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100 Posters That Changed The World

Classic posters from the last 300 years and the stories behind them. Posters have always been designed to seek an immediate response. From the time when paper was first affordable, the poster h..

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50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Susie Hodge introduces and explains the central concepts that underpin Western art and design. From Romanesque to Realism, Pop Art to Pluralism, 50 Art..

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A Year of Watercolour: A Seasonal Guide to Botanical Watercolour Painting

Create beautiful botanical artworks, engage with the natural world around you, and take pleasure in the changing seasons with A Year of Watercolour. Award-winning and bestselling artist an..

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About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art

A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists - many underrecognized and overlooked - from the last 50 years Though the Stonewall Riots might now be short..

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Aelita Andre: Prodigy of Colour

Aelita Andre (born in 2007 in Melbourne) is an Australian abstract painter. She began experimenting with paint when she was nine months old and her extraordinary acrylic on canvas paintings were prese..

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An Apothecary of Art: To Soothe Your Soul

An Apothecary of Art is the beautiful debut collection from Ravenous Butterflies featuring 80 exquisite works of art from the likes of John William Waterhouse, Henri Rousseau and Rockwell Kent with ac..

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Analogue: A Field Guide

A celebration of all things analogue, from the machines that made it work-reel-to-reel tape recorders, typewriters, and telephones-to the artefacts and the culture that they made possible Recent year..

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Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends,..

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Andy Warhol. Seven Illustrated Books 1952-1959

In 1950s New York, before he became one of the most famous names of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was already a skilled and successful commercial artist. During this time, as part of his strategy to w..

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Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography

Unofficial and unauthorisedIn 1962, Andy Warhol displayed 32 canvases of Campbell's soup cans in a New York art gallery. The art world - and what we consider to be art - would never be the same again...

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Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans

In 1962, when he painted Campbell's Soup Cans, Andy Warhol was not yet a household name, and Pop art, the movement with which he is now identified, was still on the cusp of becoming a phenomenon. With..

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Around the World in 80 Pots: The story of humanity told through beautiful ceramics

Pottery tells us about religion, daily life, humour, trade, sex, folklore and creativity. Bearing the imprint of their maker more than any other crafted object, ceramics give us a unique physica..

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Art Dog: Clever Canines of the Art World

From millennia-old cave art to world-famous internet sensations, dogs have inspired artists to strive to capture their loyal personalities and antics for as long as they've been our furry friends. ..

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Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night

"The world's most famous and celebrated contemporary art critic." -GQ "One of the most powerful art critics today." -Time Out From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of ..

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Art Is Magic

Art is Magic is artist Jeremy Deller's attempt to tie up the key works of his career alongside the art, pop music, film, politics and history that have inspired his work. Much has been written about D..

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Art of the Bible, The : Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World

An extensively illustrated compendium of 45 expertly selected illuminated bibles that transport the reader through 1,000 years of history and across the Christian world. For two millennia the Bi..

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Art of the Lips: Shimmering, liquified, bejewelled and adorned

As Kylie Jenner put it, "Check out this inspiring photograph from...@vladamua! " From opulent to optical illusion, Vlada's art is a blend of make-up and magic that transform her lips into canvase..

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Art Oracles: Creative & Life Inspiration from the Great Artists

Be guided and inspired by the world's greatest artists with this creative set of oracle cards. Are you suffering from creative block? Struggling to make a difficult life decision? Find out what P..

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Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art: Uncovered, Explored, Explained

A down-to-earth, visual guidebook that shows how to 'read', understand and get the most out of art. For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable t..

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Artists at Home

Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia OKeeffe and Frida Kahlo,..

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Artists Who Changed History

MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS - FACE TO FACE This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illu..

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Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists Letters is a collection of intriguing, e..

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Artists' Lives

Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art world insider. Praised by the Art Newsp..

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ArtZone Issue 90 Autumn 2022

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ArtZone Issue 95 Winter 2023

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ArtZone Issue 96 Spring 2023

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At the Gallery:  Art Memory Game

Art lovers rejoice! We're off to the gallery. Match 25 of the world's most iconic artists with one of their famous works. From classical to contemporary, Tracey Emin to Louise Bourgeois, this mig..

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Ballet Confidential: A personal behind-the-scenes guide

"Ballet Confidential is not a no-holds-barred expose but rather a joyfully led and personal guide into the world of ballet."--Megan O'Brien, Books+Publishing Beyond the formidable combination of ..

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Banksy Museum: Complete Catalogue

This book presents the richness, diversity and strength of the work of the most famous street art artist in the world and yet nobody knows his identity. We are invited to follow the evolution of the ..

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Banksy: A Graphic Novel

Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy - and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banks..

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Bauhaus Goes West: Modern art and design in Britain and America

Bauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange - between the Bauhaus emigres in the years following the school's closure in 1933 and the countries to which they moved, focusing in particular on Bri..

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Birds in Art

The natural beauty and diversity of birds have fascinated us for centuries. Since their first appearance in art in medieval manuscripts, birds have proved to be a popular and enduring subject for arti..

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Blossom: Practical and Creative Ways to Find Wonder in the Floral World

In Blossom, botanical illustrator and lifelong flower lover Adriana Picker takes you through a year of flowers and the ways to live with and learn from them, with beautiful artwork as well as recipes ..

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BMW Motorrad: A Two-wheeled Legend

Timed for the company's centennial, this spectacularly illustrated coffee-table book traces the awesome evolution of BMW motorcycles from the birth of its iconic R23 "airhead" boxer twin, in 1923, to ..

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Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Part anthropological study, part art book, and part how-to, Book of Earth immerses you in the world of ochre, a naturally occurring mineral used to make pigment. Each chapter explores Gustafson's rare..

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Book of Seeing, A

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Botanical Sketchbooks

A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world. While h..

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Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch

Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch seeks to map the ways in which Harris's art has developed over the past four decades. It presents an overview of Harris's career, and through a number of in-depth essay..

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Caribbean Art

Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and highly accomplished work of Caribbean artists, whether indigenous or from the diaspora, popular or 'high' culture, rural or urban base..

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CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

Long blonde hair, an iconic red lip, and effortless style-all signatures of fashion icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Carolyn used fashion as her medium. She hadn't found her voice yet in front of the ca..

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Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits (Victoria and Albert Museum)

A contemporary look at Cecil Beaton's portraits of the Royal Family and how they helped create the public face of the House of Windsor. Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits looks back in time to te..

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Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms

What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collecti..

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Our fast-changing world seen through the lenses of 140 leading contemporary photographers around the globe. With close to 500 images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication takes..

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Clay

Ceramics is back in a big way, experiencing a steady surge of interest and popularity not seen since the 1970s. The return to the handmade, driven by our increasingly digital lives, means there are no..

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Collecting Fine Art: The Lumas Portfolio Vol IV

In celebration of its 15-year anniversary, LUMAS presents 100 of the finest pieces in its portfolio of art photography. From landscape to portraiture, architectural images to fashion shots, photograph..

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Colour in Art

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has recei..

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Colour: A Master Class

An illustrated guide to the history and symbolism of colours, as used in artworks throughout the ages, from prehistory to the present day. Colour, which has the power to impart meaning or express..

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Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas), but the ..

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David Hockney: Normandy Portraits

David Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 a..

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Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls

Destined to become a classic, Deep Color explores how colour acts on our imagination, subconscious, and daily decisions. It helps readers unpack the colour-laden stimuli that come their way every minu..

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Dolls' Houses

Dolls' Houses have fascinated children and adults for centuries. This delightful book, revised and now presented in hardback with a new foreword by artist Rachel Whiteread, explores the astonishing sk..

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