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Art & Architecture
Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.
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Well, I am a Sunday painter. It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well. - L.S. Lowry
| MICHELLE GALINDO Book Number: 83549 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £1.63
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Successful kids' design unites quality, sustainability and safety with ingenuity, style and pleasure and here is a selection of the very best from novelties to established classics. Innovative and...
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| SOREN DAHLGAARD Book Number: 85813 |
Published price: £24.99
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Imagine enough dough kneaded (!) for three or four loaves and while all gooey, dropping it on top of the head so that it stretches all the way down the face and over the chin of your portrait model...
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| MARK HARRISON & LISA TUTTLE Book Number: 85997 |
Published price: £16.95
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The woman who haunts artist Mark Harrison's dreams is a symbol of fertility and a goddess of nature surrounded by flowers, vines and leafy plants, her hair growing in tendrils adorned with fruit, a...
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| ROSALIND HOPWOOD Book Number: 86624 |
Published price: £5.99
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Natural springs, water jets, rills and cascades all incorporate moving water and water features within architectural structures probably originated in Greece and Asia Minor. They originated as a s...
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| LEONARD ZETT Book Number: 86958 |
Published price: £12.95
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The Janssen Series on the Black Male Nude in Art and Photography continues with these 100-plus studies of Bongani, 26 years old, from the South African Xhosa tribe, bisexual, versatile, a sportsman...
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| JENNIFER KRAMER, G. CRANMER Book Number: 86971 |
Published price: £31
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Kesu - meaning 'wealth being carved' - was the name given to Doug Cranmer, a whittler and doodler who embodied 'indigenous modern' art long before the term was coined. His art is energetic, colour...
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| ERIC SHANES Book Number: 87318 |
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Salvador Dalí's art retains its ability to bewilder, shock and intrigue, dealing inventively with the nature of reality and appearances. In the autumn of 1927 he had written to his friend Lorca: "...
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| SUSAN HERBERT Book Number: 87777 |
Published price: £17.95
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Our Annie is lucky enough to own two original Susan Herbert cat paintings so she got her paws and claws straight into this bargain. They are 20 detachable posters featuring feline reimaginings of ...
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| LIZ TEMPERLEY Book Number: 88223 |
Published price: £9.99
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The southern Rockhopper penguin who travels hundreds of miles when it's time to mate, pairs are drawn together by the mystery of love. The Malagasy giant rat finds home sweet home in an undergroun...
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| NICHOLAS THOMAS Book Number: 88275 |
Published price: £9.95
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A timely and intelligent celebration of this quintessentially human and intimate artform, body art is practiced across all world cultures and throughout history. Among the native peoples of Amazon...
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| EDITED BY MATT JONES Book Number: 87775 |
Published price: £75
Bibliophile price: £37.00
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Famous for his fat cats and wine drinkers, St Trinian's schoolgirls, Ronald Searle (1920-2011) had been a prisoner of war from 1942-45 in Singapore and Thailand and cartooned during his internment....
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| JULIA L. KAY Book Number: 88432 |
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Artist Julia Kay has built up a huge online community with her international project Portrait Party (JKPP), in which artists round the world make portraits of each other based on their online image...
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| DAVID SEDARIS Book Number: 88588 |
Published price: £30
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Packed with interactive components, postcards, never-before-seen photos and artwork, David Sedaris has always been a keen collector of the arts, objects and ephemera that are part of his visual lan...
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| BILL WOODROW Book Number: 88804 |
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B is for Mutant? D is for Nostril? Z is for Secret? Bill Woodrow's unique alphabet offers a glimpse into a playful and endlessly inventive artistic mind. Part sketchbook, part riddle, this Royal...
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| RICHARD CORK Book Number: 88805 |
Published price: £29.95
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A beautiful glamorous Royal Academy of Arts 2016 first edition publication. Ann Christopher is primarily a non-figurative sculptor who works in cast bronze, stainless steel and Corten and who crea...
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| VANESSA MURRAY Book Number: 88830 |
Published price: $45
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Sub-titled 'A Compendium of Artisans, Trades and Projects' for all fans of The Repair Shop, there is now a movement focussed on sourcing unique and durable products that reflect true craftsmanship....
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| VIRGINIA BUTTON Book Number: 88841 |
Published price: £14.99
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England's 'Paradigm Modernist Painter', Ben Nicholson played a decisive role in several radical art groupings such as the Hampstead Set of the 1930s and the St Ives School in the 1940s and 50s. Hi...
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| CHARLES BURNS Book Number: 87616 |
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MASTERING SILHOUETTES
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| MATTHEW WILLIAMS Book Number: 88989 |
Published price: £6
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The Gothic architectural style created a medieval effect and was popularised by such architects as Sir George Gilbert Scott, Alfred Waterhouse and G. E. Street, and of course, William Burges. A la...
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| JOHN HASSALL & MIKE WEBB Book Number: 88507 |
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A terrific parody of the Bayeux Tapestry first drawn over a hundred years ago, here is the satirical response by pioneering British illustrator John Hassall to the sense of outrage that gripped Bri...
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| JÜRGEN MÜLLER Book Number: 88638 |
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Prepare to be shocked by the grotesque and grimacing series of paintings like The Triumph of Death with murdering skeleton figures slaying the population by hanging, throat cutting and barbarous ac...
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| DESMOND MORRIS Book Number: 89122 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £8.75
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Surrealism was a new philosophy of psychic automatism exempted from any aesthetic or moral concern. The Surrealist movement began in Paris in the 1920s and was not in origin and art movement, but ...
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| EDITED BY HUGO VICKERS Book Number: 89010 |
Published price: £18.99
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Cecil Beaton was primarily known for having photographed virtually every prominent person in public life in the course of his long career from the Queen to the Rolling Stones, authors, dancers, cho...
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| GERALD SCARFE Book Number: 88858 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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The man famed for his venomous nib, the legendary cartoonist and designer tells his life story for the first time, encompassing sweeping social changes in the 1960s and beyond. For more than half ...
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| MICHAEL HOWARD Book Number: 89150 |
Published price: £30
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Slipcased and with 12 rare, removable facsimile documents, is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the leader of the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet. Over 150 colour images record the de...
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| ERIN THOMPSON Book Number: 88956 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Collecting is a curious behaviour. Collectors and their critics have always believed that classical art has special powers: to legitimate rule, to create identities, to express wealth, to enervate ...
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| SALLY KIBBLE Book Number: 89270 |
Published price: £17.50
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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For lovers of Suffolk in general and Woodbridge and the Deben Valley in particular, Thomas Churchyard charted Georgian and Victorian scenery still charming us today. Sally Kibble has been inspired...
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| HUGH BELSEY Book Number: 89290 |
Published price: £25
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Thomas Gainsborough's work was centred around subjects that preoccupied him which he would define in his paintings. This book is inspired by a recent identification of a third autographed version o...
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| JAMES ATTLEE Book Number: 89294 |
Published price: £18.99
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Pablo Picasso himself said 'Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.' Working on his masterpiece Guernica in his studio in 1937 is the very first full page archive ...
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| SIMON HEWITT Book Number: 89302 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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A great artistic detective story which turns our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci upside down. Simon Hewitt demonstrates that Leonardo's only male portrait (The Musician) depicts Bianca Sforza's...
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