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Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world.

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"The National Portrait Gallery, which averages one million visits per year, is dedicated to the exhibition and study of portraits of people who have made significant contributions to American history and culture. It is the only museum of its kind in the United States to reflect the connection between American history, biography, and art"--

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Surveys American and European art, 1945-2008. This book discusses the major art movements and features the great painters who changed the landscape of art history, including Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol, De Koons, Haring and others. It contains an overview of other artistic disciplines - sculpture, architecture, design, cinema, and photography.

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Edited by Eleonora Battiston, Primo Marella. Introduction by Simon Soon.

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Explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity.

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Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer.

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They are one of the highlights of the world of jewellery. From the rectangular to the round and rounded: Cufflinks are timeless eye catchers. This knowledgeable publication introduces readers to the world of cufflinks, tracing their story and showing rare designs.

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How to understand propaganda art in the post-truth eraand how to create a new kind of emancipatory propaganda art.

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Investigating the entanglement of industry, politics, culture, and economics at the frontier of ocean excavations through an innovative union of art and science.

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A series of dreamscapes interrogating trans semiotics through psychoanalytic practices, speculative technologies, and live action role-playing.

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The history of an aesthetic sensibility that began with Op Art and album covers; with more than seventy-five stunning color images.

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The first book to consider the conceptual, thematic and material development of Shawcross's art, from the extraordinary machines that marks his emergence in the early 2000s to his most recent projects.

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Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asherincluding notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and criticsmost published here for the first time.

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An examination of an experiential and experimental art form that, despite its evanescence, has shaped participatory art into the present.

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Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.

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German painter and sculptor Rainer Fetting was born in Wilhelmshaven in 1949. He went to Berlin in 1972 where, in spite of the constraint caused by the dividing wall, he was able to capture the special atmosphere in the western part of the city. This book deals with his life and work.

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A revised and expanded edition of the successful illustrated biography of Robert Rauschenberg, whose six-decade career shaped modern art

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The first biography of the circle of British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy.