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copyright free, and in high quality to decorate postcards, invitations, flyers, t-shirts, displays, website design, stationery and much more. A vast archival resource presented in very colourful 160 page large softback with enclosed CD.


£14.99 NOW £7


73924 A VISION OF SPLENDOUR: Indian Heritage In the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901-1913


by Gerda Theuns-de Boer


‘A great privilege’ - that was how Dutch Sanskritist Jean Philippe Vogel (1871-1958) viewed his entry in 1901 into the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) putting him in a position to make a real contribution to the process of ‘Passing on of India’s monuments in the full splendour of their authenticity.’ It would enable him as and Indologist educated in Europe to enrich his academic knowledge by working in the context of the indigenous culture of India. There had been a growing awareness of the need for heritage care in both Britain and India, not only the preservational benefits of archaeology, but its political potential in offering a firm ground to binding together India’s disparate social and religious groups, and at the same time magnify the image of the British Raj. Vogel added substance to the tasks of preservation, restoration and research and to the increasing visibility of archaeology in museums. He applied his knowledge of Sanskrit and epigraphy and firmly established his findings in the context of history and art history. He was familiar with the Islamic art of Lahore, Delhi and Agra, the largely Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Hindu art of the Panjab or the Jain art of Maheth. For this monograph, the author focuses on the years 1901- 1913 and from his collection of 10,000 photographs, 150 views have been selected, taken between 1870 and 1920. In superb detail we can enjoy the statues of Vishnu, ornately carved fountain slabs and jinas, long lost and long forgotten landscapes, votives and statues, tombs and famous monuments like the Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra’s Red Fort all built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, mosques and stunningly beautifully carved gateways such as the one at Sanchi, Stupa. With chronology of archaeological activities, 150 full page sepia photos in 192 page huge hardback with colour map.


£32 NOW £16


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 £4.75


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.


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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 and mediate between ‘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 have the appeal of woodblock prints from earlier generations. 106 paperback pages 28cm x 21cm, 100 superb plates in glowing colours.


£18.99 NOW £5.50


72632 ROGER HILTON: St Ives Artists by Chris Stephens


Roger Hilton began his career as a figurative painter but turned to abstraction following contact with artists in Paris and Amsterdam. In the 1950s he was among the most radical of abstract painters and others associated with St Ives such as Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Peter Lanyon. He constantly switched between abstract and figurative, including the exuberant nudes that are among his most popular and enduring works. He moved permanently to Cornwall in 1965 and the author traces his life and artistic development, coupling new research with extensive illustration and colour photos. First edition Tate 2006 paperback, 80pp, colour illus. £8.99 NOW £5


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. 357pp in BBC paperback with many colour photos. £9.99 NOW £2.75


CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS


One of Britain’s most renowned literary figures


73342 CHARLES DICKENS: Dickens’ Bicentenary 1812-2012


by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley Just what readers have been waiting for - the definitive interactive illustrated guide to Charles Dickens and his works, written by his great-great-great


granddaughter and published in association with the Charles Dickens Museum, London. He was an intriguing personality, a man far ahead of his time, a Victorian whose ideals and outlook on life were far better suited to the modern world. Although best known as a novelist, he was also a tireless campaigning journalist and the editor of two popular magazines Household Words and All the Year Round. He wanted to help bring about sanitary reform, gender equality, more efficient hospitals, prison reform and education for all. Long before Freud was born, Dickens was making psychological analyses of his characters. He also looked at the roles that poverty and despair played in crime. This detailed volume follows him from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and traces how he became the greatest celebrity of his age. In fact, even in the 21st century, he still remains one of Britain’s most renowned literary figures. Here is an intimate look at what he was like as a husband, father, friend and employer. Documented are his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. This comprehensive book also introduces readers to his fascinating family and his astonishing circle of friends, and reveals when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in his art. Not only that, but it also provides details of his novels, and the conditions - usually fraught with difficulties - under which they were written. 123 pages 30cm x 27cm very lavishly illustrated with photos and artworks in b/w, sepia/w and colour, with removable facsimile documents from Dickens’ personal archive. $39.99 NOW £21


73939 CHARLES DICKENS by Michael Slater


We celebrated the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth in 2012. His lifelong concerns were for the poor, especially children, his charitable activities, deep interest in crime and punishment, prisons and the detective police. The main focus of this magisterial biography is on Dickens’s career as writer and editor, involving not only the novels but his


enormous output of other writings - letters, journalism, shorter fiction, essays, satirical verses, writings for children, travel books and so on, as well as the celebrated after-dinner speeches and a script prepared for


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 £6 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


73097 IN THE COMPANY OF DALI: The


Photographs of Robert Whitaker by Trevor Legate


Salvador 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. 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 £15


his readings. Slater’s account, rooted in deep research but written with warmth, clarity and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination and the concerns that created them. It highlights his boundless energy, fascination with disorder, organisational genius, the ruling classes’ indifference towards the plight of the poor, his love of fairy tales and of the theatre as great nourishers of the human imagination, and his hatred of tyranny and is richly illustrated with many unfamiliar images and with 32 pages of plates. 696pp. £28 NOW £12


72922 QUOTABLE DICKENS by Max Maurice


‘When I was left in this way, I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash- house copper with the lid on...’ - Sketches by Boz. Thoughts on human nature, filthy lucre, darker musings, philosophical thoughts and wicked wit: ‘Mr Chadband is a large yellow man with a fat smile and a


general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.’ - Bleak House. Here is an old curiosity shop of a book that will delight all readers. Pocket sized 160pp.


£5.99 NOW £2


72720 INSIDE DICKENS LONDON


by Michael Paterson


Dickens’s descriptions of London are among the most powerful in literature, and this fascinating book draws on the bustle, commerce, cruelty, fog and dirt which permeates every novel Dickens wrote. Dickens was a keen observer of injustice and poverty, and he was writing when


philanthropic organisations were beginning to address deprivation, for instance the Salvation Army and Dr Barnardo’s. Henry Mayhew’s research published in 1851 gave an impetus to social reformers and George Augustus Sala is a witty observer who supplies many descriptions in this book, together with the German tourist Max Schlesinger. 351pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


72379 CHARLES DICKENS AND THE GREAT THEATRE


OF THE WORLD by Simon Callow Charles Dickens was a child entertainer in Portsmouth, which led to an obsession with theatre until his reluctant retirement just before his death in 1870. He was a dazzling mimic who wrote, acted in and stage-managed


plays with fanatical perfectionism, and in his writing he was an irresistible performer, whose imagination in plotting and characterisation was overtly theatrical. He was attracted thousands of fans to his readings in Britain and the US. 370pp, pen and ink drawings. £16.99 NOW £4


73218 DALI: The Great


Artists Collection: 6 Free Colour Prints by Jessica Toyne


Salvador Dalí, the Spanish Surrealist painter was a highly skilled draughtsman, made famous by his striking bizarre images like The Persistence of Memory (1931) which led him to critical acclaim. Cleo-Catra is an exotic image with Cleopatra portrayed as a feline which has been selected for one of the six ready-to-frame prints in this collection. The Persistence of Memory, The Spectral Cow from 1928, The Enigma of Desire or My Mother My Mother (1929) and Portrait of Mrs Isabel Styler-Tas from 1945 are among the six prints in this Bookazine pack. 64 page glossy softback enclosed. £9.99 NOW £5


73244 VAN GOGH: The Great Artists


Collection: 6 Free Colour Prints by Jessica Bailey


Vincent Van Gogh was dedicated to his art, creating more than 2,100 works of art in just ten short years. He studied and practiced resolutely, often suffering mental and physical exhaustion. He was convinced that a great artist, a colourist, would lead the world into the 20th century and it is sad to say that this remarkable artist sold just one painting, The Red Vineyard, during his lifetime for 400 Swiss francs. 64 page large softback inserted in a wallet containing six ready-to-frame 8" x 10" prints of The Sunflowers, Bedroom, A Self Portrait, One Starry Night, Café Night Scene and a prison yard image.


£9.99 NOW £5


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, 64pp, outsize softback. £12.49 NOW £4.50


Art and Architecture 73362 M. C. ESCHER ASCENDING AND


DESCENDING: 1000 Piece Jigsaw by Pomegranate


The famous lithograph Ascending and Descending by the Dutch master artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972) amply demonstrates his interlocking figures and how they defy logic and gravity. A fish may mutate into a goose, stairs may climb at angles denounced by gravity and water may run uphill, but the clean, rational lines of his prints transcend the rules of the possible and achieve a logic beyond logic. Our new 1000 piece interlocking jigsaw puzzle is of sturdy construction and comes in big presentation box. $18.95 NOW £8


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. 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. 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. He 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. 240 pages 28cm x 24cm with chronology and paintings in rich colour.


£41.50 NOW £17


71898 CHAGALL: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager


When he and Chagall were neighbours living on the Cote d’Azur in the 1950s Picasso said “when Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.” Born Moishe Segal in 1887 near the town of Vitebsk (today in Belarus), the son of a Jewish herring merchant, he fled the repressive czarist empire in 1911 to develop his talent in Paris, changing his name to the more Francophone Marc Chagall. The artists’ colony where he lived, La Ruche, was one of the more bohemian of the time. During his exile from his roots during war and revolution in Bolshevik Russia, Weimar Berlin, occupied France and 1940s New York he gave form to his dreams, longings and memories in what were to be some of the most humane and joyful paintings of the 20th century. Their subject, more often than not, was the shtetl life of his childhood, the world of Eastern European Jewry now long gone. We are shown an ambitious, anarchic, charming, suspicious, funny but above all obsessive artist, endlessly learning and experimenting and thus creating work of singular beauty and depth. Hitherto unseen letters, drawings and photos from the collectors and family archives. 32 pages of colour plates, over 100 other b/w illus. 604pp. £30 NOW £12


69628 LONDON, PORTRAIT OF A CITY by Reuel Golden


London’s remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world. London’s history is told through hundreds of quotations, lively essays, and references from key movies, books, and records. From Victorian London to the Swinging 60s, from the Battle of Britain to Punk, from the Festival of Britain to the 2012 Olympics, from rough pubs to private drinking clubs, from Royal Weddings to raves, from the charm of the East End to the wonders of the Westminster, from Chelsea girls to Hoxton hipsters - in page after page of stunning photographs, reproduced big and bold like the city itself, London at last gets the photographic tribute it deserves. From Taschen, text in English, French and German. 9.8" x 13.4", 552 pages. ONLY £20


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


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 £10


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