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Fascinating personal account by Quentin Bell and his daughter Virginia Nicholson of this extraordinary house, its history and the lives of those who lived in it.

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An investigation of the principles of classic design, as expounded in The Decoration of Houses, and their relevance to interior design today.

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One of the great unsung heroes of twentieth-century British design.

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Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in New York City, this title focuses not only on abstract painter and colourist Sonia Delaunays art but also her avant-garde fashion designs from her own Atelier Simultane in Paris during the 1920s.

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A beautifully designed gift book devoted to John Constables studies of skies.

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A complete overview of the Italian Renaissance courts covering all areas influenced by them: art, music, literature etc.

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Discover the revolutionary work of Cubism, hailed as the first avant-garde movement of the 20th century. With key works from major artists, this introduction explains the history, theory, and legacy of the movement's fragmented planes, multiple perspectives, and collaged elements.

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Victorian-era decorative tour de force marks the shift in popular taste from Neoclassicism with an eclectic assembly of 47 engraved plates. Includes designs dating from Gothic, Renaissance, and Elizabethan eras.

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Includes texts by notable scholars and art historians, writers, artists, and collectors, and features archival material and personal photographs. Accompanies a vast, non-travelling retrospective at the Centre Pompidou with works from public and private collections worldwide.

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Cy Twombly (b. 1928) is widely considered to be one of the greatest living American artists, and he has received much admiration and international critical praise throughout his 50-year career. Yet his work defies easy categorization.

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There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas

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In this special photo project award-winning Russian photo artist Olga Michi traces our fascination with masks, completed by lenticular cover. Text in English, French, German, and Russian.

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An information-packed, beautifully illustrated handbook exploring the evolution of design, from the industrial revolution to the digital explosion

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Explores how the Aboriginal art movement, born of isolation and deprivation in one of the remotest and harshest places on earth, has in little more than 30 years become a newly minted coin in the international art market, with paintings being exhibited and collected in Paris, Los Angeles and New York.

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Known for his immersive environmental spaces and his experiments with light, Doug Wheeler helped pioneer both the material and conceptual approach behind what is often referred to as the Light and Space movement. This title provides background on the context in which Wheeler matured as an artist, and tells the story of his life and practice.

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Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows readers how to weave some of this magic into their own drawings.

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When is a urinal no longer a urinal When Marcel Duchamp declared it to be art. From his infamous Fountain to reworked Mona Lisa with mustache and beard, this essential introduction to Duchamp surveys his audacious practice of "readymades" and beyond and its critical place in 20th-century art.

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