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Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spains relationship to modernity

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This monograph presents the work of the jewellery artist Winfried Kruger in a retrospective, whose focus rests on the work from the last twenty years. Text in English and German.

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Educated in metalcraft and goldsmithing at the Ortweinschule in Graz, Rahs alternates in his works between jewellery, installation, performance, and processual pieces. Text in English and German.

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Feminism Street art Social change Hot topics sizzle in this bilingual full-color edition highlighting female artists from Latin American countries.

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A comprehensive survey of textile art and production worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. Using line drawings and close-up colour details from actual textiles, it shows how people from many different traditions have made and decorated cloth through the centuries.

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The first monograph on the key Victorian painter in a century.

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The great voyages of discovery of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought European artists face-toface with new and exotic plants and animals, and created an intense interest in the way nature was investigated and recorded. In this book, the author explores the history of natural history.

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Brassai became interested in graffiti in the 1930s. It became a lifelong obsession, he continued to photograph graffiti and publish the photographs with his commentary until his death. One of Brassai's most important works, Graffiti presents the texts and photographs the photographer devoted to this 'art of the street'.

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Takes you through jewels of extraordinary beauty, many of which belonged to legends of international cinema, including the jewellery of Anna Magnani, Grace Kelly, Gina Lollobrigida, Anita Ekberg, Diana Vreeland and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Through around 300 works, documents, and drawings from private collections and museums from all over the world, this title reconstructs the work and life of Carlo Scarpa from the beginnings of his career when he worked as artistic director for the Venini glassworks, between 1932 and 1947.

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This volume presents the most exquisite and refined designs of the worlds finest jeweler.

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From their forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. They are an enduring combination of the unexpected and the classical. This book chronicles Cartier's constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches.

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Cartier epitomizes creativity and individuality in jewellery design. This book features 175 objects that exemplify Cartiers talent and represent milestones in 20th-century design.

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Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's foremost contemporary fine art photographers

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An introduction to the various forms of abstract decoration used by the Celts, asking whether they had a symbolic meaning now lost, or whether they were simple adornment. It examines the craftsmen's techniques, follows the development of patterns and describes a number of surviving masterpieces.

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A remarkable collection of textiles made in Islamic lands and traded along the Silk Road.

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Numerous leading artists of the 20th-century showed an interest in jewellery, often through love of a woman, or for their daughters. Despite the opening of art from the 1910s onwards to the abstract and conceptual, they happily bridged the gap that seemed to be deepening between art and craftsmanship.

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The 1970s were born out of the turbulent late 60s. This book explores the sociological aspects of 1970s design, examining how ergonomically-focused designers maximized efficiency through the creation of multifunctional furniture and invented a new design vocabulary that clearly indicated an objects function.

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Features the artworks from 1932 to 1973 in the Bruno Bischofberger collection, bringing together 330 masterpieces in a celebration of the fascinating and timeless art of Finnish glass design, including works by the finest and most renowned glass artists such as Aino and Alvar Aalto, Arttu Brummer, Kaj Franck, Goran Hongell, Saara Hopea, and more.

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Following the success of previous illustrated volumes on the Cartier collection, this book features brand new high quality photography and illustrations that are sure to entrance those who have ever taken an interest in luxury jewelry or in the mythical brand of Cartier.

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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.