Learn how to define structure and capture emotions with this comprehensive artist's guide to drawing the human head.

Takes the reader on a journey through homes with sumptuous interiors, finely crafted details and exceptional art collections, fabrics and furnishings.

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A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.

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Ambitious and engaged, Arts & Architecture magazine celebrated change and innovation across politics, society and especially culture. This selection from the magazine's first five years features the complete covers and has a special focus on the groundbreaking Case Study House Program, one of the most unique and influential events in the history of American architecture.

Celebrates the world of Islamic arts and crafts. This book presents the cultural, philosophical and historical heritage that artists and craftspeople still draw on. It provides access to a range of techniques, methods, materials and skills.

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A crocheted wool coat of exuberant textures and glowing colours; a shibori dyed and pleated silk vest of baroque sensuousness; a headdress of ribbon intricately ruched in the shape of a leaping fish - these are just a few beautiful, imaginative and provocative, even surreal works of wearable art illustrated in this title.

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As Found Houses is a guide to the surprising design decisions found in the domestic architecture of rural China and a resource for thinking about contemporary design.

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From the one-room cubic cycladic houses that inspired Le Corbusier to imposing Venetian towers and houses integrated into rocks, At Home in Greece reveals an astonishing collection of homes.

A dazzling and definitive survey of the life and work of Aubrey Beardsley, the complex and intriguing artist who shocked and delighted late-Victorian London.

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This is a photographic tribute to one of the 20th century's most alluring women, Audrey Hepburn. The 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" not only established her as a captivating actress but created an "Audrey style" that thousands of women sought to emulate.

(, 6th Revised edition)

Showcases the best photographs of animals, plants and landscapes taken in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea.

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(, Second Edition)

Focuses on how Australian plants may be used in gardens, whatever their size, function or site.

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With specs, swatches, paint chips, and some of the best design and illustration around, 20th-century car sales brochures were sumptuous masterpieces of collateral advertising. For the first time, Automobile Design Graphics brings together over 500 reproductions from these rare brochures, from the obscure Tucker and Ajax to the iconic General...

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Profiles the fifty contemporary landscape practices from around the world. With between four and six case studies for each designer, this title presents an encyclopaedic look at the advanced thinking in garden design and offers an archive for practitioners and enthusiasts alike.

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The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union.

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"An insider's view of the creative process behind Rango, the ... animated feature film from Blind Wink Productions and Industrial Light & Magic"--Back of jacket.

Throughout the 1950s and '60s, as the ballpoint became cheaper and more accessible, artists sketched with these pens. This book features 30 artists from around the world who are creating masterpieces with ballpoint, and discusses their methods, the messages in their work, and their personal connections to the pen.

Master of stillness: Balthus, the most enigmatic painter of our time, in a large retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler (02.09.2018-13.01.2019) which unites around fifty significant paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career, reflecting the ambiguous presentation of his imagery.

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