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UK: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 26.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm. p/b 160 pages, condition is very good. Between the wars, Paris was a magical , glittering city, the vibrant capital of the world of art. It was alive with artists, musicians and writers from every continent who contributed to a period of rapid change. Yet there was a curious air of unreality. marcel Duchamp took a bottle of rack and called it art. The great exposition des Arts Decoratifs brought a new look - Art Deco - to the world. Metal furniture appeared. Women cut their hair and trimmed their hems. le Corbusier drew up a plan for Paris that would have meant the virtual demolition of its centre.The staid Paris Opera showed Abel Gance's revolutionary film Napoleon. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes continued toremake the face of dance. Andre breton wrote the first Manifesto of Surrealism, questioning the concept of reality itself.

Oxford, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8.5" X 11.25. H/B. 526 pages, condition is very good, signed by the author dated 1981. CIVILISATION ON LOAN BY HEINZ EDGAR KIEWE HOW CHINESE, JAPANESE, INDIAN AND THAI IDEAS HAVE DIFFUSED AMAZINGLY INTO EUROPEAN ART, DECOR, TASTE AND SOPHISTICATION OVER 3OOO YEARS. 'CIVILISATION ON LOAN' Civilisation on Loan is an album to keep. A collector's item, bursting with cool facts and provocative assertions and more than 400 fascinating pictures to help you put them to the test. Trace for yourself the links which bind East and West behind the nationalistic camouflage which perpetuates the notion that such a total separation is possible at all. Beneath the bluster, 'civilised' man has repeatedly borrowed - to put it politely - without acknowledging the debt. This is the theme of the album, which tries to correct history a little. The pictures, gathered together with care and boldness; show how Chinese, Japanese and Thai… Read More

HOW Design books, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.5" X 12.5. h/b 160 pages, condition is very good,