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Catalogue >Special Offers Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora Elizabeth Harney Describes the diversity and sheer brilliance of African art. Revolutionizes our understanding of the culture and identity of African peoples - a vivid portrayal of Ethiopa's history. 305 x 299mm 128 pages paperback with flap ISBN: 0 85667 562 8 | Retail price £14.95  Online price: £10.50 / €15.75 The Fabergé Menagerie William R. Johnston This exquisite exhibition catalogue brings together over one hundred of Carl Fabergé's most beautiful creations combining hardstones and other precious materials. The volume presents the history of the reknowned jeweller's work using the rich mineral resources of Russia, from celebrated Easter eggs to delicate animal sculptures. These detailed masterpieces, many rarely exhibited, have been gathered from museums and private collections throughout the world. The intricacy of these minute pieces has a universal appeal that has charmed both Fabergé's elite clientele and the public for over a century. 245 x 245 mm, 224 pages, 123 colour and 7 mono illustrations ISBN 0 85667 563 6 | Retail Price £29.95  Online price: £19.00 / €28.50 Golf Implements and Memorabilia Kevin McGimpsey and David Neech A detailed study covering golfing art and memorabilia, patents, designs, the origins of the game and related games. 176 pages, 75 colour and 75 mono illustrations, cloth, 270 x 205mm ISBN 0 85667 507 5 | Retail Price £29.95  Online price: £19.00 / €28.50 In and Out of Focus - Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 Christraud M. Geary; essay by Krzysztof Pluskota This is the first major publication to explore and link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas and sentiments in Europe and the United States relating to people of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project and create images of themselves through various means during photographic encounters with foreign photographers and through using photographic technology themselves. This book accompanied an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, on the role of photography in Central Africa. 305 x 229 mm 128 pages 120 colour and 30 mono illustrations ISBN 0 85667 551 2 | Retail price £20.00  Online price: £14.00 / €21.00 Journey through Asia: Masterpieces in the Brooklyn Museum of Art Amy G. Poster and Frances Z. Yuan This is the first book to survey the full range of Asian art in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents one hundred masterpieces from its extraordinary holdings which represent China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, the Himalaya, and the Islamic world. The featured works introduce to the general public and scholars worldwide the quality and rich diversity of the Museum's collections. 300 x 225 mm 256 pages 100 colour and 30 mono illustrations, plus 9 maps ISBN 0 85667 564 4 | Retail price £35.00  Online price: £24.50 / €36.75 More Than a Bookshop - Zwemmer's and Art in the 20th Century Nigel Vaux Halliday Zwemmer's bookshop, art gallery and publishing house has a central place in the history of British art in the twentieth century. From the early 1920s the bookshop was a unique source of information on modern art, supplemented in 1929 by the opening of the Zwemmer Gallery specialising in contemporary art. 326 pages, 8 colour and 51 mono illustrations, cloth, 245 x 183mm Published Price £25 - save £15.05. ISBN 0 85667 409 5   Online price: £9.95 / €14.93 National Treasures of Georgia - Art and Civilisation through the Ages Ori Z. Soltes (Editor) The tiny state of Georgia is one of the world's most culturally mature countries, with a history of 6,000 years. Over 150 objects are presented and their range is vast: Neolithic ceramics, intricately worked Bronze and Iron Age gold and silver, Greek and Roman jewellery, richly illuminated manuscripts, medieval paintings, cloisonne enamel, gold repousse work, and embroidery are lavishly illustrated. 288 pages, 150 colour and 70 mono illustrations, cloth, 278 x 232mm ISBN 0 85667 501 6 | Retail Price £29.95  Online price: £21.00 / €31.50 Pierre Bonnard - Early and Late Elizabeth Hutton Turner This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and late creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called 'Impressionist' or colourist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard's life this book charts the artist's singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. 280 x 240 mm 288 pages 200 colour illustrations and 100 duotones ISBN 0 85667 556 3 | Retail price £35.00  Online price: £25.50 / €38.25 A Seaside Album A Seaside Album tells the parallel stories of the evolution of Brighton, and that of neighbouring Hove, and the development of the practice of photography, from its invention through to the 1990s. It is also the story of the author's search for photographs that illustrate so eloquently his own social, cultural and geographical roots. ' A glorious album of photographic reminiscences of Brighton, as far as you can get from the usual local-book-for-local-people seaside nostalgia.' Time Out, October 2003 275 x 235 mm, 144 pages, cloth, 145 duotones ISBN 0 85667 560 1 | Retail price £25.00  Online price: £17.50 / €26.25 Soccer Memorabilia - A Collectors' Guide Graham Budd Soccer is without question the most popular sport in the world today. With the game's historical roots very firmly planted in these islands, the subject is an important area of British sporting and social history with a rich and proud heritage. 120 pages, 105 colour illustrations, cased, 270 x 210mm ISBN 0 85667 504 0 | Retail Price £15.95   Online price: £11.00 / €16.50 Textiles from Burma Elizabeth Dell and Sandra Dudley Travellers to Burma over the centuries have recorded the sumptuous textiles produced and worn in great variety by the different peoples living there. Collectors have brought vivid examples of these textiles to museums and collections around the world. This book presents the richness of these traditions, illustrated with examples from the James Henry Green Collection at Brighton Museum and from other collections around the world. 280 x 225 mm 192 pages 140 colour and 30 mono illustrations ISBN 0 85667 569 5 | Retail price £30.00  [View sample pages in PDF format] Online price: £21.00 / €31.50 Twenties London Cathy Ross This illustrated survey examines the art, design, fashion and architecture of 1920s London alongside wider social and political ideas about Britain, modernism, mass democracy and popular culture. It provides a framework for understanding the cultural maelstrom of the decade. ISBN 0 856667 5867 | Retail price £25.00  Online price: £17.50 / €26.25