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Each "Collector's Edition" comprises a special edition of a cloth-bound and boxed Phaidon book with an original print, made, signed and numbered by the photographer. 'This 550-page retrospective will absorb you for years.' The Independent

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Bursting with color and dramatic focal points, this title includes interiors that offer access into the homes of Paris' finest art and antiques aficionados. It invites us inside the private oases of twenty of the citys celebrated interiors gurus, capturing in photographs these havens of perfection, brimming with inspiration for the home.

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An insider's guide to the world's largest archive of patterns and textiles, the source of inspiration for the globe's top designers

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A selection of beautiful houses set amid the worlds most stunning landscapes, designed by award-winning New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson.

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This extraordinary memoir of a visionary art dealer chronicles the emergence of the Impressionists and their controversial rise to success.

A monograph-catalogue that reveals the innovative drive in Paul Gauguin's work. It views Gauguin's artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money.

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Paul Graham uses and abuses classic genres of photography - the portrait, the landscape, the still life - to map a cultural topography. This book brings together all of Graham's successive series, from his journey along the A1 in Britain to intimate studies of Japan.

A groundbreaking monograph capturing the unique spirit and one-of-a-kind creativity of British fashion icon Sir Paul Smith through his personal selection of 50 inspirational objects and designs

Celebrated British painter Rego uses symbolically charged imagery in her representational paintings and prints to challenge social mores perpetuated by patriarchy. Obedience and Defiance accompanies a major traveling exhibition of Rego's career since the 1960s and includes previously unseen works and curatorial texts.

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The surprising and visionary work of an artist who has redefined sculpture's relationship to life.

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Stunningly beautiful, deeply puzzling, profoundly moving or intensely unsettling performance art can evoke a wide variety of responses. In this important and richly illustrated book, Catherine Wood, one of the worlds leading curators and writers on the subject, provides the broadest, most up-to-date survey published in recent years.

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Presents an investigation into the sense and meaning of space, of an architecture that is present even when formally absent. This title features the author's projects including the massive Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe of Berlin, City of Culture of Galicia, and the Guangdong Museum competition.

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The first monogaph onthe witty, celebrated Swiss duo.

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Self-taught, Philippe Pasqua ("Grasse, 1965") is involved in the renewal of figurative art. Through his monumental canvases, large in format and loaded with paint, he depicts the human figure with the frankness of realism and the intensity of expressionism, and showing the palpitating flesh to draw out its fascinating beauty.

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Presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world's most prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contemporary stars, in a compact paperback format. In this book, photographers include Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, and more.

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A lively and accessible survey of photography as art since the 1960s, exploring how, in the hands of some of the world's greatest photographic artists, it has developed into a respected and versatile artistic medium.

Explores Picasso's important group of etchings, the Vollard Suite. This title reveals key themes - the classical world, its sculpture and myths - as topics which preoccupied Picasso and influenced.

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Features a list of historic exhibitions related to Picasso's work in sculpture closes the volume, advancing the understanding of Picasso's practice and lifelong commitment to constant reinvention.

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This comprehensive tome in a luxurious cloth-bound slipcase covers all aspects of Picassos artistic career, from self-portraits to sculpture to photography, and features an extensive chronology of his life.

Examines Picasso's pre-cubist period, between 1900 and 1905, while closely contrasting works created by Juan Miro between 1915 and 1920 with those by Salvador Dali in the five-year period between 1920-1925, in order to highlight the differences and stylistic relationships marking the period prior to the two artists adherence to Surrealist poetics.

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Dora Maar, famous for her relationship with Picasso, was a talented artist in her own right. She initially studied painting, but soon found a passion and gift for photography.