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The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed works in the entire history of music.

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The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed works in the entire history of music.

Collecting his wit and wisdom for the first time and featuring an introduction from Stuart Maconie, Messing Up the Paintwork is a tribute to a musical icon described as untouchably cool (Lauren Laverne), an uncompromising musical maverick (Tim Burgess) and a man shouting from a prison window (Frank Skinner).

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art

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Essays and criticism that span Michael Asher's career, documenting site-specific installations and institutional interventions.

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The authors are dishing it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks, manipulated facts, and spliced speeches to tamper with the truth.

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This stunning catalogue documents Michael Rees's colourful inflatable sculptures that incorporate dynamic augmented reality elements, thus revealing the rich visual vocabulary of digital technologies.

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Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades.

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In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide,Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work.

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Shows us the mysterious glacial landscapes of Switzerland, Nepal, Tibet and the US. For this long-term project - whose photographs were mostly taken from open helicopters, the author periodically returned to the same places for over a decade to record the alterations in landscape and light patterns.

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Written for a general audience, the 'Masters of Art' series contains art history monographs in which illustrations are accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work.

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In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Nevertheless, for the next four years he and a hand-picked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending back-breaking hours on a scaffold fifty feet above the floor.

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This book combines creative insight and rigorous research to argue that the Vaticans Laocon Group was created by Michelangelo as a forged antiquity.

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The conclusions of an important interdisciplinary approach to Michelangelo studies conducted by a team of international experts from fields as diverse as art history, conservation science, anatomy and technical archaeology.

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Focusing on 30 highlights from the V&A's superlative Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, this book explores micromosaic construction, its roots in antiquity, their incredible popularity in the last quarter of the 18th century, and their evolution through the 19th century until the technique virtually vanished in the early 1900s.

Provides artwork for some of the biggest studios in Japan, including Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Konami, SEGA, and more.

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Offers descriptions of types of migraine visual phenomena, along with art images created by migraine sufferers that detail their visual experiences. This book covers such topics as migraine signs, symptoms, triggers, and treatments, as well as types of visual hallucinations and somatic sensations and experiences.

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Milano Buzz, the second chapter of the ongoing series The Buzz Project, is a photographic collection evoking a temporal and symbolic portrait of the contemporary metropolis and its inhabitants, seen from the window of public transport.