Art & Architecture

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On Artists

Ashleigh Wilson

Theory of art

Paperback

The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity,... [more]

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Masterpieces of Painting: J. Paul Getty Museum

Scott Allan, Davide Gasparotto, Peter Bjorn Kerber, Anne Woollett

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles; Painting & paintings; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Art techniques & principles

Hardback

This lavishly illustrated coffee-table book features more than one hundred paintings from the J. Paul Getty Museum's extraordinary... [more]

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Tunnel Vision

Kevin Breathnach

Photography & photographs; Biography; Memoirs; Literary essays; Literature: history & criticism

Paperback

Whether dissecting European architecture's obsession with historical loss, or the male gaze in photographer Andre Kertesz's... [more]

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Paper Cutting by Garden

Mihoko 'Garden' Kurihara

Art & Architecture; Book & paper crafts

Paperback

Garden, the creator of the bestselling garden Coloring Book, is a renowned paper cutting artist; her delicate designs are... [more]

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A Tiny Home to Call Your Own: Living Well in Just-Right Houses

Patricia Foreman

Architecture; Houses, apartments, flats, units; Self-sufficiency; Home & house maintenance

Paperback

Do you feel as though you're living in an expensive and ill-fitting home filled with too much stuff? A Tiny Home to Call... [more]

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Pierre Bonnard

Juliette Rizzi

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Paperback

Born in 1867, French Postimpressionist artist Pierre Bonnard was, with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colorists of the... [more]

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Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity

Ann Elias

Photographs: collections; Oceanography (seas); Sea life & the seashore

Paperback

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the... [more]

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Keiko Okamoto's Japanese Knitting Stitches: A Stitch Dictionary of 150 Amazing...

Keiko Okamoto, Gayle Roehm

Art & Architecture; Fashion & textiles: design; Needlework & fabric crafts; Knitting & crochet

Paperback

Keiko Okamoto's Japanese Knitting Stitches presents 150 exquisite knitting and crochet stitches from one of Japan's most prolific... [more]

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Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature

Hans den Hartog Jager

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists, art monographs; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

A parallel look at Hockney and Van Gogh's love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings. [more]

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Beginner's Guide to Life Drawing

Eddie Armer

Art & Architecture; Drawing & drawings; Painting & art manuals

Paperback

A beautiful, practical course to life drawing, using a range of media and techniques. [more]

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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

Jack Hartnell

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; History; Medieval history; History of medicine

Paperback

Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly... [more]

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Creative Quest

Questlove

Art & Architecture; Popular psychology

Paperback

From the mind of Questlove comes a unique new guide to creativity--exploring his origins as an artist, paying tribute to the... [more]

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Judith Kerr

Joanna Carey

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists, art monographs; Illustration

Hardback

An overview of the life and work of much-loved children's illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as... [more]

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The 50 Greatest Castles and Palaces of the World

Gilly Pickup

Architecture; Palaces, chateaux, country houses; Castles & fortifications; Travel & holiday guides; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

Paperback

Explore the legends, history and secrets of great castles and palaces around the world. [more]

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The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists

Linda Ferber, Nancy Anderson, Tim Barringer, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Sophie Lynford

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Paperback

An illuminating look at how the Pre-Raphaelite movement was embraced by a group of vanguard American artists [more]

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Harold Freedman: The Big Picture

Art & Architecture

Hardback

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Nora Heysen: A Portrait

Anne-Louise Willoughby

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. Extensively... [more]

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So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch

Karl Ove Knausgaard

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography

Paperback

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand... [more]

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Mr Guilfoyle's Honeymoon: The Gardens of Europe & Great Britain

Diana Hill, Edmee Cudmore

Landscape art & architecture; Horticulture; Gardening; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

Paperback

Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William Guilfoyle as he did with... [more]

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Selected Writings

Rene Magritte

Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

The first ever publication of writings by Magritte in the English language. It provides a fascinating and intimate glimpse... [more]

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Women Artists

Flavia Frigeri

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles

Paperback

Small, smart, essential - a chronological introduction to women artists through 500 years of history, providing a rich understanding... [more]

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The Book of the Flower: Flowers in Art

Angus Hyland, Kendra Wilson

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

'Art is the flower, life is the green leaf' - Charles Rennie Mackintosh... [more]

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Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World...

Martin J. Kemp

Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Individual artists, art monographs

Paperback

Martin Kemp, described by The Times as `the world's leading authority on Leonardo', relates his fifty-year relationship with... [more]

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The History of Architecture

Michael Stephenson

Architecture; History of architecture

Paperback

Civilizations can be judged, at least to some extent, by their man-made structures. For certain early cultures that left limited... [more]

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Surrealism

Amy Dempsey

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada

Paperback

Small, smart, essential - an incisive overview of Surrealism, introducing the movement's key artists and capturing its essential... [more]