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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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Young poland
Explores the decorative arts and architecture of Polish Modernism and its relationship to the Arts & Crafts movement in Britain.
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Architectural tourism
This book charts the relationship between architecture and tourism. It asks why monuments and buildings attract and compel us to visit, why we feel the need to understand cities through architectural sites such as museums, historic sites and monuments, and how national identity is galvanised thro...
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Into the light
Considering both her architectural work and her more renowned later watercolour paintings, this is the first comprehensive book on the work of Italian-American Lauretta Vinciarell.
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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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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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The architecture of peter rich
Peter Rich has a unique, contemporary, yet uniquely African architecture. This book shows how his work emerges from a fascination with indigenous settlements and their forms of complex symmetry and examines various community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period.
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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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Richard seifert
Richard Seifert: British Brutalist Architecture showcases 40 of Seifert's most well-known and innovative buildings in Britain.
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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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Space framed
Beautifully illustrated, this series of essays examines the relationship between architecture and photography through the work of major photographers from the early C20th to the present and focuses on how they engage with some aspect of the designed and inhabited environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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20/20
Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, it offers a fascinating biography of some of the greatest modern architect...
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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
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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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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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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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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Ding yi
The first monograph to examine the entire career to Chinese artist Ding Yi.
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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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Security, resilience and planning
Security, Resilience and Planning offers key concept and practical guidance about the role of planners in countering terrorist risk, using a range of international case studies.
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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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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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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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Architecture through drawing
Architecture Through Drawing examines architectural drawings as objects which encapsulate complex spatial and cultural ideas.
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The urban design process
This useful guide sets out clearly the urban-design process in practice, from initial site analysis through consultation, design development, and design delivery across a range of scales within the built environment.
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Studio lives
By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture – occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones – and, in doing so, shows them coming to terms with the past, and in the pr...
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Radical women
Radical Women tells a fresh, new story of British modernism; the first to cover the entirety of Jessica Dismorr's (1876-1939) life and art alongside those of women artists she worked and exhibited with. The book brings to life a fascinating and turbulent period in art history and a web of connect...
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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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Mary weatherford
From her early monumental targets, through canvases studded with real shells and starfish, to her recent neon-appended panels, Weatherford’s works argue forcibly and convincingly for the engagement of painting with contemporary life. Suzanne Hudson’s text reveals a singularly inventive artist.
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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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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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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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John ruskin
Published to coincide with the bi-centenary of Ruskin's birth, John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies provides an accessible way into the world of Ruskin and his writing.
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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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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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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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Amy sillman
American artist Amy Sillman works in many media but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production, from the late-1990s to the present.
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Creating the v&a
This book tells the story of the formative years of London’s world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum and the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
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Library of light
Structured around four thematic essays – Political Light, Mediating Light, Performance Light and Absent Light – this book develops our understanding of light as a creative medium and its impact on our cultural history and examines the role that light plays in the new frontiers of art, design and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Green infrastructure planning
This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers and environmentalists.
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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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Beautiful moves
This book examines a range of exemplary stadia, including examples from Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog and de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.
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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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Data cities
How we live and understand architecture is being transformed by new technologies. Flows of data will inform our future behaviours in physical, virtual and hybrid-reality situations, and architecture and cities are being reinvented as not merely static structures, but places that pulse.
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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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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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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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Rose wylie
The expressive paintings of Rose Wylie (b.1934), mix styles and subject matter, high art with low and kitsch to create bold depictions of modern life. This monograph, the first of its kind, follows the artist's fascinating artistic journey celebrating her achievements to date while also examining...
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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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Eric ravilious scrapbooks
Bringing together over 400 images taken from the artist’s 5 scrapbooks, accompanied by instructive commentary by the authors, this new book provides a fascinating record of the febrile imagination of one of Britain’s best-loved artists.
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Mary newcomb
This beautiful new book, compiled by the artist's daughter and grandson, reveals Mary Newcomb as an acute observer of her surroundings, reproducing her copious sketches alongside more finished paintings and short diary extracts to draw out the many themes which preoccupied her throughout her care...
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Street to studio
As graffiti and street art enter their sixth decade, this ground-breaking book presents a new interpretation of where these alternative artforms are situated today. Introducing the concept of 'Intermural Art' - art in-between the walls - Rafael Schacter presents a genre at a key moment of transit...
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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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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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Alison wilding
This impeccably researched and beautifully produced publication situates Wilding's work within its rightful place in the history of modern sculpture.
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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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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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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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Plundering beauty
Arthur Tompkins presents examples of art crimes from wars through history, including the Fourth Crusade, the Napoleonic era, the Second World War and modern-day conflicts in Yugoslavia and Iraq.
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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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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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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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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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Cook's camden
In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. This book examines this programme and offers important lessons and insights for the design of collective housing today.
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Frederick walker and the idyllists
This book is the first in over century to examine the important work of Frederick Walker and his circle. Their common aim was to respond sensitively to nature and depict the place of man within it. This book provides both the perfect introduction to the Victorian art world and a fresh perspective...
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An organic architecture
A reissue in the Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary year of the series of lectures which the celebrated American architect gave in London in 1939 and which outline his core philosophy of 'organic architecture'.
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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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Rebel modernists: viennese architecture since otto wagner
This book examines the history of Vienna’s architectural culture, cultural politics, counter cultural rebellions and economic policies from the beginning of the C20th to the present day for the reasons it is one of the most livable architectural and urban environments in the world.
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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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Gerald laing
This is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the paintings and sculptures of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (1936–2011), who shot to fame in the 1960s with his large-scale, iconic paintings of film-stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in styles and colours that aped the crude but...
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Johnston & gill
Edward Johnston (1872-1944) and Eric Gill (1882-1940) were originators of two of the world's most enduring typefaces. Johnston still stands as London's primary 'wayfinding' lettering, while Gill Sans is the type of choice within many public and private organisations across the UK today. This book...
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Paul nash: outline, an autobiography
Paul Nash was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. An official war artist in both the First and the Second World Wars, his paintings include some of the most definitive artistic visions of those conflicts. This new edition of Outline is published to coincide with a ...
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The diary of mary watts 1887-1904
Mary Watts (1849-1938) was a leading designer of the Arts & Crafts period, the founder of the Compton Pottery and the wife of the great Victorian painter George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). She was also an avid diarist and filled copious volumes with her musings on art and society and her day-...
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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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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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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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Christopher wood
The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes over 150 images, provides extensive visual analysis of individual paintings, set designs and drawings.
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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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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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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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Eileen gray
Irish-born designer Eileen Gray is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. This book deals with his life and work.
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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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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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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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