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Thames and Hudson
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«Originally published in 1958, «The Americans» was part of a series of books that presented foreign countries through words and pictures. Frank personally supervised this latest edition that features a new cover as well as digitally enhanced images.» |
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One golden summer afternoon in 1862, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls in a boat on the River Thames. One of the sisters, Alice Liddell, asked for a story with plenty of nonsense in it. The adventure he created for her under the pen name Lewis Carroll and the unforgettable characters he invented — the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, amongst others — have enchanted generations of readers thoughout the world. The world of Lewis Carroll, whose powerful imagination gave us the timeless magic of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, is here vividly brought to life. |
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The quintessential Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the countries traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. This title documents a leading light of the global architecture scene and offers insight into interpretations of Japans ancient building traditions. |
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Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzky's 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition, which will tour every major museum in South Africa. Retinal Shift investigates the practice and mechanics of looking — in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices, and Subotzky's own history as an artist. The works draw on archival portraits from the last century, found surveillance footage, as well as Subotzky's own photographs from various series' that he re-contextualizes. The opening work in the book is a self-portrait that Subotzky made with the assistance of an optometrist. High-resolution images of his left and right retinas sit side by side. Says Subotzky: I was fascinated by this encounter. At the moment that my retinas, parts of my essential organs of seeing, were photographed, I was blinded by the apparatus that made the images. |
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From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world 's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is the creative thinking the doodling that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories. Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of eighty-two of the world 's most inventive, innovative, and successful artists alongside new talents and emerging illustrators. The artists have been selected by the world 's leading critic and most knowledgeable source in the field of graphic design and illustration, Steven Heller, who has had personal access to some of the most private and unseen material. Although there have been several comic-book compilations over the years, none has the visual excitement, insight, and mind-blowing creativity and fun of this one. |
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Antoni Gaudi and his inimitable fluid, organic style, is inextricably linked with the city of Barcelona. His spectacular buildings — among them the Guell Palace and the monumental La Sagrada Familia — are eternal symbols of the city. This little book by Philippe Thiebaut invites the reader to explore the visual richness of Gaudi's creations in scores of well chosen illustrations. As well as revealing the architect's working and building methods, Thiebaut also discusses Barcelona's social and cultural background and the city's heritage as the capital of Art Nouveau. |
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In this book of watercolour paintings and sketches, the beauty of Paris is celebrated through the talents of Fabrice Moireau and Maria Kelly. Their visual and narrative images capture the history and romance of Paris, highlighting the architecture of the French capital: its grand public buildings and intimate private houses, majestic avenues and narrow lanes. Visit the Louvre, Beauboug, Orsay, Picasso, La Villette and Rodin Museums; the historic Places de la Concorde, des Vosges, des Victoires and du Palais Royal. Tour the colourful markets, enjoy the exquisite Tuileries, Monceau, Luxembourg and Montsouris gardens and discover the quintessential Paris. Paris Sketchbook is divided into four parts: North, South, East and West, each section of the city revealing its own character and unveiling its own secrets. |
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Venice, a mosaic of over 100 islands, many connected by the 400 bridges which span its famous canals, is possibly the most romantic city in the world. It began as a village in the marshes and grew into a formidable sea power, dubbed the Queen of the Adriatic. Now its fading glories — the canals and palaces, monuments and churches — battle with the elements, yet remain breathtakingly beautiful. Artist Fabrice Moireau showcases Venice's grand attractions and hidden charms through his watercolour paintings and pencil sketches. |
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This luxurious, postcard book includes features 30 of the most beloved floral patterns straight from the renowned Collier Campbell Archives. Perfect as a keepsake or to share with friends and family. |
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Situated just south of St Petersburg, the Russian imperial residence of Tsarskoye Selo is now more than three hundred years old. Occupied by the Nazi forces in 1941, Tsarskoye Selo saw its treasures plundered and many of its interiors left derelict. This book deals with this imperial residence. |
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Drawing inspiration from tradition, Coco Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or mere market values. This book presents her work from the direct re-creations of the 1932 Collection to the newest interpretations of comets and stars, plumes and feathers, and Chanels signature flower, the camellia. |
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Travelling through the history of art from the 15th till the 20th century, The Unfinished Painting is an ambitious survey of works of art by Old and Modern Masters including Van Eyck, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, David, Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Mondrian that have remained deliberately or unintentionally unfinished, and that are usually marginalized in traditional art history. They remain incomplete for various reasons: illness or death of the artist; political turmoil forcing him to flee; disagreements with the commissioner or dissatisfaction with the artistic result. However, from the 16th century onwards, artists started to use the non finito as a tool of expression. Unfinished pictures therefore gained a certain reputation in the romantic era, when they were thought to offer the spectator a glimpse of artistic genius. In the 20th century, these paintings were discovered by cubists, expressionists and abstract painters who were fascinated by their rough and incoherent appearance, often unaware of their history. This book follows the creative process of some fifty such paintings, offering a new perspective on the history of Western Art. |
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Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor and film theorist. He directed the first five of his seven films Ivans Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker in the Soviet Union, but left for Italy in 1982, where he shot Nostalghia. His last film, Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985. His work is characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, very long takes, an absence of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and his own distinctive style of cinematography. He is today considered one of the 20th centurys most important filmmakers. This book collects film stills and documentary photographs from each of the films, exploring the cinematographic side to his oeuvre. |
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Following the success of the hugely popular Little Books of Vintage series, come three sequels: Terror, Love and Space. Each one is packed with unseen strips, adverts and text stories from the Golden Age of comics. Plus, each one comes with a brand new introduction giving a brief history of the genre, and each title has its own, unique free fridge magnet. |
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Following the success of the hugely popular Little Books of Vintage series, come three sequels: Terror, Love and Space. Each one is packed with unseen strips, adverts and text stories from the Golden Age of comics. Plus, each one comes with a brand new introduction giving a brief history of the genre, and each title has its own, unique free fridge magnet. |
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Following the success of the hugely popular Little Books of Vintage series, come three sequels: Terror, Love and Space. Each one is packed with unseen strips, adverts and text stories from the Golden Age of comics. Plus, each one comes with a brand new introduction giving a brief history of the genre, and each title has its own, unique free fridge magnet. |
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Over the last several years the renowned painter Ken Howard OBE RA (b. 1932) has been exploring the Swiss journeys of one of his most illustrious predecessors as a Royal Academician, using J. M. W. Turners travels in the country as his inspiration for an exciting new body of work. This compelling publication contains an authoritative introduction to Turners experience of these breathtaking lakes and mountains by Ian Warrell, some 100 striking new paintings by Ken Howard, numerous photographs of him at work in the Alpine landscape, and a series of appealing commentaries by the artist and Jurg Gabathuler, who has facilitated these Swiss expeditions. |
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Explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in loving detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. In this title, characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. |
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The essence of London, both grand and intimate in scale, is captured beautifully in this book of over 150 watercolour paintings and pencil drawings. |
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