Books from Prestel
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Weegee: Murder Is My Business
By Brian WallisYet, as this beautifully produced volume shows, they were also brimming with humanity. Designed as a series of "dossiers," this book follows Weegee's transformation from a freelancer to a photo-detective.
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Montessori. Teaching Materials, Furniture and Architecture. 1913-1935
By Thomas Muller, Romana SchneiderMontessori. Teaching Materials, Furniture and Architecture. 1913-1935
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Flower Power: The Magic of Nature's Healers
By Christine PaxmannTake on a magical journey through the world of healing flowers in this children's book by renowned artist Olaf Hajek.
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Vermeer's Secret World
By Vincent EtienneNow available in a paperback edition, this book for young readers traces the life and work of Johannes Vermeer, one of history's most distinctive and enigmatic painters.
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A Butterfly Journey: The Life and Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
By Boris FriedewaldA visual treasure as well as a satisfying read, this exquisite volume is the perfect gift for anyone interested in Merian's amazing life and groundbreaking body of work.
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Caspar David Friedrich
By Johannes GraveOne of his generation's most popular painters, Caspar David Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from within the confines of his studios.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern
By Wanda M. CornThis beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic.
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Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015
By Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sharon Sadako Takeda, Kaye Durland Spilker"This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by the Wallis Annenberg Director's Endowment Fund.
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50 American Artists You Should Know
By Debra MancoffAccessible and informative, this book is a gorgeous introduction to great American artists. While the history of American art is as varied as the fifty states the country is comprised...
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Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict
By Wieland SchmiedFrancis Bacon is given a piercing re-examination through critical commentary, brilliant reproductions, and private photographs in this beautifully produced flexi edition. The existential anxiety of modern man, the inescapability of...
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The Black House
By Colin JonesOne of the most explosive photography projects of the 1970s was a series shot by Colin Jones for the London Sunday Times. The pictures record life at the Harambee Project,...
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Vasily Kandinsky
By Wassily KandinskyVasily Kandinsky
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The Dreaming Giant: A Children's Book Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky
By Véronique MassenotOne of Wassily Kandinsky's most fantastical and vivid paintings is the foundation for this children's book about a journey into the heart and mind of a sleeping giant.
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Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know
By Ines Janet EngelmannNo artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously...
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Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
By Barbara Haskell, Harry CooperThe volume pays special attention to his transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, ...
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The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century
By Frank Zöllner, Wieland Schmied, Frank WhitfordThis full-color, one-volume dictionary provides a guide through the maze of twentieth-century art. Including artists, movements, photographers, techniques, styles, and turn-of-the-century precursors, The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in...
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The Raft of the Medusa: Géricault, Art, and Race
By Albert AlhadeffBased on a controversial and politically charged event, The Raft of the Medusa is Gericault's most ambitious work. The painting depicts the wreck of a French government ship off the...
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Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology
By James Clifton, James M. BradburneCe livre a été publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Blood : perspectives on art, power, politics, and pathology" au Museum für Angewandte Kunst et à la Schirn Kunsthalle, à Francfort,...
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Ernst Plischke: das Neue Bauen und die Neue Welt : das Gesamtwerk
By August Sarnitz, Eva B. Ottillinger, Ernst A. PlischkeErnst Plischke: das Neue Bauen und die Neue Welt : das Gesamtwerk
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America: The New World in 19th-century Painting
By Österreichische Galerie BelvedereA specifically American form of art emerged in the nineteenth century that was much more than just a reflection of European developments or stylistic trends. It was a period during...