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Reaktion Books Warrior Nation
Book SynopsisWar has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for political ends. To achieve national goals, the notion of war has been promoted as an activity of high adventure and chivalrous enterprise and as a rite of passage to manhood. Using a wide range of media, Michael Paris focuses on how war has been "sold" to boys and young men and examines the "warrior" as a masculine ideal.Trade Review'Ever wondered why Britain has fought and won so many wars? Paris's fascinating book goes a long way to answer this question ... Paris has created a compelling insight into why Britain responded to the call of arms.' -The Good Book Guide 'an absorbing and thought-provoking survey of the presentation of war in popular culture ... It is impossible in a short review to do justice to the historical sweep, the literary insight and the importance of the issues raised by this stimulating and enjoyable book. I warmly recommend it to you.' -Biggles Flies Again 'This is a splendid book, well written and well researched, which throws light on our understanding of the subject.' - Michael Dockrell, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
£19.95
Page Street Publishing Co. Galaxy Gals: An Alcohol Marker Coloring Book of
Book SynopsisCalling all cosmic lovers: The creator of the wildly popular online art platform Creative Carrah brings you 35 show-stopping, space-themed illustrations of wondrous women to colour in with alcohol markers. Thanks to alcohol markers’ trademark vibrancy and blendability, you’ll soon watch with awe as your striking designs come to life. These size-inclusive illustrations feature gorgeous versatility and a range of styles - from stunning femme characters to supernatural gals, expansive portraits to more intricate designs - so that you can immerse yourself in every breathtaking detail. What’s more, the thick 200gsm paper and perforated pages ensure you can proudly gift or display your beautiful work. So get your markers ready and come get lost in this dazzling space adventure!
£16.19
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd Iwantja: An exuberant new movement in
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£40.50
Faber & Faber The Meaning of Art
Book SynopsisSince its first appearance in 1931 Herbert Read''s introduction to the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its kind. It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making. A compact survey of the world''s art, from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, The Meaning of Art explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art, and summarizes the essence of such movements as Gothic, Baroque, Impressionism, Expressionism and Surrealism.This new Faber Modern Classics edition features a brand new foreword by Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor.
£10.44
MuseumsEtc Our Anger On Your Walls
Book SynopsisAnger. Sprayed, posted and daubed on the walls of Europe's largest cities. But read the words and they shine out with creativity, defiance and truth.
£14.25
Getty Trust Publications Harry Smith The AvantGarde in the American
Book SynopsisFilmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was among the most original creative forces to emerge in post-war American art and culture. This title presents an examination of the life and works of Harry Smith.
£28.50
Parkstone Press USA, Limited RUSSIAN IMPRESSIONISTS and POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
£34.88
Princeton University Press Face and Mask
Book Synopsis"First published in Germany under the title Faces: Eine Geschichte des Gesichts."Trade Review"A compelling study."--ApolloTable of ContentsIntroduction: Defining the Subject 1 I Face and Mask: Changing Views 1 Facial Expression, Masks of the Self, and Roles of the Face 17 2 The Cult Origin of the Mask 32 3 Masks in Colonial Museums 42 4 Face and Mask in the Theater 48 5 From the Study of the Face to Brain Research 63 6 Nostalgia for the Face and the Death Mask in Modernity 77 7 Eulogy for the Face: Rilke and Artaud 84 II Portrait and Mask: The Face as Representation 8 The European Portrait as Mask 91 9 Face and Skull: Two Opposing Views 106 10 The "Real Face" of the Icon and the "Similar Face" 118 11 The Record of Memory and the Speech Act of the Face 126 12 Rembrandt's Self-Portraiture: Revolt against the Mask 135 13 Silent Screams in the Glass Case: The Face Set Free 150 14 Photography and Mask: Jorge Molder's Own Alien Face 157 III Media and Masks: The Production of Faces 15 The Consumption of Media Faces 175 16 Archives: Controlling the Faces of the Crowd 192 17 Video and Live Image: The Flight from the Mask 205 18 Ingmar Bergman and the Face in Film 211 19 Overpainting and Replicating the Face: Signs of Crisis 221 20 Mao's Face: State Icon and Pop Idol 229 21 Cyberfaces: Masks without Faces 239 Acknowledgments 247 Notes 249 Literature Cited 263 Index of Names 267
£37.80
Fantagraphics The Best Of Witzend
Book SynopsisThis comics anthology collects some of the best creator-owned work of some of the very best mid-century cartoonists: Ditko, Frazetta, Kurtzman, Wood, and many more.The ultimate witzend anthology, collecting some of the best creator-owned work of some of the very best mid-century cartoonists.
£39.99
Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd Singapore Sketchbook
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£23.75
Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Experience
Book SynopsisIn his noteworthy theoretical essay Experience, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, for the past thirty years, scholarship in American art has assumed that works of art are coded and has analyzed them accordingly, often with constructive results. The fourth volume in the Terra Foundation Essays series, Experience considers the possibility of immediacy, or the idea that we can directly relate to the past by way of an artifact or work of art. Without discounting the matrix of codes involved in both the production and reception of art, contributors to Experience emphasize the sensibility of the interpreter; the techniques of art historical writing, including its affinity with fiction and its powers of description; the emotional charge the punctum that certain representations can deliver. These and other topics are examined through seven essays, addressing different periods in American art.
£19.00
University of California Press Pictures of Belonging
Book SynopsisThis unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the preWorld War II generations. Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the preWorld War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition reintroduces their work and explores their deep connections with each other for the first time. Through three chronological sections, the exhibition traces the careers of these artists from the 1920s to the 1990s. Faces & Communities presents preWorld War II portraiture and figurative works, while Belongings & (dis)Locations showcases landscapes and still lifes from the prewar and wartime periods. The final section, Explorations & Rediscoveries, features postwar abstractions. Pictures of Belonging foregro
£37.80
Insight Editions Tarot del Toro: A Tarot Deck and Guidebook
Book SynopsisLet the fantastic vision of Guillermo del Toro guide your tarot practice with this sumptuously illustrated deck inspired by the haunting world of the award-winning filmmaker.From the macabre world of Guillermo del Toro comes a deliciously twisted take on a traditional seventy-eight-card tarot deck. Designed and illustrated by Tomás Hijo, this deck features sumptuous original artwork inspired by the themes, imagery, and characters of some of del Toro’s most popular films, including Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak, and The Shape of Water. Featuring both major and minor arcana, the set also comes with a helpful guidebook explaining each card’s meaning, as well as a simple introduction to creating and reading spreads. Packaged in a collectible gift box, this imaginative set is the perfect gift for del Toro collectors and tarot enthusiasts alike.
£23.03
Pallas Athene Publishers Every Object Tells a Story
Book SynopsisWhat is assembled here might look like a modern 'Cabinet of Curiosities', an assemblage of the exotic and curious from the four quarters of the world. There is an intention behind it, however, that goes beyond presenting a wide variety of curiosities. We are today linked up to all those four quarters, and while a huge amount of information is available to us, unlike to those who awaited the ships in the ports of Amsterdam, Genoa, Lisbon, London, Marseille, Seville or Venice, the horizon of what interests us seems to have shrunk. The art market is an interesting barometer of this shrinkage. The point is, therefore, that we can connect with the whole world on a much more profound level than can be gained from package touring, through the possession of, and study of even the most modest objects of different cultures. The purpose of collecting, as Moliere might have put it, should not be limited to becoming rich through the investment in one's purchases, but to become enriched through the possession of what one has acquired. Highlights include: the silver libation cup of Mongke Khan, grandson of Genghis and ruler of an empire that stretched from modern Bucharest to Peking, and Karachi to Novgorod; the apple from the Garden of Eden - a silver pomander belonging to the Stuart Kings, with bite marks, opening to reveal a silver skull; a Scythian (6-7th centuries BC) jade pendant of the endangered Saiga antelope, as nely carved as anything by Faberge; a bronze Bacchus head from a tripod table belonging to the Emperor Augustus; a limestone bear carved in 3rd millenium BC Bactria.
£38.00
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Facing the Elements
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£33.60
MIT Press Ltd Face A Visual Odyssey The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAn elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts.By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face offers up an elaborately illustrated A to Z—from the didactic anthropometry of the late-nineteenth century to the selfie-obsessed zeitgeist of the twenty-first.Jessica Helfand looks at the cultural significance of the face through a critical lens, both as social currency and as palimpsest of history. Investigating everything from historical mugshots to Instagram posts, she examines how the face has been perceived and represented over time; how it has been instrumentalized by others; and how we have reclaimed it for our own purposes. From vintage advertisements for a “nose adjuster” to contemporary artists who reconsider the visual construction of race, Face delivers an intimate yet kaleidoscopic adventure while posing universal questions about identity.
£30.60
Museum of New Mexico Press Sole Mates
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£32.39
Theatrum Mundi A Love Affair
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£12.00
Getty Trust Publications Beyond the Nile - Egypt and the Classical World
Book SynopsisFrom about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another's work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt's history, however, that Beyond the Nile uncovers. Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks-during the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt-and later when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra. Beyond the Nile is milestone publication on the occasion of a major international exhibition and one that will become an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewellery, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and interdisciplinary approach to the rich world of artistic cross-pollination during antiquity.Trade Review"One of the most impressive exhibition catalogues this reviewer has seen in quite a while, the present volume (and by all accounts the superb exhibition it accompanies) is one of the best treatments of its ambitious subject."--Ancient Egypt Magazine "All in all, this is an excellent exhibition catalogue, well designed, well written, and well-illustrated . . . the volume as a whole is a very welcome addition to the ever-growing number of publications which examine the phenomenon of cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean World."--The Art Newspaper "In sum, the catalogue is a rich trove of material, presented in a way that will engage all manner of readers, from the specialist to students to those with merely a passing interest in the place and people of Egypt in the Classical period. I heartily recommend it to any university or community library." --New England Classical Journal ". . . the catalogue is a treat, with authoritative, elegant essays complementing the sumptuously illustrated artefacts." --Times Literary Supplement Alfred H. Barr Jr. Honorable Mention for Distinguished Catalogue in the History of Art
£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Mind of the Artist: Attention Deficit
Book SynopsisThis is a provocative and novel investigation of the psyches of sixty artists, predominantly from the world of film, theatre and television/radio -- writers, actors, producers and directors ranging from Shakespeare and Voltaire to major late-twentieth-century figures such as Spike Milligan, Sam Peckinpah and Frank Sinatra, by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Orson Welles and Judy Garland. Irish artists featured include Oliver St John Gogarty, Jimmy O''Dea and Richard Harris. The chapters, which range from quite brief vignettes to more in-depth studies, examine the background of each individual before considering their personality, social relationships and work. Professor Fitzgerald brings his expertise to bear in elucidating the psychological factors, strengths and frailties that shaped the lives and careers of these prominent creators, many of whom are regarded as geniuses. The lives of extraordinary artists are of interest in themselves; when their stories are told from the perspective of expert psychological insight, the results are fascinating and revealing.
£159.74
Huia Publishers Fred Graham: Creator of Forms: Te Tohunga Auaha
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive survey of the art of Fred Graham details the artist’s life from his childhood in the Waikato to his career as a sculptor. Fred Graham is a leading figure in New Zealand’s art world.He began as an art teacher, and since 1984, he has been a full-time sculptor, producing a wealth of work and having sell-out exhibitions. His work is displayed in public spaces in New Zealand and several Pacific Rim countries including the United States, Canada, and Korea. This book is richly illustrated with photographs of the artworks by award-winning photographer Geoff Dale, and it includes essays by Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Robert Jahnke, and Jill Smith that discuss Fred Graham’s work in the context of New Zealand art.
£33.71
Lodima Press Madonnina
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£49.59
Nieves Paris Ceramique
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£13.30
Dirimart Peter Zimmermann: Next of Kin and Chrome
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£17.10
Dirimart Herman Nitsch
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£17.10
Dirimart Ozcan Kaplan: Chats With Mouth Shut...
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£17.10
Dirimart Mirror
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£20.90
Dirimart Come On!: Franz Ackermann
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£20.90
Dirimart Abidin Elderoglu in the Adventure of Turkish
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£81.00
Dirimart Bernard Frize: Togetherless
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£17.10
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Modernologies
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£36.51
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Macba Collection: A Selection
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£35.10
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Miralda: USA Projects
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£33.30
EYTYS AB These Colors Don’t Run
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£31.50
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Moulding the Void: Mother in the Making
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£46.80
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd When Seeing is Believing Poetry in Images
Book Synopsis52 poems and 13 haikus by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
£15.00
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror's Archive
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£23.75
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Artists' Conceptions of Money
Book SynopsisIn this book eighty money-artists are presented. The subject of their works of art. Beside using money as a source of inspiration, they have their views on the meaning of money in their artworks as well. Nowadays a growing number of contemporary artists are art in which they critically comment on the meaning of money in our present financialized society. Their artistic comments are useful eye-openers to reconsider the meaning and role of money in modern society. Reinold Widemann published some books on financial affairs and banking, international economics and factors influencing interest rates. He also wrote essays, short stories, and novels. In 2016 Money is a Mind Thing -- On Symbols or Value appeared at Aspekt publishers. He was a lecturer in economics at the HES Amsterdam School of Business.
£16.10
Onomatopee Fashioning Value— Undressing Ornament
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£13.30
Vajra Books Nepal Patan Palace The Restoration of Sundari cok
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£58.89
HarperCollins The Hobbit Movie Trilogy Coloring Book
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£12.40
Lulu.com Il Prato Delle Lucciole
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£14.69
Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd Fairy Companions Grayscale Coloring Edition Volume 4 Grayscale Coloring Books by Selina
£10.20
Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd Fairy Magic Whimsical Fantasy Coloring Book
£10.20
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Joker Tarot
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£23.16
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Odyssey Oracle
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£18.66
Llewellyn Publications Alice The Wonderland Oracle Pocket Edition
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£14.20
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Sacred Rebels Oracle Pocket Edition
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£15.26
