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  • Talk Art

    Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask

    by Russell Tovey, Robert Diament ...
    Series series Talk Art
    ***'An indispensable volume'Vogue'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and joyous book. Without art the human soul is unfulfilled. This collection by Russell and Robert fully explains why.'Sir Elton John and David Furnish**'**Russell and Robert have made talking a... ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Interior Design Handbook

    by Frida Ramstedt ...
    THE BESTSELLING SWEDISH PHENOMENONWhat looks good and why?Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia's leading interior design blog. In this book she distils the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste and lifestyle. Filled with practical tips, rules-of-thumb and tricks of the trade, The Interior Design Handbook will ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • How to Get to Great Ideas

    A system for smart, extraordinary thinking

    by Dave Birss ...
    The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creative director Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame a problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea, how to build support for it and how to inspire others to ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Artist's Way

    A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

    by Julia Cameron ...
    'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily TelegraphTHE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper ... Read more

    14,94 €

  • On Chapel Sands

    My mother and other missing persons

    by Laura Cumming ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern masterpiece' GuardianAutumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Architecture and ekphrasis

    Space, time and the embodied description of the past

    by Dana Arnold ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Architecture and ekphrasisexamines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how space and time inform visual ekphrasis or descriptions of architecture. The idea of embodiment is used ... Read more

    Was 22,31 € Now 19,49 €

  • 畫語錄－王季遷教你看懂中國書畫

    by 徐小虎 ...
    Series Book 58 - Treasure
    一位是在中國古書畫鑑定斷代堅持五十餘年的徐小虎，一位是當代極富盛名的旅美書畫收藏家王季遷，透過作者徐小虎歷時近十年的精彩訪談，兩人以時而直言犀利，時而幽默風趣的提問對答方式，對中國古書畫的各種疑難，一一提出精闢的觀點與見解。書中王季遷以其個人的藝術創作經驗和多年來在中國繪畫史的研究及鑑藏心得，分別針對用筆、墨跡、紙張，乃至書畫品評、等級、收藏心態等等，作了具體的分析與說明。他強調：唯有以自己的眼、手，親自去「看」、去「畫」、去「模仿」每一位大師的獨有筆法，才是奠定書畫收藏鑑賞方法的不二準則。此外，針對中國書畫筆墨的分析與探討，更是貫穿全書，引人入勝。筆墨可謂畫家個人獨一無二的內在天賦與創作靈魂，翻開中國書畫史，對於筆墨的探討幾乎微乎其微，本書精彩記錄王季遷關於筆墨鑑賞的獨到觀點及看法，彌足珍貴。誠如王老所言：「如果你不看一個畫家基本表現潛能之發揮（即透過筆墨），那麼你將看不到中國畫的精髓 ... Read more

    6,55 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Design of Everyday Things

    by Don Norman ...
    **The essential guide to human-centered design“Even more relevant today than it was when first published.”—Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO**Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Design as Art

    by Bruno Munari ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Making Design Theory

    by Johan Redstrom ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

    17,59 €

  • Ordinary Notes

    by Christina Sharpe ...
    A singular achievement, Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes explores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that cumulatively gather meaning, artifacts from the past – both public ones and the poignantly personal – are ... Read more

    8,47 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding a Photograph

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Indigo

    Cultivate, dye, create

    by Douglas Luhanko, Kerstin Neumüller ...
    Discover indigo; one of the most mystical yet widely used dyes in the world. Featuring inspirational images and presented with a luxurious exposed and patterned spine, this book shows you how to grow, extract and dye with indigo.From cowboys’ denim to the jeans in your wardrobe, indigo’s enduring popularity survives to this day. In this practical handbook, learn how to use this powerful pigment to ... Read more

    12,39 €

  • Listening to Type

    Making Language Visible

    by Alex W. White ...
    With this visually stunning primer, designers will develop the skills and vision to produce truly innovative, eye-catching type design. All the basics of type design are covered, and in-depth information is provided on more advanced topics such as the differences between type applications, how typography creates identity, and what best inspires readers. Chapters cover:The language of typeSpace and ... Read more

    25,20 €

  • Little Book of Hermès

    The story of the iconic fashion house

    by Karen Homer ...
    Series series Little Book of Fashion
    The iconic bags, the instantly recognizable packaging, the celebrity fans – Hèrmes is the last word in luxurious accessories.Through the generations, Hermès have created innovative and exquisite accessories for the most glamorous customers. From their nineteenth-century saddlery workshop to 1960s Paris and beyond, Hermès has graced the arms and wardrobes of style icons from Grace Kelly and Jane ... Read more

    6,14 €

  • Art in the Making

    Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

    by Glenn Adamson, Julia Bryan-Wilson ...
    Todays artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. Here, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the ... Read more

    25,66 €

  • Art and Design in 1960s New York

    by Amanda Gluibizzi ...
    Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence between fine art and graphic design in New York City during the long decade of the 1960s. Beginning with advertising's "creative revolution" and its relationship to pop artists, the book traces design and art's developing interest in responses to civic problems such as the proliferation of billboards, navigation through the city's ... Read more

    Was 36,88 € Now 32,43 €

  • Trafic N° 111 (Automne 2019)

    by Collectifs ...
    Marcos Uzal, La foire aux auteurs. Cannes 2019 Anne Bertrand, Voyages en Ghirri Youssef Ishaghpour, Le peu de réalité de l'image numérique. 24 Frames d'Abbas Kiarostami Olivier Assayas, Manny Farber : ce qui reste du cinéma Manny Farber, Des années 1930 aux années 1970. Une conférence au MoMa Sylvie Pierre Ulmann, Vigo, Luce Gilbert Cabasso, Cinéma, numérique, survie. Lettre à Jean-Louis Comolli ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Art, Anthropology and the Gift

    by Dr Roger Sansi ...
    In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and politics.Fully engaging with anthropology and art theory, this book innovatively argues that art and ... Read more

    27,52 €

  • Tastemaker

    Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home

    by Monica Penick ...
    A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste  From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good design” and “better living” to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored initiatives, ... Read more

    48,22 €

  • Scottish Art

    by Murdo Macdonald ...
    Series series World of Art
    What makes Scottish art Scottish? In this now classic text, Murdo Macdonald explores the distinctive characteristics of Scottish art over the centuries such as the heritage of Celtic design with its emphasis on intricate pattern; the importance of the landscape, particularly the Highlands and the sea; and a close connection with France. It ranges from the earliest art to survive Neolithic standing ... Read more

    13,45 €

  • Mona Lisa and her mysteries

    by Beatriz M. Mikusinski Zawislak ...
    Translated by Adriana Krainski ...
    This book tells the story of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, based on a pedagogical approach, in order to present information accessibly, even for those who do not have a background in History or History of Art. On the other hand, the book brings well-documented information, based on testimonials of some of the most renowned researchers who have studied the subject.Before addressing the subject of ... Read more

    15,04 €

  • The Bible in a Nutshell & Atheisting 101

    by Casper Rigsby ...
    I wrote both of these titles back in 2015. I wrote them in a time when things felt calm enough that religion seemed like the truly big problem I needed to focus on and I could have some fun doing that by writing these satirically silly little books. It's a bit harder lately to write a book that has some humor and all of myself without just being an angry tirade that isn't really fun or funny for ... Read more

    3,49 €