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Tells the story of Turner's life and work. This title features colour plates illuminating Turner's range dramatic views of the sea or mountains, sweeping landscapes, architecture, imaginary scenes from history and legend, panoramas of contemporary towns.

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This handbook presents the essentials of airbrush applications in a non-technical and easy-to-understand format. There is practical guidance and advice on equipment and mediums, airbrush operation, studio set-up and more. It also offers techniques for developing original source material.

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Celebrates a private collection of gold, silver and jewelled boxes made to contain cosmetics, lipsticks, mirrors, combs and change. This title displays the examples ranging from an exquisite early-Ching-period box to dazzling contemporary designs.

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"A reader of previously published and new material (interviews with artists and theorists) devoted to the new and growing field of critical plant studies, and a reader that practices what it covers by arranging and intertwining its contents through a non-hierarchical and articulated manner that allow for different, alternate reading pathways"--

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Few jewelry designers of the 20th century had the flare and creativity of Fulco di Verdura. His fascinating career took him from Paris to Los Angeles and eventually New York, where he was patronised by the rich and famous, who found his flamboyant neo-Baroque style exactly what they wanted.

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A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.

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A beautifully illustrated guide to the world of Victorian stained glass and its manufacturers and designers.

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The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, from which the Sevres factory evolved, remain relatively unknown, even to porcelain experts.

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The volume presents for the first time the entire glass production by Vittorio Zecchin for the two historical glassworks.

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Banksy.
His work.
Photographed.
With comments by Banksy.
In a book.
This is that book.
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Dana's watercolor series is one of our strongest selling titles and this next installment provides all new, no-sketch templates to help novice artists practice watercolor technique with a playful jungle theme.

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This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.

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Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collins Artists Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and provides essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.

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Tells the story of Hollywood. This book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios - from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp and Rupert Murdoch.

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What is a print This title intends to answer that question by exploring the four basic printmaking techniques - woodcut, intaglio, lithography and screenprint - that have been used to create some of the most iconic images in modern art, from Paul Gauguin's "Noa Noa" to Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe".

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American born painter William MacKendree has worked and exhibited throughout Europe since he began his career in 1987. His earliest works are marked by the integration of powerful linear configurations within vast expanses of canvas. This book deals with his life and work.

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Explores the function of everyday materials and processes in the work of contemporary installation artists during the 1990s using three major US artists as primary case studies, situated in relation to contemporary art making, aesthetics and modernist value systems.

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This is a comprehensive and practical manual about wood engraving, written by one of the masters in the field. Illustrated with beautiful images, it is both a practical handbook and an art object in its own right.

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