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Computer Generated - A 3D Art Anthology (Hardcover): Kyle Goodrich Computer Generated - A 3D Art Anthology (Hardcover)
Kyle Goodrich
R1,439 R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Save R295 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters on Cezanne (English, German, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Rainer Rilke Letters on Cezanne (English, German, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Rainer Rilke; Translated by Joel Agee
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.

Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

EK2: The Lost Years (Hardcover): Derek Stenning EK2: The Lost Years (Hardcover)
Derek Stenning
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Advent Calendar and Pop-Up Book (Hardcover): Insight Editions The Nightmare Before Christmas: Advent Calendar and Pop-Up Book (Hardcover)
Insight Editions
R1,218 R1,020 Discovery Miles 10 200 Save R198 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Genius in the Design - Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome (Paperback): Jake Morrissey The Genius in the Design - Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome (Paperback)
Jake Morrissey
R423 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, "The Genius in the Design" is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.

Richard Phillips - Negation of the Universe (Hardcover): Marcus Steinway Richard Phillips - Negation of the Universe (Hardcover)
Marcus Steinway; Contributions by Beatrix Ruf
R1,777 R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Save R369 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first monograph on New York-based contemporary artist Richard Phillips, best known for his large-scale paintings that are 'ultra-cool' in execution and very hot in effect. Richard Phillips's hyper realistic oil paintings embody themes as broad as power, politics, celebrity, fashion, ideology, beauty, and sex, and pose questions about the status of painting today: Does the medium remain valid, or has it become a historical pastime? Pornography, propaganda, advertising, entertainment, fashion-Phillips incorporates material from a range of sources to confront what is at the core of contemporary image making, from the power of celebrity branding to complicity between viewer and viewed. The book's exploitative design strategy celebrates the commercial and fashion alliances of the artist's practice, while revealing the complex politics behind the imagery the artist chooses to paint.

Femina - The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It... Femina - The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It (Paperback)
Janina Ramirez
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones 'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the 'dark' ages were anything but. Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burnt, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated. Only now, through a careful examination of the artefacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety, and the Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England. See the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories.

Russian Culture and Arts - Comprehension Textbook for Students and Postgraduates of Moscow State Art and Cultural University... Russian Culture and Arts - Comprehension Textbook for Students and Postgraduates of Moscow State Art and Cultural University (Paperback)
Natalia Vlasenko
R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Natalia Vlasenko (PhD) is a well-known lecturer at Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. She is passionate about the education of students and teaching them how to discuss their own culture in the English language. Empowering students to spread information about the Russian culture, in English, has gained her an impressive reputation. This book gives an overview of various aspects of Russian culture as well as insight into prominent figures and will be of interest to all students, especially those studying the Arts.

Lost Futures - The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain (Hardcover): Owen Hopkins Lost Futures - The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain (Hardcover)
Owen Hopkins
R417 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R41 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lost Futures looks in detail at the wide range of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979. Although their bold architectural aspirations reflected the forward-looking social ethos of the postwar era, many have since been either demolished or altered beyond recognition.Photographs taken at the time of their completion are accompanied by expertly researched captions that examine the buildings' design, creation, the ideals they embodied and the reasons for their eventual destruction. Lost Futures covers many building types, from housing to factories, commercial spaces and power stations, and presents the work of both iconic and lesser-known architects. The author charts the complex reasons that led to the loss of these projects' ambitious futures, and assesses whether some might one day be recaptured.

The Portland Vase - The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure (Paperback): Robin Brooks The Portland Vase - The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure (Paperback)
Robin Brooks
R395 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.

In "The Portland Vase," Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ten inches in height, passes through the hands of a stunning cast of characters, including the first Roman emperor, Augustus; a notorious tomb raider; a reckless cardinal; a princess with a nasty gambling habit; the ceramics genius Josiah Wedgwood; the secretive Duchess of Portland; and a host of politicians, dilettantes, and scam artists.

Rich with passion, inspiration, jealousy, and endless speculation, the story of The Portland Vase spans more than two thousand years and remains one of the art world's greatest enigmas.

Catalogue: It Will Seem a Dream (Paperback): Juan Cruz Catalogue: It Will Seem a Dream (Paperback)
Juan Cruz
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Industrial Design Reader (Paperback): Carma Gorman The Industrial Design Reader (Paperback)
Carma Gorman
R663 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This pioneering anthology focuses exclusively on the history of industrial design. Sixty full-length primary source essays detail the most crucial movements, issues and accomplishments of industrial design. Written by a wide range of experts - designers, theorists, critics, advertisers, historians and curators - the book traces the history of industrial design, industrialization and mass production in the United States and other design centres from 1850 to the present day. The book combines news reports on the first design workshops, early reviews of household products, aesthetic manifestos, excerpts from socio-economic debates on mass production and lectures into a lively overview of this dynamic field. The texts were selected according to criteria such as canonicity, notoriety of the writer, pithiness and entertainment value and include key texts from visionaries such as William Morris, Henry Dreyfuss and Victor Papanek. Edited by an expert on industrial design history, the book provides educators, students and practitioners of industrial design a unique one-stop reading experience and resource.

Patrick George (Hardcover): Andrew Lambirth Patrick George (Hardcover)
Andrew Lambirth
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first monograph and only substantial publication on the work of Patrick George (born 1923), this book will reveal to a largely unsuspecting public the lyrical paintings of a rare and original talent. George is better known as a teacher; he taught for forty years at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London before eventually becoming Director there. He has only shown his work infrequently, yet perceptive commentators have identified him as a School of London painter, to be viewed in the same context as Lucian Freud (a friendly rival), Frank Auerbach (a strong supporter of George's work), and Euan Uglow (George's close friend and colleague). For too long dismissed as a follower of Coldstream, Patrick George is in fact very much his own man, a Northern European landscape and figure painter, working in the tradition of Gainsborough and Constable. In this book, his unique contribution to the development of contemporary landscape painting is for the first time examined and evaluated.

The Globemakers - The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft (Hardcover): Peter Bellerby The Globemakers - The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft (Hardcover)
Peter Bellerby
R760 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the worldā€™s only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his fatherā€™s 80th birthday. Failing to find anything suitable, he decided to make one himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this forgotten craft. The chapters of The Globemakers take us through the journey of how to build a globe, or ā€˜earth applesā€™ as they were first known, and includes fascinating vignettes on history, art history, astronomy and physics, as well as the day-to-day craftsmanship at the workshop itself. This beautiful book uses illustration, photography and narrative to tell the story of our globe and many different globes it has inspired.

The Action is the Form - Victor Hugo's TED Talk (Paperback): Kuba Snopek The Action is the Form - Victor Hugo's TED Talk (Paperback)
Kuba Snopek
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Across the Plaza - The Public Voids of the Post Soviet City (Paperback): Owen Hatherley Across the Plaza - The Public Voids of the Post Soviet City (Paperback)
Owen Hatherley
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Dot-Com City - Silicon Valley Urbanism (Paperback): Alexandra Lange The Dot-Com City - Silicon Valley Urbanism (Paperback)
Alexandra Lange
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Splendidly Fantastic - Architecture and Power Games in China (Paperback): Julia Lovell Splendidly Fantastic - Architecture and Power Games in China (Paperback)
Julia Lovell
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Edge City - Driving the Periphery of Sao Paolo (Paperback): Justin McGuirk Edge City - Driving the Periphery of Sao Paolo (Paperback)
Justin McGuirk
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Belyayevo Forever - Preserving the Generic (Paperback): Kuba Snopek Belyayevo Forever - Preserving the Generic (Paperback)
Kuba Snopek
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Drawing in 3D (Paperback): Mark Kistler Drawing in 3D (Paperback)
Mark Kistler
R625 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R80 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hey, kids!

If you liked learning the basics of three-dimensional drawing from Mark Kistler in his books Draw Squad and Imagination Station, you'll love his new book, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler. Featuring a fun, action-filled tale about a family of lovable characters struggling through a series of breathtaking discoveries and hilarious adventures, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler is all you need -- along with a sharpened pencil, a ready imagination, and Mark Kistler's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook -- to draw cool creatures and awesome objects such as:

  • Atomic Androids, Big Bug-Eyed Birds, and Colossal Castles
  • Daring Driving Dogs, Early Egyptian Sphinx, and Kissing Kangaroos
  • Magnificent Macaroni, Peaceful Pelicans, and Zapping Zombies

...as well as your own favorite fantasies and imagined adventures!

The Latinx Poetry Project (Paperback): Alegria Publishing The Latinx Poetry Project (Paperback)
Alegria Publishing
R374 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R69 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback): Glasgow Life Museums Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback)
Glasgow Life Museums
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Forgotten Your Shakespeare - 34 Portraits of Shakespeare's Plays (Paperback): Teresa Vanneck-Surplice Forgotten Your Shakespeare - 34 Portraits of Shakespeare's Plays (Paperback)
Teresa Vanneck-Surplice
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ramesses, Loved by Ptah - The History of a Colossal Royal Statue (Paperback): Susanna Thomas Ramesses, Loved by Ptah - The History of a Colossal Royal Statue (Paperback)
Susanna Thomas
R708 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R64 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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