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Gold and the Incas: Lost worlds of Peru reveals the splendour of ancient pre-Hispanic cultures of Peru. Art made of gold, silver, turquoise, shell, stone, textile and ceramic is shown. More than 200 objects are covered, from gold armour and intricate jewellery to elaborate embroidered and woven cloths.

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Documents modern trends in graffiti and street art in Los Angeles, while also providing a history of the art form in the city. This work presents an examination of technique, an exploration of socio-cultural issues in crew dynamics, battles and apprenticeship and interviews with the most prominent artists round out the text.

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This XXL edition reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige's legendary series The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido, a stunning representation of the historic route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. Sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions, this vivid tapestry of 19th-century Japan is in equal parts a major artifact of its imperial past and a masterwork of woodblock practice.

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From cosmic charts and da Vinci's Vitruvian Man to the New York subway map: trace the history of visual data from the Middle Ages to the digital era. Featuring some 400 infographic milestones across technology, cartography, zoology, and more, this compendium is a reference work for designers, history buffs, and anyone thirsty for knowledge.

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A parallel look at Hockney and Van Goghs love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings.

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This XXL edition transports readers to 19th-century Japan with Katsushika Hokusai's seminal Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, an artifact of art history and masterpiece of woodblock practice. This sweeping reproduction of the complete 46 plates and 114 color variations, gathered from museums and collections worldwide, is bound in Japanese style.

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Discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This dependable global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.

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Presents a survey of Gothic ivories in English. This catalogue contains essays by seven international scholars, and are illustrated with photography and collateral photographs. It conveys to the reader the major changes that occurred in art and society during the Gothic period and the rise of ivory carving for religious and secular purposes.

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Explores the life and career of Jackson Pollock. This book features more than 100 paintings in full colour, including six foldouts, together with over 170 illustrations in black and white. It includes comparative photographs illustrating paintings by artists whom Pollock admired that explain the work of this complex, tragic and influential figure.

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Australian painter Janet Venn-Brown has led an extraordinary life. Peter Mannings richly illustrated book celebrates her life and her work - her 40 years in Rome, her artistic successes and experiments, her political engagement and travels in the Middle East, and her return to Australia in 2011.

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Shows us the spectrum of sexual practice and expression, including nudity and clothing, voyeurism, gods, monsters and animals, orgasm, adultery and jealousy, and much else. This book highlights the symbols and motifs, often hidden in the background of the art, which are crucial for a proper understanding and appreciation of this genre.

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A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED NEAR-FACSIMILIE OF TURNER'S SKETCHBOOK COLLECTING TURNER'S LUCERNE STUDIES.

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David - the greatest king of Israel, the founder of Jerusalem, and one of the pivotal figures of the Old Testament - was a source of inspiration for artists and their patrons throughout the medieval world. This book is a survey of the profusion of David's images in both Byzantium and the West, providing a guide to a range of medieval depictions.

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David - the greatest king of Israel, the founder of Jerusalem, and one of the pivotal figures of the Old Testament - was a source of inspiration for artists and their patrons throughout the medieval world. This book is a survey of the profusion of David's images in both Byzantium and the West, providing a guide to a range of medieval depictions.

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Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human beings ever to have lived. Sourced from our best-selling XXL-sized edition, this spectacular resource gathers full-bleed details of all the artist's paintings, including Salvator Mundi, recently the most expensive painting ever bought at auction.

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One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonn of all of the artist's masterful paintings, both surviving and lost, including the showstopping Mona Lisa and Last Supper.

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This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketches which include works in pencil, pastel and watercolour from across the artists long career are published here for the first time. These fascinating images extend our understanding of Freuds work and demonstrate the scrutiny he brought to his subjects.

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The work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh merged Scottish tradition, modern function, and Japanese elegance into a unique oeuvre across architecture and design. A key proponent of the turn-of-the-century Glasgow Style, Mackintosh also influenced Art Nouveau across Europe with his bold yet lyrical repertoire of vivid lines, elegant proportions, and natural motifs.

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Designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting, building, or artifact in terms of the iconography and symbolism of Christianity, this book will deepen understanding not only of Christian art and architecture but also of Christianity itself.

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From multiple exposure and solarization to creating his own brand of photograms termed "rayography": Man Ray's technical innovations and ethereal imagery shook avant-garde Paris to its core. Breaking down boundaries between photography, poetry, and design to create ethereal and poetic expressions, the polymath modernist pioneered a new chapter...

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Manet challenged the society in which he lived through his art. He engaged with a Realist tradition, rather than Impressionism, and drew widely on the art of the past. This study examines the artist's intentions and the critical receptions of his work, manifested in cruel parodies and cartoons.

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Delight in page after page of Michelangelo's graphic brilliance. From architectural structures to anatomically perfect figures, this fresh edition intersperses some of the artist's finest drawings with his own notes and revisions, offering spine-tingling proximity to the process of his genius.