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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869307404Author Ed RuschaFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 3530g

The complex, enigmatic work of Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) has lost nothing of its fascination to the present day. Much has been written about her career and her art. Yet very little is known about the real person Meret Oppenheim, who always remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979757594Author Paper MonumentFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paper MonumentPublisher Paper Monument

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's...

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume...

Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six. While in exile in the south of France from 1940 until her deportation in 1943, she created some 1,325 small gouaches using only the three primary colors...

This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato * Aristotle * Vitruvius * Alberti * Kant * Burke * Fiedler * Nietzsche * Wilde * Bergson * Bell * Scott * Benjamin *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539005Author Rozemin KeshvaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This is the first comprehensive look in English at the Seifu Yohei Ceramic Studio in Kyoto, from the Meiji period (1868 1912) to the mid Showa period (1926 89), the James and Christine Heusinger Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art as its core...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646041619Author Stephanie 'Ifus' JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705142059Author SublimePage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029678Author Eric AlliezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East...

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he staged...

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interacting...

Dazzling works on paper from a vast and celebrated collection The Harvard Art Museums house one of the most significant collections of works on paper in North America. Among its many strengths are sheets by draftsmen of the French School, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983753704Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370740748Author Jean-Francois CharnierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 680g

The first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Amoako Boafo Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built a practice synthesizing the ways that art both reflects and perpetuates the power of representation...

Gandharan art is often regarded as the epitome of cultural exchange in antiquity. The ancient region of Gandhara, centred on what is now the northern tip of Pakistan, has been called the 'crossroads of Asia'. The Buddhist art produced in and around this...

An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century. Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-century art are Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and the rather modest...

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415113881Author Guillermo SolanaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint TF EditoresPublisher TF EditoresWeight(grams) 1280g

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities...

There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil was discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out... We believe, as teachers, artists, a painter and a poet, both of us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949004031Author Hyunjoo ByeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Open EditionsPublisher Open Editions

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War. Analysing works in a...

As treasure troves of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich-the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life's work of the aristocratic artist Franz von Stuck-this unique...

Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences.Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday experiences of what it feels like to film and to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495025662Author Richard RodgersPage Count 63Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714532004Author Kate MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606145Author Yeju KwonFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 225mm...

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a...

Color Zen Coloring is a conveniently packaged, perfectly portable colouring book for adults designed to reduce stress and relax the mind. It contains a selection of amazing art activities that can be transported anywhere, making it ideal for use in...

Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and by a discussion of his many...

The British visual artist Steve Harries explores the force and fragility of our environment. In his book Octopus, he turns his attention more specifically to mountain landscapes and their glaciers. Over the last ten years, Harries has produced a corpus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203885Author Gilbert BrownstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1340g

This beautifully illustrated volume showcases over 70 exquisite pieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art's internationally important collection of British portrait miniatures which range in date from the 17th to the 19th century. It features the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487102753Author Shirley MadillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Canadian Art LibraryPublisher Canadian Art LibraryWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990438151Author Graffiti DiplomacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Graffiti DiplomacyPublisher Graffiti DiplomacyWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...