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Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities,...

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and...

A retrospective exploration of the work of Andy Goldsworthy created between 1976 and 1990 showcases nearly two hundred illustrations and includes examples of his early ephemeral works made of leaves, stalks, sand, and snow. Reprint. 15,000 first printing...

In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries...

The third edition of a comprehensive drawing handbook, ideal for beginners, experienced artists and teachers of all levels. Illustrated, and with many suggestions for practical work, this books teaches you how to see, draw and develop technical...

An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture. What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons,...

Master the art of linear perspective.If you're an animator, illustrator, comic book artist, game artist or anything in between, you need to be able to create images that accurately and realistically show space, dimension and form. Simplifying Perspective...

EISNER AWARD WINNER | Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics | 2019 One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender...

French print media and the image of theFrench print media and the image of the "depraved" womanAbout the AuthorElizabeth K. Menon is an assistant professor of art history at Purdue University, and the author of The Complete Mayeux: Use and Abuse of a...

Voyeuristic. Inspirational. Entertaining. One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world, beckoning contributors who find the journals by chance on trains, in cafs, and anonymously left on doorsteps. Artist Someguy shares more...

Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art HistoryBy the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by...

Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as...

Learn how to draw stylish manga characters with this fun workbook geared toward budding artists. Start out by tracing the sample illustrations, then practice drawing using the provided guidelines. Once you master the basics, you'll be freehanding your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614040002Author Gris GrimlyFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Baby Tattoo BooksPublisher Baby Tattoo BooksWeight(grams) 773g

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196726Author Mitch O'ConnellFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882700Author Lydia YeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209290Author Jean BrayFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

While cultural heritage practitioners and caretakers are often intimidated by "best practices," Practical Approaches to Collections Care helps to alleviate those concerns, offering a stepped approach to preservation encompassing a variety of collections...

Whats in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from...

In the first decades of the 20th century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory. this text, edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a comprehensive...

Have faith in your art! The bestselling author of Hand Lettering for Relaxation, Amy Latta, is here to guide you through hand lettering techniques so you can de-stress and decorate your life with Psalms and proverbs: "As for me and my home we will...

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501895Author David StarkeyFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2710g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464760Author John ElderfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684833729Author Mark KistlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908432391Author Martin GayfordFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Yorkshire Sculpture ParkPublisher Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Jan Hendrix is a Dutch-born, Mexico-based contemporary artist. His work is all about observation and analysis; nature and its diff erent ways of representing and telling extended stories, often in a non- linear narrative. Based on an exhibition at Kew...

By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cezanne-the 'father of modern art'-and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, 'post-Bionian field theory', as it has been evolving...

Why limit yourself to colored pencil drawings? With the simple techniques illustrated inside, you can create colored pencil paintings rich with lifelike textures. It's easy! Just follow these step-by-step demonstrations to achieve the subtle contours of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381225Author Shepherd SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Horst Bredekamp's subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the individual and the dynamic of the multitude, published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996546Author Doreen MaitreFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741004Author Jean-Francois CharnierFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 2800g

This provocative book examines crucial philosophical questions Laszlo Moholy-Nagy explored in theory and practice throughout his career. Why paint in a photographic age? Why work by hand when technology holds so much promise? The stakes of painting, or...

Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine theAnalyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"; reflections on the representation of a black female iconAbout the AuthorDeborah Willis is a...

A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painterIn this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin...

This catalogue explores the interrelationship between the science of entomology and the art of illustration by highlighting some of the key holdings of early and classic works on insects in the University of Alberta Library. George E. Ball demonstrates...

Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly...

Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German artIn an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when...