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Between Minimalism and craft: a comprehensive appraisal of Los Angeles sculptor Charles Ray This catalog accompanies the 2022 double exhibition of Charles Ray's work at the Centre Pompidou and the Bourse de Commerce (Pinault Foundation). With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095268Author Annet DekkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 170mm * 23mm

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England...

What does it mean to make art in Africa? In Making Art in Africa, 60 of the continent's leading artists give very different answers to this question through a series of extraordinary first-hand commentaries relating to specific works.The book includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790959Author Joerg HeiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 152mm...

FUTURE is a series of five or six publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs to be published by Edition Patrick Frey over the next few years. The various chapters in the series will be published on an ongoing basis, though not according to any...

This book offers a framework for collaboration between art museum educators and health professionals. It includes advice on selecting meaningful and provocative works of art; models of responsive workshop design, compelling descriptions of gallery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600610127Author Nita LelandFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594486661Author Timothy KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm...

Learn to create vividly realistic colored pencil drawings in just a few lessons!A Beginner's Guide to Colored Pencil Drawing provides instructions for creating brilliantly realistic drawings featuring rich shadows, bright highlights, smooth gradients,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645970Author Christian MarclayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

Visualizing Hidden Structures in Art and Society In her artistic practice, Andrea Buttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a wide range of themes such as work, poverty, shame and care in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941548816Author Silke Otto-KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Renaissance Society at the University of ChicagoPublisher Renaissance Society at...

A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century The Civil War redefined America and forever changed American art. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241197Author Marta GnypFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1080g

A tale of two Pop artists in 1960s New York This book charts the emergence of Marisol Escobar (1930-2016) and Andy Warhol (1928-87) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. Through essays, interviews and prose, the book explores the...

In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic...

Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period...

The Hive was the centrepiece of the gold medal winning UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo, and from June 2016 takes up its new home within Kew Gardens. Soaring 17 metres in the air, designed by Wolfgang Buttress and created by BDP, Simmonds Studio and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385301893Author Laurie CabotFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990415220Author Antoinette MatlinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Gemstone PressPublisher Gemstone Press

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer's raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art. "Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh...

This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. In this provocative study, Hubert Robert's paintings of urban ruins are...

This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786274274Author Bridget DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - historians. Collectively, they examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915456Author Mike KelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

A collectible, four-color illustrated A-Z treasury of gangster rappers, the hip-hop high-life, and notorious pop culture history, told through a series of graphic doodles on 3" x 3" sticky notes.Four years ago, a Post-it (R) note changed Marlon Sassy's...

Tom Wilson Tehohahake is a modern Mohawk artist, Juno Award winner, best-selling author, and newly appointed member of the Order of Canada. In his 2017 memoir, Beautiful Scars, Wilson revealed the astonishing story of how he discovered he is Mohawk. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043427Author Jessica HelfandFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 251mm * 178mm * 25mm

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean,...

As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern...

Pawel Althamer is responsible for some of the most expansive artworks of the past decade -- expansive not in the traditional, physical sense but in the social and experiential sense. Though he creates stunning sculptures of the human form, much of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908432148Author Helen PhebyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Yorkshire Sculpture ParkPublisher Yorkshire Sculpture Park

A revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in France "Reveals the fertile creative ground Americans discovered in Paris and beyond."-Judith H. Dobrzynski, Wall Street Journal, exhibition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854420827Author Frederick OughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies LtdDimensions(mm) 276mm * 216mm * 14mm

This is a lavishly illustrated survey of the J. Paul Getty's collection of illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. During the Middle Ages, the region now occupied by Belgium and Netherlands flourished economically and artistically...

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism, as well as a prolific output - he produced more than 550 paintings.One of his most striking pieces, "The Fountain of...

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale. Despite...

In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith...