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Art & Architecture
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
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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 |
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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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| ROSALIND HOPWOOD Book Number: 86624 |
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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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| LIZ TEMPERLEY Book Number: 88223 |
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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 |
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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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| JULIA L. KAY Book Number: 88432 |
Published price: £22.99
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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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| VANESSA MURRAY Book Number: 88830 |
Published price: $45
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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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| 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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| SALLY KIBBLE Book Number: 89270 |
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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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| SIMON HEWITT Book Number: 89302 |
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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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| THERESIA ENZENSBERGER Book Number: 89357 |
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It is 1921 in Berlin. Luise Schilling lives here in her father's deeply conservative household and longs to tear down the past and build a new future and through much hard work finally realises her...
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| CHARISSA BREMER-DAVID Book Number: 89025 |
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In the French royal tapestry manufactory of Beauvais in the late 1680s, the Grotesques series of tapestries were conceived and woven. Hugely popular, 50 sets of tapestries (usually composing of six...
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| NIGEL RODGERS Book Number: 89014 |
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The great ellipse of the Colosseum still dominates the centre of Rome as it has done for nearly 2,000 years. Attracting more than five million visitors a year, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the...
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| BHAKTISIDDHANTA Book Number: 89506 |
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'Arjuna to single combat. At that moment dark rainclouds and flashes of lightning appeared in the sky, along with the rainbow of Indra. When Surya saw how Indra had appeared there out of affection ...
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| EMMA BRIDGEWATER Book Number: 89612 |
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The inside story of Emma Bridgewater's beloved pottery and homeware designs. Emma established her successful business in 1985 producing a range of mugs, jugs and teapots inspired by traditional sh...
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| CLAIRE ROLLETT Book Number: 89475 |
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12 of London's iconic landmarks including the Royal Albert Hall, St Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, i...
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| STEPHANIE PORRAS Book Number: 89666 |
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Alongside paintings by artists from Jan van Eyck to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Greenwich royal armour attributed to Hans Holbein, altarpieces, sculptures and engravings, Porras discovers architectur...
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| KITTY HAUSER & C. CHRISTOFOROU Book Number: 89701 |
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Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid 20th century. This highly illustrated book features 19 of his major works in stunning and original colour illustrat...
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| MARCUS DU SAUTOY Book Number: 89827 |
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Could a machine one day create a truly original work of art? Illuminating not only the work of coders and creators but the mathematics of chaos that underpin art and our emotional responses to it,...
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| GILLY PICKUP Book Number: 89710 |
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From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle to the Gothic, Dracula-inspiring Bram Castle perched in the craggy peaks of Romania's Carpathian Mountains, Tokyo's Imperial Palac...
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| EDITED BY JOHANNES ERLER Book Number: 89711 |
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A Princess Diana lookalike stares straight out of the picture and gives us the finger, Prince Charles sits at an easel measuring up a fig-leafed Camilla for his watercolour, while with impeccable d...
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| HAYLEY CAMPBELL Book Number: 90088 |
Published price: $39.99
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With his blockbusting novels, films, blogs, cartoon art, guest appearances on The Simpsons and authorship of two episodes of Doctor Who, the fantasy and sci-fi maestro Neil Gaiman has excelled at e...
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| UNIVERSE PUBLISHING Book Number: 90130 |
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This pictorial panorama of more than 300 Marvel Comics characters extends to a full, mind-boggling 12 feet, featuring the work of the finest comic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The revers...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 90168 |
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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his S...
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| CHRISTINE TEMPLE Book Number: 90212 |
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Picasso believed that intelligence was relevant to the creative process, saying "one can see the intelligence in each of Manet's brushstrokes", and although there is no psychometric assessment of h...
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| ELIZABETH COWLING Book Number: 89131 |
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Portraiture and the human figure remained Pablo Picasso's prime subject and favourite genre throughout his life. His earliest portraits were done from life, and reveal a precocious ability to catc...
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| EMMA PEARCE Book Number: 90223 |
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Completely revised and updated, the Complete Source Book of Methods and Media is a compact, indispensable and comprehensive practical guide for all experienced and aspiring artists. Get the most o...
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| THE NATIONAL GALLERY Book Number: 90234 |
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Bend the card into shape before gluing with PVA wood glue and leave each piece to dry before moving on to the next. The ingenious, pre-cut cardboard kit creates a layered landscape featuring hand-...
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| P. WILLIAMSON AND P. MOTTURE Book Number: 89941 |
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has one of the world's greatest collections of medieval and Renaissance artefacts, and this selection of around 60 of them displays not only their beauty but also the...
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