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Multicultural, adjacent to London's wealthy financial district, home to artists and designers of all stripes, the East End is alive with creative possibility, and its inhabitants are stylishly individual and self-fashioned to the extreme. This book deals with the colourful characters and personalities from the East End.

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Created by writer and artist Edmund de Waal, library of exile addresses questions of how ideas are communicated through translation and the written word and how they are handed down through history.

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Originally reproduced in only 175 precious sets and limited to Britain's highest elite, this stunning masterpiece of scientific illustration history is now available to all. Drawing from live parrots, Edward Lear (1812-1888) created lifelike illustrations so dazzling they earned him the honor of teaching his craft to Queen Victoria. This...

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Edward Weston's classic images are among the best-known examples of midcentury American photography. This monograph brings together some of Weston's finest works to present his artistic evolution, from painterly observations to what became his signature "Straight Photography" style, which explored the intricacies of natural forms in a myriad of...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [Groucho Marx]

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The romantic is the unreasonable optimist in the face of overwhelming odds.

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Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) rose to national and international fame as a model, performer, trendsetter and interpreter of neoclassical fashion. Accompanying a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, from November 2016 to April 2017, this book provides an evaluation of Emma Hamilton's artistic undertakings, cultural achievements and legacy.

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Learn the core concepts of painting on location - the definitive resource for experiencing the peace and rewards of painting in the open air.

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'Craft' is no longer a trend; it is now an enshrined aspect of modern life. This book showcases 60 makers whose creations can inspire and delight you.

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A book, that intends to trace the rise and fall of horror cinema from its beginnings in the 1890s right through to the end of the 20th century, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid classics from Hammer's house of horror and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

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An engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir fromone of the world's leading pianists.

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Presents a selection of Escher's art and shares his comments on his work, symmetry, infinity, and paradox.

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From the author of The Arab of the Future, the first book in a bestselling series of graphic novels following the life of a real girl growing up in Paris - hilarious, tearjerking and painfully true.

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Gene Vernier worked for Vogue in London as a fashion photographer between 1954 and 1967 at the birth of one of the most exciting periods in British, European and American fashion history. This title features over 100 of his own favourite images from the British edition of Vogue that featured his work in that period.

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Newly discovered recordings of a music legend in his own remarkable words: punk, Buzzcocks and the inspiration behind some of greatest songs ever written.

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Presents a selection of contemporary artists working in a figurative, hyperrealist style. This book includes work ranging from still lifes and extreme closeups to large scale cityscapes and landscape painting, and features a wide range of artists from around the world, who work in a meticulous fashion.

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Amid a frenzy of lurid color and distortion, discover a calm, authoritative overview of German Expressionism. From the leading collectives of Die Brcke and Der Blaue Reiter to regional schools and lesser known artists, Dietmar Elger leads us through the protagonists and principles of this vivid 20th-century movement-its stylistic cacophony,...

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With almost 500 illustrations, this book captures the most famous wrestlers of the 60s and 70s in action, as well as the amazonian, bikini-clad women who writhed around on staged photography sets in the little-known sub-genre of "apartment wrestling."