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A wide-ranging examination of topics – from embryos to the surface of skin, from vortexes to waves, planets to star charts, towers to windows – is interwoven with detailed analysis of works by established figures like Joan Miró and Jackson Pollock alongside pieces by lesser-known artists such as Wu Guanzhong, Hilma af Klint and Odili Donald Odita.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740834373905,"sku":"NGR9780500239582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50019000811793,"sku":"GOR010850249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50820748902673,"sku":"CIN0500239584G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109306986769,"sku":"GOR013160356","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52457757671697,"sku":"CIN0500239584A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0500239584.jpg?v=1751072108"},{"product_id":"looking-at-picasso-book-pepe-karmel-9780500026045","title":"Looking at Picasso","description":"A major new survey that offers fresh insights on Pablo Picasso's artworks, written by a leading authority on the master.    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In his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the canonical terrain of abstract art, the author demonstrates how artists from around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural and spiritual experience.    Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture and man-­made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-­provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-­depth analysis. 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