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Offers the advice and support needed to start and maintain a sketchbook. This title covers such subjects as choosing or making your own sketchbook; getting the habit; living with your mistakes; making a mess; doodling; drawing from observation; looking at works of art; trying things out; writing down ideas; collage; and, selecting materials.

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An exploration of Ai Weiwei's architectural and installation projects across his entire career to date. Published in association with the Ai Weiwei, this is a timely and comprehensive publication on one of the most important artists working today.

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Looks at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, this title also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. It also includes essays on key themes of Medieval and Renaissance art.

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Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio is the first study devoted to Hepworth's St Ives studio in which the centrality of Trewyn Studio and garden to her art and life is brought to the fore. 'It affects my whole life & work most profoundly', she wrote to a friend in 1949 shortly before acquiring it.

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Alfred Wallis spent most of his life in the Cornish ports of Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives, and went to sea as a young man. His main occupation was as a dealer in marine supplies and he was in his seventies before he took up painting 'for company'. He sold his works for a few pence, and died in the poorhouse.

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The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. This book illustrates works from throughout Ofili's career.

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A vital expansion of the ideas that punctuate Haegue Yangs Tate St Ives exhibition, bringing together installation photography and new texts on the artist

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A pictorial record of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth's life, work and writings over 40 years, from childhood to her marriages to the sculptor John Skeaping and to Ben Nicholson, and from figuration through geometric and organic abstraction to the grandeur of her large-scale, post-war work.

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Offering coverage ranging from Impressionism to the Harlem Renaissance, from Cezanne to Post modernism, this book presents an introduction to modern art.

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n a lush green forest, a sloth sleeps. Can you see him CLANG! Machines come to tear down the trees, but the sloth still sleeps... will he wake up Turn the pages of this ingenious and stylish pop-up book, which tells the story of one lazy sloth who hangs on in there as the forest is destroyed and then reborn.

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This is the first UK appraisal of the work of this important African artist. Focusing on The Museum of Contemporary African Art it also looks at the full breadth of the artist's practice. This accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Modern.

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Principally known as the main protagonist of the Constructivist movement in the 1920s, Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977) created some of the most inspirational sculptures of the twentieth-century. This title introduces you to the achievements of one of the twentieth-century's unsung artistic masters.

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This Tate Publishing Modern Artists monograph looks at the career of the British artist Peter Blake. It examines his use of collage, influences on his work and his reputation as a "father of pop", so crowned in the 1950s and 60s for his use of popular culture icons in his work.

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Includes an introduction and previously unpublished material by Albers.

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Quentin Blake is a collaboration between Tate and the House of Illustration, published to coincide with the gallery's inaugural exhibition; Inside Stories, a landmark show by Quentin Blake.

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Comic Art - art that gains its effect through visual humour, caricature, exaggeration and slapstick, whether in print, reproduction or through the moving image - has long helped shape and inform British culture. This title presents a wide-screen vision of comic art, from Hogarth to Spitting Image, from Michelangelo to The Mighty Boosh.