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Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. The young and indomitable Frida met Diego Rivera, the great mural painter, when Mexico was at a great cultural and political crossroads. They formed a legendary partnership, with a strong attachment to Mexican folk art. This book traces her extraordinary life.

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From night skies to morning mists to the much-cited Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich mastered the emotional and metaphysical experience of nature. This introductory book presents his most important and celebrated works to explore an oeuvre of sublime and haunting impact and a trailblazer of Romantic aesthetics.

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A catalogue that presents the rich Tibetan artistic heritage through the collection of Michael and Justyna Buddeberg: carpet manufacture, craftwork in metal and the manufacture of furniture. It explores various aspects of everyday Tibetan culture and includes masterpieces of Tibetan art in textile and metal work.

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The first publication of contemporary pop artist Robert Mars' collage art, intertwines notions of legacy and identity in his Futurelics Popforms.

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Explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguins rare and prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. This title also explores the artists radically experimental approach to techniques and his pivotal place in the history of art.

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In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series The Heroes and New Types, which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking contrast to the trends towards abstraction and Expressionism prevailing during the 1960s, thereby embarking on his own unique path.

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Gerhard Richter is one of the foremost artists of his generation. This book provides a wider selection of Richters texts, from all periods of his career. It includes letters and interviews; private reflections from personal correspondence; and, excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods and sources of his works.

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Documents the author's experiment of taking an image of an original abstract painting and dividing it vertically into two. In this book, each divided part is divided again, mirrored and repeated, producing ever narrower strips, which results in patterns. It includes a total of 238 selected patterns.

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The acclaimed author of Cork Dork takes readers on a fascinating, hilarious and revelatory journey inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists.

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One of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi created works that continue to exert their mysterious power on viewers worldwide.

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Gods in Print is the first comprehensive collection of early hand-colored lithographs, multiple-block chromolithographs, and offset print images of Indias world of gods and goddesses. For the first time, the full scope of Indias sacred imagery in print can be viewed from its earliest days.

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Created and displayed as part of the major Grayson Perry exhibition at the British Museum in 2011, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman is a sculpture of an iron ship, sailing into the afterlife. This wonderful catalogue, created to accompany the award-winning exhibition draws on such intriguing and diverse themes as pilgrimage, shamanism and tomb guardians.

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This collection of 47 tales from Gustav Schwab's seminal anthology of Greek myths tells of the exploits of Heracles, Jason, Odysseus, and a host of heroes. Through the masterful drawings of Clifford Harper and artworks from the leading figures of the Golden Age of Illustration, the world of Greek mythology is brought back to life.

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Gustav Klimt is the superstar of the Vienna Secession. He made a mark on the movement like no other painter. His symbolist, allegorical depictions and erotically decadent portraits of women have come to embody the fin de sicle. Discover all of Klimt's paintings as well as excellent detail shots of the famous Stoclet Frieze.

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A beautifully photographed book, the first to detail the 35-year career of Dutch sculptor Hanneke Beaumont.

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By 1947, Matisse in his seventies and suffering poor health much preferred the act of cutting forms from painted paper to drawing or painting. It was his intention to use this assemblage technique to illustrate a collection of poems. This book features Matisse's notes, written with a paintbrush in looping letters.

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The first comprehensive study of Henry Wallis, celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter and art collector/connoisseur, containing an extensive catalogue raisonn and unpublished letters.

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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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Published to coincide with major Hogarth exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, October 2019

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Get to grips with the astonishing brushwork of Hans Holbein the Younger, a painter shaped by religion, Renaissance, and Reformation, whose remarkable canon includes commissioned devotional works as well as penetrating portraits, most famously of the Tudor court of Henry VIII.

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By avoiding an artist-based structure, and without the convention of a chronological approach, this book provides readers with the tools to think critically and analytically about Impressionism as a movement, and offers a understanding of the collective momentum that drove the artists to work with such originality and commitment to modern themes.