Yu Hong

(Hardback)

Yu Hong (b 1966) is a Chinese artist who, influenced by the shifting social, cultural, and political landscape of her home country, seeks to portray the everyday experiences and challenges of women in China. This title explores the works and exhibitions of the painter.

Federico Diaz: Outside Itself

(Paperback)

Presents a self-replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data created by Prague-based artist Federico Diaz for the 54th Venice Biennale.

Peter Bauhuis: Jewellery and Vessels. Abecedarium

By Monica Gaspar & Pravu Mazumdar(Hardback)

Monograph of jewellery designer Peter Bauhuis.

Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline

(Paperback)

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject such as tectonics, use, and site as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a....

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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain: From Vienna 1900 to the Present

By Eric Kandel(Hardback)

Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline

(Hardback)

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject such as tectonics, use, and site as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a....

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$260.65NZD

Sigurd Lewerentz

By Colin St.John Wilson(Paperback / softback)

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885 - 1975) was one of the major Swedish architects of the twentieth century and was particularly known for his important religious works.

The Sites of Ancient Greece

(Hardback)

A photographic celebration for all those with an interest in ancient and modern Greek landscape, culture, and history, this book offers a birds-eye view of some of the most famous and evocative landscapes, cities and buildings known to man. Extended captions also make 'The Sites of Ancient Greece' the perfect illustrated travel companion.

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Darger's Resources

By Michael Moon(Paperback / softback)

A study of outsider artist Henry Darger

Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan

By Edward J McCaughan & Ed McCaughan(Paperback / softback)

This is a study of artist/activists and their participation in social movements in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and California. McCaughan places the three movements within their own local histories, cultures, and conditions, but also l

Hakuho Sculpture

By Donald F. McCallum(Hardback)

The first book in any language devoted entirely to Japanese sculpture of the Hakuho period (c. 650-710 CE)

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Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

(Hardback)

Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.

Brian Cook's Landscapes of Britain

By Brian Cook(Hardback)

An exploration of the iconic book-cover designs created by Brian Cook for Batsford in the mid-twentieth century.

Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes

By Heather L. Venhaus(Paperback)

Here is a design manual for those interested in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary for achieving sustainability in residential settings. The book introduces the concept of regenerative design whereby built landscapes sustain and restore vital ecological functions.

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Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House

By James Lowell Strickland(Hardback)

Beautifully photographed country houses, mountain retreats, and coastal cottages located in and beyond the American South demonstrate this prestigious firm's talent for translating traditional architecture into charming and inviting designs. Interiors and exteriors combine the formal and informal--drawing equally from refined houses in Beaufort, Charleston, and Savannah, as well as rural farmhouses and rustic cabins in the Blue Ridge Mountains.....

Classic California Casa

By Douglas Woods(Hardback)

This sumptuous and comprehensive volume embraces one of the most beloved house forms, the Spanish Colonial Revival, presenting at once a lavish portrait of the style as well as the definitive statement on the subject through more than three hundred color photographs. The Spanish style in architecture encompasses facets from a vast array of traditions, many of which are in....

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Ryan Mcginley

By Neville Wakefield(Hardback)

In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled "The Kids Are Alright." Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, who....

Alex Katz

(Hardback)

First overview of nude paintings from three decades and new work by one of the foremost representatives of American Art.

Portraits of the Presidents

By Frederick S. Voss(Hardback)

One of the most visited galleries of the National Portrait Gallery is "America's Presidents," the collection of portraits of the elected leaders of the United States that is at the heart of the Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it. More than a visual record of the holders of power, these images evoke....

Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-friendly Home Design

By Richard Olsen(Hardback)

Showcasing one hundred years of innovation and environmental sensitivity, "Handmade Houses" celebrates some of the world's most idiosyncratic homes from Big Sur to Sardinia. Author Richard Olsen unveils the components used for their construction, including driftwood, boulders, and even old wine vats. The first study of the handmade-homes phenomenon since its inception in the late 1960s, "Handmade Houses" revisits the....