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73557 JOHN ARMSTRONG: The Paintings by Andrew Lambirth Catalogue Raisonné by Annette Armstrong and Jonathan Gibbs. If you have never come across the extraordinary paintings of John Armstrong (1893-1973) then this eye-opener of a book will intrigue and entice you. Readers who are already familiar with his work will be glad of a chance to own these lovely reproductions. We were first of all trapped by the picture on the front cover, which is called Icarus and over which we puzzled for ages. Once inside this box of delights we were, of course, hooked. Although the artist painted abstracts throughout his life, and admitted that one or two of his pictures could be called surrealist being a member of Unit One with Paul Nash in 1933, he was primarily a realist with a strong metaphysical and allegorical slant. Yet his versatility makes him difficult to pigeonhole and perhaps that is one of the reasons why he is so captivating. He was a prolific designer for the theatre, film, ballet and industry, producing memorable work for the GPO and ICI, and designing a distinctive string of posters for Shell. He was also a highly skilled portraitist, ceramicist and mural painter and, like his contemporaries, could turn his hand to Clarice Cliff tableware too. A clear-eyed observer of the human condition, he felt impelled to warn mankind of its folly, particularly in the age of nuclear armament. His series the Battle paintings and the Tocsin are as relevant today as when they were first painted. This impressive volume is the first major study of Armstrong’s work and draws on new and unpublished research to put him into context. Few people will know that he was a friend of Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton, was married three times, and lived in Cornwall and Essex - where he worked as a War Artist -before returning to London for the latter part of his life and produced election leaflets for Labour in 1945. His world in fact overlapped with many of the established coteries of 20th century British art, and casts new light on the whole period. 240 pages 28cm x 24cm with chronology and paintings in rich colour. £41.50 NOW £18


73761 ADVENTURES IN


ARCHITECTURE by Dan Cruickshank From an igloo in Greenland to a mud skyscraper in the Yemen and an exquisitely proportioned Palladian villa in Italy, a temple suspended between heaven and earth in China, a city of death on the banks of the Ganges, the Modernist Dream of Brasilia in Brazil, Dan Cruickshank takes us to buildings he


believes have changed the world. He looks at the motivation, inspiration and aspiration behind each building, whether it was designed for shelter, to demonstrate power, create a world of pleasure or evoke a sense of community. He travels through distant lands and cultures and meets many people along the way in his riveting, maverick history of buildings which have impressed, shocked or delighted us. 357pp in BBC paperback with many colour photos. £9.99 NOW £3


71484 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE AND ALFRED


STIEGLITZ by Peter Cornell-Richter The painter Georgia O’Keeffe met the photographer and critic Alfred Stieglitz when her work was exhibited at his 291 Gallery in 1917. They were soon sharing studio space and then becoming lovers, marrying in 1924. O’Keeffe’s skyscraper paintings of the late twenties have a clear relation to Stieglitz’s photos of the same period, with the geometric angularity and dazzling reflections. See the near-abstract “City Night” (1926) or the dynamic “Radiator Building” (1927). 119pp, softback, 50 reproductions from both artists in b/w and colour. ONLY £4.50


73097 IN THE COMPANY OF DALI: The Photographs of Robert Whitaker by Trevor Legate


‘I am the greatest prostitute in posing for pictures in the world!’ said the phenomenon Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, the flamboyant surrealist painter. At the mere mention of his name, any art lover can call to mind


Dalí’s’ Surreal iconography: his melting clocks, flowers sprouting from cracking eggs, disembodied faces floating in a barren landscape. But what kind of man lay behind the public image? What was he like in his domestic environment, relaxing with his wife Gala, or close friends 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 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. 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 are reproduced here for the first time. 128 pages 30.5cm x 31cm in colour and b/w.


£29.50 NOW £17


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71682 ORNAMENTAL ARTS OF JAPAN: 60 Full Colour Plates


by George Ashdown Audsley Originally published in London in 1882, this reprint contains a new selection of plates. George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) was an architect, curator, lecturer and art collector. He was to assemble an


impressive publication on Japanese design, ‘The Ornamental Arts of Japan’, which introduced the Western world to Japanese art. For this edition, 60 cromolithographs have been selected from this rare, late 19th century two volume set. The images have been arranged into eight categories - painting, embroidery, textile fabrics, lacquer, incrusted work, metal work, cloisonné enamels and carvings in ivory and porcelain. Informative captions accompany each illustration. 64pp, outsize softback.


£12.49 NOW £4.50


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


72564 A CHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN


ARCHITECTURE by Doreen Yarwood


Clear organisation and layout make this unique volume into an easy-to-use reference work as well as a visual delight. Ranging from 2000 BC to the 1980s, its chronologically arranged photographs and drawings appear in 105 two-page spreads, each representing a specific era, and often covering different regions and countries. Accompanying text comments on architectural details, and places the buildings within the historical, artistic and scientific context of each period. 224 paperback pages with glossary and more than 1,000 illus.


£18.99 NOW £6


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


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. A 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. These pictures illuminate the critical rise of the quintessential Japanese woman. They also mediate between the modern categories of ‘fine art’ and ‘pop art’. 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. 106 paperback pages 28cm x 21cm with 100 superb plates in glowing colours.


£18.99 NOW £5.50


71972 DESIGN MUSEUM: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN Classics of Modern Design 1900-today


by Professor Catherine McDermott 400 examples including pioneers like Philippe Starck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jasper Morrison, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Saul Bass, Neville Brody, Gio Ponti and Eileen Gray. It surveys the entire genre, from advertising and architecture, through fashion and furniture, transport and type, via communications, interiors, lighting, household items and products, celebrating the artistic diversity and excellence of more than 100 years. There are details of the date when a product was designed, its designer, the materials and the manufacturer who produced it and a look at the way in which the rapid development and merging of technologies is making it increasingly difficult to predict the future. 424 pages 23.5cm x 29cm, colour photos. £30 NOW £13


72657 THE LAND THROUGH A LENS: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum


by Andy Grundberg


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. See also Robert Dawson’s striking images of polluted waterways and Emmet Gowin’s awe-inspiring views. 112 softback pages. Colour, b/w and sepia. $19.95 NOW £5


72558 5000 DESIGNS AND


MOTIFS FROM INDIA by Ajit Mookerjee


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. 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. 200 paperback pages in b/w 28.5cm x 21cm. £15.99 NOW £5


70951 PHOTOGRAPHY: The Masters by Carolina Orlandini


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Stieglitz, Sander, Lange, Muybridge, Brassaï, Magritte, Vogel, Modotti, Cunningham, de Meyer, Warhol, Brandt, Blumenfeld, Shad, Nadar, Weston, Cartier-Bresson, Mapplethorpe, Freund, Man Ray, Rodchenko and Capa are among the star-studded names whose work are afforded a full page superb reproduction in this glorious coffee table heavyweight volume. Here are portraits and landscapes, the Brooklyn Bridge, a night scene in Budapest 1917, the Jewel of Montmartre by Brassaï and of Salvador Dalí, a blonde male German gymnast photographed on the pommel horse by Leni Riefenstahl, a traditional dance of Scottish fishermen 1936 captured by German photographer Bernd Lohse, the Steps in Montmartre Paris and sun inside the New York train station by the same German photographer, Fleet Street and Cheapside in London in the 1920s, and photography as it appeared in contemporary posters and advertising. 600 iconic images, 510 pages, 11½” square. ONLY £23


70942 ARTS OF TUSCANY: From the


Etruscans to Ferragamo by Marina Belozerskaya


The Etruscans ruled Tuscany from the 8th century BC until the 4th century BC, and Ferragamo was designing shoes from the 1920s to the 1940s - although this entrancing volume goes even further than that, to Pucci and Gucci in the 1960s. As can be seen, then, Tuscany has been producing extraordinary artwork of one kind or another for about 3000 years. Here are the outstanding chefs d’oeuvre of bronzesmiths, goldsmiths, artists, sculptors, architects, engineers, musicians (recorded in wall paintings), viticulturists, chefs, fashion designers and actors (as evidenced by the enormous amphitheatres of the Romans). Here are gorgeous medieval paintings in Lucca and Pisa and there the fabulous buildings of Siena. Here is Florence in the Quattrocento and there the Florence of the Popes and the Grand Dukes and the breathtakingly beautiful sculptures. 265 pages 23.5cm x 31cm. An impressive colour tome. £35 NOW £13


70088 JOSEPH GANDY: An Architectural


Visionary in Georgian England by Brian Lukacher


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An acknowledged authority on Joseph Gandy (1771- 1843) has written this exhaustively researched, definitive life of an architect-artist who exemplified the cultural temper of the romantic period. A gifted historical artist he could bring the vanished and ruined worlds of classical antiquity of Greece and Rome and the Gothic past to life. Works such as his unearthly Pandemonium or his luminous Tomb of Merlin have a hypnotic power that no other artist could surpass. We have only to look at his Design in Perspective of Part of the Inside of a Museum to appreciate the grandeur of his vision, and his Sepulchral Chamber is a strikingly hallucinatory watercolour depicting a subterranean tomb surrounded by sculptural sentinels of seated philosophers and weary lions. 222 pages 26cm x 29cm, 205 illustrations, 49 in colour.


£40 NOW £12


73085 KIOWA AND PUEBLO ART: Watercolour Paintings by J. J. Brody


Painstakingly reproduced from the now-rare originals, this new edition has an introduction by a leading authority on Native American art. 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


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. It 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, colour combinations, material and decoration, and more. Paperback, 304pp in facsimile reprint, original woodcuts. £12.49 NOW £4.50


72411 DUCHAMP by Janis Mink Someone else may have invented the wheel, but Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) invented the ready-made. He may be best known for his urinal signed R. Mutt, 1917. 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 £8.50


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


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. 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 £7 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. 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 £12


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