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A comprehensive overview of more than two decades of Huma Bhabha's prolific and multidisciplinary output in sculpture, drawing, and photography Huma Bhabha (b. 1962 in Karachi) is known for sculptures depicting the human figure fashioned from materials...

"Net zero energy buildings, equilibrium buildings or carbon neutral cities - depending on location and the reasons for making the calculation, the numbers are run differently. The variety of terms in use indicates that a scientific method is still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857233543Author Marino BarovierFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3740g

A unique and compelling view of the work of leading contemporary artist Nalini Malani through the lens of her most recent commission This publication presents the latest work of Nalini Malani (b. 1946), recipient of the 2022 National Gallery Contemporary...

Acrylics are a versatile and exciting medium, but how can you get the most from these paints? This book shows you how. With step-by-step examples, it explains the core brush skills for a beginner. For those with more experience, it introduces a range...

Influenced by Gaudi's Parc Guell in Barcelona, and the mannerist park of Bomarzo, Niki de Saint Phalle decided that she wanted to make something similar; a monumental sculpture park created by a woman. In 1974, she was donated some land in Garavicchio,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568821443Author Keith HerberFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Chaosium IncPublisher Chaosium IncWeight(grams) 600g

Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate surrounding digital cinema's ontology and the...

Anna Coatalen (nee Hook) was born in Clifton, Bristol, studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art London, and then worked as a book illustrator before WW2. It was as a WRNS in Plymouth, that she met her Anglo/French husband Herve, an RNVR engineer officer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786557770177Author Abdias NascimentoFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / KMEC BooksPublisher MASPWeight(grams) 1420g

Liam Gillick (*1964, Aylesbury, United Kingdom) is one of the most prominent representatives of new developments in contemporary art. The title of his new publication Half a Complex refers to an interest in systems of development and production,...

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this...

Launch your career in writing for video games or animation with the best tips, tricks, and tutorials from the Focal press catalog--all at your fingertips. Let our award-winning writers and game developers show you how to generate ideas and create...

Create something amazing with these ready-to-use artistic templates for magnificent marine life. Inside this book are 32 captivating designs to color, tangle, and inspire. Use these aquatic animals for simple coloring enjoyment, or fill them with tangles...

Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France's King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the...

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible,...

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters...

This second edition of Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games expounds on the previous edition with more information on how to construct narratives for these three forms of visual storytelling media. Christy Marx's book offers an in-depth look into...

An artist born is the phrase that introduces the painter Joanna Carrington (1931-2003) in this fully illustrated survey of her life. Joanna was the daughter of Noel Carrington, who created Puffin books, and niece of the famous Bloomsbury artist Dora...

The long-awaited work monograph on the biennial and documenta artist Reinhard Mucha. ... For me, things only become interesting when they contain some mysterious corner somewhere which continues to elude us. And so I am really rather sorry that Mucha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098352202Author Paulette Dale Ph.DFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 17mm

Lavishly illustrated with George Lance's works, this first ever biography gives a rounded picture of the man, not just the artist, and serves as the definitive record of the life of a much under-appreciated painter. George Lance (1802-1864) brought...

Where Art Lives in Latin America has as its starting point the countless ways of exposing and showing contemporary art today. In addition to the traditional museum concept, with its program of temporary exhibitions and permanent collection, in recent...

There's no class in art school that can teach you this.Believe it or not, there's a lot more to directing a great animated film than beautiful illustrations and cool characters. You need to bring out your inner creative visionary and take your savvy...

Drawing has been growing in recognition and stature within contemporary fine art since the mid-1970s. Simultaneously, feminist activism has been widespread, leading to the increased prominence of women artists, scholars, critics and curators and the wide...

Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways in which these seemingly static exhibitions of...

Classic stories retold in exciting graphic novel format. Each title includes high-quality artwork, simple text, discussion questions and writing prompts.About the AuthorAaron Shepard and Anne L. Watson are a husband and wife writing team. Aaron is the...

Two decades of intricately layered works on paper from an artist known for his contemporary still lifes Comprising 100 works on paper, Drawings: 2003-2023 is the most expansive collection of Jonas Wood's artistic practice to date. This body of work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916401532Author Maria FuscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint The BluecoatPublisher The Bluecoat

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,...