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A book on doodles. It features over 200 pages of things to do, including colouring, cutting and pasting. It helps get children thinking with numbers.

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Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows readers how to weave some of this magic into their own drawings.

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Brings together some of the best work 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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Eamonn Doyle: a singular new vision and an original contribution to the development of street photography Martin Parr

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First published in 1961, this winning tale follows a small boy named Edward who lives in a soaring New York City apartment building and yearns for a pet to keep him company.

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Edward Burtynsky (b 1955) is one of a generation of photographers, who seek to portray the visible outcomes of a globalized economy and humankind's impact upon environments around the world. This book provides an overview of Burtynsky's work across four decades, including both iconic images and previously unpublished photographs.

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Spanning Edward Hopper's career, with emphasis on his heyday in the 1930s and 40s, this book highlights the artist's greatest achievements while discussing such topics as his absorption of European influences, critical reactions to his work, the relation of realism to modernism, his fascination with architecture, his depiction of women, and more.

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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This volume, published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, features photographs of cleaned and restored paintings, revealing hitherto unknown facets of his art.

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Bridget Riley's Op art paintings are icons of the 1960s, and fascinate art lovers as much now as they did then. Their central position in the art history of the period has not been generally explored, however - until now.

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In 1995, the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy approached Cumbria County Council in northwest England with his idea of identifying a significant number of sheepfolds stone enclosures used for assembling, sheltering and washing sheep from old maps and reconstructing them to incorporate artworks. This book includes the 35 folds he completed.

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A charming, lively and often amusing tour of the forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of English history.

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A monograph on Coco Chanel that provides a general overview of Chanel's creative history, from her early days, when she mingled with Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Luchino Visconti, to the development of her legacy after her death by Karl Lagerfeld.

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With the real-life adventures of the most courageous explorers of all time, this title describes the intrepid journeys and discoveries of famous trailblazers from Christopher Columbus to Ranulph Fiennes. It is packed with background details and survival tips, as well as photographs and illustrations of the daring expeditions.

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Offering instructions for techniques used by professional illustrators, this book explains the methodology of drawing fashion. It demonstrates some of the best ways to create detailed fashion illustrations in a variety of media, teaching the reader about drawing, rendering and following logical steps in depicting fabric surface textures and folds.

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A collection of 16 classic fashion items, as worn by the icons who made them famous.

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Les Fauvres (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse and including Derain, Vlaminck, Braque and Dufy. This work offers a reappraisal of this popular movement and discusses all its aspects - the artists, their works and their achievements.

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A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape and portraiture) as against "high" art and abstraction. This is a survey of the personalities of British painting and an assessment of its latest flowering.

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A glorious selection of floral jewelry drawn from the magnificent holdings at the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris.

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A series of enlightening perspectives on the art and visual culture of todays world from one of our pre-eminent writers.

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Francis Bacon was one of the great figurative painters of the twentieth century. This book provides a thorough account of the life and work of this complex and conflicted artist, whose paintings retain their visceral impact and relevance.

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In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject the human body and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. This book presents over 200 of the working documents about which Bacon was entirely secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process.

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Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. The young and indomitable Frida met Diego Rivera, the great mural painter, when Mexico was at a great cultural and political crossroads. They formed a legendary partnership, with a strong attachment to Mexican folk art. This book traces her extraordinary life.

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Manual and manifesto, an inspiration and a call-to-arms, this rich and timely survey presents over sixty innovative, socially and environmentally conscious design projects changing the world for the better.