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A classic work for actors and students on understanding and playing Shakespeare. In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works; in the second half he concentrates on the more subjective areas such as irony and ambiguity, passion and coolness.

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Published in connection with a three-part exhibition series Playing the city (2009-2011) at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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The harmonica is an incredibly versatile instrument, suitable for all types of music - from classical, jazz and soul to rock, pop, country, fold and blues.

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Explores the eloquent image-making of photographer Richard Stringer over a period of more than four decades, and provides a focused lens through which to view the evolution of Queensland. Released to coincide with the exhibition Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) 26 October 2013 -- 16 March 2014

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Ostensibly a collection of writing that sets out Kengo Kuma's theories of architecture, but also an antivolume, antimegastructure, and in some sense anticapitalist, left-field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today.

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Polaroid Now taps into the retro-vintage trend of using film cameras and instant photography.

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An accessible and comprehensive how-to guide to expressive and experimental techniques and manipulation of Polaroid prints and cameras.

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The new Mini Monographs series is a celebration of Australia's most captivating female artists, featuring a collection of their best loved works.

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Pollination Power is a visually spectacular insight into the hidden secrets of plant pollination, unravelling the deceit, tricks and rewards that plant bestow upon their pollinators.

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The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape, with his urgent, splattered drip paintings his most explosive legacy. This essential introduction traces Pollock's work and his fame to understand his masterpieces in the greater modernist story and explore his making as a cultural icon.

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In the late 1940s, the author began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a canvas laid flat on the ground. "One: Number 31 (1950)", was among the largest of the paintings he produced by this method. This title offers an exploration of the painting.

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A photographic essay of the ASB PolyFest by Evotia Tamua which covers over 15 years of the event and shows the gamut of performance groups and schools participating in the annual festival.

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Take a dip into a pool from a new perspective.

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Offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. The main character is pools and everything that goes with them - magnificent, suntanned bodies, well-oiled skin, bikini-clad women, yachts, summer cocktails, sumptuous buffets, spectacular locations and most of all fun.

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From Andy Warhol, Twiggy and James Bond to Beatlemania, biker culture and geodesic domes, the reverberations of the Swinging Sixties are felt in art, music, design and fashion. This collection of photographs spans the globe, including images taken of Tokyo nightlife, Brazilian Carnaval and art happenings in New York City.

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Small, smart, essential an accessible introduction to the Pop Art movement, offering a new perspective on canonical works and highlighting its international reach.

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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal and kitsch.

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Less a distinct style than the concrete expression of being in a particular era, Pop art is regarded as one of the most influential movements in modern art. From Lichtensteins comic book aesthetics to Allen Joness much-contested female figure furniture, this overview examines the origins, pioneers, and stand-out pieces of a movement which...

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Featuring interviews and research, the author describes the great works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, but also re-examines the movement for the 21st century and asks if it is still art He reveals a global story, tracing Pop's surprising origins in 19th-century Paris to uncovering the forgotten female artists of the 1960s.