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Michael Hopkins is perceived as a high-tech historicist. This monograph features all of Hopkins's major built works and projects together with essays by the book's author, Colin Davies, Kenneth Frampton, and architect Patrick Hodgkinson.

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Struggling artist turned icon of the modern, urban experience, Edward Hopper is most famed for his haunting nocturnal diner scene Nighthawks. This book introduces his mastery of place, mood, and melancholy through vivid color juxtapositions; stark, theatrical lighting; as well as harshly contoured figures, at once part of, and alien to, their surroundings.

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Ever since they were first domesticated thousands of years ago, horses have played a vital role in human life and history. Using photography of the many horses to be found in the collections of the British Museum, this book explores the depiction of the horse through the ages and celebrates the relationship between horses and humans.

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The world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century

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In Houses: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, RAMSA's residential Partners - Roger H. Seifter, Randy M. Correll, Grant F. Marani, and Gary L. Brewer - offer an intimate look at RAMSA houses from the last ten years and explore how these residences embody the spirit of place and find harmony between the traditional and the contemporary.

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Gone are the days when recording an album required a large, expensive recording studio and piles of ultra hi-tech equipment.

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Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings.

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This publication presents for the first time a concentrated look at Calands output from 1970 to 1979, with particular emphasis on works on paper and paintings that reflect the artists preoccupations with an erotic impulse.

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A new edition of bestselling favourite, I'VE BEEN THERE (AND BACK AGAIN), filled with the songs, stories and photographs of Slim Dusty and his wife and fellow singer and songwriter, Joy McKean.With three new stories exclusive to this edition.

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Looks at icons in the context of the history of Christianity and examine all aspects of the production and power of this distinctive art form. Based on an analysis of British Museum examples that have been carefully studied by restorers, this book explains how icons were made, framed and displayed.

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During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art prompted by the Academie Francaise where assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed. This work presents a survey of the movement and features 60 reproductions of some of the renowned works.

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Photographer Steve McCurry's finest work from decades of travel throughout India - now available in paperback

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India Modern is a compilation of modern Indian design and architecture, placed in the context of Indian history and traditions.

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A visually stunning compilation of modern Indian design and architecture.

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A survey of Indonesian contemporary art. It presents the works by Indonesian artists, and discusses their distinguishing characteristics differentiated from other contemporary art in Asia and the Western world.

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An exhibition catalogue that celebrates the works of five pivotal artists from the Arab world. It honors the careers of Dia Azzawi, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Nawar, Ibrahim el-Salahi, and Hassan Sharif. It highlights their individual contributions to forging and promoting modern art and enriching the history of aesthetics in their countries.

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This illustrated history of Islamic art surveys the achievement of Muslim artists and craftsmen over 1200 years, from the 7th to the 19th centuries AD. The author examines the great diversity of styles, region by region. Also considered is the specific character of Islamic art and its influences.

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An anthology of 280 Islamic designs and patterns. It is drawn from the heritage of Islamic art c 800-1600 AD. It is suitable for designers, craftsmen, artists, teachers and students.

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Tracing the history of Italian printmaking from the years in which the country achieved its independence, this book discusses prints by artists such as Boccioni, which immediately preceded their adherence to Futurism.

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Features images of more than 100 Italians of different ages with their families, friends, children and an assortment of dogs in splendid historic palaces and the countryside that represent the Italian way of living and a certain style that goes beyond fashion and time.

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The first in-depth exploration of the award-winning King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, designed by Norwegian architects Snhetta