The Arts Books
Thames and Hudson Ltd Great Kingdoms of Africa
Book SynopsisJohn Parker taught the History of Africa at SOAS University of London from 1998 to 2020. He is the co-author of African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (2013), and the author of In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa (2021).
£13.49
Smokestack Books The Infinite Town
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£7.59
cosmogenesis Emissaries Guide to Worlding
£31.19
Smokestack Books Unselected Poems
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£7.59
The Monacelli Press Ballroom Marfa
Book SynopsisA vibrant account of Ballroom Marfaâs groundbreaking first two decades of art and music
£31.96
The Monacelli Press Art in Nature
Book SynopsisAn exclusive invitation to explore an extraordinary private sculpture park
£47.96
The Monacelli Press Collecting Contemporaries
£55.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Dana Schutz
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph on one of today’s most innovative and successful painters – made in close collaboration with the artist Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist herself stated, ‘I’m interested in painting as an affective place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting.’ This first comprehensive monograph on her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.
£31.96
Unicorn Publishing Group Homage to Bangladesh: A Memoir of a Time and a
Book SynopsisBangladesh has been shunned by tourists from the moment it was created in 1971. Henry Kissinger described it as a basketcase. Poverty and humanitarian disasters defined Bangladesh in the ensuing decades. When Rupert Grey arrived in Dhaka in 1992, a sign announced that arrivals were ‘Welcome to Bangladesh before the tourists get here’. They still haven’t. Grey first came to Bangladesh as a London lawyer armed with three FM2 cameras. Many journeys and 30 years later he is a photographer armed with a useful legal background. The catalysts were Chobi Mela, the festival of photography, and its founder Shahidul Alam, an acclaimed photographer, human rights activist and Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2018. This book charts Grey’s love affair with Bangladesh, including an epic transcontinental journey through India to Chobi Mela in a vintage Rolls-Royce, later portrayed in the award-winning, Sharon Stone produced film Romantic Road. His photographs, mostly taken on film, speak powerfully of the cultural vitality and energy which Kissinger missed, and which inspired Grey’s Homage to Bangladesh. As a libel and copyright lawyer Rupert has represented national papers, politicians, bankers, celebrities and explorers. He serves on the board of a number of front-line charities in the arts, education, photography and marine exploration. He has travelled on foot and horseback, by dug-out canoe, dog sledge, camel, elephant, bush-plane and Land Rover to the wild places of the earth. His photographs have been exhibited in several countries including Bangladesh, and his articles have been widely published. He lives with his wife Jan in a remote thatched cottage in Sussex, England, with their three daughters nearby.Trade Review"an extraordinary book ... about his dazzling photography, revealing how that medium can open our eyes to the reality of a crowded, diverse and profoundly interesting country." Geographical
£24.00
Smith Street Gift The Pizza Shop
Book SynopsisDeborah Kaloper is a California-raised, Melbourne-based sought-after food stylist, prop stylist and recipe developer. Her passion for all things food started at the age of six with her first cookbook given to her by her grandmother, Nonie. A former breakfast and pastry chef, Deb works daily with top photographers, chefs, food writers, and brands, styling their food for books, magazines, and advertising. In her downtime you can find her up early walking along the ocean to catch the sunrise and trying to perfect her Nonie's Croatian Easter bread.
£15.30
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
Book SynopsisJacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is among the most distinguished 20th-century African-American painters. He is widely known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures. The new book Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence explores his life, work, and legacy not only as an acclaimed artist but also as a storyteller, educator, and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience. The book's first part, 'Relations', traces some of the engagements that shaped Lawrence's personal and professional life. It presents his work in dialogue with that of his contemporaries, mentors, and historically significant artists, such as Josef Albers, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, Jose Clemente Orozco, George Grosz, Marsden Hartley, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Horace Pippin and Augusta Savage. Its second part, 'Legacy', explores Lawrence's influence on contemporary artists living and working today and those who share similar formal and conceptual concerns.
£41.25
Actual Source No Finish Line
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£20.90
Dover Publications Inc. Kahlo 16 Art Stickers
Book SynopsisCompelling works by one of the 20th century''s most provocative artists: The Broken Column, The Dead Dimas Rosas at the Age of Three, Self-Portrait with Monkey, 13 others.
£6.24
Dover Publications Inc. Egyptian Art 16 Art Stickers
Book SynopsisFaithful adaptations of ancient Egyptian artworks found in Egyptian tombs and temples: images of female musicians, portrait of a well-born lady, paintings from the Tomb of Nefertari, the burial chamber of Sennudem, more.
£6.24
Dover Publications Inc. Japanese Prints 16 Art Stickers Dover Art
Book SynopsisBeautiful reproductions of Katsushika Hokusai's Kingfisher, Irises, and Pinks; Kitagawa Utamaro's The Courtesan Hinazuru at the Keizetsuro; Eisui's Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, and 13 other works of art.
£6.24
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Art Worker Doing Time in the New York Artworld
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£22.32
Film & Video Umbrella Carey Young Incorporated
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£9.95
Dundee Contemporary Arts Startle Torsten Lauschmann
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£14.25
Cambridge University Press Sainthood in the Early Modern Hispanic World
£30.40
Taylor & Francis Designing Historical Games for Classrooms
£29.99
Taylor & Francis The Audio Expert
Book SynopsisThis newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.Written for people who want to understand audio at a technical level without needing an engineering degree, it uses an easy-to-read conversational tone as well as more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text. Thoroughly revised, the third edition includes updated terminology for clarity and accuracy, refreshed topics that reflect modern workflows, practices and research, and new sections covering topics such as audio myth-busting. Bringing together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics to demonstrate how theyâre intimately related, this book describes in detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers.The Audio Expert is the ideal resource for intermediate to advanced sound engineers and audiophiles who want to become experts, as well as offering plenty for beginners too.
£52.99
Taylor & Francis Key Terms for Business Journalism
Book SynopsisSimplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to essential financial and business language for journalists.Key Terms for Business Journalism examines the meaning, application, and impact of over 2,000 terms and abbreviations that journalists may encounter in corporate documents, regulatory filings, government reports, and press releases. The authors explain not just how to understand concepts, but also when and how to use them and how to help audiences understand them. This book, previously published as The SABEW Stylebook, has been thoroughly overhauled in its third edition and includes many new definitions, from cryptocurrency to financial contagion, as well as more detailed entries for concepts such as tariffs, economies, international trade, and the Federal Reserve. Guidance on ethical and legal issues, company names, trademarks, punctuation, and capitalization are also covered.This book is a unique resource for financial journalists, business communicators, and journalism students alike.
£39.89
Cambridge University Press Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisReveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the problems of comparing the visual cultures of emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the pagan religions of the Roman world.Table of Contents1. Introduction Jaś Elsner; Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan problem Robert Bracey; 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish; 4. Mystery cult and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish; 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of late Roman art Jaś Elsner; 6. The rise of Byzantine art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova; 7. Ferdinand Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk; Part II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances; 8. The road from decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art Nadia Ali; 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel Wood; 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial Śiva Robert Bracey; Part III. Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Jaś Elsner; 12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth century Robert Bracey; 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876–1930s) Nadia Ali; 14. Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon art, race and religion Katherine Cross.
£34.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Conversations on Humanity and Creativity
Book SynopsisAnthony B. Pinn is currently the Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, USA. Pinn is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. Pinn is the founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning at Rice University. He is also Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies a Washington, DC-based think tank. Pinn's research interests include religion and culture; black religious thought; humanism; and, hip hop culture.
£18.99
1000 Words Curator Conversations
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£12.59
Yale University Press The Secrets We Keep
Book SynopsisAn intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth
£16.99
Bellissima Publishing Your Moment --- This Is The Time For Goodness!
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£999.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder FlipTiles City Alien Quarter Expansion
Book SynopsisSometimes adventure takes you to the alien side of town. Next time your players are looking for a taste of off-world cuisine and culture while in the big city, they won''t have to wait while you draw every doorway and room. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Alien Quarter Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6 × 6 map tiles that can be used to expand your city with a neighborhood fit for extraterrestrial habitation! Inside, you''ll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, allows you to create futuristic urban locales with endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today!Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master''s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided city tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.
£24.23
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder FlipMat Lava World
Book SynopsisWhether the heroes are surveying a moon dotted with erupting volcanoes or fighting on unstable islands in the middle of an active lava flow, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every volcanic rock outcropping and lava fountain. Fortunately, with Paizo's latest Starfinder Flip-Mat, you don't have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. This double-sided map features a river of lava cascading down a cliff face on one side and a bubbling lava lake filling a crater on the other. Don't waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Lava World, you'll be ready the next time your players discover that the ground is lava! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easysimply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towe
£14.95
David Zwirner Gerhard Richter: New York 2023
Book SynopsisThis highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richter’s first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richter’s last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture. ---------- “[His last paintings] can feel almost like exquisite texts to be read. . . . Their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning.” — Roberta Smith, The New York Times ----------- Known for his abstract and realist paintings, Gerhard Richter has pursued a diverse and influential practice characterized by a decades-long commitment to the medium and its formal and conceptual possibilities. This remarkable book celebrates the breadth of Richter’s newest bodies of work and archives a historical moment in the artist’s career. Full-color plates and installation views showcase a selection of the artist’s final works on canvas—made just before he announced his retirement from oil painting in 2017—alongside an expansive suite of new drawings made with ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, a remarkable series of chromatic inkjet prints titled mood, and a stunning glass sculpture that debuted at the exhibition in New York. A newly commissioned essay by Dieter Schwarz, one of the foremost experts on Richter’s oeuvre, illustrates the artist’s path toward his newest bodies of work, revealing the creative process behind his iconic practice.
£48.75
First To Knock Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light
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£13.30
Scala Publishers Ltd Juilliard School Library Music Manuscripts
Book Synopsis This stunning publication unearths the priceless scores at the heart of The Juilliard School's unparalleled collection that has supported the education of performing artists for more than a century. Famed soprano Renée Fleming describes Juilliard School Library Music Manuscripts as a ?map to the treasure of one of the world's finest collections of musical manuscripts. This richly illustrated and elegantly designed book features masterpieces including the final manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with revisions, corrections and alterations by the composer; the autographed manuscript of the final scene of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; an extensively worked and autographed manuscript of the first movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony; Stravinsky''s published scores with his own annotations; and holographs of Ysaÿe's violin sonatas. Delve into the amazing stories behind these unique manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first edi
£44.00
Ex Libris Press Beyond Where Wiltshire Meets Somerset: 20 More
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£10.21
Hato Press Holidays - Jean Jullien
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£14.76
Hato Press Low Glow - Jean Jullien
£14.76
Unicorn Publishing Group Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary
Book SynopsisRoger Bamber, for fifty years one of Britain’s leading photojournalists, has poured his life’s work into this unique reflection of a career that encompassed not only riots and bombings and the crazy world of rock and pop in the twentieth century but recorded with a sympathetic eye the demise of traditional British industries and the old steam railways. His graphic photographs are well known for their distinctive, often wryly humorous, style and strong visual impact and have been widely published worldwide. He was British Press Photographer of the Year, twice British News Photographer of the Year and won many awards for his features on the arts. Towards the end of his career he worked mainly for the Guardian and was happiest finding creative people with a story to tell. He preferred working outdoors, ideally within sight of the sea, and showcasing ordinary people – celebrating just how extraordinary all of us can be.Trade Review“A true pictorialist, he captures the beauty of shape and form, always with a wry sense of humour and even a twist of anarchy.” – Eamonn McCabe "A wonderful showcase of a photographer who captured the music, politics and social changes of the latter half of the 20th century like no one else." – I News "A picture editor's dream, whose distinctive eye created engaging and striking images that captured an ordinary moment in an extraordinary way." – Sussex Life "An IRA bomb victim, a miniature railway obsessive and Thatcher with a handful of cow dung – these superb images tell a vivid tale of Britain" – The Guardian
£32.00
ELSP JERSEY MOTORCYCLE & LIGHT CAR CLUB 100 YEARS OF
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£19.00
Filament Publishing Ltd The Scandal of Sexit
Book SynopsisThis very timely new book The Scandal of SEXIT is a unique How-to book, done with humour, honesty, and a lightness of touch, about how to recognise, survive, and ultimately thrive in the face of the cultural phenomenon called SEXIT, where women of a certain age are airbrushed from our airwaves, TV screens, movies and magazines, and the psychological impact it has on ALL women. The book also contains unique guided meditative exercises that can be listened to on audio for free by using a QR code at the end of each chapter. SEXIT is a howl of anguish, of loss, of rage, of defeat, disappointment, and rejection. A collective trauma that needs expression and healing. SEXIT is a scandal... but like all scandals when they are shown the light of day, change can happen. SEXIT is a feeling - a feelin
£14.39
UPPERCASE publishing inc Yarn Thread String: Up Close with Fibre: Making
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£27.00
UPPERCASE publishing inc Art Supplies: Making Manufacturing and Creating.
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£999.99
Haute ecole d'art et de design - Geneve Manifest of Interiors: Thinking in the Expanded Media: 1: Manifestes
£10.00
Label Rapace, Augustin Rebetez The Good Life
Book SynopsisMore than two hundred charcoal drawings make up this tongue-in-cheek handbook of bad life advice in broken english . These satirical phrases, sometimes funny, sometimes right, aim to make us live the good life . A basic guide, simple, elementary, terribly humorous and refreshing. This work appears on the occasion of two exhibitions at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau and at the Ferme des Tilleuls in Renens. Its design is produced by the graphic design office NORM in Zurich. Augustin Rebetez is a Swiss artist who builds a powerful and sprawling universe that can be discovered in exhibitions, shows or in books. He notably published Le Coeur entre les dents - Primitive Manifesto with Actes Sud in 2020. Label Rapace
£27.00
Maxitype Cornbread the Legend
Book SynopsisCornbread the Legend, released in conjunction with the typeface Cornbread, depicts the legendary story of Darryl Cornbread McCray, the pioneer of modern graffiti. Explore archive newspapers, drawings, photographs, and an interview by Maxitype revealing his groundbreaking impact on the Hip Hop movement. In 1971, the Phildadelphia Tribune mistakenly announced Cornbread's death. To prove them wrong, Darryl McCray pursued a series of epic actions, including spray-painting an elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo and a TWA jet. This triggered a plethora of articles, interviews and quotes, propelling the once-anonymous figure to public fame. The publication comes with a Desktop License (1 CPU) for the typeface Cornbread Fat.
£28.80
JRP Ringier Walead Beshty: 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035
Book SynopsisLos Angelesbased artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a variety of media, including essays on cinema, painting, sculpture and photography, and texts on artists such as Jay DeFeo, Sharon Lockhart, Kelley Walker, Luisa Lambri, Annette Kelm and Michael Asher, among others, Beshty has been widely published in both books and magazines. This book, the latest in JRPRingier's Positions series copublished with Les presses du réel, gathers together a selection of these essays, often hard to find, in partially reedited forms. Together these texts appear as a parallel production to Beshty's artistic work: they reflect on the conditions of the realization and circulation of images, undermining distinctions between media, abstraction and figuration, and proposing new aesthetic criteria for the works examined.
£15.20
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Janaina Tschäpe
Book SynopsisThe art historian Doris von Drathen, originally from Hamburg, has lived in Paris since 1990 and is a professor of art theory at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture.
£29.92
Hirmer Verlag GmbH European Realities
Book SynopsisAnja Richter is director of the Gunzenhauser Museum in Chemnitz. Florenced Thurmes is general director of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
£39.92
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Miguel Chevalier
Book SynopsisRoger Diederen has been the director of the Kunsthalle München since 2013.Franziska Stöhr has been a curator at the Kunsthalle München since 2020.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Barkley L. Hendricks
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