables in Australia, making this book not only a practical guide filled valuable knowledge, but also a book filled with love.
£22.50
Tate Publishing The Dream Factory
£11.69
Phaidon Press Ltd Vitamin C
Book SynopsisOver 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by art experts, now available in paperback for the first time
£25.46
The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd Love is ...
Book SynopsisWith his graphic design expertise linking vision and verse, Love Is' is the first of a 10-book poetry set featuring Roy's life with his darling wife Nancy, who recently passed away. He hopes everyone in love will associate with the closeness he enjoyed during his long marriage to Nancy through the prose and vibrant illustrations that are conveyed so beautifully in each of his fluent and powerful observations that make the world go round.If I had searched a lifetimeI could never find another youIf the stars and fate are all they areThen I know they must be trueIf I had searched a lifetimeAcross lands paved with goldThe only place I'd wish to beIs with you to love and hold
£17.00
Taylor & Francis Heritage Memory and Identity in Postcolonial
Book SynopsisHeritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond.Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the gamesâ players.Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers.
£19.99
Brown Dog Books An Englishman in Cuba
Book SynopsisIt will encourage those who already know Cuba to explore it further and persuade those who have never visited to see this amazing place for themselves.
£16.20
Hirmer Verlag Network Paris
Book SynopsisA journey to the art capital of the 1930s: Paris. The avant-garde group abstraction-création and its fifty or so members were an inspiration to the art world with their clear lines and kaleidoscopic experiments with form. Leading figures of abstraction joined together to support artistic freedom and oppose the rise of fascism, before modernism shifted its gravitational centre to New York. Liberal, progressive and visionary: a network for abstract art!
£26.40
Antenne Publishing London Rave Flyers 1990 - 1996
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£14.25
Penguin Books Ltd The Cultural Tutor
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£17.00
Design Museum Wes Anderson
Book SynopsisThis is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Anderson's 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Anderson's archive. This is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Anderson's 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Anderson's archive, including props from Rushmore, costumes from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and signage from The Darjeeling Limited. The book features extensive interviews with some of Anderson's long-term collaborators, such as actors Owen Wilson, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat, musician Seu Jorge and music supervisor Randall Poster; as well as an extensive interview with Wes Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process. The book also includes essays by leading film writers including Isabel Stevens (Sight & Sound), Matthieu Orléan (Cinémathèque française) and Vincent Maluasa (Cahiers de Cinéma) looking at key themes of Anderson's cinematic work; the design and style of Anderson's films are explored in essays by design curators like Glenn Adamson, Johanna Agerman Ross and Lucia Savi. The book accompanies the first ever retrospective of Wes Andersons work, an exhibition produced and curated jointly by Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London.
£27.96
The Monacelli Press Rainbow Dreams
£25.46
Smokestack Books The Infinite Town
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£7.59
Smokestack Books Unselected Poems
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£7.59
Smith Street Books The Japanese Pantry
Book SynopsisEmiko Davies is an award-winning Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer and author. Growing up in a diplomatic family, she spent most of her life living in countries other than her own, from China to the USA but has called Italy home for the past twenty years. Emiko is the author of six cookbooks, Florentine: The True Cuisine of Florence (2016), Acquacotta (2017), Tortellini at Midnight (2019), Torta della Nonna (2021) and Cinnamon & Salt: Cicchetti in Venice, published in 2022 by Hardie Grant and Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking, published in 2023 by Smith Street Books, which won the Andre Simon Special Commendation award and the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of the Year award. She runs a cooking school and natural wine bar in Tuscany with her sommelier husband, where she shares her passion for seasonal, simple home cooking.
£24.30
Thames & Hudson Ltd Sacred Geometry
Book SynopsisDiscusses the mythological properties assigned to geometric forms, and covers the Golden Section, gnomonic spirals, music, and the squaring of the circle.
£11.69
John Murray Press Civilisation
Book SynopsisThe classic international bestseller -- a marvellously exciting and stimulating look at the emergence and development of Western civilisationTrade ReviewKenneth Clark has used his masterly knowledge and understanding of the arts of Western Civilisation to describe and appraise its creative achievements. * Times Literary Supplement *'He convincingly makes the case for the development of European art and architecture since the end of the Roman Empire as the foundations on which modern Western society rests' * Lloyd's List *Combines great learning with a shrewd mind, a wonderful eye and an admirable generosity of taste ... again and again he compels us to look at some more or less familiar work of art and see it afresh. * Observer *He is without equal * The Listener *One of the too few living authors who tempt me to use superlatives, and also the best for making his profound feeling for the arts contagious. The book glows with excitement for us general readers. * Sunday Times *'The most famous art historian of his generation' * The Herald magazine *'Civilisation is an improving text, even after 35 years' * Paul Lay, BBC History *
£10.44
Sam Fogg Mesrop of Xizan An Armenian Master of the
Book SynopsisThe first serious study of 46 surviving manuscripts by illuminator, painter, scribe, clerk, teacher, doctor of theology, restorer and binder, Mesrop.
£23.75
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Beckmann Zeichnungen Drawings
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£33.75
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Architecture and Energy
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£28.50
Molonglo Group Marble in Metamorphosis
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£23.75
Thames & Hudson Ltd Colour Unbound Henri Matisse 19411954
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£40.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd A Foragers Guide to Wild Drinks
Book SynopsisBrew up your own delicious and nutritious drinks from foraged wild plants and enjoy them throughout the year with this beautiful and practical book An illustrated guide to wild ingredient-based drinks featuring 100 plants to forage, where to find them, which parts to safely use, an overview of their uses in drinks, and delicious recipes. The book celebrates year-round foraging and feasting, from soothing winter warmers and delicate botanical teas to energy-boosting tonics and zingy summer coolers. Liz’s expertise and enthusiasm are truly infectious, and her readers will soon be happily gathering their own wild harvest. She includes step-by-step instructions for the basic processes for making 11 types of drinks, including wines, beers, ciders, kombuchas, teas, coffees, juices, tinctures, and tonics.
£21.25
Smith Street Books This Book is Literally Just Cute Dogs That Will Bring You Joy
Book SynopsisFeel all the feels with this collection of the planet's cutest dogs. Just like Einstein's theory of general relativity, it is a well-known fact of the universe that there is nothing cuter than a dog. Wet noses, waggy tails, floppy ears, and puppy eyes are best in show in this latest edition of This Books is Literally Just the perfect anecdote for anyone who's having a woof-ful day. Remember, the only paw-purse you need in life is to love a dog and have that love returned. And if you can't have a dog, This Books is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Dogs That Will Bring You Joy will do just that.
£13.50
National Portrait Gallery Publications The Bloomsbury Group
Book Synopsis‘A delightful introduction to an enduring subject’ – Angela Wintle, Sussex Life The most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the two wars, 'The Bloomsbury Group' was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society.The Group began the twentieth century with a desire to rebel and challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social and sexual taboos of Victorian England. Together they created a revolution in British style that resonates with contemporary painters, writers, actors, designers, fashion editors and publishers. This book explores the impact of Bloomsbury personalities on each other, as well as their legacy to the twenty-first century. Author Frances Spalding demonstrates how this network of artists, lovers and patrons recorded one another obsessively in both words and images. She presents twenty fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the Group. Highlighted in her revealing account are: Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Roger Fry, J.M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington.
£11.66
Hirmer Tiffany Chung
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£33.60
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Family Matters
£29.92
Phaidon Press Ltd Icons
£55.96
Smith Street Books Concoctions
Book SynopsisInfuse your cocktails with intention with 50 recipes for deliciously powerful drinks. Divided into five chapters Love, Abundance, Harmony, Strength, and Luck the drinks in Concoctions celebrate and tap into the energies of their ingredients. Inspire love with Cupid's Sparkler or draw strength with a Blood Moon. Cleanse the day with a Chamomile Martini and welcome a new beginning with a Spiced Sun. Each drink is prepared with ingredients whose magical correspondences resonate together to channel a witch's willpower. Alongside drinks to prepare, there are spirits to infuse and syrups to prepare at home, as well as an introduction to spellwork through cocktails. Explore the possibilities of each ingredient and imbue your drinks with meaning (and delicious flavours).
£13.50
JR Publishing Roxy Music Then out of the Blue..19711976 A Chronology
Book SynopsisRoxy Music - Then Out Of the Blue... tells the story of the bands career, giving dates and a timeline to their events. The birth of Roxy Music just before 1971 upto 1976 including Bryan Ferry's early solo career. A Who? What? Why? Where? When? Chronology of all their dates, places and times.
£15.31
Persephone Books Ltd Because of the Lockwoods
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£16.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Paul Cezanne. Form and Color The Major Exhibition Catalogue of the Fondation Beyeler
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£46.40
Mandy Stanley Art and Design Lettice Ballet Practice
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£11.07
Profile Jewish Country Houses
Book Synopsis'A magnificent work of scholarship' - Edmund de Waal'I learned something new on every beautifully illustrated page' - Neil MacGregor'A fascinating book about a long-forgotten world' - Hadley FreemanThrough a series of striking case studies this revelatory book explores the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections - and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed and shaped them. Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses - properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews - tell a more complex story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection. Many had spectacular art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, while others inspired the European avant-garde. A few are now museums of international importance, many more are hidden treasures, and all were beloved homes that bear witness to the remarkable
£36.00
cosmogenesis Atlas of Anomalous AI
Book SynopsisWhat do the divinatory practices of Ancient Greece?s Oracle of Delphi, the Incan knotted quipu counting device, the I Ching, the nine billion names of God and Elizabethan mathematician John Dee have to do with artificial intelligence? The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg?s Mnemosyne Atlas ? an image map of the ?afterlife of antiquity? ? to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective. The Atlas presents a hyperdimensional view of the world, through a broad range of perspectives that explore the question of what AI has been and what it is becoming. Key texts on modelling, prediction and automation are brought together with stories of science fiction, dreams and human knowledge, set among visionary and surreal images by Emma Kunz, Pablo Amaringo, Carl Jung, Hilma af Klint, William Blake.The Atlas expands our common understanding of AI and raises new questions beyond a illusory fixation on linear progression, towards a new horizon of infinite play in the construction of artificial intelligence today.
£31.19
Jarrold Publishing I LOVE FOOD 3
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£23.75
Tate Publishing Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Book SynopsisHenri Matisse (1869 - 1954) is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; fine art and decoration; contemplation and utility; and drawing and colour.
£24.00
Oldie Publications Ltd The Very Best of The Oldie Cartoons
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£8.95
David Zwirner Books Lynne Tillman Paying Attention
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£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Modern Iran and the Avantgardes
Book SynopsisModern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 194878 explores how the complex cultural tensions of this period led to artistic innovation. As Iran became modern, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms. Heavily illustrated, this publication features 30 artists who worked during the pivotal period between 1948 and 1978, and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms, and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh.
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag Human Marks
Book SynopsisHeavily illustrated, this publication features 30 artists who worked during the pivotal period between 1948 and 1978, and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms, and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh Daftari, Davood Madadpoor and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 194878 is a timely addition to the scholarship on both alternate modernisms and the history of Iranian art. Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, and concerns of tattooing shape the artists' studio practices in experimental and revelatory ways. Through an introductory essay, artist profiles, and additional texts and interviews, Human Marks presents the full creative spectrum of artists who maintain both tattoo and studio practices to ask what the world of fine art can learn from today's tattoo community. With a range of surprising mediafrom paintings made with human blood to wearable works in silicone and even perfumerythemes of ritual, ethics, and identity tie together the materially dynamic, unexpected, and challenging artwork featured in Human Marks. Artist Profiles: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Oz Bardos, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Evan Paul English, Gesiye, Don Ed Hardy, Ciara Havishya, Dr. Lakra, Duke Riley, Miller Robinson, Tamara Santibañez, Lyric Shen, Jayna Won. Additional contributions by: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Don Ed Hardy, Tamara Santibañez, Fiona Smith, and Stevie Soares, Marcia Tucker, and V. Vale
£36.00
The Monacelli Press Post Human
Book SynopsisA renewed examination of Jeffrey Deitchâs pivotal exhibition
£29.71
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Culture Codes Democracy A Critical Reader on Art Technology and Digital Sovereignty in Europe
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£27.20
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Edvard Munch Angst
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£37.42
Mousse Publishing Yves Klein e Arman. Le Vide et Le Plein
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£31.50
