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(P/B) FRANCIS BACON
When Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion was exhibited in 1945 Francis Bacon (1909-1992) instantly became the most controversial painter in the country. By the end of his life his status as one of the giants of modern art was established, as was his reputation for hard drinking, heavy gambling and sado-masochistic homosexuality. Andrew Brighton casts fresh light on Bacon's formation as an artist in gay and aristocratic bohemian London circles. He locates Bacon at the core of contesting ideas and values, while firmly grou...
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ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects-from the firmly established to the up-and-coming-with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series c...
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WIRE, ISSUE 380, OCTOBER 2015
Masthead Letters Bitstream News and more from under the radar Trip Or Squeek Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil Unofficial Channels Shortwave Radio Audio Archive Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs Ernest Berk Following his flight from the Nazis, the DIY musique concrete pioneer drew connections between experimental composition and modern dance. By Ian Helliwell Hieroglyphic Being Opening a special feature on the stellar legacy of jazz...
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(P/B) MODERNISM
This series provides the most authoritative and accessible introductions available to the key art movements of the past 150 years. Modernisation, modernity and modernism - three concepts around which thought about the modern world and its culture has tended to revolve. But what is modernism? The term is used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the modernist tendency has often been associated with the most vital developments and highest achievements i...
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(P/B) SURREALISM
This series introduces the most important movements in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century art. Each book is illustrated chiefly in colour with works from the Tate Gallery and other major collections around the world. Surrealism was one of the most interesting and influential art movements of the twentieth century. A collective adventure begun by a small group of intellectuals in Paris in the early 1920s, amongst them Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, its influence was felt through the rest of continental Europe and in Britain,...
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(P/B) CUBISM
This series provides the most authoritative and accessible introductions available to the key art movements of the past 150 years. Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the arts of the twentieth century, was also one of the most complex. Divided between the annual public exhibition and the emerging network of private galleries, between French and immigrant artists, it was also the product of the decade before the outbreak of war in 1914. Behind the cliched image of 'la belle epoque' France was torn by inter-class and international tensi...
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(P/B) POST-IMPRESSIONISM
This series provides the most authoritative and accessible introductions available to the key art movements of the past 150 years.Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh and their a...
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(H/B) MRS. NEWTON
June Newton, renowned under her photographic pseudonym Alice Springs, takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from her childhood in Australia, via work and travels with her husband Helmut Newton, to life today in Monaco and Los Angeles. The photographs by and of Springs featured throughout the book - a wonderful contemporary mix of personal snapshots and professional portraits of creative figures including Yves Saint Laurent, Gore Vidal, Balthus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brassai, Nicole Kidman, and Anjelica Huston - illustrate the story o...
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(H/B) ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects-from the firmly established to the up-and-coming-with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series c...
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MANET
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the greatest, as well as one of the most interesting of nineteenth century French painters. Acute observation, an extraordinary skilful handling of paint and feeling for exquisite harmonies of colour make his work both vivid and enchanting. It is also of great significance in the history of European painting, since Manet, a pioneer in depicting modern life in a modern style, was a formative influence of the whole Impressionist movement. «Olympia» and «The picnic» are among the key works of the nineteent...
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(P/B) REALISM
This series introduces the most important movements in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century art. Each book is illustrated chiefly in colour with works from the Tate Gallery and other major collections around the world. Realist art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. It has no shared style or manifesto of intention. Yet a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they are. This book examines realism in Europe and America, beginning with its roots in the ideas of Gustave Courbet in...
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(P/B) THE SCIENCE OF... ALIENS
Are we alone? The idea of life existing elsewhere in the Universe has been put forward by philosophers since the time of Ancient Egypt. Today, through science fiction literature, films and television we have all had close encounters with aliens. Now The Science of Aliens examines the possibilities of alien life in outer space as well as presenting a close-up look at 'aliens' on earth. Based on an international interactive exhibition. The Science of Aliens is a combination of imagination and ground-breaking science in the quest for extrater...
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(H/B) ARCHITECTURE IN SWITZERLAND
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects-from the firmly established to the up-and-coming-with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series c...
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(H/B) ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects-from the firmly established to the up-and-coming-with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series c...
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INSIDE AFRICA
A 12th century mosque with Spanish-Moorish minaret marks the entrance to Marrakesh's medina. Here, in the maze of alleys and souks, a pair of Italian sisters have made their home. Carla Sozzani is the founder of the Corso Como boutique in Milan, and her sister Franca is a top editor with Conde Nast Italy. Drawing on the combined experience of their two careers, they have transformed two Marrakesh riyads, turning old ruined patios into pools and gardens filled with banana trees. It took three years of dedicated restoration work, with Kris R...
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(P/B) WEB DESIGN: BEST STUDIOS (3822840416)
(. . .) This book, in its compact format, displays 90 of the most prominent interactive studios worldwide: web firms that have worked out creative solutions for big and small customers all around the globe. Being an interactive agency doesn't just mean focusing on internet solutions. It has much more to do with the way these professionals think and execute their tasks. When you make work for the web, you have to think differently than when you work for print or film, for example. You may even work for all of them, as some studios indeed do...
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(H/B) PLATON'S REPUBLIC
Platon's Republic embodies a dynamic collection of unique celebrity portraits by the groundbreaking British-born, New York-based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade: altogether they constitute an unprecedented cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window on to today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with those of frivolity. Thi...
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(H/B) INSIDE AFRICA (VOLUME TWO)
We've searched far and wide, through Africa's deserts and jungles, cities and wildlife reserves, islands and mountains, to uncover the continent's most inspirational dwellings; our goal was to find the kind of interiors that defy description, and we think the results will definitely leave you speechless. Nestled within these pages, you'll find lush modern homes mingling with mud huts, funky artists' studios, elegant lodges, minimalist houses, ornate traditional homes, townships and much more - all lovingly built and decorated with sensitiv...
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(H/B) ARCHITECTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS
Dutch architecture and design are hot. Beneath an outward appearance of dullness or dryness lies an adventurous heart, and a willingness to go where few creators have gone before them. Rotterdam's own Rem Koolhaas (OMA) straddles the globe much like his huge new CCTV Tower will soon straddle Beijing, while his younger colleagues, such as Lars Spuybroek (NOX) imagine houses that sing and dance. Nor does Dutch inventiveness stop at pure architecture. Droog Design does furniture, and West 8 creates gardens all over the world. Though predictio...
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