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Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art
Author: Fereshteh Daftari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic -...
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarme
Author: Trevor Stark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset...
Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance Collector
Author: Mark P Mcdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World,...
Down with the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend
Author: Serj Tankian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping...
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
Author: Frances Gage (Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings...
So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It)
Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with...
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Dada Head
Author: Anne Umland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A new title in MoMA's One on One series, focusing on Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada Head Upon first encountering Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada...
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara
Author: Yuki Kihara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first...
Lance Wyman: Process: A proposal for the 1976 USA Bicentennial identity
Author: Adrian Shaughnessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 This book is a near facsimile of the one-off, leather-bound 'sketchbook' that Lance Wyman made to catalogue his design process for...
documenta fifteen Handbook
Author: ruangrupa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 documenta fifteen is no ordinary art exhibition. Envisioned under the guiding concept of lumbung, the Indonesian collective ruangrupa is less concerned with...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures
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...
Radicalism and Music
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Author: Jonathan Pieslak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
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
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...
Fashion Design Research Second Edition
Author: Ezinma Mbeledogu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every fashion collection begins with research. But how do you start? How do you use that research? Fashion Design Research answers...
Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts
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
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
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...
Piet Mondrian: A-Z
Author: Ulf Kuster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Pivotal in modern art's move towards abstraction, Piet Mondrian's oeuvre is extraordinarily versatile and complex. Not only did he paint and...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
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...
The World According to Lee McQueen
Author: Louise Rytter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'When times are hard, fantasy and escapism are crucial' Alexander McQueen Having grown up in London's East End, Alexander McQueen left...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
Author: Gary Hustwit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 140 The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate between designer Massimo Vignelli and...
Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction
Author: James Orrom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A comprehensive design resource that reveals how the iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st centuries have been designed for mass...
William Shakespeare x Rose Wylie: The Tempest
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,...
Material Matters 03: Stone: Creative interpretations of common materials
Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and...
Khamsa khamsa khamsa
Author: Julia Gat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Khamsa, the number five in Arabic, a reference to the five fingers of the hand, is repeated three times as a...
Charles III: The Making of a King
Author: Alison Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Charles III: The Making of a King highlights the most important portraits of King Charles III from the National Portrait Gallery's...
Raphael
Author: Nicoletta Baldini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to single international artists,...
Lucas Cranach: A-Z
Author: Teresa Praauer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Lucas Cranach the Elder created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton and...
Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature's Processes & Materials in the Real World
Author: Veronika Kapsali Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Biomimetics - imitating life's natural processes - is one of the hottest areas of design research and inspiration. The natural world...
Sienese Painting
Author: Timothy Hyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 An essential visual overview for students and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history and Renaissance culture. For two centuries,...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
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
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:...
Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night
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Author: Jerry Saltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "We benefit from Saltz's rare ability to articulate the mysterious alchemy of great art." - New York Times "An entertaining, informative,...
African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century
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
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...
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself
Author: Chloe Angyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Every day, in dance studios all across America, millions of little girls line up at the barre and take ballet class....
The Magic
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...
Art Firsts: The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works
Author: Nick Trend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster
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...
Journal of Wonder: 366 days of musical inspiration to reflect upon and soothe your soul
Author: Clemency Burton-Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop...
AFTER: The Graphic Novel (Volume One)
Author: Anna Todd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Fall in love all over again in volume one of the graphic novel adaptation of the global phenomenon AFTER! Uncover Tessa...
Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard
Author: Dan Franklin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Electric Wizard is heavy, man - we don't sing about love and flowers.' Jus Oborn In 1993, in the market town...
Barndominiums: Your Guide to a Perfect, Inexpensive Dream Home
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...
Power Up Your Creativity: Ignite Your Creative Spark - Develop a Productive Practice - Set Goals and Achieve Your Dreams
Author: Rachael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 152 In Power Up Your Creativity, author Rachael Taylor-successful artist and pattern designer and the co-founder of the Make It in Design...
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office
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
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...
A History of Western Architecture, Sixth edition
Author: David Watkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and...