Jeff Wall
Catalogue Raisonne 2005-2021
ISBN: HB: 9780300269277,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
352 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 85 colour illus.
352 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 85 colour illus.
A handsome volume of the renowned photographer's work from 2005 to 2021.
Best known for his large-scale photographs, carefully constructed "near documentaries" created in collaboration with the subjects, Jeff Wall (b. 1946) is one of the most influe...
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£125,00
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American Watercolors, 1880-1990
Into the Light
ISBN: PB: 9780300269703,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
184 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 105 colour and black&white illus.
184 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 105 colour and black&white illus.
A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums' collection.
Watercolor holds a special place in the history of American art. For generat...
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£35,00
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Prints Among Men
A Global History of Patterns in Menswear
ISBN: HB: 9783791388182,
Prestel Publishing,
September 2023
224 pp., 27x21 cm, 250 colour illus.
224 pp., 27x21 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
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Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066904,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
518 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
518 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
Since the fourth millennium BCE, bronze has been the preferred medium for some of the most prestigious and sacred works of art. But only through interdisciplinary research can the fabrication of these extraordinary objects be properly investigated, i...
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£65,00
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Miracles and Machines
A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
ISBN: HB: 9781606068397,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as "the monk". The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum o...
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£40,00
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Rene Magritte
The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606068007,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
120 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 85 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
120 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 85 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Rene Magritte (1898-1967) is the most famous Belgian artist of the twentieth century and a celebrated representative of the Surrealist movement. Much has been written about his practices, artistic community, and significance within the history of mod...
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£35,00
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Living Colours
ISBN: PB: 9788419220370,
Hoaki,
July 2023
192 pp., 21x15 cm, fully illustrated in colour
192 pp., 21x15 cm, fully illustrated in colour
Thegreat mystery of color finally revealed in a book that involves every field ofknowledge, from history to science, from art to psychology.
Why does the color catch our attention and fascinate us until seducing us? The answer is easy: because it...
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£16,99
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New Fashion Illustrators
50 Essential Contemporay Artists
ISBN: HB: 9788419220202,
Hoaki,
July 2023
224 pp., 25.6x19.6 cm, fully illustrated in colour
224 pp., 25.6x19.6 cm, fully illustrated in colour
This fashion illustration anthology brings together the work of fifty contemporary artists, fashion designers and fashion illustrators. The book includes works by major figures in the industry such as Bil Donovan, Aurore de la Morinerie, Piet Paris,...
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£28,00
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Alfredo Boulton
Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978
ISBN: HB: 9781606068199,
Getty Publications,
July 2023
280 pp., 27.3x21.6 cm, 164 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
280 pp., 27.3x21.6 cm, 164 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography, an art critic, a researcher and historian of Venez...
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£50,00
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Conserving Canvas
ISBN: PB: 9781606068243,
Getty Publications,
July 2023
640 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 373 colour illus.
640 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 373 colour illus.
In 2019 Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It w...
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£80,00
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