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author has also contributed an essay that constitutes one of the most helpful overviews of Korean art currently available. 320 large format softback pages, 30 x 22cm, in ravishing colour and b/w with chronology. First edition.


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DESIGNS IN FULL COLOUR edited by M. P. Verneuil Flowers and ornamental motifs, dragons, birds, geometric


backgrounds, stylised plants, leaves and rosettes, butterflies and foliage, peonies, flying geese above the tide, birds and bamboo, blue and white irises, birds and camellias, cranes with geometrical designs are


all portrayed in the manner of Japanese art. Fascinated by the decorative potential of subjects from nature, artist M. P. Verneuil culled striking illustrations of authentic Japanese woven and printed fabrics. This superb treasury has been meticulously reproduced from a rare portfolio and depicts 108 full colour designs on 60 plates. 64 pages, 8½” x 11" in large softback. £12.99 NOW £4.50


64465 THE NABIS by Albert Kostenevich Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of Post- Impressionist painters who called themselves ‘The Nabis’ based on the Hebrew word for prophet. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis to name the most prominent members revolutionised the spirit of decorative technique during one of the richest periods in French painting. Although the increasing individualism of their work often threatened to weaken their unity, the Nabis were above all a group of close friends. The artwork presented in this no-expense-spared 200 page volume varies between Bonnard’s guilelessness, Vuillard’s ornamental and mysterious works, Denis’s soft languor and Vallotton’s almost-bitter roughness. Delicious colour full page artworks on nearly every page. 9½” x 11". ONLY £10


53912 TRACKS ON CANVAS: The Railway


Paintings of Philip D. Hawkins by Philip Hawkins


Hawkins is without doubt the finest living railway artist. Here he explores his fascination with railways and their influence upon his art. Growing up in the West Midlands in the ’50s, when steam still held sway, his nostalgia for the period will be loved by all who can recall that time. As steam was slowly replaced by diesel power, so the author grew up and became a full time artist, but never forgot those steam days of his childhood. Illustrated with over 50 colour plates of his work along with many preliminary studies, sketches and photos, as well as a detailed discussion of the subject matter and how the work came about. 12½” × 11½”, 96pp. £34.99 NOW £7


66424 ENGLAND’S THOUSAND BEST HOUSES by Simon Jenkins


From Bedfordshire to Yorkshire West, in alphabetical order, this volume is organised county by county for complete ease of use. The ‘houses’ of course include famous stately homes and palaces, such as the weird and wonderful combination of Medieval and Art Nouveau that is Eltham Palace in Kent and Raby Castle in Durham with its amazing nine towers. But they also encompass humble cottages and huts like the Labourer’s Cottage and the Shipwright’s Cottage, both at Buckler’s Hard in Hampshire, which provide moving testimony as to how poor people lived in times gone by. Features a ratings system for each house. 1,046 paperback pages with maps and colour plates. £12.99 NOW £6


68245 PRINTS OF ROGER SHIMOMURA: A


Catalogue Raisonné, 1968-2005 by Emily Stamey


Best known as a painter and theatre artist, with his prints Roger Shimomura explores his Japanese-American identity through a vibrant and stylistic combination of 20th century US Pop Art and 18th and 19th century traditional Japanese woodblock prints. His first screen prints were created while he was a student in the late ’60s and were influenced by Andy Warhol’s famous prints of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. This volume offers an investigation of all of the 122 extant prints from 1968- 2005, from undergraduate work at Syracuse University to his recently published editions. They range from his first attempts to combat stereotypes by use of racist caricatures to his first use of sexual imagery. Each is reproduced in colour, and as well as a full description and analysis. Softback, 152pp, 10½”×9½”, U.S. first edition. £18.99 NOW £5


69444 THE WAPPING GROUP OF ARTISTS: Sixty Years Painting by the Thames


foreword by Chris Beetles Trevor Chamberlain, Edward Wesson, Roy Hammond, Roland Hilder and Alan Runagall are among the hundred or so artists who belong to the Wapping Group. Originally founded in a pub in 1946 and setting a pattern for the future to record the working life of London’s docklands, this artists’ society has been hard at work ever since. The members meet weekly between April and September to paint outdoors, in a wide variety of locations from Hampton Court in the West to Erith in the East and in all weathers. Always true to their Thames-side origins, their area has widened over the years until today they work from landlocked Henley right out to Maldon and the east-coast harbours. Their exhibitions are a perpetual delight of tideways and riverbanks, sunlight and showers, boats and architecture, jetties and bridges, sunsets and storms. The book represents how the river has been transformed over the last 60 years through gorgeous


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67295 GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS: In the Footsteps of 19th Century British Photographers by John Hannavy In the middle of the 19th century travelling with a camera was both a novelty and an enormous challenge. A portable darkroom, bottles of chemicals and utensils would have to be carried around at all times. Armed with their stories, 150 years later photographer and historian John Hannavy recreates some of these epic journeys in this magnificent book. He follows William Henry Fox Talbot’s route through Scotland in 1844, Charles Kinnear and Thomas Melville Raven’s 1857 journeys through France, Francis Frith’s exploration of the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel between 1856-9, Roger Fenton’s travels through Russia and Ukraine in 1852 and 1855, Samuel Bourne’s trek across India from Calcutta to Simla in 1863, and explores China and Cyprus as did John Thomson in 1863 and 1878. 253 landscape (10½”×8½”) pages with over 600 colour, sepia and b/w photos. £25 NOW £12


68006 ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE


by Nasser Khalili


In this context, the term “Islamic art” is used to describe art produced by Muslim artists for Muslim patrons, using an artistic vocabulary rooted in Muslim thought. It covers a multitude of forms, ranging from architecture to book-production and the decorative arts such as glass,


metalwork, pottery, jewellery and textiles. One of the most important characteristics of Islamic art is calligraphy, the medium through which the Qur’an was transmitted. This superb book starts with a foldout timeline of Islamic art and architecture, illustrated with examples from each school or period: for instance, the 16th century Mughal school of painting is illustrated by an illuminated manuscript, while contemporary brocades, carpets and pottery are also pictured, together with the complex built in Istanbul for Suleyman the Magnificent. Plus coins, metalwork, scientific instruments, lacquer, arms and armour and Qur’ans. Colour reproductions. 8½” x 12½”. 190pp. ONLY £7


66788 FIVE CENTURIES OF BRITISH


PAINTING From Holbein to Hodgkin by Andrew Wilton


Traces the story of British painting from its hesitant beginnings under the influence of Henry VIII’s favourite German, Hans Holbein, to its maturity as seen in the works of Hogarth and Reynolds, when art reflected Britain’s prosperous society and growing imperial influence in the 18th century. We then move on to the pioneering roles of Constable and Turner in the revolutions of the Romantic period, and thence to the enigmatic and often ambiguous positions of the 19th century artists. Finally, he looks at the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over 200 examples in colour and b/ w. Softback, 256pp. £8.95 NOW £3.50


66928 PHOTOGRAPHERS A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle


Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia includes all the major photographers of the last 100 years. Featured photographers include: Ansel Adams, Manuel Álvarez-Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Elmer Batters, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Werner Bischof, Guy Bourdin, Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, William Claxton, Anton Corbijn, Robert Doisneau, William Eggleston, Masahisa Fukase, Nan Goldin, Jean-Paul Goude, John Heartfield, Eikoh Hosoe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Seydou Keïta, William Klein, Nick Knight, Neil Leifer, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Leni Riefenstahl, Sebastião Salgado, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Kishin Shinoyama, Jeanloup Sieff, Lord Snowdon, Bert Stern, Larry Sultan, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ellen von Unwerth, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Weegee and Gary Winogrand. 400 entries. 9½” x 12½”, 444 pages, from Taschen. ONLY £39


66943 PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 20TH CENTURY


edited by the Museum Ludwig Cologne Cologne’s Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important in Germany and one of the most representative anywhere in the world, constituting the core of the museum’s holdings. This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection’s rich diversity, from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage. All of the major movements and genres are represented from Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart. Over 850 works are presented in alphabetical order by photographer, with descriptive texts and photographers’ biographical details. Softcover, 760 pages. ONLY £9.50


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67347 THE HORSE: A Celebration of Horses In Art


by Rachel Barnes and Simon Barnes Measuring nearly 14" x 17" tall, this outstanding monograph is probably one of the largest and best quality art publications we have ever carried. The first recorded painting of a horse was over 23,000 years ago by a cave artist in Pech-Merle, France. Seen through the eyes of some of the world’s greatest artists such as Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Caravaggio, Velázquez, George Stubbs, Benjamin West, William Blake, Degas, Picasso, Kandinsky, Sir Alfred Munnings and many other renowned artists, this is a truly stunning visual celebration of this magnificent animal. Rachel Barnes is a lecturer at the National and the Tate Gallery and her brother Simon is an award winning sports writer on the ‘Times’. He tells the story of each painting from a horseman’s perspective. 192 huge pages, superb full size colour artworks. Apologies for sticker. £50 NOW £20


67467 THE OTHER HOGARTH: Aesthetics of Difference edited by Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal


William Hogarth (1697-1764), famous for his satirical cartoons representing 18th century London high and low


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life, took as one of his central themes the representation of otherness and difference, yet this has long been overlooked in appraisals of his work. In this sumptuously illustrated and groundbreaking book a group of internationally recognised art historians and cultural theorists investigates this dimension of Hogarth’s art and aesthetics. What is immediately clear is that whoever Hogarth depicts, from a harlot to a wealthy patroness, gouty aristocrat to a shameless rake or street drunk, or a black servant to an effeminate parasite, issues of class, gender and race reverberate throughout and deeply inform his work. The authors of the 15 essays collected here use the latest insights if cultural history, gender studies and visual theory to examine anew the vast range of themes and issues prominent in Hogarth’s work. 320pp softback, 8"×10", 26 duotone and 129 b/w illus. £34.95 NOW £8.50


67965 LEWIS FOREMAN DAY (1845-1910): Unity in


Design and Industry by Joan Maria Hansen This volume is the first, and definitive, account of Lewis Foreman Day’s life and work. Today, collectors prize Day’s clocks, furniture, tiles, art pottery, wallpapers and textiles, and his text books continue to influence designers, while his magazine


journalism provides insightful commentary. His design career spanned the three major movements of the time: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau. His relationships with colleagues William Morris and Walter Crane among others situated him in the vortex of developments of design in Britain. His mastery of pattern, colour, ornament and superb draughtsmanship resulted in furnishings of remarkable diversity and beauty. He embraced modern technology and his unshakable belief that a marriage of design and industrial processes was essential to produce beautiful furnishings for the majority of people reveal him to be startlingly modern in his attitudes. 319 large pages lavishly and illus in colour and b/w. ONLY £25


67624 SKYSCRAPERS: Discover the Most


Amazing Buildings on Earth by Paul Beck


Skyscrapers featured here include the Home Insurance Building (Chicago, 1885, 138 feet), the Empire State Building (New York, 1931, 1,250 feet), the Transamerica Pyramid (San Francisco, 1972, 853 feet), the Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur, 1998, 1,483 feet), Burj al Arab (Dubai, 1999, 1,053 feet), our very own Gherkin (2004, 590 feet), Taipei 101 (Taipei, 2004, 1,667 feet), the Bank of America Tower (New York, 2009, 1,200 feet), the China Central TV HQ (Beijing, 2009,768 feet), and the biggest of them all, by far, the absolutely staggering Burj Dubai (Dubai, 2009, 2,684 feet). For each we learn a wealth of fascinating facts and figures, and all are displayed in amazing double-page spread colour photos. Plus a 31 piece model of the Empire State Building, 4' tall!. Ages 8 to adult. 40pp, 12¼”×11¼”. $18.95 NOW £5.50


68018 SECRET LIVES OF BUILDINGS by Edward Hollis


Buildings are “ruined, stolen, or appropriated”. This beautiful book examines 13 of the world’s most iconic buildings, looking at the way they have changed and the political and aesthetic considerations at work. Starting with the Parthenon, he describes the restorations which were all swept away by the 1894 earthquake, and the different approaches to rebuilding in the century which followed. Buildings covered in this study include St Mark’s, Venice, Ayasofya in Istanbul, the Alhambra in Granada, Notre Dame de Paris, the Hulme Crescents, Manchester, the Berlin Wall and the Wailing Wall. 388pp, numerous beautiful b/w reproductions. £25 NOW £4.50


68041 ELIAS RIVERA by Edward Lucie-Smith


During his long career, Elias Rivera has painted the human drama as it unfolds in settings as varied as civil rights demonstrations, subways, rodeos and the market places of Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. This long- awaited and lavishly illustrated monograph of the Santa Fe-based artist spans 40 years of his oeuvre. His paintings have a sense of the photographic, with the compositions’ inhabitants captured mid-sentence, mid- stride or mid-gesture as the late afternoon sun casts light and shadow across the scene. Rivera spent many years in New York, observing people in cafés and automats. A move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a trip to Guatemala in the 1980s brought a new dimension and vibrant palette to his work, establishing the Latin American paintings as his signature works. His often large-scale pictures leave viewers with the sense of actually having been there. 244 gigantic pages in dazzling colour with chronology. £37.50 NOW £11


68251 GROSVENOR GALLERY: A Palace of Art in Victorian England


edited by Susan Casteras and Colleen Denney This first in-depth study of the Grosvenor Gallery consists of essays by noted scholars of 19th century art and culture who explore such critical aspects as the significance of the gallery’s social ambience, the diverse content of its winter and summer exhibitions and its status in the context of other exhibition sites. The authors also consider artists and groups who exhibited there including Edward Byrne-Jones and the second- generation Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler and George Frederic Watts as well as Evelyn Pickering and other women artists. Although it existed only from 1877 to 1890, the gallery displayed the works and advanced the careers of many progressive artists, particularly those whose work was ignored by the traditional tastes of the usual exhibition venues. 209 large pages in b/w and colour.


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68902 CELTIC ORNAMENT IN THE BRITISH ISLES by E. T. Leeds


In tracing the history and evolution of pre-Christian Celtic ornamentation, this 1933 original publication, here in superb facsimile, focuses on less accessible relics from the pagan past. Enamelled escutcheons and later enamels from Colchester, Glamorgan, Canterbury, Greenwich and Hitchin adorn the inside covers in 18 colour examples. Detailed and carefully researched chapters cover early British numismatic art, the Celts as


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69527 SKYSCRAPERS by Andres Lepik


We have not yet recovered from the stomach-churning shock inflicted by the photo on page 47 of two workmen, without safety harness, scaffolding or protective helmets, calmly lighting cigarettes whilst perched precariously at 319 m on the Chrysler Building in New York. The views are vertiginous, to say the least, but also very beautiful. In this impressive volume, 50 of these symbols of economic power are photographed and matched with details of their history, construction and the engineering feats that were needed to build them. All of them are breathtaking but perhaps the one most designed to inspire wonder is the tallest hotel in the world, standing on an artificial island 300m from the coast, the Burj al Arab in Dubai which soars skywards for 321m in a form reminiscent of a sail billowing in the wind. In the 1930s, the idea was first put forward of access to skyscrapers from the sky. This science fiction myth has now been realised by the ingenious engineers who have designed helicopter pads so that, if clients want, they can zoom out of the air from one hotel to another without touching ground. New York’s first ‘green’ skyscraper, the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, has also now been built, using largely recycled materials drawn from the surrounding area in order to reduce transport, recycling rainwater and installing waterless urinals. There are enough amazing buildings in this volume to leave us wondering what marvels are yet to come! 160 pages with 141 illustrations in colour and 122 in black and white, and list of internet links. £25 NOW £8


delineators of human and animal figures, Roman influence in the crafting of embossed bronze brooches and more. 80 photos and illus, 18 in colour. 170pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £3.75 68907 FLAXMAN’S ILLUSTRATIONS FOR


DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY by John Flaxman Since its creation at the beginning of the 14th century, Dante’s Divine Comedy, a masterpiece of European literature, has moved legendary artists such as William Blake and Gustave Doré to illustrate this famed poem. John Flaxman, English sculptor, draughtsman and renowned Wedgwood designer was no exception. Commissioned at the end of the 18th century by famed art collector and author Thomas Hope, his 110 illustrations are regarded as his greatest achievements. Here is the complete set of drawings for all 99 cantos which captures the very spirit of Dante’s poem. Captions are included from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation. 110 plates taken from the 1807 edition bound in softback, 224pp, 9" x 7½”. £14.99 NOW £6


68092 ENRICO DONATI: Surrealism


and Beyond by Theodore Wolff Enrico Donati started his long artistic career as a Surrealist disciple of André Breton and in 1947 he helped Duchamp to organise the Paris International Exhibition of Surrealism. Among Donati’s own contributions to the exhibition was the painting “Carnival of Venice” with its fluid, amorphous figures, and the sculpture “Evil Eye”, a clenched fist with two baleful eyeballs set into the palm. Donati felt that Surrealism was dying and in the next few years he developed a completely different style, crisply delineated, geometric and compartmentalised. The exquisitely modulated bright tones of this period, however, disappeared abruptly with the “moonscapes” of the early 50s. Paintings such as “Coptic Wall” are suggestive of prehistoric wall-paintings at the same time as tapping into the public appetite for abstraction. He went on to create works inspired by Egyptian and Pompeian wall paintings. 168 page 1996 monograph has 87 colour plates, 28 b/w illus, 26x25cm. £35 NOW £11


68493 EDWARD HOPPER 1882-1967:


Transformation of the Real by Rolph Günter Renner


Edward Hopper lived in New York from 1908, and for 50 years, until the day he died, his studio was on the top


68863 COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE COTSWOLDS: From the Archives of


Country Life by Nicholas Mander For over a century Country Life magazine has featured a weekly article devoted to a country house, including scores from the Cotswolds. It is this unique archive of architectural history which Nicholas Mander has scoured to illustrate his fascinating survey of the Cotswold house down the years. Over 30 houses organised by period and style and illustrated with over 150 colour and b/w photos reveal the historical and architectural importance of each. We begin with sublime castles such as Berkeley, the country’s oldest inhabited castle, and Sudeley, with its royal connections stretching back over 1,000 years. Next are the magnificent examples of manor houses like Owlpen Manor and Daneway House and outstanding Jacobean houses such as Stanway and


Chastleton House. The great Classical country houses like Badminton and Dyrham Park are well represented, and a final chapter


documents the work and influence of the leading practitioners of the Arts and Crafts movement, who were drawn to the area by its rich craft tradition and accessibility to Oxford and London. 208pp, 8½”×11½”. £25 NOW £16


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