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Palace of the ether
This book is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades, with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s ident...
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The museum and the factory
A fascinating illustrated account of the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum and a famous, high-tech 19th-century industrial art manufacturer, Elkington & Co.
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Brinkworth: so good so far
Founded in 1990, Brinkworth is an award-winning London-based design studio, working globally in interior and architectural design. The practice has completed over 2000 projects, located in over 80 countries. They have become known for their retail and hospitality work, always with a radical, crea...
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Gary hume
Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artist's oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Hume's singular pathway. Profusely illustrated, the book underlines H...
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Kurt jackson's rivers
From source to sea, artist Kurt Jackson's fascination with the rivers of the British Isles and beyond has endured throughout his life. This book explores, for the first time, Jackson's visual and written responses to the rivers that he has followed, from the continent of Africa to his home county...
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Bernard frize
This book focuses on the paintings of Bernard Frize, an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. It provides a detailed consideration of all stages of Frize’s development, from the earliest works to the present.
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Nextgen collectors and the art market
An incisive survey from bestselling art-market commentator Georgina Adam of the changing landscape of art collecting as a younger generation of collectors disrupts the status quo. Drawing on new interviews with collectors and art-market specialists internationally, Adam examines how changes in co...
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British architectural sculpture
This book examines the collaborative process that produced the outstanding carving and sculpture on many of the most remarkable buildings of what was Britain’s greatest period of wealth and global power. Investigating the processes and methodologies behind these shared artistic endeavours, it rev...
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Studio voices
A fascinating account of the lives, childhood memories and creative practice of a wide range of 20th-century British artists as recorded in interviews for the British Library's Artists' Lives project.
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Mist and fog in british and european painting
The metaphorical meanings that have accrued to mist and fog, encouraged by their indeterminate and transitory nature, and the emotions to which they give rise, are variously evident in the work of major artists and their contemporaries.This book is the first to address the themes of mist and fog ...
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Commercial galleries
Written by an art advisor and former gallerist with an insider’s perspective, this book provides a timely overview of the commercial-gallery sector at a moment of rapid change and expansion. More than any participant in the art market, galleries are seen as mysterious actors with an opaque code o...
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Hans hollein's masterpiece
The Austrian architect-artist Hans Hollein was appointed in 1972 to design a new museum for the post-industrial city of Mönchengladbach in West Germany which transformed it into a centre for contemporary art. This book reveals the full story of this innovative masterpiece. Opening in 1982, Museum...
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Glass and light
The evolution of the glass façade is central to the evolution of architecture. This book focuses on the main and most immediate contribution of glass to architecture: light.
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Travels with frank lloyd wright
By retracing Frank Lloyd Wright’s footsteps on six of his journeys, the author explores the architect’s global ambitions and lasting legacy, offering an original and contemporary view of Wright and his architecture. He reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright as an early promoter of globalisation – the fir...
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Danish-british consort portraiture, c.1600-1900
This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores an intersection of three themes trending in early modern studies: portraiture, gender and the court as a centre of cultural exchange. The book re-eva...
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Katharina grosse
This is the first comprehensive monograph on the innovative abstract paintings and expansive painting installations of German artist Katharina Grosse.
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Charcoalblue
This book charts a twenty-year period in theatre design that maps the growth of large-scale adaptable theatre through Charcoalblue’s work, alongside the world's leading architects. From the remaking of London’s Young Vic Theatre in the mid-2000s, through larger scale projects for the Royal Shakes...
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Designing the v&a
The first book to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself and to present a wide variety of visual material relating to the Museum's 19th-century interiors, much of it previously unpublished.
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Designing a world for everyone
The way we experience the world is largely through the design of the places, products, communications, services and systems we encounter every day. Design determines how difficult or easy it is to achieve certain things – whether taking a bath, cooking a meal, crossing the street or making a call...
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The artist as ecologist
How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working i...
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Winifred knights 1899-1947
This book provides the only first full account of the life and work of Winifred Knights (1899-1947), the first woman to win the Prix de Rome (1920) and one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. It examines Knights’ art in t...
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Kyffin williams
Williams achieved both success and remarkable popular appeal. Featuring some of the finest examples of an impressive oeuvre, this book – scholarly robust and visually enticing – is essential reading for all those who appreciate the importance of this gifted British painter.
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Planning and real estate
Real estate development is a highly regulated, high value industry: this book examines its efficiency, its role in shaping the built environment and its relationship with planning and planners.
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William turnbull
William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of British, European and American art...
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Kim lim
Sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997) had a lifelong fascination with space and its relationship with two- and three-dimensions. This important new publication explores her outstanding body of work. In a series of fascinating chapters, leading art-world specialists survey the artist's rich ...
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Shell art & advertising
Featuring a wealth of beautiful reproductions from Shell's extensive archive, Shell Art & Advertising positions the company's artistic heritage within a historic and social context.
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Peter gregory
Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly and richly illustrated monographs on living a...
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The two michelangelos
Through historical coincidence that almost takes on a mythical character, 'Michelangelo' was the given name not only of the Florentine sculptor, but also of the painter who grew up in Caravaggio, a provincial town in Lombardy, about 25 miles east of Milan. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, commo...
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Mid-rise urban living
Many communities in cities around the world do not like the growing number of residential towers, but they also realise that the detached house is not a sustainable urban solution. Between these two extremes, there is a ‘missing middle’ of mid-rise apartment buildings that relate to the street an...
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Arts and crafts pioneers
The first book on the Century Guild of Artists (CGA) and its influential periodical, the Century Guild Hobby Horse. The significance of the CGA in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors is assessed.
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C.r.w. nevinson
C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) is regarded as one of the finest British printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century - admired by contemporaries and modern-day viewers in equal measure. Drawing on original archival research and including a catalogue raisonne of Nevinson's prints.
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Richard seifert
Richard Seifert: British Brutalist Architecture showcases 40 of Seifert's most well-known and innovative buildings in Britain.
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Philanthropy in the arts
Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of existing funding structures, and various social initiatives and causes have thrown renewed focus on how the arts are funded. Around the world, a ...
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Edward bawden scrapbooks
Through 250 illustrations taken from five fascinating scrapbooks, this book reveals the wonderful world of painter and illustrator Edward Bawden. Some pages are beautiful, some instructive and some baffling, but together they give us an insight into the mind of one of the 20th century's most recl...
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Elisabetta sirani
Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources — including inventories, sale catalogues and her work di...
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Buro happold - engineering, design and advisory
Founded in 1976, Buro Happold is a global engineering and planning consultancy known for innovative, sustainable design. Highlighting 50 projects over 50 years, the book explores technological advances and the future of healthier, more resilient cities through landmark works and urban transformat...
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Bernard berenson
The book examines Bernard Berenson’s influential connoisseurship, his complex character, and his methods for valuing Renaissance art. It highlights his protégés, his profitable but controversial dealings, and his lasting impact on the modern art market.
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The architectural association in the postwar years
This book traces the history of the Architectural Association from the end of the second world war until the mid-1960s, when it surrendered its position as the pacemaker in British architectural education in order to safeguard its institutional independence.
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Artemisia gentileschi
Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career. Bringing to light recent archival discoveries...
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Visual arts and the law
This essential handbook offers art professionals and collectors an accessible legal analysis of important principles in art law, as well as a practical guide to legal rights when creating, buying, selling and collecting art in a global market.
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Children and planning
Planning is central to ensuring children and young people live in safe, secure places, that they are included and can be active. This book provides a range of international case studies, both planning-led and other more general examples which have relevance for planners and planning, which illust...
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Cullinan studio in the 21st century
Beautifully illustrated, this monograph examines a wide range of project from award-winning architectural practice Cullinan Studio.
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Zaha hadid's paintings
Zaha Hadid is widely regarded as a visionary and influential architect, who became globally acclaimed by the time of her untimely death in 2016. This book is the first to focus on how painting was fundamental to her practice. During the first 20 years of her career, she earned her reputation thro...
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Richard neutra and the making of the lovell health house, 1925‐35
This book tells the story of the Lovell Health House in Los Angeles, designed and built by Richard Neutra from 1927 to 1929, from its inspiration through its construction to its impact. It was a ‘demonstration house’: widely documented and written about in leading architectural journals when it w...
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Mothers of invention
Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. Tracing ...
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The art of elizabeth blackadder
Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadder’s art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the account of an important artist and her significant body of work. With her oeuvre ranging through still life, landscapes and flower painting, Elizabeth Bla...
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Closed on mondays
The author guides the inquisitive museum visitor through a series of questions and problems which confront museum curators, and their designers, behind closed doors. With a foreword by Christopher Frayling.
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Philip taaffe
The first illustrated monograph to survey the work to date of major American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), whose work has expanded the parameters of painting through a fascinating layering of different techniques and imagery, including marbling, silkscreen, collage and linocut.
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The art of richard eurich
This book explores the nature of the consistently visionary voice that runs through the art of Richard Eurich (1903-92). Eurich himself characterised this voice as a search for 'that elusive something' which is 'associated with something... very vital' and which is reflected in his stylistically ...
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Canova and his world
This kaleidoscopic study of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), one of the most celebrated sculptors of the Neoclassical era, reconsiders his life, work and artistic legacy in the wake of the two-hundredth anniversary of his death. Pestilli here examines how critics such as Carl Ludwig Fernow and Quatrem...
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Henry holiday
Henry Holiday (1839–1927) was a polymath who counted figures such as Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Most significantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable...
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Fidelia bridges
Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) painted pictures that critics praised for their ability to exude the fragrance of field flowers and glow with the plumage of birds. Raised in Salem and long residing in Connecticut, she maintained a studio in New York City, where she exhibited her art for over forty ye...
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Luisa roldán
This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), a prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The daughter of Pedro Roldán, a well-known sculptor from Seville, she developed her talent in her father’s ...
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The valuation of fine art and design
The Valuation of Fine Art and Design provides a detailed analysis of the art and science of valuation, focussing on the process of assigning monetary values to artworks. The book sets out to educate art-world stakeholders in the nuances of pricing in the broadest sense. Construction of appropriat...
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Guillermo kuitca
Spanning the 1980s to the present day, this book provides an overview of the paintings of Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca (b.1961), unpicking his range of influences and techniques.
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Victor pasmore
Focussing on 1930-60, this publication considers Pasmore's transition from figurative painter to abstract artist. Reproducing works from both public and private collections, this publication will stoke interest in an important period in British art history and shed new light on a crucial stage in...
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Architectures of the technopolis
Comparing the work of Archigram and High-Tech architects thematically, this book explores the historical and cultural context of London to reveal their influences and interconnections and why two such radical groups emerged from a seemingly conservative city. This book examines the relationships ...
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Lee miller and surrealism in britain
Presenting for the first time Lee Miller’s photographs of, and collaborations with, important Surrealist artists working in Britain (alongside their artworks), this important book tells the story of an exciting cultural moment.
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Art in hong kong
Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by a local journalist who has reported on the city’s cultural landscape for many years. Enid Tsui presents a balanced and insightful picture of recent ch...
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King's cross
This book provides the most accurate and most complete account of the evolution of King's Cross Central, one of Europe’s most successful, and most significant, urban regeneration projects. It is already the subject of considerable international interest, attracting the attention of planners, poli...
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Prefab housing and the future of building
Richly illustrated and drawing on historical examples and contemporary design studies, this book takes the reader through the history, theory and design of prefabricated and modular housing, leading up to a discussion of contemporary problems and opportunities.
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The art institution of tomorrow
The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existing art institutions are not equipped to deal with the radical social, economic and environmental change we are living through and engage with advancem...
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Eufrasia burlamacchi
This timely exploration of the skilful illuminated manuscripts of Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478–1548) demonstrates her artistry within this sometime neglected artistic medium. Within the convent walls of San Domenico in Lucca where she lived and worked, Burlamacchi attained high levels of art...
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Albrecht dürer's afterlife
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) enjoyed European-wide fame during his lifetime. Dürer was not only a brilliant painter, but also a pioneering printmaker, experimental draughtsman, book publisher, first German art theoretician and amateur poet. His art was avidly collected, repeatedly copied in diverse...
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Towards the ethical art museum
Museums are under fire currently from all quarters on account of a wide range of ethical issues, from their association with morally dubious regimes to the questionable provenance of objects in their collections and the perceived lack of inclusivity of their exhibitions. This book examines why th...
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Ai art and the stakes for art criticism
In an era when AI-generated images flood our screens and algorithms shape our visual culture, how do we critically evaluate art made by machines? Nora N. Khan's study cuts through the hype and mystification surrounding AI art to explore the field’s stakes for art criticism. The book attempts to m...
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Why plan?
The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
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Remote practices
As advancements in transportation and technology continue to close the gap between architect, client, builder and site, critique and place, this book considers how architects, designers, theorists, and critics design, describe and critique future and past constructions in absentia. This book enga...
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Ding yi
The first monograph to examine the entire career to Chinese artist Ding Yi.
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Clara peeters
Clara Peeters was one of the most talented and creative among the early practitioners of still-life painting in Europe. This timely book sheds light on the limitations she encountered because of her gender and how she responded to them in her art, while also assessing her importance as a painter.
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Designing london
Designing London provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of London’s urban character, establishing key principles by which the architecture of the capital’s streets, buildings and spaces can be designed to enhance the character of the city.
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Scotland's rural home
The nine building stories told in this book show how rural households and communities define themselves, and the role architecture plays in this.
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Scotland and the origins of modern art
A discussion of sensibility, sensation, perception and painting, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art is an original work which argues that the eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy of moral sense played a central role in shaping ideas explored by figures such as Cézanne and Monet over one hun...
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Halsey ricardo
English architect and designer Halsey Ricardo (1854-1928) was a champion of craftsmanship and the Arts & Crafts movement as well as an influential thinker and teacher. Mark Bertram’s engaging illustrated biography, which draws on previously unpublished correspondence, is the first book to pla...
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Drawing in the dark
In contrast to Henry Moore's well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1941; drawing men in 'Britain's underground army', the mine...
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Anthony caro
This is the sixth volume in Lund Humphries’ series of monographs on British sculptor Anthony Caro and the first publication to focus on his use of stainless steel as a distinct body of work.
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The sculpture of alfred gruber and jacqueline stieger
For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start of a bountiful partnership - their artistic chemistry conjuring works that exploited the transformative qualities of common and precious metals. Chronicling their intertwined stories, w...
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Tom hammick
This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick's art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the two-centuries-old Romantic tradition. Julian Bell explores in depth the artist's techniques, imagery a...
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Provocations
The book charts the career of architect David Connor, identifying influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients.
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Neighbourhood planning in practice
This book examines the experience of neighbourhood planners, analysing what communities have achieved, how they have done so and what went well or badly.
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Louise moillon
Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sébastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Louise Moillon reassesses the importance of this p...
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Paul nash
Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946), this book provides a new perspective on one of the most gifted and celebrated English artists of the twentieth century.
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The drawings of henry moore
Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation. This title presents an account of the development of Moore's work as a draughtsman, providing a discussion of this significant aspect of his artistic ...
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Insiders/outsiders
This book examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of émigrés arriving from Europe in the 1930s to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the UK.
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Etel adnan
This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan’s fascinating life and work. Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
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Making art in africa
What does it mean to make art in Africa? In Making Art in Africa, 60 of the continent's leading artists give very different answers to this question through a series of extraordinary first-hand commentaries relating to specific works.
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Matt rugg
Examining for the first time the life and work of the sculptor Matt Rugg (1935–2020), Michael Bird’s impeccably researched text vividly charts Rugg’s parallel careers as artist and teacher in the context of developments in creative pedagogy in Britain during the second half of the twentieth centu...
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Gesina ter borch
Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and thoroughly catalogued, Ter Borch has surpri...
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Woodland imagery in northern art, c. 1500 - 1800
Woodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Dürer’s intense studies of verdant trees, to the works of many other Northern European artists who captured 'the truth of vegetation' in their work. These incidents of remarkab...
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Healthy cities?
Healthy Cities? explores the how the physical design of the places we live may support, or constrain, healthy lifestyle choices. It sets out how understanding these relationships may lead to policy and practice that reduces health inequalities, increases well-being and allows people to live more ...
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Ellen gallagher
In this in-depth look at Ellen Gallagher's oeuvre, the complexities of her richly layered paintings are unpacked to examine themes such as identity, race, displacement and the ecological environment.
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Light field
From a career in commercial lighting design, Bruce Munro (b.1959) returned to his artistic roots to create large immersive site-specific light installations. Exploring Munro’s fascinating career to date, this book presents an artist whose work is an exploration of place, topography and the enviro...
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Creative legacies
Creative Legacies takes an in-depth look at how to create and maintain an artist's estate, offering practical advice illustrated by real-life examples.
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Japan and the west
Based on extensive research, this book provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its present state without the other.
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Helen clapcott
In a painting career spanning half a century, Helen Clapcott (b.1952) has remained consistent in both her choice of subject and her disregard of the art establishment's playbook. In this, the first major monograph on the artist, Andrew Lambirth charts Clapcott's unconventional path and presents a...
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Jim shaw
This is the first major monograph on the paintings of Jim Shaw (b. 1952), whose work blends the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles with the multi-layered world of American popular culture to create rich dream-like worlds.
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Kurt jackson's botanical landscape
This new collection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by renowned artist Kurt Jackson, celebrates the staggering diversity of the plant kingdom.
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Paul feiler
Paul Feiler was inspired by the English landscape, particularly the cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. Based on full access to the artist's archive of letters, catalogues and photographs, Michael Raeburn describes how Feiler overcame many painful early experiences to achieve t...
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Streetscapes
At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that the lessons learned about the creation of a general attractive ‘townscape’ or ‘streetscape’ have ...
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Decimus burton
A contemporary of Soane, Nash and Pugin, Decimus Burton (1800–1881) was one of the most prolific architects of his day and is best known for his work in London’s Royal Parks, including: the Wellington Arch and the Serpentine pavilion in Hyde Park; villas and terraces in Regent’s Park and the Lond...
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