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These paradigms of miniature painting from the fourth century to 1600 are worth millions, typically tucked away in private collections or closely guarded archives-until now. Discover some of the most beautiful and important manuscripts from the Middle Ages in this collection of brilliant large-format reproductions, complete with a 36-page appendix.

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A comprehensive study of the history of collage and its fundamental place in modern art.

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The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart offers the first presentation of the collection of Peter W. and Alison Klein, with works by artists such as Gregory Crewdson, Tracey Moffatt, Anna Oppermann, Sean Scully and Jorinde Voigt, among others.

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Taking a practical approach to colour, this book is suitable for art students and professionals alike. It includes much-enhanced sections on key colour principles such as colour perception, visual structure, materials and techniques, psychological experience of colour, and colour composition in digital formats.

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From the sixteenth century until well into the eighteenth century, the Commedia Dell'arte, a popular Italian type of improvised comic theatricals, cast its spell on a large and diverse audience. Features the precious porcelain used to immortalise the performance of the comedians.

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This work traces the development of the contemporary art scene in Texas. The use of unorthodox materials, the social and political realities which pertain in the 1990s, and features of the theoretical as well as commercial art world are included in the discussion here.

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Provides an examination of the American studio craft movement in general, with detailed analyses of all of the major mediums (clay, wood, fibre, metal, jewellery, and glass) favoured by the greatest craftsmen of the period. This title explores the origins of the studio craft movement, the international influences that helped it grow, and more.

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A study of the international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. This book features the work of 40 key artists, both infamous and lesser-known, including Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Andre Breton, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara and Kurt Schwitters.

Focusing on Salvador Dali, this volume in the "Masters of Art" series has 40 full-page colour plates, accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work. Other illustrations show the artist at various points in his career, his contemporaries and comparative works.

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David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for almost sixty years. Working in an extraordinarily wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence, his art has examined, probed and questioned how the perceived world of movement, space and time can be captured in two dimensions.

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A charming sketchbook interspersed with David Hockney's sketches of his dogs, Stanley and Boodgie

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With his Pittura Metafisica, Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico was a highly influential figure in the 20th-century avant-garde. Allied to the Surrealist movement, he developed a compelling style composed of sharp perspectives, striking shadows, ominous voids, and lonely figures, at once dreamlike, anxious, and brooding.

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Edgar Degas' art was considered radical in his adoption of modern subject matter and he was to become a key figure in the evolution of modern art. This book covers the period from Degas' early portraiture and historical subject matter of the 1870s through his move to modern subject matter and to his late experimental paintings and photographs.

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Exploring themes raised by digital artworks, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, this book focuses at the impact of digital techniques and media on traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture.

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