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This volume compiles superb colour photography of one of the most outstanding collections of bonsai in Europe, assembled by collector and author Luis Vallejo, founder of the Luis Vallejo Bonsai Museum in Alcobendas, Spain. This internationally celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773708430Author Deb WeiersFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti's Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645123Author Patrik AnderssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Over the past thirty years, our ideas about the cultures of Empire have been transformed. Contemporary reflections on Empire by writers and artists are widely published and displayed, and museums have witnessed a growing number of exhibitions devoted to...

Collectors played an essential yet misunderstood role in the success of Impressionism. Even though they were not immune to economic and social woes, they were often engaged in defending this artistic movement that they had helped come to life, establish...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263327Author Helen ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689421Author Michael TaussigFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Among the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humor and irony to lambaste Soviet officialdom. With new scholarship and full-color illustrations, the book explores their journey from...

Packed with hundreds of examples of classic and contemporary art, FOUNDATIONS OF ART AND DESIGN, 2E delivers a comprehensive guide to basic design that provides the ideal foundation to design principles. Appealing to readers at every ability level, the...

For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theatre where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In this...

Demystifying the creative process.The Creative Path is an inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view. In this welcoming work on the creative process, Carolyn Schlam encourages the reader...

From his series of definitive works on religious art in medieval France, and later in Italy, Spain, Flanders, and Germany, as well, the author has chosen those passages most significant and interesting for the general reader and arranged them, providing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119127819Author Ann AlbrittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g

Introduces fundamentals of studio and control room production for readers to gain fluency and acquire necessary skills to make it in the industry. Draws on the author's previous filmmaking experience and long-standing academic career, resulting in an...

Over 200 of the best illustrated typographical designs in the world todayOver 35 of the most innovative designers and illustrators from around the worldFeatures a range of techniques, from traditional drawing, collage and graffiti to the latest software...

In art conservation, the cleaning of a work of art often involves removing not only dirt and grime but also unwanted layers of varnish, gilding, and paint from the work's surface. The challenge for conservators lies in finding a cleaning agent that will...

Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is...

Hollywood is going 3D! Join the revolution with this primer to all of the essential skills for live action 3D, from preproduction through distribution.3D perception and science is presented in an accessible way that provides the principles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230356Author Bruce G. BoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many people...

Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the...

A critical examination of the work of one of the most significant and original sculptors and installation artists living today Jamaican-born Nari Ward is best known for his large-scale sculptures and installations, many of which are created from...

Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept's place in public display.Presenting a selection of...

AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man-machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes out on...

This collection of 5,000+ designs from Thomas Wilson's drawing notebooks harvests the creative output of four decades of ironwork design. Wilson-ironwork designer, master blacksmith, artist, sculptor, illustrator, author, and restorer-is at the forefront...

True Colors, written by Keith Recker, presents the work and vision of 26 natural dye artists from around the world, opening a window into their culture, their lives, and the power of colour. The artist’s stories are organized by colour and begin with...

Starting with Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and Galileo's invention of the telescope-two inaugural moments in the history of vision, from two apparently distinct provinces, art and science-this volume of essays by noted art, architecture,...

In this expansive study, John Clark draws on decades of his research on modern art cultures across Asia from 1850 to the present day. The Asian Modern uses an artist-centric approach, by way of meticulous case studies, to create a new comparative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784865054897Author Ai NakamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Nippan IPSPublisher Nippan IPS

Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the "New Sculpture" movement sought a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for the first time the art-theoretical concerns of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764984310Author Zoe BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

Imi Knoebel is one of the most important European representatives of non-representational art, and he has devoted a lifetime to developing it. Around 1966, his first work was influenced by Kasimir Malewitsch's paintings and by Joseph Beuys, who taught...

Japonisme, the 19th-century fascination for Japanese art, has generated an enormous body of scholarship since the beginning of the 21st-first century, but most of it neglects the women who acquired objects from the Far East and sold them to clients or...

Explore the art of Rodrigo Melo's Japanese-style tattoos through more than 150 lush studio photographs of bodysuits, rib pieces, back pieces, and sleeves featuring traditional themes and imagery. See peonies, koi, tigers, dragons, and characters from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842709Author Dr Eren TatariFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228779Author Greg PratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 805g

This publication collects many unpublished material from Otl Aicher, a legendary figure in contemporary design. The eighty unpublished drawings of the Metro Bilbao corporate image project stand out, a commission resulting from his friendship with Norman...