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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...

Development is a large and central part of the American TV industry, and yet the details of how it works - who makes development decisions and why, where ideas for new shows come from, even basics like the differences between what TV studios and TV...

Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the culture of Chicago's Black neighborhoods. The collective's...

A pink haired girl dressed like a gangster, a kangaroo in a tutu and a homicidal manic with an obsessive trouser disorder can only mean one thing. Tank Girl's back for more!Following a bungled Mafia financed train heist and a shoot out in an outback...

Chile has long been a centre for radical propaganda painting. As early as 1940 leading Mexican and Chilean artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros, Fernando Marcos and Gregorio de la Fuente, were painting murals in Chile. Today, Latin American street...

The United States Air Force is the only Air Force in the world with the ability to project power rapidly, precisely, and globally using strategic bombers. With their global range, large payloads and immediate response capability, Air Combat Command's...

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

A fascinating account of how the railway influenced more than a century of art in Europe and America Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in 19th-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers traveled...

Visual arts in Britain between 1550 and 1650 have long been considered part of the classical Italian Renaissance canon. Now a distinguished group of scholars demonstrates that attitudes to classical art were in fact somewhat ambivalent during this period...

Blender Foundations is the definitive resource for getting started with 3D art in Blender, one of the most popular 3D/Animation tools on the market . With the expert insight and experience of Roland Hess, noted Blender expert and author, animators and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245676Author Cesare Biasini SelvaggiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 770g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838037918Author Alasdair HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Foggie Toddle BooksPublisher Foggie Toddle Books

Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists turn when they try to engineer a hive mind? Termites. Strange though it seems, scientists look to tiny termites for answers to some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538237Author Simon PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175762Author Roaring LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2018 Anne Friendberg Innovative Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780262035729Author...

A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and photographs of...

Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which...

A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history During the 1980s and 1990s, a group of Chinese artists (Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Peili, and Lin Tianmiao) ascended to new heights of...

Drawing from the renowned collection of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, this catalogue examines the processes of appropriation and invention in the arts of Spanish America from the 1520s to the 1820s. The catalogue highlights Latin American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949859560Author Jaan EhlvestFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Russell EnterprisesPublisher Russell EnterprisesWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists...

The second volume in the groundbreaking Great Masters of Bangladesh series of monographs. The only comprehensive survey of Zainul Abedin's work to date and the second volume in a world first series dedicated to the 'Great Master Artists of Bangladesh'...

This is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the painting and sculpture of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (1936-2011), who shot to fame in the 1960s with his large-scale, iconic paintings of film-stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in...

Throughout history, fans have had numerous roles: personal items to cool the user, tools for religious and ceremonial events, symbols of royal power and authority or important fashion accessories. As practical, symbolic and decorative objects, they are...

Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the...

In From Giotto to Botticelli, Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell explore the three-hundred-year rise and fall of the Humiliati ("Humbled Ones"), a religious order infamous for its attempt to assassinate Saint Carlo Borromeo and ultimately...