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Hello World
By Alice Rawsthorn
Hardback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, even dangerous. This title explores design's influence on our lives.
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Books That Shaped Art History
By Richard Shone
Hardback
Published 11-Mar-2013
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Reassesses the impact of some of the most important texts of art history. This book provides a varied and invaluable overview of the history of art, told through its seminal texts. It explores how art history has been forged by these contributions to scholarship, as well as by the dialogues and ruptures between them.
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Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew
By Tanya Harrod
Hardback
Published 28-Sep-2012
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British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. This biography of his remarkable life includes interviews with friends, students, and Cardew's two surviving sons. It also includes photographs.
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Hare with Amber Eyes
By Edmund Waal
Paperback
Published 22-Jan-2011
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50 Art Ideas
By Susie Susie
Hardback
Published 29-Sep-2011
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The perfect guide to the most important ideas in art through the ages.
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Brick City
By Warren Elsmore
Paperback
Published 06-May-2013
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Brick City is a celebration of the world's favourite buildings and urban icons, recreated solely using LEGO bricks.
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Ice Age Art
By Jill Cook
Hardback
Published 18-Feb-2013
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Explores the sculpture and drawings created during the last European Ice Age, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago the oldest known figurative art in the world. This book states that the minds that created these objects in all their diversity and inventiveness were modern minds like our own, capable of highly sophisticated thought and expression.
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St Pancras Station
By Simon Bradley
Paperback
Published 17-Mar-2011
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St Pancras station has long been an iconic landmark on the London landscape and one of its most distinctive monuments. This edition is published to coincide with the reopening of Scott's wondrous Gothic hotel. It traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status.
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Bento's Sketchbook
By John Berger
Hardback
Published 04-May-2011
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A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.
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Lucian Freud: Painting People
By Martin Gayford
Paperback
Published 15-Oct-2011
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The book includes some of the finest examples of Freud's work from across seven decades. The portraits are complemented by a chronology illustrated with documentary images and some previously unpublished informal photographs, and introductory texts by Martin Gayford and David Hockney.
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