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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601020Author Aymer VallanceFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Venerated as god and goddess, feared as demon and pestilence, trusted as battle omen, and used as a proving ground for optical theories, the rainbow's image is woven into the fabric of our past and present. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the...

For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. The...

For the serious collector and connoisseur of the field of American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this series of essays will be invaluable. Twenty-eight writers, each of them highly experienced and an acknowledged expert in their field,...

Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) died young: preparing a show for New York, she contracted pneumonia and never recovered. Her work, large- and small-scale, is now represented in all the leading British collections. A major retrospective at Marlborough Fine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887928393Author SendPointsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the work Tintoretto (1519-94) accomplished at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, home to the monumental library and...

Published on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial 2012, this book addresses the theme of the exhibition: notions of hospitality. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, as well as a metaphor that...

An innovative exploration of the intersection of graphic design and American art of the 1960s and 1970s This fascinating study of the role that graphic design played in American art of the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the work of George Maciunas, Ed...

This Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.Exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising the editors suggest that 'modernity'...

Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Erte, Cassandre and Colin...

For all of us who struggle to hold tightly to our faith amid struggles or to find the words for prayer, this book of topically organized scripture offers prayers straight from the Bible that will equip you with the tools you need to guide your life each...

This book features over 1000 easy and cute doodle-inspired illustrations to master with ball-point pens. Learn how to draw people, animals, flowers, food, everyday objects, holiday motifs and more! Each illustration is broken down into simple steps...

The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the "Mira calligraphiae monumenta", a brilliant demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I,...

The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L'Argent (1983), has long been thought of as a transcendental filmmaker preoccupied with...

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence is published here for the first time, providing an...

MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Tara Donovan's otherworldly sculptures have transfixed audiences for over a decade - taking mundane materials and through clever craftsmanship, ingenuity, and repeated manipulation, the artist builds large-scale works...

Best known as the creator of Lenore, everyone's favorite cute little dead girl, there is a much greater scope to Dirge's artwork than ever meets the eye in his humorous and off-key comics. This lavish hardcover showcases Dirge's work in all its morbid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867810Author Gijs Van HensbergenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams)...

Glamorous impersonations of evil: In the fall of 1999 Edition Patrick Frey published The Nazis, which soon became a legendary cult book. It has long since been out of print and remains highly coveted to this day. While The Nazis showed stills of...

The San Francisco artist Jess (1923-2004) has for decades been known to cognoscenti as an inventive and sophisticated master of the collage aesthetic. Recently however, his works are receiving fresh attention from a younger generation attuned to Jess'...

Combining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games. It uses the Unity game engine in conjunction with Fungus and other free plugins to provide an accessible entry...

Make motion capture part of your graphics and effects arsenal. This introduction to motion capture principles and techniques delivers a working understanding of today's state-of-the-art systems and workflows without the arcane pseudocodes and equations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915678Author Arshile GorkyFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 771g

The brilliant screenplay of the forthcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.Sorkin's film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven prominent anti-Vietnam War activists in Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417769727Author Pablo PicassoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200 1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. During this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622661Author Blas GallegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual...

During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812, Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations and...

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly...

Why did Hans Memling paint everything in such minute detail? How did Rubens, in just a few brushstrokes, create special effects that Steven Spielberg would envy? And why was the Southern Netherlands the artistic centre of the world for three...

The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photography, film, and other technologies. Explicitly countering the...

Viktor Koretsky (1909 1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era through to the onset of Glasnost, Koretsky produced some of the most...

Many people crave a creative outlet, but more often than not, don't know where to start. In Green, Valentina Zucchi and Angela Leon invite you to nurture your creativity and build your confidence by taking inspiration from works of art that celebrate...

The 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures. Contributors and...

During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995654976Author Nicola FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint The Hepworth WakefieldPublisher The Hepworth Wakefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417047931Author Ai WeiweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Editorial PMPublisher Editorial PM

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175793Author Kuang ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI PressWeight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 211mm * 18mm