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BERKSHIRE: THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND SERIES
by GEOFFREY TYACK, SIMON BRADLEY & NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
This fully updated reference book and practical guide reveals a wide range of architectural delight. Timber-framed dwellings, medieval churches, the royal palace (and fortress) of Windsor Castle along with numerous Georgian, Victorian and Arts & Crafts mansions are all to be found within Berkshire’s historic boundaries. Replete with maps, gazetteers and new photographs, this Pevsner Architectural Guide also reveals innovative architectural designs that have swept the county in recent years.
£ 35 Hardback 9780300126624 Available Now
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CONTESTED WILL: WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE?
by JAMES SHAPIRO
James Shapiro, author of 1599 and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize now delves into the greatest literary mystery. Was Shakespeare the true author of all his plays, or could it possibly have been Sir Francis Bacon or any of a dozen others? Many, such as Henry James, Sigmund Freud, Sir Derek Jacobi have had their doubts, and the controversy is festooned with fabrications, concealments and deceptions. Separating wheat from chaff, Shapiro tells the full story of the debate and offers a resolution of his own.
£ 20 Hardback 9780571235766 Available Now
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EPISODES: A MEMORYBOOK
by MICHAEL BAXANDALL
Michael Baxandall was one of the most influential art historians of late-20th century Britain. These memoirs, published posthumously, trace the development of boyish enthusiasm and rebellion into a mature scholarly vision, evoking great characters of the post-war intellectual Establishment along the way: F.R. Leavis at Cambridge, John Pope-Hennessy at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Gertrud Bing and Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute. With an insider’s eye and attuned to contextual detail, he writes a compelling account of personal and cultural transformations.
£ 14.99 Hardback 9780711231153 Available Now
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GRACE KELLY STYLE: FASHION FOR HOLLYWOOD'S PRINCESS
by KRISTINA HAUGLAND, JENNY LISTER & SAMANTHA SAFER
As actress, Grace Kelly’s cool beauty and good taste were emulated by cinema-goers across the world in the 1950s. As royal bride, wearing a wedding gown of underplayed sophistication and elegance by Helen Rose, Kelly’s televised marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco catapulted her from film-screen to international stage. As Princess, her glamour and style in dresses designed by Givenchy and Dior influenced the catwalks of Paris and filled the pages of Vogue. Beautifully illustrated, Grace Kelly Style is a rapturous celebration of iconic fashion.
£ 19.99 Hardback 9781851775996 Available Now
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE MODERN CENTURY
by PETER GALASSI
The influence of Henri Cartier-Bresson on 20th-century photography – for art and journalism – has been immense. His career began in the 1930s with experimental camera-work that revealed a potential to capture the essence of the living moment. It grew to include major works of reportage: in China during the revolution, in the USSR after Stalin's death, and across the world. Drawing extensively on unfamiliar archival material to detail Cartier-Bresson’s travels and fully reconstruct his picture-stories, Peter Galassi presents a foundational new monograph.
£ 55 Hardback 9780500543917 Available Now
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HENRY MOORE
Edited by CHRIS STEPHENS
Immediately recognisable, the sculptures of Henry Moore are so established in British visual culture that it is easy to overlook their radical imperative. Tracing Moore’s work back to the 1920s and 30s, Chris Stephens explores the artist’s avant-garde inspiration and the evolution of his biomorphic forms. From the influences of Giacometti, Hepworth, Picasso et al., the editor then turns to Anthony Caro, Bruce McClean and others to reveal Moore’s legacy among contemporary sculptors. A perceptive and illuminating reassessment.
£ 35 Hardback 9781854378767 Available Now
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LOST VICTORIAN BRITAIN: A PICTORIAL CHRONICLE OF DESTRUCTION
by GAVIN STAMP
The wrecking ball has swung throughout the 20th century and across the country: Euston Arch, Preston Town Hall, the Victorian church of St Jude's in Red Lion Square and numerous public baths, railway terminii and town houses. For Gavin Stamp, it is a lamentable scene of destruction. An indignant scholar of lost architecture he may be, yet his erudite analysis gives way to stunning archival photographs and a rush of nostalgic awe.
£ 25 Hardback 9781845135324 October
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MUSIC AND SENTIMENT
by CHARLES ROSEN
Emotion and sentiment are key constituents to the composition, performance and appreciation of music, but how do composers use sound to represent and communicate feelings? Drawing on his skills as performer and critic, Charles Rosen explores numerous composers from Bach via Liszt to Stravinsky. One entire chapter is even devoted to the key of C-minor, as the profound mysteries and penetrating beauties of classical music are unravelled.
£ 16.99 Hardback 9780300126402 Available Now
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PHILIP DE LÁSZLÓ: LIFE AND ART
by DUFF HART-DAVIS
In 1930, Philip de László succeeded Walter Sickert as President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters: it was a long way from his humble roots in Budapest. Bringing unpublished family archives to light, Duff Hart-Davis documents a career wrought by determination, decorated with honours and resplendent with more than 3,000 portraits which include European royalty, four American presidents and the famous painting of Pope Leo XIII. The first biography of de László since 1939, this is an absorbing study.
£ 30 Hardback 9780300137163 Available Now
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SEEING STARS
by SIMON ARMITAGE
Seeing Stars: in the sense of being knocked-out and bedazzled and/or looking at people each for their own glittering glory. Either way, Simon Armitage charges his poetry with eccentric characters and surreal stories.
£ 12.99 Hardback 9780571249909 Available Now
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THE LOST BATTLES: LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO AND THE ARTISTIC DUEL THAT DEFINED THE RENAISSANCE
by JONATHAN JONES
In 1504, in a room of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, two great men entered into competition with each other and so ignited the High Renaissance. Those men were Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and they were competing for a commission. In a riveting account, Jonathan Jones recreates the atmosphere of the city and highlights the importance of this scene: the moment that an artist’s individual style became valid, and valued, in its own right.
£ 25 Hardback 9780743285391 Available Now
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WHITE EGRETS
by DEREK WALCOTT
Derek Walcott's White Egrets floods with intense, passionate lyricism. Theme and image repeat, cadence self-replicates: the ebb and flow of the verse mesmerising the reader into an extravagant state of bliss.
£ 12.99 Hardback 9780571254736 Available Now
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