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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089767Author John D'OhFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

This is rare look into the traditional ways of creating the beautiful masks that have brought such admiration to the native American carvers of the Pacific Northwest. The masks of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest are noted around the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937321604Author Good Sam EnterprisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1456Imprint Good Sam PublishingPublisher Good Sam Publishing

This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an...

Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art-from wall and panel paintings to...

In the autumn of 2020, Christo will wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery fabric for 16 days, returning to his signature style - after realising The Floating Piers in Italy, the London Mastaba, and a quarter of a century after he and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037330Author Michael KimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 202gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Aenne Biermann is regarded as one of the important avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. Together with Bauhaus artists like Lucia Moholy and Florence Henri she was represented in the pioneering exhibitions of the late 1920s and early 1930s...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both the inherent qualities of materials and the forces of culture that used, refined and produced them. The...

Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the Nazi cultural policy denounced thousands of works as "degenerate" and forcibly removed from German museums. The Third Reich's Ministry of...

The Architecture of Empathy is the title of a marble statue by John Isaacs and at the same time the basic attitude and raw material of all his works. The British artist made a name for himself as a Young British Artist around Damien Hirst in the 1990s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960988229Author Emma EnderbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Riffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they...

One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners of art history, visual culture and aesthetics is whether the visual is a unique, irreducible category, or whether it can be assimilated with the textual or verbal without any significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203809Author Sylvie PatryFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1640g

Over the past 35 years, husband-and-wife collector duo Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo have acquired an unparalleled private collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, representing a selection of work by the Dutch Golden Age's most...

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how...

"Mainframe Experimentalism" challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650215Author Terryl WhitlatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 1352gDimensions(mm)...

From Pop art and the Pictures Generation to Instagram and branding: how the dialogue between art and advertising has evolved over the decades The world of advertising has changed drastically over the last century. Marketers have shifted from selling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037785867Author Piet MondrianFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

A stunningly illustrated, project-based book on drawing and painting for the beginner. Divided into three sections: drawing, watercolour, and oil painting, it includes more than 30 original projects for you to try, such as a vase of flowers in pencils, a...

This book looks at two years in the life of the UK's first Specialist Music College - the Northampton School for Girls - and sets the development of this school against what we know about other schools often described as 'musical'. The author also sets...

Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of...

A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095261Author Ahlawat GunjanFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857222493Author Germano CelantFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1250g

Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, architecture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382598Author Edward A. VazquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338812Author Jan BondesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Going beyond where introductory books leave off and written for experienced editors, especially those new to Final Cut Pro X, this new and revised edition of Final Cut Pro X Beyond the Basics is brimming with cutting-edge methods to bring your editing...

400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the world's most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works. How is it possible that an artist who lived over four centuries ago is still seen today as an icon of...

Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496478030Author Rose PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a...

How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then... even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female...

Achieving believable motion in animation requires an understanding of physics that most of us missed out on in art school. Although animators often break the laws of physics for comedic or dramatic effect, you need to know which laws you're breaking in...

With Rise rescued and now in possession of her own Persona, Soji and friends welcome a powerful new ally into the fold. But just as things are looking up, the body of Inaba's latest murder victim is discovered - and the victim's identity turns our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995102972Author Mary KislerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press