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Mapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East.

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Come face to face with one of the most feared apex predators in the world with The Great White Shark Handbook.

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This book explores the meaning and history of this fascinating object, and tells the tale of its remarkable survival and eventual passage to the British Museum.

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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Htel on Place Vendme is the captivating history of Pariss world-famous Htel Ritza breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity;

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How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice.

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Offers a fresh approach to understanding the history of art, from cave painting to the modern day, with pivotal works of art examined in the context of history, culture and the lives of their creators. This book reveals the creative impulse behind every major art movement, from the Renaissance to Surrealism and abstract to pop art.

Presenting, in 3 volumes, the first comprehensive and international overview of one of the most influential and enduring of 20th-century art movements.

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A provocative, captivating and highly accessible story of British art from 4000 BCE to the 19th century.

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An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art projectadvertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallerythat hoodwinked the New York art world.

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Formed by Harvey S Shipley Miller, trustee of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, and given to MoMA in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be a broad survey of contemporary drawing practice. This catalogue raisonne presents the collection as a whole.

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Readers have grown to love the charm that Julia Rothmans pen brings to life as she explores the curious parts and pieces of the world. The Julia Rothman Collection presents all three of her popular volumes in a handsome giftable box set featuring a specially designed slipcase and 10 framable prints.

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The Lacock Cup is a rare object with a unique English history. Made in the 1430s, it is one of a handful of pieces of secular silver from the Middle Ages, which both survived the changing culture of Tudor fashion and the turmoil of the Reformation. The remarkable story of this special cup is brought to life in this short and accessible book.

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A wonderful evocation of a highly celebrated period of art history from one of the most acclaimed biographers of our time.

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"A collection of often iconoclastic essays on a number of key Renaissance artists"--

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Published to explore in more depth some of the stories featured in the BBC six-part series Secrets of the Museum. In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects.

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The untold story of a radical approach to the teaching of sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art.

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A collection of masterpieces from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection. It accompanies an international tour that features 70 twentieth-century paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, including masterpieces by Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others.

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How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.

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Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is renowned for his architectural achievements on a public and domestic scale, interior designing, and furniture design. This book aims to review his work in context, and consider how his ideas can be interpreted. His handling of colour, use of materials, and graphic approach to form are explored.

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The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since.

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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician.