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Faust
When man petitions the heavens, is it God or the devil who answers? This central human question drives Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s seminal 1806 play, Faust. Loosely based on the legendary 15th-century alchemist, the story follows Faust’s pursuit of boundless wisdom through magic. He strikes a da...
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The possessed, or the devils
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The interpretation of dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) is widely regarded as the most significant work of legendary neurologist Sigmund Freud. In the text, Freud unravels the mysteries of the psyche by unpacking the signs and symbols of the dream world. His analysis rests on a two-part model of dreams: one part whi...
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Daisy miller
Daisy Miller is Henry James’ sharpest critique of European high society and a must read for lovers of psychological drama, social deconstruction, and classic literature.The titular Daisy Miller is a woman whose genuine kindness and lust for life is anathema to the rigid and vain culture of 19th C...
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The iliad
The Iliad (c. 750 BCE) is one of the oldest works of literature in existence and continues to stir the imagination of contemporary readers thanks to its epic depictions of martial prowess, heroism, and tragedy.Aiming to bring the legendary story to a new audience, Samuel Butler eschewed the tradi...
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Billy budd and other prose pieces
Billy Budd is the final novel from legendary author Herman Melville. Published posthumously almost thirty years after his death, the novel is renowned for its richness of character and its thematic ambiguity.Melville couches his tale of morality inside an exciting nautical adventure set during th...
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The idiot
Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a positively good and beautiful man, sets out on his journey home to Russia after an extended stay at a sanitarium in Switzerland. Open-hearted and somewhat simple, the young prince attempts to be among the people, finding himself in an unfamiliar and immoral society obs...
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Anthropology and travel writing, 19th–21st century
From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation ...
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Studio potters
This book celebrates and catalogues the Bell Collection of British studio pottery and is an important resource for all those interested in 20th-century ceramics. The collection is centred on the pioneering work of Bernard Leach and his followers.
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Migrating borders and citizenship in law
Devyani Prabhat’s groundbreaking book examines the multifarious ways in which law operates with borders, demarcating not only nations and territories, but people and migrants, residents and foreigners. From worldwide to the nation, family to the workplace, this interdisciplinary study explores th...
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The assetocracy
Parliament’s second chamber may no longer be home to hereditary peers, but elitism remains. This detailed analysis of the financial and political activity of the members of the House of Lords exposes the extent of the wealth elite's grip on power at the heart of British government.
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The china cure
An insider’s perspective on how China’s healthcare is developing, where it offers lessons for the West and how it could shape the practice and delivery of medicine worldwide.
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Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae 1541–1857: the welsh dioceses xiv
The Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae is the standard authority for identifying the higher clergy of the Church of England from 1066–1857. This volume covers the Welsh dioceses from 1541–1857. Complete with a general introduction, explanatory commentary and introductions to the four dioceses, this is an...
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Lynn chadwick sculptor
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a new illustrated listing of his lithographs a...
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Painted interiors of the british baroque
This book explores how British 17th‑century painted interiors were designed to appeal to our emotions through the five senses. It features stunning new photography of surviving interiors to shed new light on the mural schemes of British royal palaces, town and country houses and public buildings ...
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Derek boshier
Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by Derek Boshier (1937-2024) from the post-war period to the digital age, this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier’s deceptively playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on societal issues and the fragility and fragment...
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Photography and the art market
An essential guide to the state of the market for art photography today.
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Re-issue, re-imagine, re-make
This book examines the phenomenon of the re-issue of 20th century furniture ‘design classics’ and their widespread re-interpretation by contemporary designers and artists.
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Art and architecture of sicily
Art and Architecture of Sicily is the first book to cover the rich artistic heritage of Sicily from prehistory up to the late 20th century. Sicily’s strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean led to settlement or conquest by a succession of different peoples – Phoenicians, Greeks, Roma...
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The art fair story
In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial...
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Londoners making london
Londoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have transformed urban neighbourhoods. Countering the expectation that the development of cities is exclusively controlled by architects, planners and developers, this book demonstrates that transformational change is increasingly driv...
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Michaelina wautier
Active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century, Michaelina Wautier is now regarded as one of the foremost female artists of her time, although for many years her work was misattributed to her male contemporaries. Continually pushing boundaries as a female artist, Wautier exhibited an in-dep...
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The edwardians and their houses
This book analyses beautiful and varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture within a broad context, including Edwardian political thought and contemporary literature.
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Designing london’s public spaces
Eight illustrated case studies, four post-war and four contemporary, show how these public spaces came about, why they succeeded or failed, and why their success matters.
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Speaking sculptures in late medieval europe
Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors’ motif of the open mouth. The speech mode, as it is called in this book, is more than an illusionistic device or an affective ploy to foster the emotional response of the viewer. Here it is shown to have a deeper significance...
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Derwent lees
Bringing to light the art and life of Derwent Lees (1884–1931), an Australian painter who studied and taught at the Slade School of Art in the decade preceding and including the First World War, this comprehensive monograph includes a complete catalogue of the artist’s known works. Embedded withi...
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Collaborations in housing design
Over the past three decades, Baylight Properties have been working in collaboration with some of the finest British architects to develop a series of award-winning housing projects, each one marked by a poetic sensitivity and thoughtful use of materials. This book addresses the particular challen...
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Designing for heritage
In recent years, a range of incredible, architecturally renowned centres has been designed and built – welcoming visitors to key heritage sites, historic buildings, landscapes and monuments. Bringing together case studies of 20 award-winning centres across the UK, this book examines this relative...
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Gillian carnegie
This is the first substantial publication on the work of British artist Gillian Carnegie. In contemporary painting her work stands apart, quietly, calmly and insistently uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlike anything else in art today.
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Joe tilson
Joe Tilson RA (1928-2023) was one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. His work ever evolving, he explored many new directions and a great variety of mediums after moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no ge...
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Godefridus schalcken
The first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643–1706), this study examines the artist’s paintings and career trajectory against the background of his ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune.
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Enriching the v&a
By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum’s 19th-century his...
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Ben nicholson
Featuring reproductions of key works and selected letters, Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas is an invaluable resource to all those interested in the work of this key British artist and the period in which he worked.
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Architecture through drawing
Architecture Through Drawing examines architectural drawings as objects which encapsulate complex spatial and cultural ideas.
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Illuminating stained glass
This book provides a compelling overview of how stained glass can play a significant role in our visual culture and heritage. While the closure of traditional church buildings has endangered the future of this well-loved discipline, throughout the centuries, stained glass has had a capacity to ad...
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The great exhibition in art
The Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World's Fair, is generally thought of as a giant trade fair, a showcase for empires and industry. However, it was also conceived to address a deep-rooted problem with British taste, which favoured European art and design over British. Julius Bryant's richly...
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The timeless home
Including a range of projects from town and country, this book details James Gorst's unique approach to the contemporary home. Defined by a combination of modern thinking and a respect for craftsmanship and bespoke detailing, the designs give equal weight to architectural form and engaging, vibra...
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Modern and site specific: the architecture of gino valle
Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to his complete works.
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Ai and the art market
AI and the Art Market is the first book to offer an approachable introduction to AI for art-market professionals, considering AI’s impact on and possible applications within the art world, whether as a business tool or as an artistic medium. The two primary topics of how AI is affecting the art m...
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The sculpture of francis derwent wood
A student of Edouard Lanteri at the Royal College of Art, Derwent Wood's early artistic career was distinguished. His reputation grew rapidly and a period as Director of Modelling at the Glasgow School of Art saw him working on public commissions with many of the city's most important architects....
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Revolution? architecture and the anthropocene
There is almost nothing new left to say about the urgent need to reduce our devastating impact on the biosphere that supports us. In architectural terms, we have been told since the 1960s that mainstream architecture is not engaged enough with the environmental consequences of what it produces an...
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The sculpture of kenneth armitage
Published to coincide with his 2016 centenary, this book is the first illustrated monograph on Kenneth Armitage to include a complete inventory of all his known sculptures.
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British interior design since 1925
After the First World War, Interior Design emerged in Britain as a distinctive profession, one that used fresh eyes and imagination to transform edifices old and new into environments that satisfied aesthetic appetites and enhanced the experiences of those who used them. This is the first critica...
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The language of architectural classicism
Classicism is ubiquitous, from the facade of Selfridges to the letterhead of The Times, to the pedimented porches of neo-Georgian housing estates. This book invites readers to discover in their surroundings a rich language of form which is there to be revealed. It discusses the pleasures and prob...
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Building brands
Building Brands explores the role of architectural branding in the design of corporate modernism and tells how business strategies, modern architecture, urban conditions, and conceptions of society shaped the ambitious branding goals of corporate clients.
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Photography of protest and community
Illustrated with many newly discovered photographs, this book tells the story of community photography produced by the radical collectives in the 1970s.
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Lady charlotte schreiber, extraordinary art collector
This book emphasises Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895) — also known as Lady Charlotte Guest, née Bertie — as one of the most significant women in the history of collecting. An extraordinary collector, historian and philanthropist, Charlotte subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian con...
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Verne dawson
Verne Dawson's idiosyncratic paintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation. John Hutchinson's survey of the artist’s work to date provides fascinating insight into a complex body of work.
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Revisiting modern british art
As the twenty-first century unfolds, notions of our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily. Within this, accepted artistic trajectories are being questioned and new connections made. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking publication, experts in their ...
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Planning for an ageing society
Comparing international case studies, Gilroy explores the critical role of housing and the possible use of land allocation to encourage developers to think about better and more housing options for later life.
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Anne vallayer-coster
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) was one of just four female academicians admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the late 18th century. She made her debut at the Paris Salon only a year after joining the academy with her outstanding still-lifes. Later, she secured Queen...
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The art of activism and the activism of art
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflect...
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1960s university buildings
The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. This book discusses the a...
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Edward burra
Edward Burra (1905-76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating new monograph on his work reveals, his interests were much broader, incorporating landscape and still-life paintings, stage designs, book illustration...
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Stanley whitney
Abrams's thoughtful book, the first full monograph on the artist, highlights Whitney's commitment to abstract painting over four decades of consistent practice.
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Architecture and the face of coal
Beautifully illustrated, Architecture and the Face of Coal is the first book to examine the fascinating story of the relationship between architecture and Britain's coal fields, and includes examples of iconic and avant-garde architectural forms.
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Living by the rule
This unique and bold publication vividly stages an encounter between medieval and contemporary art with many unexpected resonances sounding between recent works and much earlier objects and texts. Taking as their focus the Rule of St Benedict, a book written in the sixth century which provided mo...
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The complete works of rick mather
Rick Mather (1937-2013), an American-born, London-based architect, is acknowledged as one of the leading architects of his generation. Yet the relevance of his work for the challenges of our age remains little-known, and his innovative work on environmental efficiencies, adaptive re-use, sociall...
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Chris dyson architects
This volume is the first sustained critical analysis of Chris Dyson Architects' philosophy, approach and body of work, focusing on their particular expertise in being sensitive to a sense of place, history and heritage.
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The wessex project: thomas hardy, architect
As an architect, Thomas Hardy is known only for his red-brick suburban villa, Max Gate. This book takes a wider view, arguing that architects do not just make buildings, but use other forms to change how we see and use the world. Illustrated with a wealth of his little-known drawings, it shows ho...
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1 finsbury avenue
This book sets the iconic building in its historic context, details its its initial development, design and construction, its listing and then critically examines the current scheme and the reimagining of a late 20th Century landmark.
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London 1870-1914
Conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction.
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Lois dodd
Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. Through extensive studio visits and interviews, Faye Hirsch considers the processes, places and impulses behind Dodd’s paintings in this monograph on the artist.
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Leslie martin and sadie speight
Sir Leslie Martin was a leading post‑war British architect known for the Royal Festival Hall and his Whitehall plan. The book highlights his influence on architectural education and reveals the vital, previously overlooked role of his partner Sadie Speight in their shared work and legacy.
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The founders of the werkbund
This book is the first, in any language, to provide a comprehensive study of the founders of the German Werkbund: the twelve artists and twelve firms represented at the establishment of the organization in 1907. Although these twenty-four were not always in agreement, they were committed to a com...
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Arts & crafts churches
Arts & Crafts Churches provides a definitive guide to 735 of the finest Arts & Crafts churches in Britain, including detailed descriptions of 175
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Waterloo bridge and london river
As a subject, Waterloo Bridge fascinated writers and artists such as Dickens, Constable, Monet and Derain. This book tells the story of a bridge’s place in the city – its history in use, its inextricable connection with the great river which it crosses, and the character and activities of the two...
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Mounton house
The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history, architecture and horticulture. All was des...
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A kurt jackson bestiary
Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Bestiaries date back to medieval times...
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Restitution
Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman’s fascinating and accessible book provides an up-to-...
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Mary wykeham
Original and idealistic, Mary Wykeham (1909-1996), to date neglected in the histories of surrealism, is brought centre stage in this first study of her remarkable pursuit of art – a creative impulse that witnessed her crossing Europe and finding success as a painter before embarking on a long str...
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Rudolph ihlee
Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968) was a prize-winning student at the Slade where his contemporaries included Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, C.R.W. Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth. Turning his back on a flourishing career in London, he relocated to the southern French town of Colli...
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Embroidering the landscape
Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlewor...
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Hans christian hansen
This book will be the first on the influential Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen, a municipal architect who created remarkable civic structures in Copenhagen between 1934 and 1974. Frequently using woven motifs, he worked with cheap and robust materials to conjure beauty from the most unlike...
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Frank lobdell and abstract expressionism in california
Featuring previously unpublished material from Lobdell's studio and archive, this book looks at the role of artist Frank Lobdell (1921-2013) in the formation of Abstract Expressionism in California.
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Eric mendelsohn’s synagogues in america
Eric Mendelsohn planned seven synagogues, of which four were built, all in the Midwest. In this book, photographer Michael Palmer has recorded in exquisite detail Mendelsohn's four built synagogues: Saint Paul, Saint Louis, Cleveland and Grand Rapids.
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Nigel hall
Nigel Hall: Sculpture & Drawings is an ambitious monograph which looks at his work in relation to sculptural developments in Britain, Europe and North America. It presents the two main strands of Hall's practice - sculpture and drawing - as distinct but also interrelated. Line and space are c...
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Shahzia sikander
This publication covers the entirety of the multivalent art of Pakistan-born American artist Shahzia Sikander (b.1969), with a particular focus on her painting. It contextualises her art within her early education in Lahore, move to America in 1993, and then her establishment in the New York art ...
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Neo rauch
Michael Glover offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch, whose paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism with the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past.
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Dorothea tanning
This is the definitive study of US artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), positioning her as one of the most fascinating and significant creative forces to emerge during the twentieth century. It provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth of Tanning's work, well beyond the be...
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Planning and participation
Why should the public participate in planning? And who are the stakeholders who are required to participate in the planning process? This guide assesses public and stakeholder participation in the planning process, which is a statutory requirement across the entire scope and scale of planning act...
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Sam herman
This book is the first to deal directly with the genesis of the Studio Glass Movement and the pioneering work of Sam Herman within it, while also shedding light on his wider practice in sculpture and painting.
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Vermeer and the art of love
Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter’s attentiveness to every detail withi...
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Excursions of imagination
In tracing the evolution of British drawing over nearly four centuries, Excursions of Imagination highlights objects of innovation and historical importance while underscoring a sense of continuity within the history of the medium.
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Imagining empire
Provides insights into the interrelations between architecture, national identity and politics as it explores the Commonwealth Institute with its famous hyperbolic paraboloid roof.
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Architecture in conversion and the work of carlo scarpa
The work of Modernist architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is exemplary of an in-between practice, which is neither architecture nor conservation, but rather, architecture in conversion, dependent upon time, weather, and tempo. This book discusses the notion of architecture in conversion, revealing...
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Susie m. barstow
Why do we not know more of Susie Barstow? A prolific artist, Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923) was committed to expressing the majesty she found in the national landscape. She captured on canvas and paper the larger American landscape experience as it evolved across the nineteenth century. A notable f...
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Edward ardizzone
This book provides the first full overview of Ardizzone's work since the artist's death, analysing in turn his activity as an artist, writer and teacher, as well as incorporating fascinating biographical detail.
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Philip reeves
The breadth of Reeves's work, illustrated extensively here for the first time, may surprise even those who know and like his art. Those who are yet to encounter the oeuvre will find in Philip Reeves a fascinating introduction to a highly inventive artist.
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Marianne north
This lavishly-illustrated book re-assesses the work of the nineteenth-century botanical painter Marianne North (1830-1890) and the purpose-built gallery that houses her paintings at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Lynne Howarth-Gladston, a trained botanical illustrator and scholar, re-examines ...
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Rosalba carriera
This is an accessibly written, illustrated biography of Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), one of the most famous women artists in 18th-century Europe. It presents an overview of her life and work, considering Carriera's miniatures alongside her better-known, larger-scale works.Focusi...
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Rembrandt's hundred guilder print
Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works. This book gives a full overview of the fascinating story surrounding this print, from its genesi...
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Hélène binet
Over a period of forty years, Hélène Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture – this is the complete monograph of her work, with two extensive critical essays. Marco Iuliano details Hélène Binet’s background, from her childhood in the Italian fishing village of Sperlon...
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Expanding field of architecture
This book documents contemporary architectural projects designed by women architects participating in diverse forms of practice in diverse regions around the world. Examining each design within its unique context, this collection of forty projects includes beautifully illustrated case studies of ...
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Tal r
This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist has termed 'Kolbojnik', a Hebre...
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Planning, sustainability and nature
This book provides a grounding for planners and other related professionals in the key concepts associated with biodiversity and the natural environment, and in how to apply them in practice.
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20th century japan in 20 buildings
There is a long history in the West of viewing Japan through the twin lenses of orientalism and exoticism. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the re-opening of Japan after a long period of self-imposed isolation there has been a succession of commentators who have sought to present Japan...
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How not to exclude artist mothers (and other parents)
For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm shift is needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist mothers (and other parents: artist fat...
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What is it that will last?
This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook’s artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook’s practice in the context of critical reflections by Robert Ma...
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