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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children's drawings, the art of psychiatric patients, and graffiti. This book features more than one hundred drawings representing Dubuffet's development during his most innovative decades - the 1940s and 1950s.

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Down and dirty a complete step-by-step guide to making, installing, and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors

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Multicultural, adjacent to London's wealthy financial district, home to artists and designers of all stripes, the East End is alive with creative possibility, and its inhabitants are stylishly individual and self-fashioned to the extreme. This book deals with the colourful characters and personalities from the East End.

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Created by writer and artist Edmund de Waal, library of exile addresses questions of how ideas are communicated through translation and the written word and how they are handed down through history.

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Originally reproduced in only 175 precious sets and limited to Britain's highest elite, this stunning masterpiece of scientific illustration history is now available to all. Drawing from live parrots, Edward Lear (1812-1888) created lifelike illustrations so dazzling they earned him the honor of teaching his craft to Queen Victoria. This...

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Edward Weston's classic images are among the best-known examples of midcentury American photography. This monograph brings together some of Weston's finest works to present his artistic evolution, from painterly observations to what became his signature "Straight Photography" style, which explored the intricacies of natural forms in a myriad of...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [Groucho Marx]

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The romantic is the unreasonable optimist in the face of overwhelming odds.

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Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) rose to national and international fame as a model, performer, trendsetter and interpreter of neoclassical fashion. Accompanying a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, from November 2016 to April 2017, this book provides an evaluation of Emma Hamilton's artistic undertakings, cultural achievements and legacy.

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'Craft' is no longer a trend; it is now an enshrined aspect of modern life. This book showcases 60 makers whose creations can inspire and delight you.

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A book, that intends to trace the rise and fall of horror cinema from its beginnings in the 1890s right through to the end of the 20th century, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid classics from Hammer's house of horror and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

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Part of a series of books which each focus on a single building, from the perspective of the architect who designed it.

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Includes chapters on sexuality in contemporary women's art and colonial art, as well as profiles of artists Dale Frank, Richard Larter and Mike Brown. This book features contributions by Dinah Dysart, Jane Lennon, Leigh Astbury, Richard Haese, Joanna Mendelssohn, Jane Magon and Felicity Fenn

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Presents a selection of Escher's art and shares his comments on his work, symmetry, infinity, and paradox.

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From the author of The Arab of the Future, the first book in a bestselling series of graphic novels following the life of a real girl growing up in Paris - hilarious, tearjerking and painfully true.

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Gene Vernier worked for Vogue in London as a fashion photographer between 1954 and 1967 at the birth of one of the most exciting periods in British, European and American fashion history. This title features over 100 of his own favourite images from the British edition of Vogue that featured his work in that period.

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Newly discovered recordings of a music legend in his own remarkable words: punk, Buzzcocks and the inspiration behind some of greatest songs ever written.

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