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Dali's Moustaches: An Act of Homage
Boris Friedewald Hardcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 144 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791382555 This original and utterly captivating celebration of Salvador Dali's life and career traces the countless, often outrageous, ways the artist employed his moustache to brilliant effect. Whether...- £4.00
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Walter Sickert: Sketches of Life
Thomas Kennedy Hardcover | 15.62 x 1.27 x 19.56 cm | 48 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849768221 ‘Any fool can paint, but drawing is the thing and drawing is the test. If you are a good draughtsman you are ipso facto a good...- £5.00
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Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece
Suzanne Preston Blier Softcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 448 pp Duke University Press | 2019 | 9781478000198 In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most...- £15.00
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Renoir: An Intimate Biography
Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575 The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...- £15.00
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The Story of Edvard Munch
Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...- £7.50
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Three Centuries of American Prints: From the National Gallery of Art
Hardcover | 25.4 x 4.06 x 30.23 cm | 360 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239520 Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art highlights the three major movements in American art and print history in nearly 200 masterful prints...- £30.00
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The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)
William Feaver Hardcover | 1238 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2019 | 9780525657521 & 9780525657668 Illustrations: 17 colour and 41 b/w Volume I: The Restless Years (1922-1968) Volume II: Fame (1968-2011) has eight pages of colour images. PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by...- £35.00
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Beuys & Duchamp: Artists of the Future
Hardcover | 22 x 28 cm | 248 pp Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775750684 In conversations and interviews Joseph Beuys mentioned Marcel Duchamp more than any other artist, and hardly anyone else seems to have challenged him more than this artist from the...- £40.00
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Simon Morley: Seven Keys to Modern Art
Simon Morley Hardcover | 14.99 x 2.29 x 21.84 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021620 A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches (or keys), focusing on 20 major artworks from around...- £10.00
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Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
Hardcover | 23.62 x 3.05 x 27.43 cm | 240 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300197006 Over the course of the 18th century a great number of artists, ranging from established painters and sculptors to amateurs, experimented with etching, an accessible form...- £30.00
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Fictions of Art History
Mark Ledbury Softcover | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300191929 Fictions of Art History addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the...- £12.00
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Constable's White Horse: William Kentridge & Amiee Ng
William Kentridge & Amiee Ng Hardcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm | 72 pp | 38 colour illustrations D Giles | 2021 | 9781911282709 The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (17761837) is the first of the series of the "six-footers," monumental landscapes of...- £12.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
Sérgio B. Martins Hardcover | 19.05 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm | 248 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262019262 How Brazilian postwar avant-garde artists updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. Brazilian...- £17.50
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Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya
Rena M. Hoisington Hardcover | 21.59 x 3.81 x 26.04 cm | 288 pp Princeton University Press | 2021 | 9780691229799 How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and...- £30.00
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Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde
Sarah E. James Hardcover | 18.57 x 3.33 x 23.5 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2022 | 9780262046565 In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices...- £16.00
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant–Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
Trevor Stark Hardcover | 18.57 x 2.87 x 23.65 cm | 440 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262043717 At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art...- £10.00
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Joan Miró: Les Dernières Estampes (The Last Prints)
Softcover | 22 x 31.5 cm | 32 pp Lelong Editions | 1987 | 9782855871523 Text in English, French, German and Spanish These twenty prints are the last of Joan Mirő's original graphíc works. They were printed in Paris in 1981, the lithographs by René...- £15.00
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The Picasso Connection: The Artist and his Gallerist
Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.79 x 26.92 cm | 224 pp Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775748056 Without a doubt, Picasso is one of the most important and versatile artistic personalities of the twentieth century. But how does a body of work become so...- £30.00
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Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art
Hardcover | 16.4 x 3.7 x 24 cm | 384 pp Tate Publishing | 2021 | 9781849767668 Today, around a million British people are of Caribbean descent, reflecting a history of post-war migration that essentially begins and ends with the Nationality Act of 1948...- £15.00
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Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Vol 1
Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm | 208 pp Unicorn | 2021 | 9781913491482 Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforcement, what prevents thieves, looters...- £12.00
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