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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Wallis, celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter and art collector/connoisseur, containing an extensive catalogue raisonn and unpublished letters.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

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

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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.

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Exploring the significance and impact of a broad selection of the artists working in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australasia, this title provides an accessible key to understanding the art practice at the beginning of the 21st century. It is organized alphabetically by artist.

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An inspiring, briskly written, gorgeously illustrated reexamination of 31 overlooked women in the arts and creative fields, from the author-artist team behind the successful Art Hiding in New York, for fans of Ninth Street Women.

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Over the years Ian Davenport has consistently employed intensely rigorous and unconventional painting processes. This book provides an examination of his production, from his electric fan paintings, to his poured arches, circles, lines and puddle paintings.

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Explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists.

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The perfect gift or coffee table book for fashion and underwear lovers!

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Offering a closer look at the rich variety of styles, decoration, motifs and patterns and the sheer craftsmanship of world cultures, this book includes examples of design, workmanship and craft in dramatic sculptures of metal, stone and wood as well as sumptuous paintings and textiles.

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Marjolein Bastin's passion for the natural world saturates each page of Inspired by Nature Sketchbook, and kindred spirits will adore this unique, beautifully illustrated sketchbook.

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Louise Bourgeois was a prolific artist known for her highly personal body of work consisting of sculptures, installations, drawing and prints that deal with themes of memory, trauma, fear and hidden emotion. With a discussion of ideas, emotions and experiences that inspired the creation of her work, this title examines Bourgeois' artistic legacy.

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How much of a little is enough for an image to function as a picture

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This book showcases the most important work by celebrated street artist and activist JR the award-winning global street-art project he has been working on for the last six years, involving a quarter of a million people.

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In this expanded and revised edition of a seminal work, Vern G Swanson delves into the life and paintings of this little-known Classicist.

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A must-have for lovers of Pop Art and those who bought books on Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book focuses on James Rosenquist as a history painter, who captured what he saw in the world around him, rather than just under the Pop label.

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Jan Fabres multi-faceted oeuvre, in a richly-illustrated volume including all his work from the start of his career to the present.

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Born in Delft in 1914 and regarded as one of the most important Dutch artists of the twentieth century, Jan Schoonhoven was an active and influential player in the course of major European post-war developments in art, particularly related to monochromatic, serialized abstraction. This title deals with his life.

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An authoritative and provocative survey of the arts of Japan, brought right up to date with the latest developments and current trends.

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Japans door to the outside world was opened in 1858, ending a 200-year period of total isolation. The wealth of superb Japanese traditions of ceramics, metalwork and architecture, as well as printmaking and painting, reached the West and brought with it electrifying ideas of composition, colour and design. This book focuses on Japonisme.

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In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christies auction catalogue. Inspired not only by the photographic image, but also by the physical qualities of the object itself, Johns took this motif through a succession of cross-medium permutations. This title presents each of these permutations.