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Worldwide ArtAs with lovers of fine wines, art lovers have very discerning tastes. To make it easy for you to buy something for the lover of art in your life we have selected a range of wonderful books, not matter what their creative tastes are. Whether young or old, fun or serious, visual or theoretical, we have something for every one. |
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Klimt |
Klimt The Kiss Silk Scarf |
Japanese Bamboo Baskets Meiji Modern and Contemporary |
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Without doubt, this is one of the highlights in world art publishing this year. Prestel’s new and exhaustive survey of Klimt’s work, presents his entire painted oeuvre in a truly superb boxed volume. The scale of the book makes close inspection of the paintings not only possible, but rewarding. It is magnificently bound and is up to date with the latest scholarship.
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Beautiful pure silk scarf with hand rolled edges; oblong 155 x 40 cm. Adapted from the famous painting by Gustav Klimt in the Osterreichische Galerie, Wien. Golden background, Klimt signature on corner. Imported from Austria.
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Once neglected in the West, Japanese basketry now claims a loyal following among art lovers, collectors, and craftspeople in the United States and Europe. Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Meiji, Modern, and Contemporary acknowledges this growing interest by presenting a stunning array of the best baskets to come out of Japan in the last 150 years. The authors – both Japanese experts in the field – have selected superb examples from private and museum collections throughout the world. They focus on the breathtaking works by the masters of the traditional form – Rokansai, Shokosai, and Chikuunsai – as well as those of the leading contemporary artists, whose groundbreaking sculptural pieces are attracting ever-greater attention from the international art community. Japanese Bamboo Baskets frames the pieces in a wealth of newly written material, beginning with a Foreword by pioneer collector Lloyd Cotsen. Masanori Moroyama, in-house bamboo expert at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, contributes a compelling history of this forgotten art, while spokeswoman for the artists Masami Oguchi provides potent insights into the artists and their works. A trio of interviews with top artists, as well as essays by other voices in the field, round out the volume. |
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Private Lives of Impressionists |
Guerilla Art Kit |
Sculpture Today |
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Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Their contemporaries branded them as lunatics, but today this is a roll-call of great artists, whose paintings evoke a unique atmosphere of harmony: languid landscapes flooded with light, shop workers dancing on their day off, bars and gas lit streets, the sunlit beach at Trouville. In a vivid and moving narrative, Sue Roe shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly 20 years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. Defying the hidebound rules of the salon, they staged joint exhibitions and rebelled against artistic prejudice, moral tyranny and social hierarchy. Often rejected by their horrified parents, they led volatile and precarious lives.
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The Guerilla Art Kit shows how small artistic acts can start a revolution. Keri Smith, noted author of Living Out Loud and the Blog Wish Jar Journal, uses her unique drawing and handwriting style to help anyone find and release their inner artist or activist. This visually exciting activity book is full of step by step exercises, cut out projects, sticker ideas, and more. It has both fun assignments and handy tips to help you unleash your creative energy into the streets, where you can really make an impact. From the quick exercises; leaving books for strangers to find, chalking quotes on the sidewalk-to the more involved - making a "wish tree," guerilla gardening, or making your own stencils ….. The Guerilla Art Kit contains everything you need to put your message out into the world.
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There is not much published these days for those who love sculpture. So, it is great that Phaidon have published this comprehensive, up to date and richly illustrated volume. It is the best overview of contemporary sculpture from all over the world currently available. Thematic chapters examine the diverse subjects that have inspired sculptors in recent years, including; the body, gravity, colour, light, architecture and clothing.
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30,000 Years of Art |
Street Sketchbook |
Wall and Piece |
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This book serves the dual purpose of looking sexy and attractive on your coffee table when friends drop by and actually being a really accessible and comprehensive reference book on world art. Designed to be informative and fun, it offers an original and fresh way of looking at the whole of art history from 28,000 BC to the present day. Along the way, it debunks art historical classifications and hierarchies by presenting 1,000 masterworks of art in simple chronological order demonstrating what was being created all over the globe at the same time |
Nowhere is connection between raw inspiration and art more evident than in an artist’s sketchbook. The pages within the battered covers of sketchbooks reveal a secret world; a treasure trove of exquisite draughtsmanship, personal anecdotes, unconstrained energy and wild ideas that are works of art in themselves. This volume grants unparalleled access to the books from the sixty contemporary artist worldwide working in a broad range of disciplines – from graffiti and street art to illustration, painting, design and animation. Featuring original artwork gathered from the personal sketchbooks of leading artists, all of it startlingly beautiful, Street Sketchbook is a unique collection of art that will appeal to anyone with creative flair.
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Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it is squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are, by turns, intelligent and cheeky comments on everything; from the monarchy and capitalism, to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. Now, for the first time, he is putting together the best of his work – old and new, in a fully illustrated colour volume. |
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