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NON FICTION >> Art · Photography
DC COMICS · THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY POSTER BOOK
Quirk Books · Philadelphia, 2010 · 500 4-color illustrations · 208 pp · 28 x 36 cm
The DC Comics 75th Anniversary Covers Collection: Includes 100 Ready-to-Frame Posters! Commentary by Robert Schnakenberg
The Covers Collection celebrates 75 years of DC Comics history by showcasing hundreds of their most famous covers - including 100 full-size posters that are perforated and ready-to-frame.
Almut Adler:
STILLLEBEN · Dinge sehen, komponieren, zum Leben erwecken
Addison Wesley · München, 2009 · 320 pp · full colour
STILL LIFE · The Art of Photographing Objects and their Composition
This photo course on still life is brilliantly transformed for digital photography. Readers learn how to photograph still objects without being hasty. They see how light follows its path.
Bettina de Cosnac:
GISÈLE FREUND · A LIFE
Arche · Hamburg | Zürich, 2008 · 304 pp · 28 b/w photos
GISÈLE FREUND • A Life
A portrayal of a pioneer of photography and a courageous and willful woman. Includes hitherto unpublished letters and images.
A YEAR IN ART:
A PAINTING A DAY
Prestel · München | Berlin | New York | London, 2006 · 736 pp · 365 color illustrations
The pleasure of great art for every day of the year: day after day, A Year in Art offers new insights into the variety of artistic epochs. Excellent reproductions, exciting details, useful items of information and a commensurately designed layout leaves plenty of space for one's own ideas and written notes.
Various authors:
THE LIVING ART SERIES
Prestel · München | Berlin | New York | London · each volume 128 pp · approx. 100 color images 19,5 x 23 cm
Who said art history books have to be imposing and expensive tomes? Aimed at today’s readers, these accessibly written books present the lives and works of important artists in a format that’s as exciting and vibrant as the artists they profile.
Philip Hook:
THE ULTIMATE TROPHY • A Social History of the Impressionist Painting
Prestel · München | Berlin | New York | London, 2008 · 224 pp 32 colour & 100 b/w illustrations
How the paintings of the Impressionists were transformed from difficult avant-garde to the most popular and most expensive art in the world. With this book Philip Hook allows you to get an insider view on the art scene since he knows the “behind-the-scenes-in-the-auction-house stories”.
Piroschka Dossi:
HYPE! · KUNST UND GELD
dtv · München, May 2007 · 200 pp with 20 color illustrations
HYPE · ART AND COMMERCE
Art as a million dollar project · A must-read book for art dealers, artists and art lovers.
In our capitalist society, works of art represent the ultimate status symbol. The art market is booming, prices are rocketing.
