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precision of Rennie Mackintosh on the other. Starting with the Moorish smoking room in Rockefeller House, the book moves through the elegant Swan, Rush and Iris wallpaper by Walter Crane. Toulouse Lautrec, Beardsley and Mucha need no introduction. 96pp, 80 full page colour reproductions. £12.99 NOW £6


69580 TREASURES OF REMBRANDT by Michiel Roscam Abbing


A masterwork of design, no less than 30 items of memorabilia from archives around the world, many previously unpublished such as diary entries, personal sketches, birth, marriage and burial registrations, sales posters and legal deeds are inserted in wallets and pockets throughout the large pages of this glorious volume. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s greatest artists, Rembrandt Harmenzs van Rijn, the book takes a close look at the self portraits, the inspirational biblical masterpieces, his etches and engravings, landscapes, riddles, late commissions, his own collections and objects, inside his house and environs and his travels abroad. We take a good look at the Golden Age of Dutch painting, the story of his childhood in Leiden, his move to Amsterdam, marriage and rise and subsequent fall in fortune during a time when he created such gems as The Night Watch. 12" x 11" hardback, 64pp plus memorabilia and in handsome slipcase. £30 NOW £16


66868 ORNAMENT AND DESIGN OF THE ALHAMBRA by Owen Jones


The Alhambra stands in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. The grand medieval palace arose in the 14th century and remains a peerless example of Moorish art. This splendid volume ventures inside the stone walls, gates and towers for a lavishly illustrated survey of the castle’s hidden treasures - grand halls, corridors, patios and balconies. This unequalled collection was assembled by the influential Victorian artist and architect Owen Jones. His full colour plates expertly reproduce the intricate and elegant patterns of the palace’s windows, ceilings, wall panels, door arches and porticos. 76pp in large softback, colour. £15.95 NOW £6


70243 VALENTIN SEROV


by Dmitri Sarabianov Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was not only a great reformer and pace- setter but also an artist who linked two important periods in Russian painting - one creating sun-lit, real- life scenes, the other concerned with finding a new symbolism and a new mythology to reflect the modern


world. It could be said that the road travelled by Russian art in the course of 25 years, bridging the turn of the century, was that from Serov’s Girl with Peaches (page 16 of this volume) to his Portrait of Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (pages 116-117 idem). Without violating any of the precepts of his teacher, the famous Ilya Repin, the young artist initiated a new method which was to evolve even further in the work of most of the artists of his generation. On a par with Serov’s later paintings, his graphic art acquired an unusual stylistic purity, which can be experienced in the last section of this lovingly detailed volume. 199 pages 25cm x 29cm. Colour and b/w, including archive photos of family and friends. New publication. ONLY £10


70247 ART AND ARCHITECTURE


OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Dorothea Iemert The author has published extensively on Expressionism Futurism and contemporary art and in her brilliant text presents the different artistic movements that


accompanied the political, cultural, ideological and social upheavals of the 20th century. Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica remains to this day the ultimate symbol of pacifistic revolts. The first volume in this monumental two-volume slipcased publication covers Matisse and the wild beasts in Paris, the fauves and the autonomy of colour, futurism, cubism, materiality and collage, the Russian avant-garde, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, Dada, the surreal and magical and new objectivity, sculpture, architecture in the first half of the 20th century. Henri Rousseau’s self portrait from 1890 is the first full page colour reproduction of hundreds in this huge volume of 33cm x 29½cm, 256pp. The second volume covers the second half of the 20th century. Beginning in the 1960s with the nouveaux réalistes, concrete art, Op-Art and Kinetics, Pop Art, Nouvelle figuration and new realism and photo realism, through to minimal art, conceptual art, natural processes and land art, the new expressivity of the 60s to the 80s, new media and video, photography, sculpture and readymades, painting and installations towards the end of the millennium. Then we look at architecture in the second half of the 20th century with cultural buildings from the late 50s to the mid 1970s, further development of the skyscraper with four examples, Parisian cultural buildings, post-modernism and deconstruction, and Berlin after reunification. Then we take a brief look ahead, the gigantic dimensions of architecture in the Emirates and the future. 256 huge pages with colour examples. New slipcased publication. ONLY £42


68071 PUBLIC SCULPTURE OF GLASGOW by Ray McKenzie


Contains important sculptures by most of the greatest British masters as well as some continental sculptors: John Flaxman, John Gibson, Carlo Marochetti and many others. This, the fifth volume of Public Sculpture of Britain, is perhaps the most ambitious to date. Only in Glasgow were there significant local workshops, often family based, training dynasties of native sculptors. These workshops depended on another great Glasgow specialism - architectural sculpture. Local architects naturally looked to local sculptors for the works intended to enhance the beauty, proclaim the importance and explain the purpose of their buildings. 538 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with map, selected biographies. £25 NOW £5.50


68116 PAINTING LIFE: The Art of Pieter


Bruegel, the Elder by Robert Bonn Bruegel was not only a social realist, lovingly recording the details of ordinary people’s lives in such paintings as “The Peasant Wedding”, but also a visionary who rose


70411 GREAT LIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS


by John Loengard and Gordon Parks Robert Capa, who reached Omaha Beach with the first wave at dawn on D-day once famously said, ‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.’ In 1954, Capa stepped on a land mine in Indochina and died. LIFE magazine was instantly popular and here is a distillation of the very best in a monumental monograph, 608pp in well bound softback, one artistic quality monochrome photograph per page, many in colour, some across two pages, each with a brief caption and a note on the photographer - Alfred Eisenstadt, Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith, Harry Benson - in all 99 of the greatest photographers the world has ever known. Includes naked hippies at the Woodstock Festival, Hugh Hefner inspecting a Playboy bunny in Chicago 1965, a dead German soldier in Holland 1945, a smooching couple at a cocktail party, Chicago 1957, a former Hanoi prisoner reunited with his family, teenagers in a sex education class 1969, Jacques Tati in New York City 1958, the Metropolitan Opera House, Ella Fitzgerald 1955, refugees,


entertainers, the Spanish Civil War, film stars, the Taj Mahal, a cyclone survivor - truly all LIFE is here.


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above the Flemish society of his day. The five seasonal landscape paintings, “Hunters in the Snow”, “A Dark Day”, “The Return of the Herd”, “Haymaking” and “The Harvesters” are justly celebrated for being a “worldscape of lived experience”, a beautiful record of seasonal activity which expresses continuity and change. The “Fall of Icarus” is a different 16th century painting concerning the vanity of human wishes. Bruegel’s enigmatic painting “The Tower of Babel” has been referenced by modern writers and commentators. 23 x 16cm, 174pp, colour reproductions. £26.95 NOW £8


64840 SPLENDOUR OF IRAN by Nasrollah Pourjavady, E. Booth-Clibborn et al


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The first comprehensive study of Persian culture since 1938, these gorgeous books cover every aspect of Iran’s art and culture, from the 2500-year-old Pazyryk Carpet to the magnificent Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, from the Sassanian reliefs at Parsargadae through contemporary wall painting in Tehran. More than a survey, this three- volume showcase celebrates the traditions and contemporary life of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, with 1250 colour and 250 b/w specially commissioned detailed photographs and plates (up to 18 x 12 inches) and captions and essays by leading Iranian academics and art historians. Includes sculpture, painting, tile work, jewellery, carpetmaking, gardening, architecture and engineering, science and medicine, philosophy and folklore and in the enduring attraction and importance of poetry. Spanning several millennia, volume one looks at prehistoric sites, the Pazyrryk Carpet and the Cup of Solomon to the majestic ruins of Persepolis. Volume two looks at vernacular architecture, ornament and colourful tilework such as in the Ganj-Ali Baths. Volume three is exquisite, showcasing illuminated manuscripts of the Koran and miniature paintings. Approx 9kg, 13 x 10 x 6" approx, slipcased and safely boxed. UK delivery only. £350 NOW £175


68703 GOTHIC: Art Pocket


by Clemens Schmidlim and Caroline Eva Gerner In the chronological order of styles established for European art history, Gothic stands between Romanesque and Renaissance. We look in depth at religious architecture in France at Notre-Dame cathedral. See here the work of master masons and guild craftsmen, religious architecture in Italy, Spain, Portugal, the German lands, England, Northern and Eastern Europe, a look at life in a medieval monastery and secular architecture throughout Europe before looking at Gothic sculpture and painting, wall and panel painting, stained glass, minstrels and courtly love poetry of the Middle Ages and finally manuscript illumination. 288pp, gorgeous colour illus. £9.99 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. 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


69466 FRANK GEHRY IN POP-UP


by Jinny Johnson and Roland Lewis Frank Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 and is one of the most innovative architects in the world today. Experience five of his most extraordinary architectural creations in 3D. Here is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Norton House, Venice Beach, California, The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the New Customhouse in Dusseldorf. Discover the inspirations behind Gehry’s light and lively designs in a three- dimensional way including his use of titanium-cladding and get a look into his personal history and lifeworks. Unique details and structural features are highlighted by many colourful and extensive photographs. 48 huge pages, 12" square.


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1980s brought a new dimension and vibrant palette to his work, establishing the Latin American paintings as his signature works. 244 gigantic pages in dazzling colour with chronology. £37.50 NOW £5


68310 THE VICTORIANS: Britain Through the Paintings


of the Age by Jeremy Paxton This beautiful volume is an opinionated, informed, surprising and hugely enthusiastic appraisal of the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, the author explores themes of family, urban life, industry, empire and imagination. Paxton shows


how artists such as William Powell Frith, Lawrence Alma- Tadema and Ford Madox Brown were chronicling a world changing before their eyes, and his overview ranges across the whole of Victorian life and culture, from high Gothic architecture and the novels of Dickens to the technological marvels of Brunel. Popular visual narratives that attracted crowds by the hundreds of thousands - and here they are for your delectation. 255 pages. Brilliant colour. £25 NOW £11


67454 VIENNESE SECESSION


by Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl The ultra-conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus exerted an oppressive influence over the city, the epoch and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it was against this that, as a symbol of modernity, that 20 artists rebelled. This artistic movement, created in 1897 by such artists as Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll and Josef Hoffmann, became known as the Viennese Secession. They immersed themselves in organic, voluptuous and decorative shapes, to an evocative, erotic aesthetic which went out of its way to offend the bourgeoisie, and soon found its way into all aspects of painting, sculpture, crafts and architecture. With a history of the important figures. 180 illus. in colour and b/w photos. 9¾”×11¼”, 200pp. ONLY £12.50


67450 LIFE AND MASTERWORKS OF J. M. W. TURNER Revised, Expanded


and Updated Fourth Edition by Eric Shanes According to the author’s exhaustive research, Turner came from a working class family, with a mother who was mentally unbalanced. His surroundings were slightly squalid. The volume describes his being sent to stay with an uncle and afterwards to one of the Royal Academy Schools, although he would have had to earn his keep from the beginning, and the schools did not teach painting - only drawing, initially from plaster casts of antique statuary. The range of works that follow the section on Turner’s life is breathtaking, fully supporting the view that here was a genius, and the analysis of each plate is authoritative and informative. 255 pages, 32 x 27cm, with striking colour and b/w plates and chronology. ONLY £18


70363 FRANCIS BACON by Matthew Gale


and Chris Stephens Featuring 250 full colour plates, magazine tear sheets, photographs and imagery from films, this is a catalogue for the exhibition that was held at The Tate in London, The Prado in Madrid and The Met in NYC. Francis Bacon (1909-92) is now widely regarded as Britain’s


greatest modern painter. Bacon developed a way of portraying the human body that was unique. By 1946, the critic Kenneth Clarke felt able to state simply: ‘Francis Bacon has genius.’ Here are the twisted faces of portraits of Pope Innocent X, Isabele Rawsthorne, three studies of figures at the base of a crucifixion, studies for nudes, a dog, Velázquez, a figure in a landscape, the human body, many self portraits and details, a triptych from August 1972 and the portrait of George Dyer. With useful chronology, a beautifully created publication from Skira. 288 page large softback, 25 x 28½cm. $40 NOW £20


68738 RAPHAEL by Bette Talvacchia Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) was the kind of model young socialite described in Castiglione’s Renaissance manual The Courtier, and his paintings have often been praised for their charm and sweetness. Raphael adopted Perugino’s lyrical and poised style before beginning to inject more dynamism into his compositions. The great Madonnas belong to this period, including the iconic Madonna of the Goldfinch, not forgetting Scotland’s lesser known and much more lively Bridgwater Madonna. Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican are among his best-known work, particularly The School of Athens and The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. His later patron Pope Leo X gave him the massive commission of drawing the monuments of ancient Rome in reconstruction, and his portrait Leo X with Two Cardinals is a masterpiece of the psychology of power. 200 colour reproductions, double page spreads. 240pp, 29 x 26cm. £24.99 NOW £18


68739 RENOIR IN THE 20TH CENTURY


by Claudia Einecke and Sylvie Patry


In the early years of the 20th century, Pierre-August Renoir enjoyed an undisputed reputation in the art world. Great champions of modern art, such as Gertrude Stein and Paul Guillaume collected his work alongside that of Cézanne,


Picasso and Matisse. This catalogue, with 11 authoritative essays by experts in the field, examines these highly productive years and invites the reader to take a fresh look at almost a quarter of Renoir’s career. 440 large pages with 319 illustrations, 213 of them in colour, catalogue of exhibited works, chronology, photographic record of Renoir, list of photos exhibited in Paris, index of exhibited or illustrated works by Renoir, index of names, and list of exhibited works by Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Denis, Maillol and Albert André. $65 NOW £15


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70807 JOANNA LUMLEY by Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred


Born in Kashmir, the daughter of a Major in the Ghurkhas, Joanna Lumley had a typically peripatetic Army childhood before her family returned to England and settled in a small village in Kent. Since leaving her convent school in Sussex, she has graduated from being a Bond girl to Ken Barlow’s girlfriend in


Coronation Street, from BBC chat show host to newspaper columnist and documentary presenter, and from trendsetting star of The New Avengers to making us fall about laughing as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous and becoming a tenacious campaigner for animal rights and other causes. Joanna is a beautiful 60s survivor and along the way there has been bitter disappointments, heartaches, hardships, family friction and moments of deep despair. A whirlwind marriage to actor and comedy actor Jeremy Lloyd ended in disaster within months, leaving her struggling to pay the bills. Today she is married to conductor Stephen Barlow, campaigning on behalf of the Ghurkhas and making headlines. 258pp, b/w and colour photos. Paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


70568 THE IRON LADY: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer’s Daughter to Prime Minister by John Campbell It is undeniable that Margaret Thatcher was one of the boldest and most influential women in post- war politics and that she had a lasting impact on 20th century history. From her humble, small- town upbringing through her rise to power as Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister, to her dramatic fall


from grace after three decades of ruling the country with an iron hand, this book uncovers, in a balanced, unvarnished portrait, one of the most vital and controversial figures of our time. Here is her role as a dutiful daughter, as a young Conservative and as Education Secretary, and here the effects of the Falklands War and the Poll Tax on her popularity. No punches are pulled as her downfall is charted but, as the author points out, despite radically changed global circumstances, for two decades after her fall, this unique woman continued to exercise a powerful grip on the imagination of the country and of her successors, and her time leading the country will always be known as the Thatcher years. Revised edition, 564 paperback pages. £10 NOW £6


70855 GIRL IN THE


PAINTED CARAVAN by Eva Petulengro


Subtitled Memories of a Romany Childhood, Eva was born into a gypsy family in 1939. She would travel the country with her family in their painted caravan and spend idyllic evenings by the fire as they sang and told stories of their past. Eva didn’t go to school or even visit a doctor when she was unwell.


Instead her family would gather wild herbs to make traditional remedies, hunt game and rabbits for food and while the men tended horses to make a living, the young girls would join the women in reading palms. But in the post-war era, Eva’s perfect world would be turned upside down. Here she describes the wonderful characters of her family from her grandfather ‘Naughty’ Petulengro to her five beautiful aunts who entranced everyone they met together with the fascinating people they met along the road. With photographs of beautiful woodcarvings and mirror engravings on Granny’s vardo (caravan). 310pp in paperback with photos. £6.99 NOW £3


70483 YOU CAN’T SAY


THAT: Memoirs by Ken Livingstone Ken Livingstone is without doubt one of the most well-known and controversial politicians of recent times, one of the few - like Maggie, Enoch and, latterly, Boris - who are recognised by their Christian name alone. Ken is undeniably one of the most effective ever politicians too, especially in London. Even though he has recently announced his


retirement, following the narrowest of defeats in the 2012 London Mayoral election, his voice is still regularly heard. Here is his unmistakeable voice, passionate about social injustice, wickedly droll, deliciously gossipy, wistful about political friends and adversaries and always, as ever with Ken, you know that there is a bombshell just waiting to be dropped at any minute. It is also a no-holds-barred revelation in how politics works in big cities. Prepare to be riotously entertained! Unless you are Tony Blair or Gordon Brown you must not miss this. 708pp with 16 pages of b/w photos. £25 NOW £6.50


69611 SMALL TOWN ENGLAND: And How I Survived It by Tim Bradford


For Tim Bradford, Small Town was Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, and to a teenager in the late ’70s and early ’80s it may as well have been the 1950s. Although he was rapidly growing out of Airfix models and going to choir practice, he was not sure how to deal with girls, drinking and teenage rebellion. Here is the wonderful music of the decades that style forgot - Pistols, Clash, 10cc, Joy Division, Human League, Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, Blondie, ELO, Thin Lizzy et al - and all the horrors and joys of those in-between years: deathly-dull Saturday afternoons, the ear-splitting shriek of 50cc Fizzies (motorbikes) outside the chippy, Saturday night


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