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A laugh-out-loud celebration of our favorite four-legged friends, CAN I PET YOUR DOG? features a series of increasingly improbable illustrations depicting the universal experience of bending-over-backwards to give a good pup a well-earned belly rub...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309781Author Richard SerraFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 910g

This volume offers the first comprehensive study of painting in Renaissance Perugia from the late fifteenth to the mid- sixteenth centuries. Showcasing works by Perugino, Raphael, and Pintoricchio, as well as less familiar artists who worked in Perugia...

Finalist for The Rabbi Sacks Book Prize 2023. A new paradigm for relations between religions, one of acceptance and collaboration, requires not only a willingness to move beyond a tradition of hostility and competition but also significant theological...

Talking to children about death can be hard. Water Bugs and Dragonflies, a perennial bestseller, can help you to answer their questions. Doris Stickney tells the story of a small colony of water bugs living below the surface of a pond. Whenever a...

This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs spiritual themes--and, often, traditional...

An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south Pacific, spans hundreds of distinct artistic...

Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by...

Organised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as 'Architecture as Theatre', 'Stretching the Vocabulary' and 'The City of Large and Small', the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997938968Author Lightburst MediaFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Lightburst MediaPublisher Lightburst MediaWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

One woman opens her heart and life to an extraordinary God, stopping at nothing to take him at his word. Susie Howe mobilizes others to fight injustice against the poorest of the world's poor: those with HIV, orphans, street children, and persecuted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540736598Author Msgr Robert Hugh BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores...

The collecting of military theater made knives of World War II is one of the fastest growing fields of collecting in America today. These knives are very historical. They were individually handmade by people who wanted to contribute to the war effort, as...

This magnificent and beautiful work includes an extensive and illuminating text paired with an exceptional collection of 646 color photographs and 78 line drawings of the processes involved in forming metal sculpture, as well as contemporary and historic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973225396Author Phil CroucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 189g

Huelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the concerns--intellectual, artistic, and political--of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.Book InformationISBN 9780520073708Author...

This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics - between the tendency toward greater organization and the...

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400484Author David HayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578838441Author Elizabeth St HilaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtPublisher Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtWeight(grams)...

The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692484104Author Bill CalogeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jc PublicationsPublisher Jc PublicationsWeight(grams) 172g

One of the most wide-ranging and ambitious creative minds of his generation, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has produced a dizzying spectrum of work around the world. Best known for his large-scale public works in a wide range of settings, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780768452617Author David HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Destiny ImagePublisher Destiny Image

W. H. Paul Thompson critiques modern scholarship on Pauline slavery for failing to define and reason consistently about equality. Instead, he engages in an equality analysis of Aristotle and Seneca in their Greco-Roman contexts, the Torah and its Jewish...

There is another world below us. We fish on the surface, unaware of how deep the ocean is, and how filled it is with life. This hand-bound book has been silkscreen-printed by hand on recycled cotton paper. The marbling pattern on each cover is unique,...

Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grace from the notebooks she left in his...

In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments and...

The first thorough monograph on Tomas Saraceno's groundbreaking installations, modeling a utopian future of balance between humanity and nature Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno (born 1973) creates cell-like, spidery interactive installations and...

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space -...

Deceptively simple or fantastically intricate, ikat technique has been used for many centuries to create extravagant costumes and cloths of deep cultural meaning. The distinctively blurred, feathered or jagged patterns of ikat-dyed textiles are found...

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects-painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking-to the vast array of "nonart"...

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest...

Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study is the first in-depth study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (in 1902). In part an engaging biography of a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277046Author Elia KazanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802827968Author Robin M. JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The school festivities continue as the gang participates in the Miss Yasogami Contest - a beauty pageant for the girls, and a drag queen competition for the boys! It's a golden opportunity for fun in the latest volume of the Persona 4 manga!Book...

A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist's earliest works, and their continued resonance today Celebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narratives...

Molly Nesbit shows how American pragmatism has informed art theory from Meyer Schapiro to T.J. Clark and Linda Nochlin First published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit's The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions...