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Art & artists
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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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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Leonardo and the Last Supper
By Ross King
Hardback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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The Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of its execution is not. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, the best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome tells that extraordinary story
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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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Company of Artists
By Charles Smith
Hardback
Published 15-Oct-2012
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The intriguing history of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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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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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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