LAURENCE KING

(H/B) THIS IS CEZANNE
Paul Cezanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life in ways that revealed dynamic yet deeply harmonious visions of the world. But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings, and in 1884 Cezanne declared that Paris, the centre of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him...
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(H/B) THIS IS GOYA
Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived in a time of incredible cultural and social dynamism when the old concepts of social hierarchy were being shaken by the new concept of equality for all. He saw his world ripped apart by Napoleon's armies and then suffered the reactionary backlash as the old order was restored. Against this epic canvas, Goya painted his own observations of humanity, transforming his youthful images of gaily dancing peasants into his mature penetrating studi...
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(H/B) THIS IS KANDINSKY
Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts. He was a Russian, yet he spent more than half of his life on the road, and died in self-imposed exile in France. As an artist he is credited with history's first abstract painting, but it was his theories that had a profound and lasting impact on the way that peopl...
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(H/B) LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Jean-Fran?ois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994, at her studio in Brooklyn. But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust. A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995, under one condition: she would destroy the photographs if she didn't like them... Jaussaud agreed to it and passed the test. He was then given carte blanche to photograph her studio and her house in Chelsea, and he kept coming back for another eleven years. Jaussaud's photographs of Louise Bo...
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(H/B) STEVE MCCURRY
The biggest and most comprehensive volume on Steve McCurry published to date and the final word on forty years of McCurry's incredible work. Written and compiled by Bonnie McCurry, Steve's sister and President of the McCurry Foundation, Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures is the ultimate book of McCurry's images and his approach to photography. The book brings together all of McCurry's key adventures and influences, from his very first journalistic images taken in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown floods, to his breakthrough journey into A...
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(H/B) THIS IS GAUDI
Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona's cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine. Picking up the same strands of eclecticism and art nouveau current in fin de si?cle European architecture, he transformed them into an idiom unique to himself and Barcelona to create a series of buildings as revolutionary in their engineering as they were astonishing for their spaces. For Gaudi his work was his life, an...
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(P/B) THE DRAWING GAME
Lose the fear of drawing and discover just how much fun it is! This book provides hours of doodling activity for anyone with a pen. Look at the world differently by making crazy and inventive drawings around simple household objects. For The Drawing Game, Nunes has gathered numerous photos of everyday things accompanied by suggestions for the doodles you can make out of them. And there are examples of doodles by some of Laurence King's favourite illustrators. The rest is up to you. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LIGHT FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
Light is as important as colour in creating the right effect, whether on a palette or on a computer. Whether you're an animator, painter, photographer or illustrator, you need to know how to harness light in your work to create the right effect. Light for Visual Artists is the first and only book that explores the way light can be used to create realistic and fantastical effects in a wide range of media. This introduction to light for students and visual artists explores the way light can be used to create realistic and fantastical effects...
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(H/B) A CAT'S GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY
If you look up at the sky on a dark night, what do you see? There's a whole universe staring back at you. In the company of Felicity the cat discover the phases of the moon, the constellations and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way. This beautiful, fun book will introduce you to the beauty of the night sky and show you the stars like you've never seen them before. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THIS IS MAGRITTE
Belgian artist Rene Magritte's biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man. The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognizable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed h...
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(P/B) ART BY TATTOOISTS (MINI EDITION)
Tattoos and tattoo artwork have become part of mainstream culture. Many tattooists have moved beyond the artwork they tattoo onto skin to creating bodies of personal artwork more likely to be viewed in a gallery than a tattoo studio. Art by Tattooists is the first book to showcase this art. The book features 26 international artists who use a variety of mediums, including ink, watercolour, acrylic paint, oil and lino printing. Many of the artists are heavily influenced by the imagery they use as tattooists - roses, hearts, skulls, scrolls,...
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(H/B) FASHION 150
Covering everyone from Azzedine Alaia to Yohji Yamamoto, this is an indispensable guide to the creative world of fashion. This encyclopedic volume contains over 150 entries on key designers and styles, with multiple images and a comprehensive text for each one. It is an authoritative reference work as well as an inspirational showcase, with over 500 photographs and original illustrations. Whether you want to know the history behind the most creative designers and successful brands, or understand haute couture and innovative youth counterc...
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(H/B) RENAISSANCE ART IN VENICE
In the Renaissance period, art and architecture in Venice reached a kind of apotheosis when many of the city's new buildings, sculptures, and paintings took on distinctive and original qualities. The spread of Renaissance values provided leading artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Palladio, Titian, and Tintoretto with a licence for artistic invention. By adopting a chronological approach and focusing attention on the artists, Tom Nichols presents a vivid and easily navigable study of Venetian Renaissance art. (From t...
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SCARY BINGO
Play bingo with a menacing mummy, a bowler-hat wearing yeti, a multi-eyed monster and many more creepy creatures in this fun and inventive take on the classic game? if you dare. Easy to play and full of strange and colourful characters, Scary Bingo will engage and delight children for hours. It can be played with 3-7 people, making it the perfect game for families in need of spookily good entertainment. Scary Bingo contains 48 chips and a cardboard monster head to store them in, a game board, eight double-sided bingo cards and googly-eyed ...
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(P/B) BEG, STEAL AND BORROW
'Art is theft,' Picasso once proclaimed. The wily old Spaniard was being provocative - he often equated theft to what could more benignly be called influence. But increasingly much of the best and, even, most original art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft - an act of simple copy and paste. This book looks at modern-day art theft from all angles: art-historical (tracing the lineage from Duchamp to Richard Prince), legal (looking at recent key copyright cases), cultural (drawing links to literary mash-ups and musical samplin...
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(H/B) FASHION AND MUSIC
Fashion and music have long shared a powerful mutual attraction: from the Sex Pistols to Madonna, Kylie Minogue to Lady Gaga, fashion has consistently amplified our understanding of the band (and in many cases the brand) - fuelling the fantasy, giving context to the sound and adding depth to artists' wider agendas. From pop videos to editorial shoots, via the evolution of some of the industry's most significant and era-defining pairings/collaborations, this book focuses on the power of fashion as a make-or-break tool within the music indu...
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THE ART GAME
Piet Mondrian or Andy Warhol - Damien Hirst or Banksy - whose artworks have been the most influential? The most shocking? The most expensive? How about their versatility or critical reception? These playing cards allow art lovers of all ages to play their favourite artists against each other to discover who rules the art world. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) 20 ICONIC FILM POSTERS BY SAUL BASS
This collection of 20 iconic film posters by Saul Bass, one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, is a must for graphic designers and film fans. Each poster is removable and designed to fit the standard frame size 12 x 16 inches. The posters included are: The Man with the Golden Arm; Saint Joan; Love in the Afternoon; Bonjour Tristesse; The Big Country; Vertigo; Anatomy of a Murder; Exodus; Spartacus; The Magnificent Seven; Advise & Consent; The Cardinal; In Harm's Way; Bunny Lake is Missing; Seconds; Grand Prix; The Fix...
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(P/B) TO THE MOON
Climb up to the moon with this amazing fold-out colouring book, the tallest in the world! Colour an amazing tower, all the way from your house down on the ground, past dragons, witches, space ports and flying elephants, to reach the moon at the very top! Grab your pens and let's get going! Can you climb all the way to the moon? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PIERRE THE MAZE DETECTIVE AND THE GREAT COLOURING ADVENTURE
Come on an amazing colouring adventure with Pierre the Maze Detective! Complete the exciting new spotting challenges, crack the mazes and colour in the scenes. Can you help catch the pirate in his biplane? Can you rescue a stranded sailor? There's also a werewolf who needs to find a magic potion as soon as possible, a lost professor, and even a sea-monster expert in search of a scary monster. Hours of colouring fun for all Maze Detectives! (From the publisher)...
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