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Susan Au, Jim Rutter Ballet and Modern Dance ENThis cornerstone of the World of Art series is a succinct, vivid and authoritative guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-century theatrical dance. Updated for the new millennium to feature the latest styles, performers and technology, this third edition reaffirms its status as the essential introduction to the…
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Solvi dos Santos, Laura Gutman-Hanhivaara Baltic Homes ENBaltic Homes includes villas from the late 19th century, fishermen’s cottages, farms and manor houses and contemporary homes designed to fit their natural environment. With nearly 250 colour photographs by distinguished photographer Sølvi dos Santos, this seductive book encapsulates a distinctive and beautiful style of life.
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Frank Whitford BauhausThe way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, ...
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Alan Powers Bauhaus Goes WestBauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange – between the Bauhaus émigrés in the years following the school’s closure in 1933 and the countries to which they moved, focusing in particular on Britain. Taking as its starting point ...
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Grant Watson, Marion von Osten Bauhaus ImaginistaBauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community. The Bauhaus reconnected art with everyday life, ...
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William Wegman, William A. Ewing Being Human ENAll artists have a muse. Movie directors perfect their craft working again and again with the same actor, while choreographers find their inspiration for some of their greatest works when creating for a particular dancer. Sometimes a muse is a silent partner, the object of an artist's intense and obsessive gaze. At other times the relationship is a kind of performance, a deeply collaborative act. For William Wegman,…
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Quentin Bajac, Slava Stochl Being ModernPublished to accompany the first major exhibition in Paris of works from The Museum of Modern Art, Being Modern: MoMA in Paris presents more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, architecture drawings, design objects, photographs, films, video games and more, telling the story of how these items came to be part of one of the world’s greatest collections of modern and contemporary art. A short essay by a MoMA…
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Matthieu Ricard Bhutan ENTucked away between China and India in the heart of the Himalayas, Bhutan remains a relatively little-known country. Few photographers have been granted permission to enter this obscure and long-inaccessible kingdom, where life quietly unfolds to the rhythm of traditions amidst the magnificent, unspoilt landscape. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Matthieu Ricard, a monk and photographer, went to Bhutan to study with…
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Tristan Manco Big Art / Small Art ENScale is being taken to new extremes in art: from Luke Jerram’s microbiological clear-glass sculptures and Klari Reis’s petri dish paintings, to Lilian Bourgeat’s oversized furniture and stemware and Janet Echelman’s 230-foot-long aerial sculpture that was installed over the Amstel River in Amsterdam. Art lovers are forced to examine these massive or tiny works through a new perspective.
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon Bikini Book ENProvides the history of the bikini, recording its progression from the French beaches in 1946 to the small strings. Packed with hundreds of photographs, this book is useful for those interested in fashion and the female form.
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Veronika Kapsali Biomimetics for Designers ENThe importance of biomimetics – imitating life’s natural processes – has been known for years and designers have often looked to nature for formal solutions. The natural world contains infinite examples of how to achieve complex behaviours and applications by using simple materials in a clever way, as all organisms make use of limited raw materials to survive. In the popular imagination, the best-known example is…
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Lucinda Hawksley Bitten By Witch Fever ENBeautiful to look at and compelling to read, Bitten by Witch Fever is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers with thought-provoking narrative, tracing the arresting story of the use and effects of the toxic pigments ingrained in popular wallpapers of the nineteenth century. Lucinda Dickens Hawksley presents the history of Scheele’s green and…
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Klaus Biesenbach, Alex Ross, Nicola Dibben Bjork: Archives ENBjork is a contemporary icon whose contributions to music, video, film, fashion and art have influenced a generation worldwide. Here, now, is the ultimate celebration of this multimillion-selling superstar. Designed by top design studio M/M (Paris) as a slipcased world of wonders, this publication which accompanies springs exhibition on Bjork at The Museum of Modern Art is composed of six parts: four booklets, a…
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Blahnik by Boman ENBlahnik by Boman is a brilliant photographic collaboration between shoe designer extraordinaire Manolo Blahnik and his close friend, photographer Eric Boman. In over 160 photographs, Blahnik's exquisite, luxurious and impossibly sexy shoes take centre stage in a dazzling array of settings, perfectly set off by Boman's unerring eye and uncanny empathy with Blahnik's creations. Almost as covetable as a pair of Manolos…
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Michael Cuscuna, Francis Wolff (Photographs) Blue Note ENBlack-and-white photographs oozing with cool immortalize the performances and offstage lives of more than 100 famed jazz musicians who forged Blue Note Records' legendary reputation. Blue Note Records cofounded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff is dedicated to recording the greatest musicians in jazz history. Wolff's photographs taken from 1948-69 catch the stars in action: performing onstage, in recording…
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Nathalie Herschdorfer BodyThe body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body...
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Robyn Lea Bohemian LivingBohemian Living sidesteps the world of carefully constructed interior design and, instead, dives into the liberated and nonconformist atmosphere of offbeat beauty and artistic delights.Robyn Lea is an incredible storyteller both visually and in the ...
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Bohemian Style at HomeBohemian style is characterized by free-flowing fabrics, bright colours and a multitude of clashing patterns. Heavily inspired by the 1960s and 1970s free-spirited way of life, it is one of the most versatile styles of decoration....
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Pilar Silva Maroto Bosch ENJheronimus van Aken (1450–1516) was born and lived in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc) in North Brabant; in signing himself “Jheronimus Bosch” he linked his fame to his native city. In Spain, where he was known as “el Bosco,” his work earned considerable acclaim early in his career. Bosch came from a long line of painters and soon mastered the skills of his craft. In stylistic terms, however, he…
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Mark Evans, Stefan Weppelmann Botticelli Reimagined ENRenowned for his iconic The Birth of Venus, Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) is arguably one of the greatest artists of all time. His work has inspired countless others, and his legacy is easy to see in everything from Degas’s drawings and Warhol’s first computer portrait to Jeff Koons’s album cover for Lady Gaga. As famous as he is today, Botticelli was quickly forgotten after his death,…
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Marco Spies Branded Interactions ENDigital design plays a crucial role in how customers experience a brand. However, corporate websites and online shops are only one part of interactive brand identity. The importance of mobile apps for smartphones and tablets has grown exponentially in recent years, while interactive touch points and billboards are increasingly found in the real world. The interface is now the brand. This book is designed to guide…
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Michael Johnson Branding ENMichael Johnson is one of the world s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has garnered a plethora of awards in the process. In Branding, Johnson strips everyday brands down to their basic components, with case studies that enable us to…
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Brassaï ENOne of the most important and influential photographers of the century, Brassaï (1899—1984) is best known for recording demi-monde Paris in the 1930s. He is also known for revealing the hidden, more seamy side of the city: a shadowy world and it’s inhabitants coming to life at night, and classic photo-portraits of artists such as Matisse, Picasso and members of the Surrealist group.