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Old Corfu
2024 || Hardcover || ACC ART BOOKS
A true photographic masterclass with a unique focus, Old Corfu invites us to share in an island experience like no other.
Spice Girls and the clothes they wear
2024 || Hardcover || ACC ART BOOKS
Bestselling author Terry Newman celebrates the Spice Girls' iconic outfits from the early days to the present, ahead of their 30th anniversary.
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Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers
The Spirit of Paradise
2018 || Hardcover || Peter Dale e.a. || ACC ART BOOKS
The first book to explore both Wordsworth's gardens and the poet's literary use of flowers - Includes rare botanical prints reproduced for the first time in several decades - Focuses on Wordsworth's gardens in the English Lake District and Leicestershire - Draws extensively on hitherto unpublished manuscripts and artworks - Reproduces illustrations from early editions of Wordsworth A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Words...
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Dream Lovers: John and Yoko in NYC
The Photographs of Brian Hamill
Hardcover || Brian Hamill || ACC ART BOOKS
A series of essays from the photographer relate the exclusive story behind the images of John and Yoko in this book.
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The Konyaks
Last of the Tattooed Headhu
2018 || Hardcover || Phejin Konyak e.a. || ACC ART BOOKS
The Konyaks - a once fearsome headhunting tribe in Nagaland on the border of Myanmar in northeast India - are well known for their iconic body and facial tattoos, originally earned for taking an enemy's head. This book - over four years in the making - is the personal journey of a Konyak woman who retraces the steps of her grandfather and great-grandfather by documenting her tribe's tattooing practices. She explores the Konyak's concept of beautification of the body using it as a canvas for a...
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Francis Bacon
man and Beast
Hardcover || ACC ART BOOKS
Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century. A major exhibition of his paintings at theRoyal Academy of Arts explores the role of animals in his work - not least the human animal.
Having often painted dogs and horses, in 1969 Bacon first depicted bullfights. In this powerful series of works, the interaction between man and beast is dangerous and cruel, but also disturbingly intimate. Both are contorted in their anguished struggle, and the erotic lurks no...
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Passion by Design
The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka
2020 || Hardcover || Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall || ACC ART BOOKS
An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomized the Jazz Age
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Video Games
a Retro-Spective
2024 || Hardcover || ACC ART BOOKS
A spectacular visual history of video games from 1958 to the present, tracing every step of this fascinating journey.
Logo Rhythm
band Logos that Rocked the World
2024 || Hardcover || ACC ART BOOKS
Here are the stories behind 100+ iconic band logos – each a supreme exercise in graphic distillation, able to convey a band’s attitude, image, and style of music, in a unique form.
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The Last Painting
Final Works of the Great Masters: from Giotto to Twombly
Hardcover || Bernard Chambez || ACC ART BOOKS
There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I swore to die while painting". But often, researching a painter's death is an easier task than determining which of their works is truly their 'last'. Paintings tend to be dated by year and not month, inciting much debate among art historians. This...