Arts/Music

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and wor...

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€18.90

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World

A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing...

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€13.80

The Story of Art Without Men

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the...

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€37.70

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art,...

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€12.90

About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings

About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we const...

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€36.70

Fear and the Muse Kept Watch: The Russian Masters—from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein- Under Stalin

A thrilling, sweeping history of how some of the greatest artistic works of the twentieth cent...

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€25.00

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

Whenever a person engages with music—when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riff...

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€33.50

How To Think About Cities

Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across c...

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€21.40

A Little History of Music

A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have...

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€18.90

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profou...

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€47.20

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare wit...

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€16.40

Mary Magdalene: A Visual History

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Ch...

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€22.60

The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features

A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper mean...

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€33.90

The Expressive Instinct: How Imagination and Creative Works Help Us Survive and Thrive

Self-expression is a fundamental human drive. The need for self-expression can occur through many me...

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€28.90

Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

What happens when extraordinary creative spirits—musicians, poets, critics, and scholars, as well as...

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