10 Art and Architecture


73391 TOWER BRIDGE, LONDON: 3D Puzzle A spectacular colour model of the world famous Tower Bridge, this 3D fun puzzle is made of paper and expandable polystyrene (EPS foam board) with complexity level five stars out of six. The finished model measures 30" x 4¼” x 9" (76 x 12 x 23cm), is easy to assemble, no scissors or glue required and 200-


220 minutes to complete. The 120 pieces in total all slot together, though to make it a little more firm, Chrissie here at the office did cheat a little and use glue! It looks fantastic on top of one of our bookcases.


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74469 ART OF FLOWER ARRANGING by Ansia Kohrs


The 65 arrangements in this practical book prove you can be artistic. “Roses in a Bucket” are just that: no special skill is needed, but the beauty of the red roses against the aluminium bucket is a stunning effect. A bunch of poppies in a bulbous glass vase has the same artless quality, but the author tells you the secret of making sure the flowers will fall into a natural cluster. The arrangement “Lilies and Boughs” uses a wide-topped vase to hold leafless winter branches towering above a collection of lilies. Some arrangements are more elaborate than these simple examples, for instance a stunning flower basket in which supports are concealed by skilful positioning of different kinds of Protea and Lilies, or Chincherinchees arranged in an underwater spiral in a glass bowl with wired Gerbera creating colour above. With advice on the types of plants and colours that go well together. 128pp, softback, colour photos.


£10.99 NOW £4.50


74738 DRAWING AND PAINTING FANTASY


WORLDS by Finlay Cowan The book offers additional instruction on rendering realistic details such as expression, movement, skin and hair, clothes, armour and jewellery, along with clear guidance on finding sources and transforming concepts into final works. It also explores all


subjects through practical instructions, working sketches and step-by-step illustrations, including four feature sections by masters of key media and disciplines. There is a stunning gallery of finished illustrations by top fantasy artists. The hardware described includes weapons, machines and vehicles and there is a detailed section on one, two and three-point perspective, with classic architectural types, cities, buildings, maps and geography. What are you waiting for? 123 paperback pages 28cm x 21.5cm, colour. £14.99 NOW £3.50


74739 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY MAKING TECHNIQUES by Vannetta Seecharran


The author is a teacher of contemporary jewellery techniques in London who has also set up her own jewellery-making school. Here she outlines the essential tools and materials needed for creating modern, one-of-a- kind jewellery. The book includes processes for working with precious and non-precious metals, plastic, rubber, fabric, fibres, leather, paper and paper pulp, wood, ceramics, glass, concrete and resin. There is also an invaluable directory of decorative effects and a guide to the different kinds of clasps and closures available. 160 paperback pages 22cm x 22cm, lavishly illus in colour.


$26.95 NOW £4.50 74778 CELTIC KNOTWORK: Stained Glass


Colouring Book by A. G. Smith Spirals and curves intertwined with mythological creatures and gripping beasts are characteristic of the intricate knotwork used in Celtic art. These decorative and complex designs can be found on monuments, jewellery and in illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells. When you colour in the 16 stained glass designs in this book, you might possibly be inspired to create your own patterns. Colour in with crayon, felt-tip pen, acrylic, watercolour, tempera or oil paint or mix colouring methods to get a more interesting effect. Softback.


£5.95 NOW £3 72788 STITCH STEP BY STEP


by Maggi Gordon and Ellie Vance Over 170 different stitches and numerous projects to brighten your life. The main part of the book offers designs using an impressive range of stitches from the whole gallery. Starting with surface embroidery using cross-stitch, leaf stitch and backstitch, together with whipping techniques to give texture, the authors go on to beading and needlepoint. The fashion beadwork covered here introduces sequins and shisha mirrors. Smocking is a wonderful way of adding original features to dressmaking, and a section on openwork includes details to add finish such as buttonhole bars, eyelets, picot and threadwork. Colour photos. 224pp. £12.99 NOW £3


73499 KILLER SLIPPERS: And How to Make Them by Nick Godlee


You can trot gaily with Babar and Celeste on your toes, flap your fins, create slippers that look as if your feet were bare... you name it. The instructions are as basic as can be, with details of materials and equipment needed, how to trace the pattern, cutting out, covering, sewing and even which side is which, so that you don’t have to worry about a thing. Our favourites are the tugboats. 96 pages 25cm by 19cm, colour, diagrams. £9.99 NOW £3.50


73790 PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR OLDER HOMEOWNERS: Easy Ways to Make Your Home More Comfortable as You Age by Rick Peters


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The author shows how to adapt virtually any room to increase comfort, safety and convenience - without breaking the bank, whether it is anti-scalding devices on sinks, or curb-less showers. ‘Before’ and ‘after’ photographs of real-life makeovers, with approximate costs, accompany advice on everything from putting


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directional lights over the sink to installing grab bars in the bathroom. There are many, many useful tips, such as raising a front-loading dishwasher up from the floor to reduce the amount of bending required to empty it. There are 50 projects in six major categories, from steps and hallways to cabinets and countertops. 192 softback pages 25.5cm x 21.5cm. Colour photos and diagrams.


£12.99 NOW £6


72841 ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DRAWING: A Practical and Inspirational Workbook by Barrington Barber and Duncan Smith Rather than copying every element of a subject, readers are encouraged to focus on expression and style to achieve ‘artistic truth’ and develop their own way of seeing subjects. There is, of course, practical advice on proportion, perspective, light sources, mark-making and much more. The book covers all traditional areas, such as still life, landscape, architecture, interiors, human and animal forms and portraiture. 160 pages 28.5cm x 25.5cm, ringbound cover and plastic dividers. £12.99 NOW £4.50


72842 FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING: With


DVD Inspiring Projects by Barrington Barber Barber brings his considerable expertise as a working artist and teacher to the task of showing you how to create successful drawings. Opportunities for improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects: still life, plants, landscapes, animals, figure drawing and portraiture, and are supported by demonstrations of a broad range of skills and techniques including composition and perspective. The final page on Aids to Better Drawing offers seven tips that you will find invaluable, including the advice to revisit the exercises provided in the First Stages section whenever you are having problems. 208 pages 30cm x 22cm with free DVD.


£14.99 NOW £6.50 ART AND ARCHITECTURE


The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. - Claude Monet


74658 GREAT WORKS: 50 Paintings Explored by Tom Lubbock


First published in the passionately argued and much-loved Great Works series that he wrote weekly for the Independent, here are 50 of Lubbock’s best essays on painting, which span 800 years of Western art from Giovanni Bellini to Jeremy


Moon and from Rembrandt van Rijn to Jackson Pollock. Each piece is devoted to a single painting, and explores, with intelligence and humour, Lubbock’s thoughts about that particular work and about art in general. What was it, he asks, that made Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres such an exciting weirdo? Why was Edouard Vuillard’s genius confined to the decade when he worked at home? How does the flatness of Mickey Mouse’s ears illuminate the ‘non-specific bodies’ of Gustav Klimt’s Water Nymphs and, having done Germolene, sticking plaster, marshmallows, prawn cocktail, pork paté and sausage meat, how many other ways could Philip Guston have found to paint pink? Lubbock’s writing is nothing if not original and exciting. This is a book of surprises. It finds Hitchcock’s lighting tricks on Suspicion compared to a still life by Francisco de Zurbaràn and the figure in Gwen John’s Girl In A Blue Dress withdrawing from life, ‘fading into its surface, pressed like a flower’. A refreshingly different 216 pages with colour plates.


£18.99 NOW £9.50


74931 ANCIENT AMERICAN ART


IN DETAIL by Colin McEwan The breathtakingly lovely objects in this luxurious volume are fashioned from jade, turquoise, feather-work, metalwork, wood, stone, ceramics and textiles. Drawing on the extraordinary


breadth and depth of the British Museum’s American collection, and with essays written by an expert in Ancient American art, this beautifully photographed work offers fascinating insights into the design and production of a wide range of objects from Mexico and Central and South America. Enlarged details, chosen specifically to inspire, illuminate and surprise bring readers close to the world of the Olmecs, Mayans, Mixtecs, Aztecs and Incas. Beginning by asking what constitutes Ancient American art, the author demonstrates the complexity of both its form and meaning. Close-ups provide readers with insights that even a behind-the-scenes museum tour cannot offer. As they move across a range of cultures and media, they should begin to understand larger issues within which these masterpieces are embedded. For instance: What is the relationship between art and nature in the Ancient Americas? How were these objects used in ritual and religious practices? What is the role of masks? How do the practices of ancestor deification, sacrifice and rituals related to fertility and procreation shape the visual and material culture of the Ancient Americas? The answers are all here. 144 pages very lavishly illustrated in colour with chronologies, glossary, collections of Ancient American art and British Museum registration numbers. 21 x 22cm, Harvard University Press.


$21.95 NOW £6.50


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74659 HOW TO LOOK AT A PAINTING


by Francoise Barbe-Gall This book takes 36 famous paintings, reproduces them in full colour, including close-ups, and analyses what makes each one a landmark artistic event. Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” captures a moment in time that we know is


only going to last a second. Against an anonymous black background the girl has no age marks: she has no past, only a future. In this sense she is quite different from the other portraits we see here, including Raphael’s study of the Renaissance epitome of good breeding, Baldassare Castiglione. Rogier van der Weyden’s “Descent from the Cross” is a theatrical event full of emotion, where all the lines of perspective make the viewer part of the scene, while Grunewald’s pockmarked Crucifixion shocks in order to evoke compassion. Salvador Dali’s melting clocks in “Persistence of Memory” creates a world of familiar objects which are still beyond our power to control them, while Munch’s “The Scream” is about our inability to control ourselves. Hopper’s “Nighthawks” takes us into the world of film noir from which there is no escape. Picasso’s “The Aubade”, also from 1942 during the German occupation of France, speaks of disintegration, but the green and blue of a woman with the musical instrument promise regeneration and restoration. Other artists discussed include da Vinci, Bacon, Velázquez, Giotto, Rembrandt, Monet and Rothko. 312pp, softback, fully illustrated in colour.


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75051 ALASTAIR: Drawings and Illustrations by Baron Hans Henning Voigt


Art historians, bibliophiles, collectors and students of drawing and book illustration will treasure this affordable retrospective of hard-to- find works. It showcases the striking, mainly b/w chefs d’oeuvres


of a leader of the Decadent Movement, Baron Hans Henning Voigt (1887-1969). Better known under his pseudonym of Alastair, the artist created works that are frequently compared to those of Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke and Edward Gorey. His highly ornate and distinctively ominous style blossomed with a series of erotic illustrations for the publisher and literary renegade Harry Crosby. For the artist’s skilful, sensual tone to be fully appreciated, this particular compilation invites a close examination of its swirling lines and intricate details. The shadowy, sinuous images include characters from Salome and L’Anniversaire de L’Infante by Oscar Wilde, Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe and Manon Lescaut by L’Abbé Prévost, as well as scenes from La Tosca and The Magic Flute. An informative introduction by a historian of illustrated books offers background on Alastair and his unique place in 20th century art and illustration. Circa 152 pages in b/w with splashes of vivid colour. £18.99 NOW £7


74572 ROBERT ADAM: The Search for a Modern Classicism


by Richard John Along with many other prestigious jobs the author, Professor John, has served as Editor of the award-winning


journal The Classicist and as Director of the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture in London. In this polemical and beautifully illustrated book, he examines the work of Robert Adam, now director of the largest traditional architectural firm in Europe, ADAM Architecture. In the early 1970s, Adam was granted a scholarship at the British School in Rome and, although it was then unfashionable, turned to traditional design. In the following years, his research, studies and writing backed up his growing portfolio of projects. In the 1980s, he became one of the spokesmen for the emerging body of traditional designers in the UK and abroad, defending and promoting this type of design in the face of savage opposition from the modernist architectural establishment, but he continued to draw from the entire classical tradition, spanning a time-scale from ancient Greece to the 1930s. From 2000 onwards, Adam was instrumental in the establishment of the Traditional Architecture Group, The International Network for Traditional Building, the Council for European Urbanism and the Academy of Urbanism, which have firmly established traditional architecture as part of the UK scene. He is now confident that this style of building will continue to be recognised by the profession. He trusts that it will develop further, to take a more prominent place in the improvement of the built environment and as a major challenge to the orthodoxy of modernism. If the superb buildings pictured in this volume are anything to go by, then the hopes of the Prince of Wales - expressed in his foreword to the book - that a ‘creative and truly living tradition in architecture’ will become ‘the spirit of the age and the heritage of tomorrow’ will surely be realised. 28 x 28 x 2.5cm, 256 pages with colour photos, drawings and plans. £40 NOW £16


74573 SOME OF MY LIVES: A


Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier Bernier’s father chaired the directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and when she herself was a young harp student she met all the great musicians of her day, from Otto Klemperer, who threw food at his wife while dining, to Leopold Stokowski who went off to India with Greta Garbo. Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein were lifelong


friends, and in 1975 when Bernier married her second husband, the critic John Russell, Bernstein was John’s witness and Copland gave Rosamond away. Before


74693 ART OF ROMANCE: Mills and Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs


by Joanna Bowring and Margaret O’Brien Mills and Boon has epitomised romance for over 100 years and the Harlequin imprint, always slightly more daring, is now over 60. These hugely successful publishing ventures followed the simple principle of giving the readers what they wanted: a virginal young woman was swept off her feet by a masterful man who might be a sheikh or a doctor, but always a figure of authority and frequently from a higher social class than the heroine. More recently, the heroine has been allowed to have a past, but even so the story always ends with wedding bells and a lifelong romantic commitment. The cover designs for romantic novels have to make an immediate impact, providing an element of intrigue while reassuring the reader that certain conventions never change. This fascinating book features well over 200 covers, each printed in full colour. Jack London was one of the earliest authors, with covers featuring rugged adventurous males, but by the 1920s the woman was the centre of the story. This was the period of the sheikh novel following Rudolf Valentino’s popular film, and film themes can be seen throughout the 30s and 40s. W.A.A.F. into Wife and Utility Wedding have obvious war themes, and the female heroes increasingly have jobs, with titles such as The English Tutor, Nightclub Hostess and Nurse Warding Takes Charge. Towards the end of the 20th century the girl on the cover is wearing fewer clothes and the embrace is more passionate. 288pp, softback, 20 x 24cm, colour illustrations on most pages.


$25 NOW £8


then, however, Bernier had developed her own formidable career as an art historian based in Paris, where she co-founded the hugely influential magazine L’Oeil. When her friend Picasso heard about the new venture, he sent Bernier to Spain to see the cache of paintings he had left there, and as a result the journal had a sensational launch with the coup of being able to publish new Picassos. Kandinsky was a great friend too, although Picasso and Braque ignored him. The daughter of Berthe Morisot gave the magazine her recollections of Manet, Monet and many other Impressionists, while Miro contributed his memories of boxing with Ernest Hemingway. Among Bernier’s reminiscences is a visit to a Degas exhibition with Henry Moore, who explained to her the difference between Degas’s and Rodin’s approach to dancing figures. Hockney, Matisse, Goncharova, Giacometti and many others appear in these pages. 292pp, photos. $30 NOW £7.50


74903 PUBLIC ART SINCE


1950 by Lynn Pearson Following the 1951 Festival of Britain, post-war public art encompassed a wide range of intriguing, curious and colourful artworks in urban and rural locations throughout Britain. From traditional figurative sculptures to the Angel of the North, these works were found in new towns and schools of the 1950s and 60s,


and in redeveloped town centres, where abstract or historical murals were often integrated with new buildings. During the 1980s, local authorities and large corporations began to appreciate the value of art in offices and shopping developments, although these works could be controversial. In the 1990s and early 21st century, public art became a tourist attraction. Our guide offers nearly 200 of the most interesting and accessible works in the UK, Channel Islands and Scotland. A Shire paperback, 80pp, colour illus.


£5.99 NOW £3


74979 MONSIEUR LAMBERT


by Jean-Jacques Sempé Jean-Jacques Sempé (b. 1932 and usually known simply as Sempé in his native France) is one of the world’s most successful illustrators and cartoonists, the creator of some 30 albums of cartoons and graphic novels and the classic children’s book characters


Nicholas. His work has featured on periodicals the world over, from Paris Match to the New Yorker. Monsieur Lambert is a charming graphic novel in Sempé’s characteristic gentle, sentimental and unmistakeably French style, which opens the window on the everyday lives and secret passions of the regulars of a small Parisian bistro. When M. Lambert fails to turn up for lunch at his usual time one day, the regulars speculate that he must have met a woman - how else could this unusual behaviour be explained? Very soon the other regulars start discussing the women they have loved and lost and in doing so reveal unexpected facets of their own lives and personalities. Chez Picard and its customers, the bunch of ageing political firebrands on one side and the old men and their lusty if slightly faulty memories on another, are brought to life by 48 drawings with handwritten dialogue and Sempé’s laconic commentary, which effortlessly and charmingly show off his unerring eye for the details of human behaviour. 64pp with b/w drawings and an atmospheric watercolour of the bistro’s location. £9.95 NOW £5


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