Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
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In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores...
The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531)
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Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest...
Goldfinger (1964)
Movie Watch
After a pre-titles "mini-adventure" in which James Bond destroys the base of a drug lord and defeats...
100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
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The charm of concrete architecture today. Who has not heard of concrete? It is that ugly stuff they...
Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History: 2017
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Make New History, the companion publication to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, invites...
Collector's Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics
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This global survey of graphic design innovation brings together over 170 examples from contemporary...
Piero Fornasetti: Practical Madness
Patrick Mauries and Bruno Roger
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Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. His motifs conjure up the illusionism...
Transgression: Towards an Expanded Field of Architecture
Louis Rice and David Littlefield
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Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation....
Word & Image: Art, Books and Design from the National Art Library
Julius Bryant, Elizabeth James and Rowan Watson
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This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art...
A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany
Matthew Hargraves and Rachel Sloan
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"The artist should not only paint what he sees before him," claimed Caspar David Friedrich, "but...