Non-Fiction

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

'He who sings frightens away his ills.' Miguel De CervantesIt's official: singing is good for you. Singing delivers a host of physical and emotional benefits including lower heart pressure, increased aerobic exercise, improved breathing, posture,...

In the perpetual quest for the new, the exciting and the innovative, the attention of the global art community has in recent years been more and more focused on the Middle East. Exhibitions and articles have highlighted a remarkable burst of creativity...

The magazine for classic and contemporary nude photography returns with a vibrant compilation of the most beautiful works from the field of the most intimate form of portrait photography. In selecting the works, it was important to the editor Matthias...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088813Author Juha van 't ZelfdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 18mm

This book brings together works from one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary art, the D. Daskalopoulos Collection with key pieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Providing a new context for both...

The definitive account of Lucy Lippard's pioneering 1971 feminist art exhibition, with work from a new generation of artists alongside the original participants This volume celebrates the 51st anniversary of the historic 1971 exhibition Twenty Six...

Drawing animals is easy! Cute and cuddly, fuzzy and finned--animals come in all shapes and sizes, and this big book will teach you how to draw everything from dogs and cats to horses, lions and hammerhead sharks. No experience necessary! More than 90...

A critical challenge to Scotland's new system of government is the making and implementation of public policy. This book offers a comprehensive account of the policy process in contemporary Scotland. There is a review of theories of policy-making,...

Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century...

Idler 89 features pop's never-quite-made-it, the enigmatic Lawrence, in conversation with Will Hodgkinson. Plus David Graeber on pirate politics, world's best job survey, problems with Virginia Ironside, recipes with Lindey Bareham and music with Stewart...

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascination...

Samella Lewis has brought "African American Art and Artists" fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including new work in traditional media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450271Author Esther AdlerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 660g

Meet Rupert Sheldrake, how to free your time, medieval carvings, Stewart Lee, sheds, beer and moreBook InformationISBN 9781739660888Author Tom HodgkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Idler BooksPublisher Idler Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910074411Author Doris ButteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Umbria PressPublisher Umbria Press

Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped this inspirational artist s vision for the future. Monolithic basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are...

In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of...

Illustrated throughout with her colourful and vibrant paintings, this is the story of English artist Janice Sylvia Brock. My Life on Canvas follows the fascinating and at times harrowing journey of a unique talent. After surviving childhood illness...

Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. Divided into three parts - doctoral...

Drawing upon the author's three decades of work in comparative theology, this is a pertinent and comprehensive introduction to the field, which offers a clear guide to the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study. The author has three...

"Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success... He was the happiest of painters." - Henry James on Veronese,...