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    by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
    £11.99

    William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, "art for all", and beautiful patterns of...

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    by Unknown
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    Discover turn-of-the-century Vienna in this exploration of its most important protagonists, complete with sumptuous double-page reproductions across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, as well as an essay by Rainer Metzger. Marking the centenary of the deaths of masters Klimt, Schiele, Wagner, and Moser, this collection joins the...

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    by Pierre Restany
    £11.99

    Architect, artist, ecological visionary, Friedensreich Hundertwasser left a thrilling trail of imagination and activism in buildings, paintings, manifestos, and more. From naked addresses and tree planting campaigns to the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Hundertwasser refused the straight line in every sense. His vision was as much for society at...

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    by Peter H. Feist
    £11.49

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. This book features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

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    by Janis Mink
    £11.99

    Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. This title features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

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    by Klaus Honnef
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    Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal...

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    by Klaus Honnef
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    Meet Gerhard Richter, the German artist who redefined painting. Between abstract works and photography-based paintings, Richter pushes the medium's boundaries and reminds us of its urgency and importance in a world overwhelmed by digital images. This introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time explores his entire career.

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    by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
    £11.99

    Discover some of the finest masterpieces of Ancient Egypt. This catalogue gathers sarcophagi, statues, murals, and other timeless treasures by unknown masters from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period.

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    by Ernst Rebel
    £11.99

    Features an introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the several important events (political, cultural, and, scientific).

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    by Philip Jodidio
    £11.99

    Travel from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia, this essential architect introduction reveals a restless visionary,...

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    by Elizabeth A. T. Smith
    £51.99

    An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen...

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    by Gilles Neret
    £11.99

    This illustrated work takes a look at the wonderful world of post-impressionism through the eyes of Manet (1832-1883), painter and graphic artist.

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    by Ingo F. Walther
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    A study that follows Van Gogh from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles. Here, at last, he found the light that produced the unmistakable Van Gogh style.

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    by Ian G. Kennedy
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    A leading artist in the High Renaissance, Tiziano Vecelli (1488-1576) was the Venetian school's greatest painter and is one of the best-loved Italian artists. This book examines Titian's evolution, from his early years training under Giovanni Bellini to his later mature work, giving a perspective on the life's work of this legendary painter.

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