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Gumboot has thousands of art, photography and architecture books to choose from. Categories include Art History and Design as well as Commercial and Industrial Design and Landscaping, with a thorough section on Dance from Ballet to Contemporary through to Ballroom. Other Performing Arts include Magic, Circus, Puppetry and Music Hall.
 | Doing Research in Design(Paperback)A comprehensive exploration of design research methods, with particular focus on the social impacts of design.
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 | Baby Ikki at the Museum(Hardback)Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Smith's other recurring performance persona is Baby Ikki, whose bizarre and precipitous infancy is marked by conspicuous facial hair, oversized diapers, and....
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 | Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625(Paperback)Andrew Gurr presents the first history to be written of the acting company known as the Admiral's Men.
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 | Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy: Images from a Scientific Revolution(Paperback / softback)Known as the "century of anatomy," the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists--including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy--turned to the study....
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 | Whitney Biennial 2012(Paperback)An exciting showcase of innovative works by contemporary American artists
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 | John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907 - The Complete Paintings V 7(Hardback)A beautifully illustrated collection of landscape paintings, whose varied subjects and composition styles evoke the artist's keen sense of modernity
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 | Walter de Maria: Trilogies(Hardback)Walter De Maria (b. 1935) is known for the expansive and perfectly ordered land art and installations he created in the 1970s. From constructing minimalist spare wooden boxes to using the earth itself as a site for, and element of, his sculpture, he created a diverse body of work that is a testament to his complex investigation of the unseen....
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 | Cai Guo-Qiang - Odyssey(Hardback)"An exploration, celebration, and commemoration of Odyssey, a monumental gunpowder drawing by world-renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The book narrates the literally explosive creation of Odyssey through a combination of text and photographs"--Provided by publisher.
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 | Chinese Arts and Crafts(Paperback)This illustrated introduction discusses the colorful history and development of distinctive Chinese crafts, including ceramics, furniture, clothing and decorative arts.
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 | Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931(Hardback)Focuses on the history, motive, and meaning of Harvard University's distinctive Social Museum, established in 1903 by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) to 'collect the social experience of the world as material for university teaching'. This title includes five essays that probe the Social Museum's collection.
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 | Turner Inspired - In the Light of Claude(Hardback)The English Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was hailed as the "painter of light" for his brilliantly colored landscapes and seascapes. He drew much influence from the French painter Claude Lorrain (c. 1604/5?-1682), who was a vital force in Turner's artistic practice from his formative years until the end of his working life. So great was Claude's influence....
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 | Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir Guide(Paperback)The official guidebook to Buckingham Palace.
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 | A History of Theatre in Spain(Hardback)Leading practitioners and theatre historians present a new assessment of Spain's theatrical history from a performative perspective.
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 | Clarence House: Official Souvenir Guide(Paperback)The official guidebook to Clarence House.
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 | John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne V 1 - 1956-1974(Hardback)The highly anticipated first volume of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari....
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 | Windsor Castle: Official Souvenir Guide(Paperback)The official guidebook to the Windsor Castle
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 | Chinese Sculpture(Paperback)Chinese Sculpture provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to the unique aesthetic features of sculpture in China.
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 | Reading the Pre-Raphaelites: Revised Edition(Paperback / softback)"First published in Great Britain in 1998 by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd."
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 | Chinese Theater(Paperback)In this illustrated introduction Fu Jin explores the origins and development of Chinese theater from ancient opera to modern drama.
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 | Berenice Abbott(Paperback)An exemplary study of the career of photographer Berenice Abbott that reveals the astonishing range of her artistic, documentary, and scientific production
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