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Readymade man The anticonformist visionary


72411 DUCHAMP by Janis Mink


Someone else may have invented the wheel, but Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) invented the ready- made. A bottle dryer may be a bottle dryer, but signed by Duchamp it is also one of the major works of 20th century art. He may


be best known for his urinal signed R. Mutt, 1917. Duchamp has been an enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artists. This study addresses the myth and reveals the compelling charisma of Marcel Duchamp. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist, approximately 100 colour illustrations of his and other artists like Matisse, explanatory captions and a concise biography. 9½” x 12", 96 pages.


ONLY £9


like the notorious transsexual Amanda Lear, in his swimming pool - built in the shape of male genitals - or at work in his studio? Now readers have the opportunity to find out. Bob Whitaker is a brilliantly creative photographer, who, through his work with famous rock groups such as The Beatles and Cream - helped to document the Swinging Sixties. The photographer and the artist enjoyed an instant rapport, each understanding and admiring one another’s work. Bob visited Dalí on a number of occasions and the revealing images he produced represent a uniquely personal record of the controversial Spanish artist. To the outside world, he appeared to be a consummate showman who clearly understood the value of publicity. Bob, however, discovered a very different person, with a genuine sense of humour, who was often misunderstood. The photographer enjoyed unprecedented access to Dalí at work and play, relaxing on one of his several boats and visiting Barcelona where Dalí took delight in the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, who had greatly influenced his own creative work. Many of the photos in this volume have never been printed before and are reproduced here for the first time. 128 pages 30.5cm x 31cm in colour and b/w. £29.50 NOW £18.50


72558 5000 DESIGNS AND


MOTIFS FROM INDIA by Ajit Mookerjee


Over the last 5,000 years, Indian artists have developed a wide range of unique decorative artistic styles. This rich collection of copyright-free designs and motifs


draws on that heritage to provide today’s artists and designers with a stimulating and practical archive of usable material. Embodying the variety and complexity of traditional Indian design, the motifs in this collection will be of immediate use to artists and illustrators as well as providing an exciting glimpse into the rich store of Indian decorative art. In this useful and beautiful volume you will find not only seals, dolls and toys of the Harappa culture, punch-marked coins and pottery from South India, Ajanta and Bagh murals, Muslim monuments, Buddhist temples and textiles from Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal, Pradesh and other regions but also much more. It is to be hoped that the underlying beauty of the thousands of designs and motifs offered here will serve the purpose of producing new shapes and patterns, expressive of the modern age, but based on the traditional formulae of the old. 200 paperback pages in b/w 28.5cm x 21cm. £15.99 NOW £6


73085 KIOWA AND PUEBLO


ART: Watercolour Paintings by J. J. Brody


This superb collection began with a French publisher’s series of hand- coloured reproductions, issued in limited-edition portfolios. Painstakingly reproduced from the now-rare originals, this new edition, with an introduction by a leading authority on Native American art,


presents the first two portfolios together for the first time. Kiowa Indian Art (1929), which features works by the internationally renowned Kiowa Five, and Pueblo Indian Painting (1932) both depict scenes from ritual and social life: the dramatic snake dance, a wedding ceremony, warriors on horseback and a family portrait, in addition to images of the thunderbird, the plumed serpent and other mythological creatures. 112 paperback pages 27.5cm x 21cm in dazzling colour with 81 full-page colour plates. £18.99 NOW £6.50


72565 DANGEROUS BEAUTIES AND DUTIFUL WIVES: Popular Portraits of


Women in Japan 1905-1925 by Kendall H. Brown A professor of Asian art history introduces westerners to the Taishô period of visual culture. Although it constitutes the most widespread subject- and pictorial-format in


modern Japanese art, the bijin kuchi-e genre - translated as ‘beauties of frontispiece illustrations’ - was not studied until nearly a century after its ascendance. Even then, scholars tended to focus on works in the woodblock medium. Here then are images that present an


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untapped resource. In debates about the identity of the modern nation and the role of art, these pictures illuminate the critical rise of the quintessential Japanese woman. They also mediate between the modern categories of ‘fine art’ and ‘pop art’, simultaneously linking and distancing them. The pictures brought together here represent a variety of artists, from the visual poetry of famous painters to more prosaic efforts by anonymous designers. Reproduced in the era’s latest techniques of colour lithography and offset printing, these kuchi-e may have been created for mass production, but they echo the form and appeal of woodblock prints from earlier generations. Their fashions are new enough to be exciting but sufficiently traditional to be reassuringly familiar. 106 paperback pages 28cm x 21cm with 100 superb plates in glowing colours. £18.99 NOW £6


72979 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TYPEFACES: 55th Anniversary Edition


by Jaspert, Berry and Johnson Since its first publication in 1953, Encyclopedia of Typefaces has established itself as the leading guide and essential companion for graphic designers, publishers, historical reference and everyone interested in the ever- changing world of typefaces and their impact. Over 2000 are collected and arranged alphabetically into three sections: Romans, Lineales and Scripts. Each entry includes a specimen setting, the original founder or manufacturer, and the date of introduction. Established and classic typefaces, unique qualities and applications are all here complete with technical terms, details on classifications and typeface nomenclature, it is updated and corrected with new acknowledgements by the author and useful addresses for further research. Never get your Jim Crows and your Johnston’s Railway Type (or London Transport Underground), your Eurostile (1962) mixed up with your Weiss Roman ever again. A big and rather beautiful book, sturdily bound 416 page softback, 8" x 11½”. £24.99 NOW £10


72198 MAUSOLEUMS by Lynn Pearson Mausoleums, magnificent monumental tombs, are often haunting, powerful buildings. A well illustrated gazetteer completes the book from a tiny castle known as Harold’s Tower, ‘Mad Jack’ Fuller in his pyramidal tower where he is said to be seated, wearing a top hat and clutching a bottle of claret, Mrs Perkins of Christchurch who was buried above ground in a mausoleum because of her fear of being buried alive to the hugely ornate royal mausoleum in Windsor. Over 150 examples of these curious, compelling buildings. 40 page Shire paperback. £3.50 NOW £2.50


72199 MEDIEVAL WALL PAINTINGS by E. Clive Rouse


In an illiterate age, wall painting graphically reinforced the message of the scriptures and today they have been called ‘The Poor Man’s Bible’. Today a painted church is a rarity. Their fascinating story is here told through pictures that remain in a revised and expanded colour version of the original ‘Discovering Wall Paintings’. At the end, a county by county gazetteer lists churches where wall paintings can still be seen as well as those with extensive or high artistic merit. 80 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


72406 CAMERA WORK: The Complete


Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with advancing the creative possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began publishing Camera Work, an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo- Secession. Camera Work was the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together all photographs from the journal’s 50 issues. 5.5" x 7.7", 552 pages. Text in English, French and German. ONLY £13


72408 DALÍ: The Paintings by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret Painter, sculptor, writer and filmmaker, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics, and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. This publication presents his entire painted oeuvre chronologically. Almost half the illustrations in this book had rarely been seen plus his writings and drawings and work from ballet to cinema, fashion, advertising and objets d’art. Dalí would borrow from the history of art movements and prevailing trends, ridicule, then drop them. See ‘Tuna Fishing’ or ‘Hallucinogenic Toreador’ and unpublished homages to Velázquez. 5.9" x 7.7", 780 pages, colour. ONLY £13


72412 EDWARD WESTON by Terence Pitts and Manfred Heiting Few photographers have created such a legacy as Edward Weston (1886-1958). After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft- focus techniques, Weston became the key pioneer of the school of precise and sharp presentation, dubbed “Straight Photography.” Through the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, Weston was a major force in pushing forward the art of photography. His photographs are monuments of sensual realism, perfectly composed images of stillness that sear with passion and intensity. Whatever the subject, be it a vegetable, landscape, shell, or naked body, Weston’s lens captures the essence of its life force, the fundamentals of its form. 9.4" x 11.8", 224 pages. We love the Mexican women portraits, nudes, the Scene Shifter, Moonstone Beach and Sante Fe locomotive. A photographic journey with a master. Mono quality images on every page. Text in English, French and German. ONLY £9


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72633 SCENES OF AMERICAN LIFE: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art


Museum by Elizabeth Prelinger The author/editor showcases artworks that capture the drama of the first half of the 20th century in the US - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and the country’s new-found confidence following WWII. Here are farms and factories, jazz and street life, sports, family life, parks and beaches, Depression hardship, the railroads and subways and much more, works which symbolise the true strength of the nation. A total of 51 works are considered. Each painting is reproduced in colour in full page format and on the adjacent page Prelinger provides full details (artist, size, medium, date and current location) and an explanation/critique/history of the artwork, its creator and what were the contemporary influences of both. Features Paul Cadmus, Edward Hopper, Ray Strong and Reginald Marsh, plus a great many others. 112pp softback, 9¼” square. $19.95 NOW £6


70876 ALL THE MIGHTY WORLD: The


Photographs of Roger Fenton 1852-1860 by Gordon Baldwin et al This volume comprises not only the works of Roger Fenton but also nine illustrated essays by six leading scholars. He was England’s most celebrated photographer during the 1850s. He pictured noble country houses, evocative ruins and the rolling countryside that surrounded them. Equally arresting are his muscular views of cathedrals and of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament. He was a founder of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society). In 1852, he travelled to Russia and was among the first to photograph the Kremlin. Commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, he returned with portraits of shell-shocked soldiers and confident officers, views of a chaotic Balaklava harbour and bleak panoramas of the terrain of battle. 290 pages 25.5cm by 30cm with 174 illustrations, 96 in quadratone, 90 of Fenton’s finest photos. £40 NOW £15


72657 THE LAND THROUGH A LENS: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Andy Grundberg The author has for 25 years been an observer of photography in the art world, as critic, teacher and museum director. In these stunning photos, seductive beauty, promise and myth mingle with America’s history and the country’s technological and economic progress. Most 19th century photographers worked on government-sponsored surveys. At the same time, Americans began to hang framed images by such photographic artists as Carleton E. Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge - both represented here - on the walls of what was then called their parlour. Photos of unspoiled national treasures, such as those by Ansel Adams, exerted considerable influence on the federal government’s efforts to create national parks. See also Robert Dawson’s striking images of polluted waterways and Emmet Gowin’s awe-inspiring views of the aftermath of the spectacular eruption at Mount St. Helens. 112 softback pages full of beautiful photos in colour, b/w and sepia. $19.95 NOW £5.50


72672 LE CORBUSIER: Toward an Architecture manuscript edited by Diane Mark-Walker and Sylvie Young


Le Corbusier’s original book Vers une Architecture was first published in 1923. Its provocative slogans, such as ‘a house is a machine for living in’ and his striking juxtapositions of temples with machines, inspired architects to start designing housing that they thought would meet the demands of modern life. Here for the first time are background notes on Le Corbusier’s concepts and iconography and the origin of his ideas. He wrote simultaneously as an architect, city planner, historian, critic, discoverer and prophet, and his book is illustrated with striking images of airplanes, cars and ocean liners, provocatively placed next to views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome. 341 paperback pages lavishly illus. £17.99 NOW £8


70878 BYZANTIUM: Faith and Power (1261-1557)


edited by Helen Evans Here, the cultural and historical interaction and mutual influence of the Latin West and the Christian and Islamic East from 1261 to 1557 are investigated by a group of renowned international scholars in 17 major essays and catalogue


discussions of more than 350 exhibited objects. Magnificent works - from splendid frescoes, textiles, gilded metalwork and mosaics, to elaborately decorated manuscripts and liturgical objects - testify to the artistic and intellectual vigour of the Late and Post-Byzantium era. In addition, 40 glorious icons from the Holy monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt, join others from leading international institutions in an unparalleled collection of these powerful religious images. Fine examples of interrelationships are illustrated by important panel paintings, ceramics, embroidered silk textiles, gilded metalwork, miniature icons of glass, precious metals and gemstones and illuminated manuscripts. 680 pages 23.5cm by 31.5cm, 800 colour plates. Glossary and map.


£50 NOW £28


72180 FOLLIES by Jeffrey W. Whitelaw Whether or not a building is a folly, be it a belvedere, grotto, obelisk, pagoda, pavilion, prospect tower, pyramid, deliberately built ruin, sham castle or triumph or arch, depends when and where it was built and why, and even whether it feels like a folly. Here we can enjoy a gazetteer of colour photographs of some firm favourites like the Red House, Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire, The Pepperbox at White Parish, a hexagonal brick tower and where William Morris would holiday, Broadway Tower in Worcestershire. 64 page paperback, colour photos. £5.99 NOW £2.75


72585 VISIONS OF CAMELOT by Jeff Menges


Subtitled Great Illustrations of King Arthur and His Court here is a super gallery of important artists who have used their prodigious talents to depict King Arthur and his compatriots in a range of creative styles. This unique collection presents interpretations of medieval times and the chivalric code, from simply elegant to lavishly ornate, by legends N. C. Wyeth, Aubrey Beardsley, William Russell Flint, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, Willie


Pogany, H. J. Ford and his wonderful woodcuts and others. 148 colour and black and white illustrations with an introduction to each artist and his work. A visual feast of the spellbinding world of Camelot. 114 very large pages in bargain softback.


£15.99 NOW £4


72716 HINTS ON HOUSEHOLD TASTE by Charles L. Eastlake


With over 100 illustrations here is the classic handbook of Victorian interior decoration with a new introduction by John Gloag, here is a facsimile reprint of the 1969 classic original. The book has served as a basic source for philosophy of design for hundreds of architects, manufacturers and decorators as well as home owners and covers everything from the arrangement of a vestibule to utensils for the kitchen, rugs, carpets and floor coverings, tiles, wallpaper hangings and stencil decorations, furniture, decorative objects, picture framing, table design, chairs, cupboards, beds, crockery, table service, colour combinations, material and decoration, and a host of other topics. Paperback, 304pp in facsimile reprint, original woodcuts. £12.49 NOW £5


67452 ILYA REPIN 1844-1930 by Grigori Sternin and Jelena Kirillina We had never before particularly taken note of Ilya Repin. Until now, that is. Here are a huge number of the works of a leading Russian painter and sculptor who was most famous for his involvement with the Itinerant Movement, and they are stunning. Repin’s most powerful works, for example the eye-popping Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16th 1581, expressed great psychological depth or, as with Barge Hawlers on the Volga, which exposed tensions within the civil order, strongly condemned those who exploit others through inhuman labour, and celebrated the dignity and fortitude of human beings. There are also telling portrayals of many great men of that time, such as Mussorgsky, Borodin and Tolstoy. 199 very large pages, colour. ONLY £14


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