Non-Fiction

The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter Bruegel I, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550176407Author Roy Henry VickersFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 1837g

This highly illustrated publication details the concepts, construction and design of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World at the British Museum. The book outlines not only the history of the extremely rich and varied collection of...

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303062Author Florian SteiningerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so...

"A Bigger Splash" will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney's iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan's docu-fiction film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782381620046Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645981Author Shahidha BariFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 160mm * 33mm

Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509-44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the...

Contrary to popular belief, the practice of art isn't just a product of innate talent or artistic vision; artwork emerges from an intentionally constructed and maintained artistic practice. Developed from interviews with more than 75 mid-career artists,...

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection has a unique mandate to celebrate the art of Canada, which it does within a great building in beautiful grounds overlooking the Humber River Valley. Originally a home completed in 1954 for entrepreneur Robert...

Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus, founded in 2001 as one of the first private architectural firms in China, is one of the country's most important and innovative design studios. The architects made their name worldwide in 2014 with the much-acclaimed West...

Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits and associates. Radioactive minerals are also critically important as our source of nuclear energy...

An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the...

Known today for his atmospheric views of the river Oise, Charles Francois Daubigny was a pioneer of modern landscape painting and an important precursor of French Impressionism. Although commercially highly successful he was often criticised for his...

This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696 1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the favourite of the Bourbon King Charles VII, was the chief painter of decorative cycles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387061Author Young Dreamers PressFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise of digital art. Technology has commonly been considered the domain of white men but-unrecognized until...

Judging from old photographs, you'd think Susi Wyss (b. 1938) was an angel in satin, but the look in her dark-ringed eyes tells a different story. Susi's richly illustrated memoirs, Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in Town, are the stuff that other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857243597Author Christian KircherFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060628222Author Richard FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art-often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one-is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851171856Author Staffan AhrenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 1730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907372209Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Paul Holberton Publishing LtdPublisher Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective. The essential thesis of the book is that well-being is a collective action.The...

Arthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature...

A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) secured his place as a...

Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers-mainly Andre Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Rene Magritte, Charles Estienne, Rene Huyghe and others-who viewed the same artists in terms of magic,...

Calligraphy is an ancient art that doesn't grow old. Known in Japanese as Shodo ( ) the Way of the Brush, a proverb has it that Shodo promotes perpetual youth and longevity. Research has shown that indeed, the practice of Shodo improves posture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915470Author Philip GustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Among the great designers at Herman Miller in the 1950s and 1960s, Alexander Girard enhanced Eames' and Nelson's furniture with innovative textiles. As head of Herman Miller's Textile Division since it was formed in 1952, he designed some of the most...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006,...

Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture,...

Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. Originally standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar...

A complete six-year primary Maths course that takes a problem-solving approach to teaching young learners the skills they need to become confident mathematicians. A* Problem-solving approach encourages students to actively explore new mathematical...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, boasts one of the largest collections of the celebrated Impressionist artist Claude Monet's work outside France. This book reproduces all thirty-five oil paintings by Monet in the MFA's permanent collection, representing...

The art and culture of Spain significantly influenced many of America's most renowned 19th- and 20th-century artists. Mary Cassatt visited the country early in her career and first garnered the attention of the French Impressionists with her paintings of...

More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art. Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of...