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The first major survey of photography's place in recent art history.

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The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history.

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This book examines the 'culture of excess' in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloway's consideration. The author examines early examples of Baroque excess as well as the darker Baroque spirit of the wartime Neo-Romantics or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman.

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A portrait of the life and work of Benjamin Britten.

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The first true monograph on the work of celebrated French conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet

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A celebration of the rich and varied work of Italian-born American artist, designer, and master of metal, Harry Bertoia

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Bill Jacklin first came to prominence in the 1960s. In an era of Pop Art he chose to be an abstract artist, producing intricate patterns of grids and dots. When he had achieved success in this style, he returned to a type of realistic representation. This book provides a mid-career survey of this British and American artist.

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Bla Bartk's work set in the context of his homeland Hungary.

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A global up-to-the-minute overview of international contemporary photography.

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An overview of contemporary Brazilian culture from photography to fashion, street art to gastronomy and architecture to music. A fresh look at one of the most exciting countries on the planet from those who know it best.

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Chronicling the roots of Silicon Valley's impact on global contemporary design from the 1960s to the present day

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A biography of Carl Nielsen. The Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), emerges as an energetic, well-rounded individual, one who was much more dynamic than suggested by his popular image of the country boy rising from poverty to become Denmark's most influential composer.

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A monograph on the work of Cildo Meireles, a Brazilian sculptor and installation artist active since the late 1960s. The book serves as the catalogue for a touring retrospective exhibition of Meireles' work which began at the new Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in November 1999.

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Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels is a documented study which explores the graphic qualities of the comic book, and the development of the genre into a sophisticated and culturally revealing popular art form. The book traces the history of the comic from early cartoon-like woodcuts through to the graphic strips of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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One of the most rigorous, authoritative surveys of this influential movement.

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Exploring social and environmental issues through gastronomy.

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One of a series of books inspired by key events in the New Testament, Crucifixion presents a sequence of over 100 images of the central event of Christianity, depicted by the world's greatest artists.

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An anthology of extracts from key texts relating to the theme of cyberspace.

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The first monograph on the indefatigable explorer of relationships between people, technology, and environmental issues

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The perfect introduction to the life and work of David Smith

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A facsimile travel journal and photobook of photographer Danny Lyon's unique experience in a disappearing China.

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Sir Denys Lasdun is one of Britain's most eminent living architects, whose career spans the entire period of modernism in British architecture. This is the first full-length critical study of Lasdun, whose best-known work is London's National Theatre.

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A study of the work of Denis Lasdun, this volume examines the ideas and guiding myths behind Lasdun's forms and shows how his architecture fits into both the British and international modern movements, and how it is indebted to classical and earlier traditions.

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A momentous publication that opens the doors to the Donald B. Marron Collection and celebrates the collector's enduring legacy