Artists' Postcards: A Compendium
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Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves...
Florence: A Walking Guide to its Architecture
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Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this...
How Posters Work
Ellen Lupton, Caitlin Condell and Caroline Baumann
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How Posters Work is more than a standard exhibition catalogue. Conceived as a useful and...
Redefining Postmodernism
Adam Nathaniel Furman and Terry Farrell
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Redefining Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of...
After 1851: The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner
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Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the...
Anatomy for the Artist
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Using superb specially commissioned photographs of male and female models together with historical...
Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists Against Originality
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"Art is theft," Picasso once proclaimed. The wily old Spaniard was being provocative - he often...
By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
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Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists...
Figures of History
Julie Rose and Jacques Ranciere
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In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranciere continues his reflections on the...