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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...

In 2019, it will be 450 years since the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/28-1569). To mark this anniversary, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is organising the first ever retrospective of Bruegel's work, while The World of Bruegel will be...

Eva Fabregas. Devouring Lovers introduces the work of Barcelona-based artist Eva Fabregas on the occasion of her largest solo exhibition to date. Eva Fabregas takes over the historical hall of Hamburger Bahnhof with a monumental, site-specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527222137Author Jesse BransfordFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Fulgur PressPublisher Fulgur PressWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 257mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156056724Author Edward GoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711191Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

The first publication in English of Dieter Roth's complete interviews The oeuvre of Dieter Roth (1930-1998) encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film, video, music, typography, design, architecture and, last but not least, literature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462087477Author Gijs Van Der HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Celebrating the Life and Art of an American Master! "Here is a picture that demonstrates classical mastery and offers allusions to the history of art, all the while acknowledging the art and issues of its time." -p66 From one of America's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701881Author Nicholas HallFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1580g

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has...

In the last twenty-five years contemporary art in Scotland has grown from a tiny and tightly knit scene to a globally recognised centre of artistic innovation and experiment. Generation Reader provides the first collection of key documents from the...

In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733497121Author Danielle DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Image Text IthacaPublisher Image Text Ithaca

Goldscheider, a Viennese factory (est 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in respect of form and workmanship, were created in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904270355Author Tom SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Film & Video UmbrellaPublisher Film & Video Umbrella

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037785881Author Lars MullerFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Celebrate Your Creative Self helps you act upon your artistic inspirations and joyfully appreciate the creative process. You'll develop the skills you need to express yourself and explore your favorite mediums. Inside, 22 step-by-step demonstrations will...

Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies, and architectural approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that conservation is capable of developing a complementary, but...

A comprehensive look at the thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work of this visionary West Coast artist.About the AuthorBob Nickas is a curator based in New York. In addition to the numerous exhibitions he has organized independently...

When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king's royal possessions-from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture...

There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to...

"I'd like cloth to be recognized as a material as noble as wood, stone or metal", says French artist Simone Pheulpin, referring to traditional sculpture. Her material is quite simple, bands of raw cotton fabric, manufactured in the Vosges. This cloth is...

The first monograph by the art director for leading video game company Blizzard Entertainment Brutal: The Art of Samwise is the first book to reflect all aspects of Samwise's prolific career and includes the most famous characters he's created,...

This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a...

Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was...

Eroticism and Amazonian mythologies in the sculpture of an overlooked Brazilian Surrealist A leading figure in New York's Surrealist circles and in Latin American modernism, the Brazilian artist Maria Martins (1894-1973) was known for her bronze...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197686Author Daniel Martin DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1030g

Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen's reputation and fan following continue to...

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex...

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture.Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago, collage has...

Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop (Liechtenstein). Herbals were highly illustrated, critical texts to doctors and lay healthcare providers that included both the folkloric and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245201Author Giordana NaccariFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1860g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029957Author Zdenka BadovinacFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432960Author Victor PerardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Qu Leilei now stands as a technically accomplished master, capable of handling brush and ink with the utmost competency and photographic-like quality. His visual language is well established, and it represents a fusion of east and west. Some ink painters...

This book seamlessly merges the timeless Japanese folklore with the contemporary American tattooing style, presenting over 100 sheets of tattoo flash meticulously crafted to be inked onto the body in a single session. With a focus on the rich history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957021389Author Rose IssaFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Rose Issa ProjectsPublisher Rose Issa Projects

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701249Author Germano CelantFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 2680g