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(P/B) How The Stars Came To Be
New into paperback! The Fisherman's Daughter loved to dance in the sunlight, and bathe in the glow of the moon, but when the moon disappeared for a few nights each month, she worried about her father and how he would find his way home from the sea in the darkness of the night. One night the sun finds her sobbing and so he takes one of his rays and smashes it onto the ground, creating the stars and gives the girl the task of putting them into the dark night sky. This beautifully illustrated story gives us a new folk tale, and a new way to l...
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(H/B) In Our Hands
A timeless fable? this debut children's picture book from author Lucy Farfort is sure to entrance and empower in equal measure."We called it 'The Dulling'. It had been creeping in for such a long time, and had started so gradually, that most people barely even noticed. As the Dulling spread, people began to fight and isolate themselves from each other. Neighbours became enemies, friends became strangers, and soon all colour was drained from the world." When the world is plagued by isolation and cursed to live without colour? it is up to a ...
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(H/B) Sleeping Beauty
A mortal curse laid upon a baby princess, magic fairies, and true love's first kiss. Will Princess Aurora escape her tragic destiny? This magnificent paper cut-out book plunges us into the enchanting world of the famous ballet, Sleeping Beauty. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) The Party Animals
Back in the forest, more crazy animals are having adventures, causing havoc and helping us to learn whilst having fun! A group of party-loving tarsiers have moved into the forest and are keeping the other animals up all night! How will everyone learn to get along and will the tarsiers be able to keep the music down? A lesson in acceptance, and learning to understand and celebrate our differences. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) I’m Fine, Thanks!
From the author-illustrator of Mildred the Gallery Cat comes another charming caper about a young girl learning that it's okay to ask for help. Little One is finally grown up enough to go out with her friends on one of their big adventures! But when things start to go extraordinarily wrong, Little One is determined to fend for herself. Thousands of miles away from home, can she conquer her fear and learn to ask for help? (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE ART OF FEMINISM
Updated for 2022, The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women's lives across the globe. The book includes over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the study moves on to developments of both World War...
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(P/B) Women in Revolt!
A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives, Women in Revolt! surfaces the wealth and diversity of work created in the UK during the 1970s and 80s, a period of seismic social and political change. Across a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography, this extensive exhibition book reflects on how women's needs were marginalised within mainstream culture and reveals how artis...
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(H/B) Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over the last four decades. Looking beyond the generation of 1990s Young British Artists during which Lucas emerged, this visually stunning exhibition book invites the public to marvel at the diversity of her work across sculpture, installation and photography. Breaking boundaries with her bawdy h...
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(P/B) THE COMMISSAR VANISHES
This brand new edition of David King's lauded visual history is a unique and brilliant study into the doctoring and propogandising of Soviet photographs by Stalin's regime. From the creator of the award-winning 'Red Star Over Russia' 'The Commissar Vanishes' offers a chilling look at how Joseph Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict even greater le...
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(P/B) THE ROSSETTIS
A visually stunning book devoted to the radical Rossetti generation. The Rossettis' approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionary. This is explored by a range of short thematic essays containing fresh, and surprising research, accompanied by beautiful and iconic Pre-Raphaelite illustrations. Featuring artworks and writings by Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth (nee Siddal), the book distinguishes the Rossettis from Victorian culture and foregrounds their countercultural roles. The publication accompanies the first r...
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(P/B) Chris Killip
Chris Killip (1946-2020) is one of the most influential British photographers of his generation. He is best known for his black and white images of people and places, especially in the North East of England in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume focuses on his remarkable Seacoal series, documenting a community at Lynemouth, where, as he put it, 'the Middle Ages and the twentieth century intertwined'. The Tate Photography Series is a celebration of photography by artists in the Tate collection, presenting the work of some of the most signific...
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(P/B) A QUEER LITTLE HISTORY OF ART
A Queer Little History of Art is a celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. This book illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world - exploring bodies and identity, love and desire, prejudice and protest through drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. A Queer Little History of Art features...
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(P/B) PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Now available in paperback, in this important and richly illustrated book, Catherine Wood provides the broadest and most up-to-date survey on performance art published in recent years. Stunningly beautiful, deeply puzzling, profoundly moving or intensely unsettling - performance art can evoke a wide variety of responses. Wood proposes performance not as a genre of art separate from object-making but as an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. From the musical-theatricals of Marvin-Gaye Chetwynd to the publi...
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(P/B) KEITH HARING
An energetic and accessible introduction to iconic American artist Keith Haring, this exhibition catalogue accompanies Haring's first UK institutional exhibition. Featuring around fifty works supported by rarely seen photography, film and archival documents from the Keith Haring Foundation, this book will not only introduce Haring to a new audience but also throw fresh light on an artist whose work remains symptomatic of the subcultural and creative energy of 1980s New York. Essays exploring various aspects of Haring's practice are intersp...
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(P/B) YAYOI KUSAMA
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) is arguably Japan's most famous living artist. Reprinted with new cover art for 2020, this thorough and insightful book was first published in 2012 to accompany Tate's groundbreaking Yayoi Kusama exhibition, the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist's work to be staged in the UK. Lavishly illustrated, the book features an introductory essay by Frances Morris as well as four other substantial essays by leading international critics. Topics covered include Kusama's time in New York, her care...
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(H/B) WALTER SICKERT
Accompanying the first exhibition dedicated to Walter Sickert at Tate since 1960, this hardback exhibition book features over 200 images from the exhibition, a wide range of essays by scholars, and reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow. Walter Sickert was one of the most influential artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Si...
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(P/B) FACE TO FACE
Now available in paperback, this striking book allows you to delve deep into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists.Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's most distinguished art writers, these intimate and revealing interviews provide a wealth of fascinating insights into the work of leading British artists. They discuss, often very frankly, their lives and art, their working methods and aspirations. The collection features an array of highly engaging and articulate artists, from Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro, ...
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(H/B) ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Described by The Times on its first publication in 1865 as an excellent piece of nonsense, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has gone on to become one of the most popular books ever written, loved by children and adults alike and translated into over 125 languages. In Tove Jansson, Carroll's classic finds an illustrator worthy of its enchantment and surreal beauty. Jansson is renowned worldwide for her hugely successful books about the inhabitants of Moomin Valley. What is less well known is that in 1966 she devoted her uni...
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(H/B) Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life
For the first time, the complex, symbiotic ecologies that sustained the practices of two of the twentieth-century's greatest painters are revealed. Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists engaged with science and esoteric thought as tools for exploring the underl...
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(P/B) Strangers
Writer Ismail Einashe offers a poignant exploration into the themes of migration and belonging - and the plight of finding shelter in a foreign land. Embarking on dangerous journeys to flee violence and persecution, migrants and refugees arrive on shores of Britain to seek aid. And yet, they have become scapegoats, vilified as an invasion. Examining works from Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Strangers revisits this narrative to reveal the experience of the refugee, stranded from their home and loved ones in strange lands....
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