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This volume presents for the first time in such a thorough way the works of Sven Marquardt, born in East Berlin in 1962.

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A cosmopolitan painter and icon of the Art Deco movement, Tamara de Lempicka created images that became the symbols of an era, the crazy 1920s and 1930s. She was possibly that periods most brilliant exponent. This title offers a definitive catalogue on the first woman artist to be a glamour star.

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From the nomad jewellery of Mongolia and Tibet to the evocative silver and gold necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings of the minority peoples of China, this book celebrates the beauty of 260 objects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and can serve as a reference book on the jewellery of the minorities of China.

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Offers an overview of the arms and armours of the Collection of the Furusiyya Art Foundation. It is an invaluable contribution to the historical study of Islamic arms and material culture. The furusiyya is a whole of practical and theoretical knowledge related to the horse: horsemanship, hippology, veterinary medicine and art of warfa.

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Investigates and documents the interest that cartoonists, publishers and enthusiasts have shown in their special relationship with the universe of comic strips; a rich and variegated relationship with thousands of publications, in every part of the world, and a production that continues.

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In undertaking an analysis of the representation of motherhood, this book traces a history of women's empowerment, chronicling gender struggles, sexual politics, and clashes between tradition and emancipation.

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Historically, in the old architecture of Qatar, the urban development of cities and villages was based on the creation of agglomerations of housing units. These agglomerations were the essence of traditional Qatari architecture. This book examines the geographical, historical, and functional aspects of architecture in Qatar.

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A work that is based on "Towards a New Abstraction", the catalogue of an exhibition organised by Ben Heller in 1963 at the Jewish Museum in New York, which brought together artists such as Frank Stella, Paul Brach, Kenneth Noland and Raymond Parker.

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In a short and intense career, Terragni created a small but remarkable group of designs that form the nucleus of the language of Italian rationalist and modernistic architecture. World renown architect Daniel Libeskind contributes an authoritative and original essay on the Italian architect.

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Simple, direct, and penetrating, the celebrated photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portrays his subjects like a painter from another age. Thanks to his 11x14 Fulmer & Schwing, an old wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using a palette and brush, he produces portraits that are rich in detail without being overly psychological.

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Offers insight into the making of Up in the Air, the largest artwork Tom Friedman has made to date for a solo exhibition at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall in 2010. This title consists of nearly a thousand meticulously handcrafted objects suspended from the ceiling at different heights an art-work that kept Friedman's studio busy for the years.

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Provides a complete overview of the refined oeuvre of Buzzi. This volume further extends Le Stanze del Vetro, a series devoted to the history of the Venini glasshouse.

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The Aerocene project consists of a series of airborne sculptures that will achieve the longest emissions-free journey around the world becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.

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Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist's personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that frequently refers to her personal episodes and events.

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Organised chronologically, this work begins with jewellery designed in the Art Nouveau period by leading figures such as Lalique and Fouquet; works produced during the Secession (in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna) by artists such as Moser and Hoffmann; and a study of European and American production from the 1950s.

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Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. In the 80s video took on the form of a projected image that was capable of defining a type of space inside which spectators could move while surrounded by a hypnotic electronic embrace. This title deals with this topic.