The Arts Books
Persephone Books Ltd The Waters under the Earth
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd Two Cheers for Democracy: A Selection
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£16.00
Ex Libris Press CHEERS!: Drinks and drinking in Jersey through
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£11.97
Ad Ilissum Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most comprehensive and meticulously assembled private collections of Chinese export porcelain from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. The Lurie Collection, comprising about 170 porcelain pieces, contains examples that are exceptional not only for their aesthetic beauty and quality but also for their rarity or historical importance. This book makes a significant contribution to several fields of study, most notably those related to the production, design and trade of Jingdezhen export porcelain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. An introduction places the diverse porcelains of the Lurie Collection in their historical context. It offers new insight into the European expansion to Asia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, via both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which ultimately led to an unprecedented large-scale trade, transport and consumption of various types of Jingdezhen export porcelain throughout the world until the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The core of the book is the catalogue section, which is composed of 127 entries with comprehensive discussions and images of a selection of the Lurie porcelains. Whenever possible they are accompanied by images of excavated shards that originally formed part of similar porcelain pieces, establishing direct links to the Jingdezhen kilns where such pieces were produced. Multiple sources of evidence (textual, material and visual) shed light on the trading networks through which these Jingdezhen porcelains circulated, as well as the way in which they were acquired, used and appreciated by the different societies in Europe, the New World, Asia and the Middle East. Highlights include six kraak plates made during the Wanli reign (1573–1620) with the egret mark, which is found on a small number of pieces usually of very high quality, and the only known kraak armorial specifically ordered for the Spanish market in the 16th century. This finely potted plate, also dating to the Wanli reign, bears the impaled arms of García Hurtado de Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Cañete, and his wife, Teresa de Castro y de la Cueva. It was most probably ordered via Manila during the time Hurtado de Mendoza was Viceroy of Peru, between 1589 and 1596. This plate, together with a kraak plate bearing a pseudo-armorial, and a few pieces decorated in the so-called Transitional style and one other recovered from the Hatcher Junk (c.1643) made after European shapes, attest to the influence that the European merchants exerted on the porcelain production at Jingdezhen at the time.Trade ReviewWhether one is a collector or simply interested in the development of Chinese export porcelain, this book is a comprehensive and exquisite guide. * Marine Antique Digest *
£85.50
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd Yer Ower Voices!: Dialect poems in Welsh and
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£12.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Lifting the Day: A Lockdown Exhibition
Book SynopsisOn the first day of lockdown, Mary Collis decided to post a painting onto her Facebook page, suggesting she would ‘lift the day’ during the forecast two-week lockdown. 245 days later she was still posting daily. This Facebook lockdown exhibition became a daily source of inspiration and sanity for Mary and her followers, as they shared memories through her art and words about life in locked down Kenya and beyond.
£20.00
Unicorn Publishing Group The Art of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly productive life during their twilight years in rural Suffolk. During the golden age from the 1920s through to the 1950s, the Zinkeisen sisters enjoyed a huge success and won numerous accolades. Their paintings and design work, including posters, murals and luxury ocean liners, and costume designs for stage and film, are today emblematic of that period in British art.
£24.00
Open City The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs:
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£18.04
Thames and Hudson Ltd A Chronology of Film
Book SynopsisIan Haydn Smith is the author of Selling the Movie and Cult Filmmakers, and is also the update editor on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Haydn Smith is also the editor of BFI Filmmakers Magazine and Curzon Magazine.
£16.99
National Trust Martin Parr Lacock
£21.25
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
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.
£999.99
Occasional Papers The Natural Enemies of Books A Messy History of
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£17.24
Smith Street Books Snow Be It
Book SynopsisLearn how to make the perfect holiday wreath and plenty more festive fun activities! Halloween has been and gone, and Thanksgiving is over it's time to prepare for the most festive holiday of all Christmas! Learn how to make the perfect holiday wreath to adorn your front door with a step-by-step guide that even the littlest elf can follow. Then move onto some other holiday activities, like making an advent calendar so you can count down the days to the 25th; preparing a custom snack tray to leave out for Santa and the reindeer; building a sturdy snowman; and how to trim a tree to perfection. Then turn your attention to crafting the perfect festive table, whipping up some steaming mulled wine, eggnog or a fizzy festive cocktail to entertain your guests, before impressing them all with a showstopping feast with all the trimmings. Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, Snow be it!
£13.50
Harvard University Press Mimesis as MakeBelieve On the Foundations of the
Book SynopsisRepresentation—in visual arts and fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of representation which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to thorny philosophical problems concerning the existence of fictitious beings.Trade ReviewRigor, ingenuity and arresting subtlety are evident in the detailed working out of Walton’s ideas. -- Sebastian Gardner * Times Literary Supplement *This is philosophy at its best; combining the breadth of concern of the best continental philosophy (but shorn of its often wilful cloudiness) and the precision of the best analytical philosophy… A work of very great importance that will set the agenda for discussions in aesthetics for a long time to come. * Philosophy *Walton’s aim…is to explore and explain the foundations of the representational arts. His theory is one that he has stated and restated with increasing detail and sophistication over the last seventeen years, and in this book it bears all the refinement and subtlety of argument that analytic philosophy can muster. This is an engaging, insightful, and persuasive volume. * Philosophy and Literature *Kendall Walton’s book is one of the few genuinely distinguished contributions to aesthetic theory published in the last decade or two. It will be essential reading for anyone in the field and contains much that will be of great interest to scholars and critics of the arts. -- Marshall Cohen, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART 1: REPRESENTATIONS 1. Representation and Make-Believe 1. Imagining 2. Prompters 3. Objects of Imaginings 4. Imagining about Oneself 5. Props and Fictional Truths 6. Fictionality without Props: Dreams and Daydreams 7. Representations 8. Nonfigurative Art 9. Fictional Worlds 10. The Magic of Make-Believe 2. Fiction and Nonfiction 1. Nonfiction 2. Fiction versus Reality 3. Linguistic Strategies 4. Fiction and Assertion 5. Pretended and Represented Illocutionary Actions 6. Fiction Making as an Illocutionary Action? 7. Mixtures, Intermediates, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy 8. Legends and Myths 9. A Note on Truth and Reality 10. Two Kinds of Symbols? 3. Objects of Representation 1. What Objects Are 2. Representation and Matching 3. Determinants 4. Representing and Referring 5. Uses of Objects 6. Reflexive Representation 7. The Inessentiality of Objects 8. Nonactual Objects? 4. The Mechanics of Generation 1. Principles of Generation 2. Direct and Indirect Generation 3. Principles of Implication 4. The Mechanics of Direct Generation 5. Silly Questions 6. Consequences PART 2: APPRECIATING REPRESENTATIONS 5. Puzzles and Problems 1. Rescuing Heroines 2. Fearing Fictions 3. Fictionality and Other Intentional Properties 6. Participation 1. Participation in Children's Games 2. Appreciators as Participants 3. Verbal Participation 4. Restrictions on Participation 5. Asides to the Audience 6. Seeing the Unseen 7. Psychological Participation 1. Fearing Fictionally 2. Participating Psychologically 3. Paradoxes of Tragedy 4. Suspense and Surprise 5. The Point of Participation 6. Appreciation without Participation PART 3: MODES AND MANNERS 8. Depictive Representation 1. Depiction Defined 2. Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things 3. Styles of Depiction 4. Realism 5. Cross-Modal Depiction 6. Musical Depictions 7. Points of View (in Depictions) 8. Conclusion 9. Verbal Representations 1. Verbal Depiction 2. Narration 3. Two Kinds of Reliability 4. Nonverbal Narration 5. Absent and Effaced Narrators 6. Storytelling Narrators 7. Mediation 8. Points of View in Narrated Representations PART 4: SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY 10. Doing without Fictitious Entities 1. The Problem 2. Speaking within and about Fictional Worlds 3. Ordinary Statements 4. Unofficial Games 5. Variations 6. Logical Form 11. Existence 1. Betrayal and Disavowal 2. Claims of Existence and Nonexistence Works Cited Index
£37.36
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
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Queens of Burlesque
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£17.09
Unicorn Publishing Group My Dearest Heart
Book SynopsisMary Beale (16331699) was one of the earliest professional women artists in Britain. Her successful career was documented by her husband, Charles, whose almanacks provide a unique record of Mary's patrons, painting technique and family affairs. Her portraits of politicians, clergy, aristocracy and intellectuals reflect the vibrant literary, scientific and political scene of the seventeenth century. She has been seen as a feminist icon not only as a professional artist but also as a poet and the author of a Discourse on Friendship (1667) which argued for the equality of husband and wife in marriage a radical concept at that time. This new edition includes newly documented paintings by Mary Beale that have come to light since the first edition was published in 2019.
£21.25
Spenwood Books Thin Lizzy - A People's History
Book SynopsisThe story of Thin Lizzy as told in the words of over 350 fans
£16.99
Unicorn Publishing Group Nihil
Book SynopsisJoshua Hagler's Nihil explores in an absolutely unique way the realisation and consummation of the mind, process and application of an artist's life and work. Hagler defi ned for himself nine key tenets to guide his artistic vision and then utilised and inhabited nine spaces in New Mexico to articulate this vision. His site-specific installations and interventions in lost and forgotten buildings, schools, churches and post offices create ghostly imaginative spaces that integrate many times and places hovering within a single moment. This extraordinary and unique sequence of work is documented and recorded in this important publication of a singular artistic vision. The law of the conservation of mass states that nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. Here lies the pathos to Joshua Hagler's convoluted mental and pictorial universe.' David Anfam, Art Historian & Curator
£24.00
Smith Street Books Burger Night
Book SynopsisMake every night burger night! Learn how to make over-sized all-American burgers, including the classic Cheeseburger, the eponymous Smash burger, and a triple beast burger simply called The Cowboy, all piled high with everyone's favorite toppings and condiments. Or discover the Southern-fried Chicken Waffle Breakfast Burger or Gochujang Fried Chicken Burger, coated in a finger-licking sweet-spicy glaze that is off-the-charts good. Vegetarians and vegans are also catered for with a range of plant-based offerings including the Impossible Double Smash, the Californian, and a Fried Green Tomato burger. In addition to 50 burger recipes, you'll also learn how to craft your own condiments, so you'll never have to rely on store-bought versions again; and mix and match fillings to make your own burger creations. With a bold design that nods to the series' three previous cookbooks Taco Night, Pasta Night, and Pizza Night and bright and poppy photography that oozes over-the-top deliciousness, Burger Night is the only cookbook you need to make burgers your favorite meal every night of the week.
£13.50
Smith Street Books Trinkets
Book SynopsisCreate your own collection of adorable, hand-sewn felt friends. Trinkets invites you into a whimsical world of felt creations. With Cat Rabbit's adorable, playful designs and step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to make an assortment of charming felt food friends, from the fruit bowl to eggs three ways. Perfect for beginners and experienced crafters alike, this book makes sewing accessible, fun, and extraordinarily cute, and will have you making adorable trinkets for everyone you know.
£15.29
Woodslane Pty Ltd When We Was Fab
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£27.99
Triangle Books Mash Up
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£38.70
Haute ecole d'art et de design - Geneve Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine Learning
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 2020s, so-called intelligent' systems such as GPT-3, OpenAI, Dall-E, Midjourney or Disco Diffusion made it possible to generate images thanks to textual commands (prompts') associated with large data sets available online. As part of machine learning technologies, these systems found their place in art and the creative industries' (fashion design, graphic design, product design, architecture, etc. ), profoundly reconfiguring these professions in the same way desktop publishing and design (DTP and CAD) had in the 1980s. Although these productions prove rather easily stereotyped merely remixing existing content debates have focused on the possible replacement of designers by artificial intelligence (AI), shielding the essential question: what is the spectrum of risk and opportunity when it comes to machine learning for design practices?In order to better understand how these AIs participate in what we propose to call a design under artifice' that is to say, an insidious subversion of design's historical principles under the influence of cognitive-behavioural approaches it is first necessary to establish a more detailed understanding of the psychological theories specific to machine learning. Participating in a neurocognitivist approach that assimilates the human psyche to a circuit switch, machine learning is part of the (already) long history of creative software, which aims both to democratise access to computers and to standardise creative practices. Just as these programs have automated a certain number of tasks usually assigned to designers, machine learning technologies displace and redefine the notions of creation and subjectivity. Although they run the risk of homogenising the sensitive world, they also open up new forms of cooperation with machines, of which the contemporary design studios interviewed for this essay offer a glimpse. In this book, Anthony Masure reconnects the challenges of artificial intelligence and design, while proposing a series of avenues to guide this ideal of automation on a small scale, in a controlled and ''tailor-made'' way, so that machine learning can foster invention and curiosity.
£10.00
Jrp Ringier Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes
Book SynopsisFounded in 2006, the art collective Slavs and Tatars is devoted to cultural intersection in the area known as Eurasia--everywhere east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China. The group''s multimedia works focus on the often-ignored influences between Slavic, Caucasian and Central Asian identities and societies. Debuting at Kunsthalle Zurich, and traveling to NYU''s new campus in Abu Dhabi, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane and the Blaffer Art Museum, Slavs and Tatars'' exhibition Mirrors for Princes comments on the culture of advice literature. The show consists of sound installations, steel sculptures and mixed-media fixtures that highlight contemporary society''s obsession with self-help books and self-preservation. Using the 11th-century Kutadgu Bilig as a starting point, this publication brings together the writings of preeminent scholars and commentators to discuss such diverse topics as the role of fate in governance, advice for female nobility and an Indian television drama.
£22.50
JRP Ringier New Zurich North / Neuer Norden Zürich
Book SynopsisPresenting contributions by artists such as Jean-Marie Appriou, Isabelle Cornaro, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli/Weiss, HR Giger, John Giorno, Nic Hess, Matt Mullican and Alex Sadkowsky, the festival and book New North Zurich explores the condition of 21st-century cities, and the way contemporary art could inhabit them.
£25.20
JRP Ringier Sylvain Croci-Torti
Book SynopsisInformed by the Swiss tradition of geometric abstraction and monochrome, Swiss painter Sylvain Croci-Torti (born 1984) is building a cogent body of works dealing with architecture and renewing the eternal parameters of painting. This publication encompasses his last six years of work.
£18.05
JRP Ringier Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
Book SynopsisMinor Cinema is the first study of experimental cinema in Switzerland, addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, expanded cinema and performances and focusing on the role of the art schools and the festivals. The publication includes essays on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, cinema at the Kunsthalle Bern during Harald Szeemann's curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan and Kurt Blum.
£15.20
Niggli Verlag Guidelines and Standards for the Visual Design:
Book SynopsisOtl Aicher (19221991) was an internation-ally acclaimed graphic designer and educa-tor, renowned for his corporate identity work, visual communication systems, and typography. With concise corporate designs for commercial enterprises, for example the Deutsche Lufthansa, his visual communication system for the Munich Olympic Games of 1972, and in particular as co-founder (together with Max Bill) and rector of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm an experimental design school in the spirit of the Bauhaus he achieved a high reputation worldwide.
£999.99
Hatje Cantz Verlag Simone Fattal Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisSIMONE FATTAL (*1942, Damascus) was born in Syria and raised in Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the École des Lettres in Beirut and at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to Beirut and starting to paint in 1969. Fleeing the Civil War in 1980, she settled in California. Fattal currently lives in Paris, and she has had recent exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Bergen Konsthall, MoMA PS1, New York and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech.
£43.20
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Producing Financing and Distributing Film A
Book SynopsisPRODUCING FINANCING & DISTRIBUTING FILM
£12.59
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers How to Stage a Play Make a Fortune Win a Tony and
Book SynopsisHOW TO STAGE A PLAY - MAKE A FORTUNE WIN A TONY AND BECOME A THEATRICAL ICON
£11.39
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Little Musicals for Little Theaters A Reference
Book SynopsisLITTLE MUSICALS FOR LITTLE THEATRES GUIDE TO MUSICALS THAT DON'T NEED CHANDELIERS
£12.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Breathing Corpses
Book SynopsisLaura Wade's plays include Home, I'm Darling (National Theatre), Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End), Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include The Riot Club. Awards include the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico.Trade Review'The tension, the emotions and the sense of absurdity and fear are brilliantly handled... A terrifying tour de force.' * Sunday Times *'[A] powerful new play… The clash between the tone of sadness and the tricksiness of the play’s structure gives the evening its undeniable edge.' * The Stage *'A highly intriguing new play' * The Independent *
£14.21
Jean Boite editions The Window
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£14.25
Sendpoints ROUGH: Remarkable Graphic Styles Series
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£16.96
Sendpoints EXQUISITE: Remarkable Graphic Styles Series
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£16.96
Sendpoints void: Remarkable Graphic Styles Series
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£26.22
Phaidon Press Ltd Stephen Shore a Road Trip Journal
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£2,700.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Danny Lyon Memories of Myself Three Young Men
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£1,000.00
Northwestern University Press Theater of State A Dramaturgy of the United
Book SynopsisOffers an innovative study of performance in international relations. This book asks why states and their representatives come to the United Nations to perform for a global audience, and how those audiences in turn may intervene in the spectacle of global politics.Trade ReviewTheater of State is an ambitious and compelling study that takes on the UN itself as a global platform for theorizing the performativity of diplomacy, peacemaking, and transnational justice." —Laura Edmondson, author of Performing Trauma in Central AfricaTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: "Big Heart, Tiny Legs I Guess" A Dramaturgy of International Institutions Performing in a Theater of States 2. "Purpose is but the Slave to Memory" Narrative and History in the Security Council Hamlet in the Security Council The Security Council in Stuff Happens 3. "To Be Seen is to Be Doomed" The Force of Spectatorship in UN Peacekeeping The UN Interim Force in Lebanon and In a Kingdom by the Sea The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ruined Spectatorship and Global Governmentality 4. "The World of the Rulers is the World of the Spectacle" Time and Reiteration in Diplomatic Speech An Unfolding Present: Fun Home on Broadway Insurrectionary Speech Cyclical Time: Obama's Disarmament Summit 5. "To Receive an Impression is to Make an Impression" Clapping Along with the Secretary-General International Happiness Day New Year's Concert of the 67th Session of the General Assembly 6. "Between One Person and Another" Interfacing with Institutions at the International Criminal Court The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo Crossing Lines v. The International Criminal Court 7. "No More Than a Piece of Paper" The Written Word in a Theater of States Transcript [Brackets] Model 8. Epilogue: "On Notice" and "Taking Names" Bibliography Notes
£27.96
Arcadia Missa Publications Ecology of Secrets
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£999.99
Arcadia Missa Publications Virus
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£11.01
Arcadia Missa Publications All the Things
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£999.99
Arcadia Missa Publications Recipes for You
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£999.99
The Brand Identity Group Ltd The Process
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£21.00
UCL Press Picturing the Invisible: Exploring
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£999.99
