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Now available in a reduced format edition, here is the ultimate book on Rembrandts art and life by one of the worlds best-known writers on Dutch art.

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Offers the practical advice you need for a journey back to the golden age of one of Europe's great cultural cities. This book is suitable for travellers, museum-goers and those who wonder what it would really have been like to visit this model of Renaissance culture.

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A guide to the techniques and equipment used in perspective drawing, the draw of transport, plants, rocks, water, and more.

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Renzo Pianos personal account of his work, fully illustrated and including his most recent projects.

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Richard Wagner is one of the influential and also the polarizing composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their experimentation, paving the way for modernism. This title offers an overview of Wagners life, work and times.

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Brings together the work of some of the world's greatest photographers. This book contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.

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Roger Hilton (1911-75) was one of the pioneers of British abstract art. This title offers an account of his life that is illustrated with works from all stages of his career. It is further enlivened by numerous anecdotes and reminiscences recalling his sometimes outspoken relations with other artists.

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, this book centres on Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), the famous diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age.

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A guide to the samurai class of early modern Japan. It includes coverage of various aspects of early 17th-century Japanese warrior culture, from training and armour to how to perform on the battlefield.

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A personal reflection on the nature of the architectural imagination, shown through private sketchbooks, by one of the great architects of our day.

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Sarah Moon is a contemporary photographer of international renown. A former model, she has taken award-winning photos for such magazines as "Vogue", "Harpers Bazaar" and "Nova". This work includes an example of Moon's cinematic work. It features commentaries on her work in still and cinema photography.

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A compelling, fully illustrated account of the real science behind the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature, and art.

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Surveys the dynamic developments in sculptural practice worldwide. This book explores such key topics as the use of the body in sculpture, the appropriation of everyday ephemera, the use of light and sound as technological elements, nature and ecology as dominant and pressing issues, and the huge impact of installation.

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Published to accompany the recent successful exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, this book sheds new light on Picasso's work - his connection with Japanese art. It is illustrated with images by both Japanese printmakers and Western artists.

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Sergio Larrain (1931-2012) crossed the photographic universe like a meteorite. After much travelling, his concern for purity and his attraction to meditation led him to withdraw to the Chilean countryside and live self- sufficiently. This book features a selection of essential letters, drawings, workbooks and handwritten texts about meditation.

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The first publication in English of Sergio Larrains much-prized book Valparaso.

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The Big Idea series looks at the use of drugs in human society in this timely reexamination of the debate over the legalization of drugs.

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This volume covers Australian artist Sidney Nolan's career from his early paintings, to his multi-pannelled works known collectively as "Oceania" and deals with his work as a painter of literary themes, as a book illustrator, theatre designer and sculptor.

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"Skylab, architecture, buildings and ideas: Nike, high-profile residences, resorts, cutting-edge music venues, and more."--Sticker on front cover.

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The first Sports Banger retrospective, published to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the anarchic, genre-bending cult fashion house.

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A study of the megaliths, addressing questions such as who built them, how they were transported and erected, and what their purpose was. It covers the best known sites - Avebury, Stonehenge, Carnac and Knowth - as well as less famous examples in Scandinavia, Malta, Egypt and Spain.

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A complete retrospective of one of the most significant photographers of our time, including almost 50 images published here for the very first time.