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This book presents over 500 traditional Japanese motifs, ranging from Ukiyo-e, ghost stories and Noh plays to traditional patterns, etc, with introductions of their cultural backgrounds. It also showcases outstanding graphic works inspired by and integrated with specific motifs, and features interviews with distinguished designer.

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In this richly illustrated and highly accessible book, Julia Hutt draws on the V&A's world-famous netsuke collection to explore the origins and techniques of this captivating art form.

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Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (1615-1868) were the products of a highly commercialised and competitive publishing industry. Their content was inspired by the vibrant popular culture that flourished in Edo (Tokyo). This book explains how those who first purchased these prints would have read them.

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The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This book reveals the most exceptional prints from 1710-1925, drawing from the finest impressions of museums and private collections worldwide.

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The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This condensed edition reveals the most exceptional prints from 1680-1938, drawing from the finest impressions of museums and private collections worldwide.

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Up to his untimely death in 2006 at 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous assault on aesthetic conventions and the rules governing the art world - wryly subverting those very conditions by using them as materials for his work. This book deals with his life and work.

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The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date

(Hardback, Revised edition)

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art

Invents the context for a new melody for the art of Jim Dine. In this title, Dine has reflected authentically on his own identity and through it the identity of reality, nature, art, thoughts, feelings in an extraordinary poetic way: We see a 'POEM', we read an 'IMAGE'. It may be read and regarded as a summary of an unusual life.

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When I was born, I came home to my grandfather's house. His name was Morris Cohen. He was my mother's father. I lived with him for three years until my parents built a small little house and we moved away. But from the time I was born until he died when I was nineteen, I either spoke to him or saw him every day.

(Hardback, Revised edition)

An updated edition of the first - and still most authoritative - book on the legendary American iconoclast

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia (Uruguayan, 1874-1949) is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined transformational paths for modern art on both sides of the Atlantic. This book presents Torres-Garcia's long and wide-ranging career, from the late 19th century to the 1940s.

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The painter Jochen Plogsties, was a master student of Neo Rauch, and he was awarded the Leipziger Volkszeitung art prize in 2011. This volume provides an overview of his paintings.

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Feminist icon, symbol of Mexican culture, political activist, groundbreaking artist: discover the many facets of Frida Kahlo, who transformed the afflictions of her life into unremittingly powerful paintings. In this introduction, Kahlo's body of bold, arresting works are presented alongside her turbulent life to shed light on the audacious face glaring defiantly from her self-portraits.

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The presigious catalogue following the first solo exhibition of the artist in Italy at Fondazione Mudima.

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The fantastic book is now available again in new smaller format edition with a lower price