Architecture on the Carpet: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys and the Genesis of Modern Buildings
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This entertaining and intriguing book explores the host of connections linking the model-building...
Newcastle and Gateshead: Architecture and Heritage
Thomas Faulkner, Peter Beacock and Paul Jones
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Revised and brought right up to date from its first sell-out edition of 2006, Newcastle and...
Edward Burne-Jones
Penelope Fitzgerald and Frances Spalding
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Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her...
Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi
Francesco Ventrella and Giovanna Zapperi
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A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta...
Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures 1980-2015
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In the late 1970s, after the artist's explosive Pop Art beginnings and a period of abstraction,...
Kobe: Ingenious Simplicity
Johan Debruyne and Albin Saelens
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Kobe, artistic alias of Jacques Saelens, has made sculptures that toy with two-dimensionality - his...
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now
Bridget Riley, Hugo Chapman and Isabel Seligman
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Looking at works from a range of different artists and their various approaches, this book examines...
Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin: 'For You Have Not Falsely Praised'
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Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with...
Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th Century
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A renowned scholar of Islamic art, history and culture, Oleg Grabar introduces in this book a wide...
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-Boys
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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the...