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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905701012Author Lionel BovierFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

What is the relation of art and history? What is art today? Why does art affect us? In Field Notes on the Visual Arts, 75 scholars, curators and artists traverse chronology and geography to reveal the meanings and dilemmas of art. The eight topic...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a radical inventor: an artist who discarded convention and disrupted hierarchies, overturning the traditional basis of culture while revolutionising the way people perceive and interact with art. Calder's 'new line' was...

This is a book that explores into two worlds, the appreciation of wood as medium for sculpture and a practical look of technique. The history of sculpting directly into wood is explored, illustrated with many classic examples of the art, from ancient...

The volume will shed light on the psychoanalytic approach that underlies their language and provocations, intended to induce a process of self-reflection in the viewer, changing their perception of the world and society. Their visual journey will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741308Author Nicholas ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South WalesWeight(grams)...

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on...

Scenes from the City is a celebration of the rise of New York-shot films, particularly after the MOFTB was formed in 1966 making the city a much more welcoming film location. New York could, once again, lure talent such as Woody Allen and Martin...

One of Europe's most beautiful regions is celebrated through the talents of artist Fabrice Moireau When, at the end of the Middle Ages, the kings of France settled in the Loire Valley, they found a very mild climate and began to build castles that would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857200590Author Hans Ulrich ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 480g

In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.Students of British cinema and television from the 1950s to...

Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress's interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and the unconscious and established him as one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638380Author Noorah Al-GailaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams) 323g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440335433Author Jennifer LilyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, takes as a starting point four important paintings in the collection of the Museo Novecento, which belonged to collector Alberto Della Ragione, including a rare watercolour of a female figure that reveals...

Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth...

A close look transforms even the most ordinary things into fascinating objects full of idiosyncracies and magic. With charming tongue-in-cheek, the photographer Pascale Weber shows this through a very special object: the cat tree. Photographed as a still...

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and...

The acclaimed overview of Black abstract art, now in an expanded edition with nearly 100 additional color plates The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943105308Author Edgar HoillFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Edition ReussPublisher Edition ReussWeight(grams) 3402g

This sumptuous book presents a selection of over one hundred stunning artworks, depicting animals real and mythical, from the prints and photography collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The work opens with a preface from celebrated...

This volume provides a full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from the area, the sculpture is vital to understanding the early development of the Church, the shifting...

The Art of Short Form Content: From Concept to Color Correction is an in-depth examination of the craft of creating short form filmic content - a category which includes television commercials, music videos, television promos, movie trailers, digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450509Author Michelle ElligottFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640210004Author Christopher HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Sixth & Spring BooksPublisher Sixth & Spring Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785197Author Bernard JacobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing Ltd

An intimate look at one of the most radical and groundbreaking printmakers of all time, the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt This book examines the radical experimentation and innovation of one of the finest and most creative printmakers of the...

During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sami, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Sami art and craft) have been...

This beautifully illustrated book explores the artistic roots of Flemish identity during the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Through art, essays, poems, and reflections by artists, academics and collectors, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602393578Author Donald de CarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Sterling JuvenilePublisher Sterling JuvenileWeight(grams) 411gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709753Author Luis Perez-OramasFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1410g

A pioneering overview of art and psychoanalysis that shows how each field can enrich and enlarge the other.About the AuthorLaurie Schneider AdamsBook InformationISBN 9780064302067Author Laurie Schneider AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Westview...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857222233Author Adriano AbbadoFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337413Author Sylvia JiFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press

New and classic texts on Africa's unfulfilled project of decolonization Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today's leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A...

From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857249599Author Maria Teresa BenedettiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1400g

In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of...

By 1918 St Ives had a long tradition as an artists' community. It took as its standard the Royal Academy, which retained great popular appeal, but was neither forward-looking nor progressive. In 1920 it became the permanent home of one of the great...