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Norman Bel Geddes: American Design Visionary
Nicolas P. MaffeiCurrent price €31.27Original price €33.99Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the founder of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre d...
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The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution
Clive FinlaysonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our spec...
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €141.29Original price €156.99Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 16501850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full rang...
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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and even...
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Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Norwich
Sandy HeslopCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99This volume explores the importance of Norwich as the second city of England for 500 years. It addresses two of the most ambitious Romanesque build...
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Piranesi''s Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism
Caroline van EckCurrent price €87.29Original price €96.99Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near ...
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Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production proce...
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Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production proce...
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Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Grace Lees-MaffeiCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context explains key ways of understanding and interpreting the graphic designs we see all around us, in adverti...
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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied ...
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British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €35.87Original price €38.99British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last ...
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini''s Fortress Complexes
Fritz BarthCurrent price €48.75Original price €52.99Text in English & German. Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimen...
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Walter Kaesbach und die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
De GruyterCurrent price €44.15Original price €47.99Walter Kaesbach gehört zu den engagierten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. E...
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Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Mark CrinsonCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...
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The Craft Reader
Glenn AdamsonCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's DIY movement, from theoretical writings on the position...
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Around the World in 80 Pots: The story of humanity told through beautiful ceramics
Ashmolean MuseumCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Religion. Humour. Trade. Sex. Folklore. Creativity. Pots can tell us more about the lives of the people who made and used them than any other artef...
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Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century
Margaret Birney VickeryCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the seventeenth century to the present...
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Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
Christine Desdemaines-HugonCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of Frances Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beaut...
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Obscured by Walls: The Bema Display of the Cretan Churches from Visibility to Concealment
Athanassios MailisCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99This study reveals the artistic and cultic multiplicity of arrangements, consisting of archaism and modernization, ahead of the crystallization of ...
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Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries)
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work...
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Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cult...
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Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positione...
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Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as...
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The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin
Carolyn S. LoebCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the...
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