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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
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Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefr...
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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 88648 |
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Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of colour, explorer of image and perception, for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of ex...
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| JIM HARRISON Book Number: 93012 |
Published price: £36.95
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The collection in this book is divided between the seasons. Coca-Cola scenes in spring and summer include a covered wooden bridge with the Coca-Cola logo painted along its length. The interior of a...
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| PHILIP PULLMAN Book Number: 93016 |
Published price: $37.99
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Fans of the trilogy His Dark Materials will love this sumptuously illustrated edition of the first volume, with evocative modern drawings in colour to illustrate every stage in Lyra's epic story. T...
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| WILL KWIATKOWSKI Book Number: 93024 |
Published price: £50
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Sixty gorgeous works of Islamic art, created in the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires, are reproduced in colour to the highest specification as full-page illustrations in this exceptional ...
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| MARTIN DAWBER Book Number: 93027 |
Published price: £18.99
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In this retro age, the work of classical illustrators has been taken up and given a new twist by modern designers, and this stunning visual feast shows how Dali, Rodchenko, Rauschenberg, Blake, Kli...
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| LAURA PARKER Book Number: 93031 |
Published price: £25
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First published to accompany an exhibition of art of the same name at the at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham in October 2017 to January 2018, this rare exhibition catalo...
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| DR MARINA LINARES Book Number: 93082 |
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A heavyweight quality Könemann multilingual edition by the well regarded art historian. The cycles of Water Lilies are a highlight in Claude Monet's work and found in collections around the world....
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| EDITED BY PAUL GORMAN Book Number: 93088 |
Published price: £29.95
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At Yeovil School of Art in Somerset from 1953-1957, Derek Boshier demonstrated the graphic abilities - via a sketchbook of pencil and ink drawings, some coloured with crayon or gouache - of local s...
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| ALISON JARDINE Book Number: 93108 |
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You don't have to be an artist to achieve great results on your iPad, and this refreshingly accessible book is perfect for skilled artists and aspiring creatives alike. There are step-by-step proj...
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| BARBARA EHRLICH WHITE Book Number: 93126 |
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A big glamorous heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication with 105 illustrations by the Tufts University professor and friend of Renoir's great granddaughter Sophie. The joy that permeates August Re...
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| IAN BIRCH Book Number: 93141 |
Published price: £30
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This book is a sheer delight, showcasing over 100 magazine covers from the late 1950s onwards, with a commentary on the inside story of each by editors and designers. Magazine covers need to make t...
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| ANDREW EDWARDS Book Number: 92702 |
Published price: £19.99
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Poster art, design, fonts and colour, style and artistry at its best, this is a thrilling and unique book of detachable posters which measure 11" wide by nearly 14" tall. Artwork by Toulouse Lautr...
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| GLORIA FOSSI Book Number: 93159 |
Published price: $37.50
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To search for van Gogh means to retrace his actual physical path to the mental states that inspired his art. It means to take our understanding of art and geography and apply at what we know of Vin...
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| STEPHANIE CARBAJAL Book Number: 93210 |
Published price: £9.99
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Here is a practical guide to drawing and painting surfaces on canvas and paper to textiles and woods because every surface you draw on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brigh...
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| JOHN LAMBLE Book Number: 93229 |
Published price: £20
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Sub-titled 'The Life and Achievements of a Self-Taught Polymath, Artist and Wit from Devonshire', John Cranch was born in the same small town in the same year that Gray's Elegy was published. Taug...
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| GABRIEL MARTIN ROIG Book Number: 93251 |
Published price: £8
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Let's experiment in our art with building up a surface texture, using washes on a sand background, fabric or paper wrinkles, backgrounds with a heavy texture or a still life with a textured gesso b...
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| ALEXANDER ROOB Book Number: 93049 |
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Discover original modernist design in a 100 year history of graphic news items and their trailblazing influence on the emerging Avant-Garde movements. An illustrated press where the images are as i...
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| CLARE PRESTON ET AL Book Number: 93440 |
Published price: £150
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The first monograph to be published on the work of Barry Flanagan (1941-2009), one of Britain's preeminent sculptors which includes over 200 colour reproductions and a newly compiled chronology. T...
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| GERALD SCARFE Book Number: 88858 |
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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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| PHOTOS BY MASSIMO LISTRI Book Number: 93053 |
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From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with these collections of knowledge, le...
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| HUGH THOMSON Book Number: 93286 |
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In 1893, George Allen the publisher gave Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) a commission to illustrate Pride and Prejudice. Already well known for his delightfully humorous and accurate drawings of 18th cen...
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| HUGH THOMSON Book Number: 93287 |
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When Hugh Thomson received a commission to illustrate Pride and Prejudice from George Allen in 1893, he was already well known for his delightfully humorous and accurate drawings of 18th century li...
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| HUGH THOMSON Book Number: 93288 |
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A companion to 93286 and 93287, we have three in this set of facsimile reprints to collect of the glorious and affectionate pen and ink illustrations to the original 1890s publications. The three ...
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| DIAN HANSON Book Number: 93054 |
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Sexy, sensual and otherworldly, Fantasy art is that colourful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens. It took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s wit...
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| F. G. DELAMOTTE Book Number: 90424 |
Published price: £12.99
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Remaining few copies of this rare facsimile reprint of the 1862 fourth edition of the 1858 classic, guaranteed to inspire anyone interested in lettering and calligraphy. Beautifully printed with g...
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| RODERICK FLOUD Book Number: 93490 |
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England's gardens range from the Baroque splendour of Blenheim Palace, whose vast acres were designed by Capability Brown at enormous expense, to the low-density suburban housing of the 19th and 20...
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| STEFAN FISCHER Book Number: 74881 |
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In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are ...
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| EDITED BY ANN DULAU Book Number: 93373 |
Published price: £23
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Almost exact contemporaries, the French painters Boucher and Chardin represent contrasting trends in the way women are depicted. This discerning book takes as its starting point two paintings of th...
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| RUTH BERNHARD Book Number: 93392 |
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In her private quest to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity," acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) passionately created a collection of images that rank ...
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