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100 20th-Century Shops

100 20th-Century Shops

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Author: Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Society Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A showcase of Britain's most significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond. 100 20th-Century Shops is a...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

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Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

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Author: Joan Kee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the...
Reach for the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop's Final Party: Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize

Reach for the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop's Final Party: Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize

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Author: Michael Cragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the...
The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience

The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience

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Author: Matthew Rampley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological...
Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts

Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts

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Author: John Bidwell (Curatorial Chair, The Morgan Library) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012

Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012

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Author: Demetrio Paparoni Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is...
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

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Author: Audrey Golden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Author: John Grindrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

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Author: Julian Bell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic...
William Shakespeare x Rose Wylie: The Tempest

William Shakespeare x Rose Wylie: The Tempest

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, The Tempest brings together various themes the bard explored in his prior plays,...
Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020: Sunday Times Bestseller

Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020: Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: The Duchess of Cambridge Patron of the National Portrait Gallery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...
Vogue The Shoe

Vogue The Shoe

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Author: The Conde Nast Publications Ltd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Shoes fascinate women of all ages and have the power to crystallise a moment in fashion. In VOGUE:...
African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century

African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century

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Author: Osei Bonsu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work...
A History of Interior Design, Fourth edition

A History of Interior Design, Fourth edition

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Author: John Pile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition...
The Magic

The Magic

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Author: Dan Rhodes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Dan Rhodes is one of the most successful and beloved YouTuber and TikTok influencers in the world with more than 5...
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

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Author: Alan Partridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs...
Barndominiums: Your Guide to a Perfect, Inexpensive Dream Home

Barndominiums: Your Guide to a Perfect, Inexpensive Dream Home

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Author: Chris Peterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Plan your barn-conversion dream home guided by inspiring real-life examples and practical, cost-effective solutions. Move over she sheds, the next innovation...
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

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Author: Brian Baumgartner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 New York Times Bestseller "The ultimate behind-the-scenes account." -Washington Post "The definitive history of the landmark TV show." -USA Today Join...
From the Sculptor's Studio: Conversations with 20 Seminal Artists

From the Sculptor's Studio: Conversations with 20 Seminal Artists

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Author: Ina Cole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Fiona Banner, Phyllida Barlow, Anthony Caro, Richard Deacon, Laura Ford, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Anish Kapoor, Tania Kovats, Richard...
The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films

The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films

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Author: Robert Bartlett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In The Middle Ages and the Movies, eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of...
Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture

Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture

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Author: Richard Vinograd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting,...
Reyner Banham Revisited

Reyner Banham Revisited

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Author: Richard J. Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Reyner Banham (192288) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities and mass culture in Britain and the US,...
Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand

Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand

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Author: Brian Curtin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin...
A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini

A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini

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Author: Carolyn Tillie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Savour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and...
Designing Modern Japan

Designing Modern Japan

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Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...
The Art of Strange World

The Art of Strange World

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Author: Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The Art of Disney highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation - including character designs, storyboards, colour...
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools

Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools

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Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also...
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

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Author: Paul Hendrickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own...
Be More Drag: Life Hacks and Tips from the Queens and Kings of the Catwalk

Be More Drag: Life Hacks and Tips from the Queens and Kings of the Catwalk

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Author: Brandi Amara Skyy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Drag is a world of larger-than-life personalities, glamorous looks, and attitude to die for. When you feel lacking in confidence,...
Paris: Through a Fashion Eye: Special Edition

Paris: Through a Fashion Eye: Special Edition

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Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From globally renowned illustrator Megan Hess, this special enlarged and updated edition of the bestselling sensation Paris: Through A Fashion Eye...
LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time

LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time

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Author: Graham Hancock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 LEGO (R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO (R) system in unique ways...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Sketchbook

Sketchbook

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Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake

Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake

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Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion

Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion

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Author: Esther Zuckerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the show-stoppingly elegant (Halle Berry winning the award for Monster's Ball in a breathtaking Elie Saab) to the decidedly kooky...
Beaumonster: A Memoir

Beaumonster: A Memoir

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Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

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Author: Oliver Soden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette...
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such...
The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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Author: Joan Armatrading Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles...
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

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Author: Margo Tasca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New...
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

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Author: Jim Ruland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners...
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

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Author: John Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the...
Icebergs to Iguanas: Photographic Journeys Around the World

Icebergs to Iguanas: Photographic Journeys Around the World

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Author: Jason Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 411 Icebergs to Iguanas is a collection of Jason Edwards' treasured National Geographic images and memories enlightened with behind-the-scenes stories, fascinating captions...
Be-Spoke: What the Most Important Fashion Designers in the World Told Only to Marylou Luther

Be-Spoke: What the Most Important Fashion Designers in the World Told Only to Marylou Luther

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Author: Marylou Luther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A collection of witty and sometimes wry quotes, inspiring edicts, and philosophies about fashion and style by celebrated fashion designers-from Coco...