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Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with...

This book is an edited record of the papers given at the two-day symposium 'Italian Maiolica and Europe' held in Oxford on 22 and 23 September 2017. It is, in effect, a celebration of his long service in the Ashmolean Museum as the Keeper of Western Art...

This elegantly produced book brings the luxury arts of antiquity back into brilliant life. In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or stone, Luxus offers an integrated contextual analysis of...

James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we-as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders-view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication...

Design Genius celebrates the creative thought processes of 69 leading artists, designers, creative agencies, animators, illustrators and typographers. While highlighting key design techniques and theories, the rich visuals presented in this book aim to...

This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thinks his life in art history has taught him. The title indicates what his collected papers have in common:...

In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most...

monograph of artist Fiona McIntyreBook InformationISBN 9781908326898Author Fiona McIntyreFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & CoDimensions(mm) 265mm * 230mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788484804031Author Miguel ZugazaFormat HardbackImprint Museo Nacional del PradoPublisher Museo Nacional del PradoWeight(grams) 1620g

Colour is fundamental to painting and the ability to mix and reproduce specific hues is an art in itself. Colour theory can be dull and complicated, but in this book, experienced artist and teacher, Sharon Finmark, demonstrates colour mixing in a...

This beautifully illustrated book accompanies an exquisite exhibition of 70 tantric, Jain and related objects, paintings, manuscripts and drawings. In as far as the Indian term 'tantrism' is known in the West, it is generally linked with mystery and...

Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as "the father...

Art Deco brings to mind a glamorous era of brilliant architecture, striking interior design, elegant furniture, and superb objets d'art. The term evokes an era of the 1920s and 1930s that prized elegant design elements combined with exotic materials,...

Rubens' Antwerp: A Guide highlights the life and work of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) in a comprehensive and accessible way. The Antwerp museums and churches contain about a hundred paintings, drawings, designs and sketches by Rubens. A large part of...

The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851173058Author Serges LasvignesFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 880g

This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art.It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works...

Michelangelo was recognised as a great artist early in his long life. Along with a small number of contemporaries he was responsible for Renaissance Florence becoming the artistic fountainhead of western culture. This comprehensive new book offers a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993591211Author Bren O'CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HOME PublicationsPublisher HOME PublicationsWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 260mm...

The Virgin Mary embodied power rather than maternal tenderness in the Byzantine world. Known as the Mother of God, she became a guarantor of military victory and hence of imperial authority. In this pioneering book, Bissera Pentcheva connects the fusion...

The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239521Author Caroline HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 720g

In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was published in 1943 without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360589Author Rob DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd

Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing...

People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice...

In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular appreciation to vernacular paintings, 'pictures for use and pleasure'. These were works commissioned and appreciated...

Ink, Silk, and Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 major works in a dazzling array of media, reproduced in full color and exquisite detail - manuscripts inscribed with gold, paintings on silk, elaborate...

When Isabella Rossellini and The Sundance Channel set out to make a series of short films for the internet about the sex lives of animals, they had no idea what was in store. The overwhelming success of the shorts led Sundance to commission a second...

This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history & its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932425Author Patricia BickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

"I had seen the photographs and the drawings of this great work. And yet, until about ten minutes ago I had no conception of its magnitude, its permanent beauty and its importance." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upon first viewing Mount Rushmore, August...

Since Steamboat Mickey, animators have been creating characters and films that are charming, warm and humorous, allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless...

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in...

Readers discover new insights into the methods of top contemporary watercolor artists with each edition of Splash, now an annual competition with an accompanying book after more than 20 years as a series. Splash 17 will be loaded with more than 125...

The art world has recently witnessed a surge of interest in contemporary Iranian art, but what is the background to Iran's vibrant art scene? This is the first comprehensive book on Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution. Divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029025Author Sarah J. MontrossFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451528445Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 106mm * 12mm

The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his most famous work, a triptych depicting the death and resurrection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262513722Author Hal FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm