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Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly insider-y exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby'sWhen you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask...
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Penguin
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2013-11-07
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In today's jet-fuelled, caffeine-charged, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to watch a film from start to finish? Let's face it, life's too short. Now, Film in Five Seconds lets you fast-forward to the best bits so you can enjoy all your favourite...
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Quercus
Parution :
2013-11-07
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At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Dublin has held an important place throughout Ireland’s cultural history. The shifting configurations of the city’s streetscapes have been marked by the ideological frameworks of imperialism, its architecture embedded within the cultural politics of the nation, and its...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Nach zwei gescheiterten Umsturzversuchen gelingt es Louis-Napoléon 1848 legal die Macht zu erringen. Er wird der erste Staatspräsident Frankreichs. Mit dem Staatsstreich vom 2. Dezember 1851 verliert er die Unterstützung vieler Künstler und Intellektueller. Als Kaiser...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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D*Face has been a leading figure in urban art for well over a decade. A contemporary of Banksy, he is at the forefront of the urban art movement and has had a constant presence throughout its meteoric rise into popular culture.This long-awaited monograph shows the...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2013-11-04
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Edward J. Olszewski and was created by his former PhD students in gratitude and honor of a professor whose innovative and comprehensive research spans the Renaissance and Baroque periods. His research provided much insight to the arts,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Das Verhältnis von Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit ist im 19. Jahrhundert einer Reihe von Umbrüchen unterworfen, die sich im diskursiven Wechselspiel zwischen Ästhetik, Medientechniken, Wahrnehmungsphysiologie und Literatur vollziehen. Wahrnehmung avanciert dabei zum...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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«This book is about Modernism and Avant-Garde movements in Central and Eastern European art around the last turn of the century. It sketches a surrealistic, bewildering, irrational arena. At the same time, we are offered a differentiated view on the complex whole of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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A sweeping history of 80 fascinating years.A history of the world from the 1920s to 2000, this account begins with the end of World War I and moves on to the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosmology, the full impact of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Blackwell Companions to Art History
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'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL'Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates Lydia's many worlds' GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW'A hugely entertaining and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-10-17
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This book shows those embarking on an illustration or graphic design career how best to put together an effective, professional portfolio. It discusses what to include and how to organize and display the work, and also advises on presentation techniques and...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2013-10-07
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Featuring a global showcase of 100 of the craft’s most exciting and influential practitioners, Low-Tech Print is an exploration of hand-made printmaking techniques and how they are used in contemporary design and illustration. It examines the huge recent resurgence in...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2013-10-07
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When Tony Viramontes' work appeared in the late 1970s, his hard and direct style of drawing was a marked contrast to the prevailing soft-pastel school of fashion illustration. He scored immediate success, rapidly acquiring the kind of prestigious editorial commissions...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2013-10-01
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This books explains the fundamentals of printed textile design, from design brief through to the completed collection, and introduces the basics of colour, drawing, composition and repeat with a series of step-by-step exercises and examples. Printed Textile Design helps...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2013-09-30
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“This is a must-read for the nervous novice as well as the world-weary veteran. The book guides you through every aspect of exhibit making, from concept to completion. The say the devil is in the details, but so is the divine. This carefully crafted tome helps you to...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-09-27
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Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
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This edited volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals, held in Lisbon and Évora, Portugal. It focuses on how institutions for the care and cure of the sick have organised their activities at every level, from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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