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A selection of key essays on art from the nineteenth century to the present day by one of the most influential voices in art history.

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An invaluable guide to the beautiful art of making Japanese woodblock prints using traditional methods and authentic materials.

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"An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art." ARTnews

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Andrea Mantegna, the painter who was able to rise above earth and create heavenly forms which are still real (W Goethe). He was a protagonist of the renewal of the figurative language in northern Italy. This title gives an introduction to the life of the artist. It includes his masterpieces.

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Conspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using an array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen and caps. This title features an array of these art and design projects.

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Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. With a range of both classic and never-before-seen works, a biography, exhibition chronology and a selected bibliography, this volume deals with his work.

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Marcel Broodthaers' (Belgian, 1924-1976) extraordinary output across mediums placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. This book examines the artist's work across all mediums.

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Gathers together 350 reproductions of installations that through different techniques - drawing, painting, print and sculpture - involve the surrounding environment, creating unexpected relations between imagination and sensitivity.

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Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the worlds most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovis daring and utterly original body of work.

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Marlene Dumas is 'a painter's painter'. A figurative painter whose work often recalls the painterly gestures of Expressionism, Dumas comments through her work on the state of painting today. She often chooses as her subject matter portraits of women, or of children and infants, as seen through the gaze of a woman artist.

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Marvel Studio's Head of Visual Development shares the art and innovation behind the creation of the heroes, villains, and fantastical worlds of theMarvel Studios Cinematic Universe, including Meinerding's original character and conceptual designs for Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, and more!

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A unique insight into the creativity of graphic designer, Massin.

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The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Packed with information and insights, this classic book contains over 200 of the most important objects, including the most famous (such as the Rosetta Stone) and also a selection of lesser-known but equally significant or beautiful pieces.

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Featuring Julie Bell, Philippe Druillet, Frank Frazetta, H.R. Giger, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Rowena Morrill, and Boris Vallejo, among many others. This book combines original paintings with preparatory sketches, sculptures, calendars, magazines, and paperback books for an immersive dive into this dynamic, fanciful genre.

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Drawn from all the major cultures of the period and covering an extensive geographical and chronological sweep, this richly illustrated book celebrates the artistic accomplishment of objects made from a varied and attractive array of materials such as gold, silver, precious stones, ivory, glass, ceramics and textiles.

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The remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.

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The V&A's collection of ivory carvings from the period 1200-1550 is one of the most important in the world, and this is the first catalogue of it to be published since 1929. Together with the earlier volume, Medieval Ivory Carvings: Early Christian to Romanesque (V&A, 2010), the books make available over 400 pieces of the ivory carver's art.