The Arts Books
Hirmer Verlag Stephan Maria Lang
Book SynopsisInfluenced by organic architecture, Stephan Maria Lang designs and builds beautiful ensembles of house and garden. Generous living spaces, which become even more fascinating over the years, are shaped through an interplay between architectural elegance and design of the natural environment. Premium uncoated art stock paper. Finally a renowned architect who designs spectacular houses with gardens
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag You Will Not Be Forgotten
Book SynopsisThe second volume from the Art of the Lost Generation Museum continues to explore artists who were excluded, persecuted, censored or driven into obscurity under the Nazi regime. As one of the era's few remaining contemporary witnesses, Heinz R. Böhme has assembled this collection to preserve the legacy for future generations. Hidden stories and new artistic discoveries from the Nazi era
£38.25
Hirmer Body of Power
Book SynopsisStephan Koja was the Director of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and since 2023 is the Director of LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, VaduzVienna.
£36.00
EI Publishing Co., Ltd Vintage Store
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£25.17
Hyper Hypo Doors of Kypseli
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£37.80
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v All the Stuff We Cooked: 49 recipes
Book SynopsisWelcome to the updated edition of Frederik Bille Brahe's sold-out first cookbook, All the Stuff We Cooked, born of that strange moment when we all learnt what it was to go into lockdown for the first time. From the confines of our respective homes, we came up with the idea of publishing this book in the same spirit of simplicity and integrity that we find in Frederik's cooking, and from there it was a question of inviting the Japanese artist Masanao Hirayama to add his unassuming linework alongside Frederik's photos. The result was All the Stuff We Cooked: 44 recipes for simple but thoughtful dishes, a taste of his internationally renowned restaurants in CopenhagenAtelier September, Apollo Bar, and Kafeteriaand the cooking he does at home for his family. The response from everyone who bought the book and cooked from it was deeply touching, and for this new edition we've added in five more recipes: some of the stuff we cooked that didn't make it to the first edition', or the proverbial cherry on top.
£23.75
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v Casually Sauntering the Perimeter of Now
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£31.50
Mousse Publishing A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive
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£27.00
PM Press Signal 09
Book SynopsisThis ongoing series is dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Highlights of the ninth volume of Signal include: Hell No, We Won''t Glow: Selections from the Anti-Nuclear Power Discography by Dirk Bannink and Sean P. Kilcoyne, Where Do You Draw the Line Between Art and Politics? An interview with Pietro Perotti by Davide Tidoni, Print-On-Demand America Great Again: The Aesthetics and Means of Production of the Far Right by Alex Lukas, and A Survey of Graphic Actions in Latin America by Andre Mesquita.
£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Herbert Bayer Graphic Designer
Book SynopsisHerbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school. A true multimedia artist, he united graphic design, art, and architecture in a unique style that came to represent the bold aesthetic approach of the movement. A teacher with the school until 1928, Bayer went on to become a highly successful graphic designer in Germany, and later one of the most prominent figures in the 20th-century art scene of the United States.This broad biographical account, which presents previously unseen archival photographs and episodes from the life of Bayer and other influential Bauhaus artists such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, follows Bayer through the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and finally to his exile in the United States. Specifically, Patrick Rössler reveals for the first time Bayer's unique experience of 1930s Germany, where, with his commercial and artistic life shattered by terror and censorship, he distracted himself w
£24.64
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
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Paula ModersohnBecker
Book SynopsisFrank Schmidt has been director of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen since 2016.
£30.40
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
Oldie Publications Ltd The Very Best of The Oldie Cartoons
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£8.95
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
Whitechapel Gallery Veronica Ryan Multiple Conversations
£30.40
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Beckmann Zeichnungen Drawings
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£33.75
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
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Secret Language of Birds
Book SynopsisColin Rees is a natural scientist and has devoted his career to the conservation of the natural environment. He has a PhD in zoology from the University of Wisconsin and was a faculty member of the Zoology Department, University of Maryland. He is the author of many scientific papers and co-author of Birds of the Philippines and Birds of a Feather: Seasonal Changes on Both Sides of the Atlantic.
£21.25
Persephone Books Ltd Because of the Lockwoods
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£16.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Janet Leach: Potter
Book SynopsisJanet Leach’s childhood in Texas through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and numerous practical skills, initially acquired on her grandparents’ self-sufficient farmstead. At nineteen she took a Greyhound bus to cosmopolitan New York and soon found work as a sculptor’s assistant. During the war she worked on Staten Island, welding the hulls of US-Navy destroyers. After discovering pottery, she met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, before spending two years potting in Japan, where her love of pottery was sealed. Bernard and Janet planned to marry and build a pottery near Kyoto, but two years absence from St Ives obliged Bernard to return to Cornwall. A year later in 1956, Janet reluctantly left Japan, persuaded to join Bernard in a country completely unknown to her, England. There she stayed, becoming manager of the world-famous Leach Pottery for the next 40 years. This biography uses previously unpublished letters, notebooks and diaries and is a richly-informed portrayal of a pioneering potter.
£21.25
Phaidon Press Ltd Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisA breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraitsTrade Review'A new book, Lucian Freud: A Life, presents his biography in pictures. It chronicles an extraordinary life from first to last: from Freud as an eight-year-old in 1930, a snapshot from Weimar-era Berlin, to the 88-year-old in London in 2011, the year of his death, laid out on his sofa like an El Greco saint... As Holborn puts it, "It is all about looking: us looking at him who in turn is looking out at the world with that penetrating stare. He was oblivious to anything else. Which is why it's a heroic life.' - The Financial Times 'Thought provoking and engrossing, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for Freud's fans.' - Publishers Weekly Online 'An excellent new addition to your coffee table.' - ES magazine 'An impressive selection.' - Forbes Online 'Taking its cue from previously unseen family snapshots, Lucian Freud: A Life illustrates the artists's biography with private photographs, and intimate portraits by his peers.' - Vogue 'A new visual biography charts the famous Freud gaze... Overwhelmingly photographic.' - RA Magazine 'A sumptuous visual memoir... The smell of oil paint and charcoal dust floats off the pages.' - The Herald 'Despite a strong aversion to paparazzi... [Lucian Freud] was shot by more great photographers than perhaps anyone who ever lived.' - The Spectator 'When it come to Lucian Freud, the avalanche of admiring attention only seems to grow... (Lucian Freud: A Life) takes us all the way from a little boy on the beach in Germany to the near nonagenarian variously in bed with this pet whippet and none other than Kate Moss.' - Evening Standard 'A vivid pictorial companion... from childhood through to intimate shots in his studio, including Bruce Bernard's extraordinary images of the artist painting and posing alongside Leigh Bowery... The abundance of documentation provided by these books [...] contributes to the most detailed picture yet on the artist and his work.' - The Burlington Magazine
£112.50
Phaidon Press Ltd Korean Art from 1953
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive survey to explore the rich and complex history of contemporary Korean artTrade Review"Lavish yet scholarly, this book is more than an important new chapter of an emerging world history of 20th-century art; it's a vital artistic genealogy of our planet's current cultural powerhouse." —The New York Times "Korean Art From 1953 is the most significant English-language overview yet of modern and contemporary art on the peninsula. It overflows with abstract painting and political printmaking, feminist performance and on-the-street photography, and for each South Korean artist you know (like the video art pioneer Nam June Paik) there are a dozen to discover." —The New York Times "From Lee Bul to Name June Paik, Do Ho Suh and Park Seo-Bo, the roots of Korea's thriving contemporary art scene are deeply embedded within the country's complex historical narratives. A new book by Phaidon chronicles these developments, largely omitted from western art history, combining contributions from leading Korean scholars alongside works that reflect the country's tumultuous recent history."—HERO magazine "Global scholars and art specialists amass the first comprehensive look at North and South Korean art after the Korean War."—The New York Times Book Review "Thoroughly tracing the relations of the nation's history and culture in chronicle order, it sets a thick foundation of Korean art in the global art world."—The Seoul Review
£47.96
The Monacelli Press Elevated
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive and up-to-date book about the vibrant public art program of New Yorkâs global destination, the High Line
£31.96
Monacelli Press Amos Badertscher Images and Stories
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld
£43.96
Monacelli Press The Line
Book SynopsisTake a journey along The Line, East London's innovative outdoor art trail featuring world-renowned contemporary artistsThe Line has transformed East London's urban landscape into a dynamic cultural corridor. Spanning nearly 8 kilometres (4.8 miles), the outdoor public art trail features monumental sculptures, intimate installations, and an evolving programme, offering a world-class contemporary art experience on a free and daily basis.Celebrating The Line's 10th anniversary, The Line: Public Art in East London replicates the unique experience of exploring its groundbreaking public art programme. Across more than 200 pages, readers will journey through the iconic neighbourhoods of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The O2 arena, and the waterways that connect three London boroughs.This beautifully illustrated book presents work by 35 international artists, including Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Thomas J Price, Rasheed Araeen, Rana Begum, and Helen Cammock. More than 150 colour photographs from eye-level images of the installations to spectacular aerial drone shots contextualize The Line's natural and industrial environs, creating an immersive homage to this inspiring public art walk.
£32.26
ERIS Only Too Much Is Enough: Francis Bacon in his own
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£12.34
Smith Street Gift The Cocktail Cabinet Vodka
Book SynopsisKara Newman is a spirits and cocktail writer based in New York. She reviews spirits for Wine Enthusiast magazine, where she's also a writer-at-large. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and PUNCH. She's the author of seven cocktail books. Giacomo Bagnara is an illustrator and artist living in Verona, Italy. His work has been recognised over the last years by American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators of NY. Avid observer, Giacomo loves exploring different perspective of the everyday life questioning his own perceptions.
£18.23
Printed Matter, Incorporated A Book About Colab and Related Activities
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£29.71
HENI Publishing WORLDRECORDS
Book SynopsisWORLDRECORDS collects highlights from the photo series 'worldrecords' where Schcfer photographs the great albums of music history on classic turntables, presented on oversized prints. The large format allows all the details and nuances of the vinyl and record players to shine. Schcfer's work is a tribute to the art of the analogue and a celebration of some of pop's finest music. Albums featured include David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Serge's Gainsbourg's Initials B.B., Michael Jackson's Thriller, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St and The Clash's London Calling. An interview with the artist by Michael Bracewell accompanies the book as well as a foreword by Peter Hook, of Joy Division and New Order fame. The book will be published to coincide with an exhibition of Schafer's work at HENI Gallery, Soho.
£20.00
JRP Ringier The Syz Collection
Book SynopsisEric and Suzanne Syz began collecting art in New York in the ''80s. Their collection includes works by Basquiat, Clemente, Condo, Schnabel and Warhol, as well as Fischli/Weiss, Sherman, Tilmans and more. This publication focuses on the spectacular way their collection is displayed at the SYZ bank in Genevaan art collection taking the pulse of art as it evolves.
£22.50
JRP Ringier Teresa Burga: Aleatory Structures
Book SynopsisEncompassing paintings and environments in the vein of pop art, as well as conceptual drawings and cybernetic installations, the oeuvre of Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (born 1935) highlights the individual''s ability to influence social conditions. Her early attraction to conceptual art led her to become a founding member of the Peruvian avant-garde movement Grupo Arte Nuevo (196668). In 1968, as a Fulbright scholar, Burga left Peru to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she developed her mature pop-conceptual practice, moving away from painting to produce installations, research-based projects and happenings. This volume provides an overview of her work from the 1960s to the present, reflecting on Burga''s strategies and themes.
£31.45
JRP Ringier Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms
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£27.00
JRP Ringier Art Basel Year 48
Book SynopsisArt Basel''s official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors and museum directors. With its AZ format, this year''s publication maps the world of Art Basel alongside profiles spotlighting each of the 500-plus galleries that participated across the three fairs in 2017. Interviewees and contributors include Cecilia Alemani, Harry Bellet, Tobia Bezzola, Claudia Comte, Rhana Devenport, David Gryn, Hou Hanru, Reem Fadda, Niels Borch Jenssen, Philipp Kaiser, Mami Kataoka, Kimsooja, Venus Lau, Lesley Ma, Claire McAndrews, Zanele Muholi, Kingsley Ng, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Aaron Seeto, Fabrice Stroun, Keiichi Tanaami, Andrea Viliani, Michael Werner, Qiao Zhibing and many others whose work contributed this year to the fairs on all three continents.
£37.40
Stuffed Monkey Publications Incidental Contact
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£15.20
University of Illinois Press Movie Workers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed critical volume. Movie Workers fills a major gap in scholarly and popular film history, presenting a meticulous and engaging analysis of a wealth of fascinating new data and case studies." --Technology and Culture "This is a very important book. It is no exaggeration to say that it totally re-writes the labour history of the British film industry. . . . Methodologically precise." --Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "This important study acts as a political weapon, a much-needed act of recovery and a revision of British film history." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Women’s Work in Film Production: Concepts, Materials, and Methods1. Organizing Work: Gender and the Film Trade Union2. The 1930s: Modernizing Production3. The 1940s: Wartime Opportunities4. The 1950s: Rebuilding Britain5. The 1960s: The New Pioneers6. The 1970s and 1980s: Working with FeminismEpilogue: Legacies and New BeginningsAppendix A: Application Form for Membership in the Association of CineTechnicians (circa 1930s)Appendix B: ACT Job Levels, 1947Appendix C: Film Technicians: Numbers and Percentage by Gender, Decade, and Production CategoryNotesSelect GlossaryIndexBack cover
£20.89
Dover Publications Inc. How to Draw People
Book SynopsisBy joining circles, ovals, rectangles, and other shapes, beginning artists can create a boy on a swing, a fireman, drummer, mailman, cowboy, and 25 other subjects. Includes blank practice pages.
£999.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd Seaside Photographed
Book SynopsisAround eighty photographers capture over a century of the British seaside in all its raucous, joyful and sometimes seedy glory.Trade Review'Surveys over a century of iconic and humorous holiday experiences and trips to the beach' - Aesthetica'Features a unique and engaging cast, both behind and in front of the lens, from the 1850s and into the 21st century' - HUCK'Jam-packed with holiday snaps, shoreline street photography and alluring tourism material' - ElephantTable of ContentsIntroduction • Waves on the Beach • Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties • Seaside Bohemias • Reporting Back • Halcyon Days • Road Trips • Who’s Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now • Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel • Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century • Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties
£16.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd Egyptian Art
Book SynopsisNew in the World of Art series, a survey of the art produced in Egypt during the age of the pharaohs.Trade Review'A masterful exploration of not only “what", but also “why" – what ancient Egyptian art was for. An excellent introduction to a vast subject' - Dr Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol'Fantastic … definitely one for your bookshelf' - Timeless Travels'Insightful … a tour-de-force' - Ancient Egypt Magazine'Aided by abundant illustrations … it is a handy introduction to the diverse and beautiful art of the Egyptians' - Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsKing-list & Dynasties • Part I: Art & Creation • Part II: Art & the Artsts • Part III: Artworks in Context
£11.66
Thames & Hudson Ltd Contemporary African Art Second Edition 1 World
Book SynopsisContemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, pre- colonial and colonial genres were made.Contemporary African ArtContemporary African ArtTrade Review'‘An engaging, cogent, and thought-provoking book’' - African ArtsTable of Contents1. New Genres: Inventing African Popular Culture • 2. From Africans Photographed to African Photographers • 3. Transforming the Workshop • 4. Patrons and Mediators 5. Art and Commodity • 6. The African Artist: Shifting Identities in the Postcolonial World • 7. The Idea of a National Culture: Decolonizing African Art • 8. Migration and Displacement • 9. The Global Contemporary Art World and Africa
£13.46
British Museum Press Hokusais Great Wave Objects in Focus
Book SynopsisTaking an intimate look at the Wave's artistic and historical significance and its influence on popular culture, this concise introduction explains why Hokusai's modern masterpiece had such an impact after its creation in 1830 and why it continues to fascinate, inspire and challenge today.
£6.00
British Museum Press The Print Before Photography An introduction to
Book SynopsisA landmark publicationbeautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum's renowned collectionwhich traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.
£48.00
Film & Video Umbrella Remote Viewer Graham Gussin
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£9.95
The Poetry Translation Centre the hammer and other poems
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£7.00
Kingfisher Reach Publishing My North East by its Famous Sons and Daughters
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£17.09
Sadie Coles HQ Lawrence Lek 2065
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£23.75
Redstone Press BLACK LIVES 1900 W E B Du Bois at the Paris
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£21.25
Draw Like a Boss Draw Like a Boss 2
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£42.75
