Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-07-01
Dewey code: 709.1767109021
RRP: £25.00
Price: £20.10
Review Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2002-11-04
Dewey code: 796.8092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.44
Review Iron Man / Blake Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-02-26
Dewey code: 729
Price: £12.99
Review The Mackintosh Style / Pavilion Books:
Creator: Norbert Wolf
Publication date: 2007-12-07
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.69
Review Romanesque (Taschen Basic Genre Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Creator: Shoichi Aoki
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2003-04-15
Dewey code: 704
RRP: £9.95
Price: £5.79
Review Fruits (Postcards) / Phaidon Press Ltd:If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A "best-of" from the fanzine of the same name, published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, razor-sharp images, ranging from the deadpan to the manic, of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that, usually, little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall, kitsch to bitch, each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided, with exquisite, scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favourite, as is, appropriately, Vivienne Westwood, alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the occasional Comme des Garcons. Many of the outfits, though, are second-hand or self-assembly, such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties, Wa-mono, when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with, say, an authentic bowler hat, EGL ("Elegant Gothic Lolita"), and a swathe of tartans, pinks and turquoises. The most malleable feature, unsurprisingly, is hair, with dreadlocks, mohicans, back-combing, and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn, obediently, to the mannequins, the background is often worth a look, either for the vending machines against which a number are shot, or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags, a constant reminder of the global mass market. One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag, and, to pick but one profile, Princess, 18, is trying to be a doll, and is currently pre-occupied with body organs. Mmm. [+]All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes, as well as their “point of fashion” and “current obsession”. The scope for socio-psychological discussion is vast, particularly with the preponderance of infantilisation, through dolls, bonnets, pop socks and Barbie, but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative, celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion, captured with provocative, political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl. -David Vincent.
Creator: Donna De Salvo
Publication date: 2005-05
Dewey code: 709.045
RRP: £24.99
Price: £22.38
Review Open Systems: Rethinking Art C.1970 / Tate Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.83
Review Pre-Raphaelites (Gift Books) / British Museum Press:
Authors
- Richard Thomson
- Phillip Dennis Cate
- Mary Weaver Chapin
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-21
Dewey code: 760.092
RRP: £23.95
Price: £15.50
Review Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 745.409034
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.00
Review The Complete Book of Art Nouveau Designs (Design Inspiration Series) / Search Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.99
Review Byzantine Art / Editions Pierre Terrail:
Edition: Crds
Publication date: 2002-01-30
Dewey code: 703
RRP: £3.99
Price: £2.06
Review Vincent Van Gogh Postcard Book (Postcard Books (Todtri Productions)) / Vincent Van Gogh:
Publication date: 2006-04-20
RRP: £25.00
Price: £59.99
Review William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist / Jonathan Cape Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-03-02
RRP: £24.99
Price: £24.99
Review Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World / Tate Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £4.09
Price: £0.83
Review Edgar Degas: Paintings That Dance: Paintings That Dance (Smart about the Arts) / Grosset & Dunlap:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-09
Dewey code: 701.8
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.57
Review Abstraction in Art and Nature / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: Dover Ed
Publication date: 2007-08-31
Dewey code: 391.0094
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.13
Review Medieval and Renaissance Fashion / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2004-01-31
Dewey code: 746.4407442574
RRP: £7.95
Price: £3.60
Review English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Handbooks) / Ashmolean Museum:
Authors
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Dewey code: 741.944
RRP: £5.95
Price: £4.99
Review Ingres Portrait Drawings: 44 Works (Dover Art Library) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 726.6094551
Price: £10.25
Review Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture / Penguin Books:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of over 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington DC, making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome. King has already established himself as an accomplished novelist, author of Domino, Ex-Libris, and the story of both dome and architect offer him plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296 when work began on the cathedral but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism" finally seeing his dome completed only months before his own death. King argues that it was Filippo's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel". He tells a compelling and informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2004-07-26
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.93
Review Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy / British Museum Press:
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