Textiles of China and Central Asia
ISBN: HB: 9783791377544,
Prestel Publishing,
April 2025
352 pp., 31,4x28,0 cm, colour illus.
352 pp., 31,4x28,0 cm, colour illus.
This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features objects never before published and of a caliber customarily only seen in museums.
A captivating journey th...
HB:
70.00 GBP
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Victor Ehikhamenor
Chronicles of the Enchanted World
ISBN: HB: 9783791377131,
Prestel Publishing,
April 2025
208 pp., 29,0x24,0 cm, 110 colour illus.
208 pp., 29,0x24,0 cm, 110 colour illus.
This visually striking book is the first to explore the oeuvre of the celebrated multidisciplinary Nigerian artist, and its themes of identity, globalization, migration, cultural heritage, and African postcolonial identities.
From his birth in a rur...
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50.00 GBP
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Cheong Soo Pieng
Layer by Layer
ISBN: PB: 9789811886522,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
February 2025
128 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, illus.
128 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, illus.
"Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer" presents a unique insight into the artist's innovative use of materials in painting through examples from the 1940s to 1980s. This exhibition catalogue features artwork plates presented alongside technical photograp...
PB:
19.00 GBP
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Eyes that Commit
Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers. A Visual Survey
ISBN: HB: 9783791389271,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2025
256 pp., 28,0x24,0 cm, 150 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
256 pp., 28,0x24,0 cm, 150 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
A major new publication looking at the rich history of photographic practice by Black female and non-binary artists from the late 19th century to the present day.
For decades, women have been overlooked in the cultural history of photography, especi...
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40.00 GBP
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Hermitage Cookbook: Symbols, Traditions, Recipes
The Hermitage Cookbook is a hymn to the unity of material world seen through the prism of art, literature, ethnographic observations and historical documents. The book covers a wide range of culinary recipes-ancient, national, family and royal. And w...
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29.99 GBP
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Masters of Art
Durer
ISBN: PB: 9783791377551,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2025
112 pp., 21,0x17,0 cm, 55 colour illus.
112 pp., 21,0x17,0 cm, 55 colour illus.
Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to the famous Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer.
Albrecht Durer (1471-1521) is considered the most important German painter and g...
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10.99 GBP
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Apprentice at Taliesin
A Personal Experience in the School of Frank Lloyd Wright
ISBN: PB: 9788862425834,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
February 2025
272 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
272 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
Francesco Santoro tells, thirty years later, the story of his apprenticeship in the Taliesin Fellowship, founded by Frank Lloyd Wright. The volume summarizes the experiences made at Taliesin West in the Arizona desert and at Taliesin in the Wisconsin...
PB:
16.99 GBP
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Memory and the City
A Handbook in Action
ISBN: PB: 9788862425926,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
February 2025
184 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
184 pp., 23,0x19,5 cm, illustrated throughout
This handbook for urban research offers a critical introduction to the methodological instruments available to scholars working on urban memory from different areas of expertise. Architects, urban scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and historia...
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16.99 GBP
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Prints Among Men
A Global History of Patterns in Menswear
ISBN: HB: 9783791388182,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2025
224 pp., 27,0x21,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
224 pp., 27,0x21,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
From suits to socks, tuxedos to ties, this is an utterly unique and visually exciting look at how fashionable men have been rocking polka dots, plaids, and paisley at home, at work, and at play throughout history and across the globe.
Nothing embrac...
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39.99 GBP
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Vetripedia: Masterpieces of Venetian Glass
Three Volumes in a Slipcase
ISBN: SET: 9783791377391,
Prestel Publishing,
January 2025
1712 pp., 32,0x30,0 cm, 3285 colour illus.
1712 pp., 32,0x30,0 cm, 3285 colour illus.
This magnificent and unprecedented three-volume set showcases one of the world's most important collections of twentieth-century Venetian glass – 1.000 masterpieces marvelously photographed and cataloged by a renowned expert in the field.
Celebrated...
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400.00 GBP
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