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The Meadows Museum, founded by Algur H. Meadows, boasts one of the finest collections of Spanish art outside Spain. This impressive handbook presents the breadth of the museum's holdings, which ranges from early Renaissance examples to modern works by...

Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to...

The Bute Collection is one of the foremost collections of fine and decorative arts, books and archival material in Britain, particularly noted for its Dutch Golden Age masterpieces and British 18th-century portraiture. Assembled over three centuries by...

Well-known Maya professional, Michael Ingrassia, takes readers through his unique style of modeling: "Image Based Modeling" where efficient, realistic models can be created very quickly. Ingrassia's techniques allow modelers to create exact replicas of...

The most comprehensive monograph on the work of Monica BonviciniAbout the AuthorJanet Kraynak is a New York-based art historian, curator, and Visual Arts Program Coordinator at the Eugene Lang College. A regular contributor to magazines such as Artforum,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440350047Author Mina PetrovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint IMPACT BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Greek myth has played an unparalleled role in the formation of Western visual traditions, for which it has provided a nearly inexhaustible source of forms, symbols and narratives. This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in...

Celebrating the best drawings by contemporary artists! The celebrated Strokes of Genius series follows the beautiful, ongoing story of contemporary drawing through the work and words of some of today's top artists. Focusing on the theme "Creative...

Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of one's home has provoked a truly astonishing outpouring of creativity, much of which was captured through drawings and prints. Comprising over 100...

The Royal Lazienki in Warsaw was transformed in the 18th century into the summer residence of Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Throughout his 33-year reign, Stanislaw August, the last king of Poland, amassed a collection of paintings, sculptures, prints,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239392Author Robert StorrFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2560g

Founded in 1967, Stockwell Depot heralded the emergence of the London artists' studio movement and gained international recognition as a centre for abstraction in Britain. For over 25 years, this disused former brewery in south London functioned as a...

Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch's works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bosch...

Pont-Aven has lent its name to one of the most famous schools of painting in modern art and is now automatically associated with Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. In 1888, in this Breton village in southern Finistere, the two painters set about inventing...

Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it...

Uncover the secrets of Gemini Man in this highly illustrated hardback packed with cast and crew interviews, stills, plus previously unseen concept art. Two-time Academy Award-winner Ang Lee, the director of Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, brings...

This final volume in the British Sculptors and Sculpture series addresses the work of the important but neglected British sculptor Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871-1926). A student of Edouard Lanteri at the Royal College of Art, Derwent Wood's early...

An unprecedented and comprehensive survey of Latin American artists in interwar Paris Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid...

This book explores the rich but understudied relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain. It features essays by well-known scholars such as Alison Yarrington, Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet Guest, Emma Barker and Desmond...

Stroll through history, catch a game at Fenway, or snag a seat at a famous oyster bar: the best of Beantown is yours with Moon Boston.*Navigate the Neighbourhoods: Follow one of our self-guided neighbourhood walks through Back Bay and Cambridge or along...

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period:...

Exploring art made in Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s, Hemispheric Integration argues that Latin America's position within a global economic order was crucial to how art from that region was produced, collected, and understood. Niko Vicario...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741384Author Wayne TunnicliffeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South WalesWeight(grams)...

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers...

Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and KitajAbout the AuthorAaron RosenBook InformationISBN 9780367602543Author Aaron RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Before becoming one of the all-time greats of the comicbook world, artist Nick Cardy fought in World War II - and he took his sketchbook with him. From basic training in the US, through Europe to VE Day in Paris, Cardy documented everything, in vivid...

This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the...

Living with Matisse, Picasso, and the New Decade explores one of the most ambitious and idiosyncratic - yet largely unknown - private collections of 20th-century Western art, and its complex, charismatic creator Theodor `Teto' Ahrenberg (1912-89)...

An ingenious and collectible book-as-poster documenting Prince's half-century of image appropriation For aficionados of Richard Prince (born 1949) and of the possibilities of the book form, this unique exhibition catalog is an exclusive three-in-one...

The volume Nicolas Party | L'Heure Mauve collects a vast visual epic in which Party plays a variety of roles, sometimes impersonating the artist, others the scenographer, the conservator, or the sculptor. His work, and the title of the show, are inspired...

Cradle of Magic brings together two giants of 20th-century British painting: John Bellany and Alan Davie Alan Davie (1920-2014) was one of the first British artists to explore abstract expressionist forms and techniques, and his gestural paintings,...

GRAPHITE 9 is 104 pages of the most inspiring and beautifully presented content focused on traditional drawing and illustration. As always, in this issue readers will be guided through the creative processes of a diverse selection of the best and most...

Hsiao Chin spent his formative years in Europe experiencing the Western Modern Art movement. As a leading post-war Asian artist, he has contributed immensely to the development of avant-garde art and established himself prominently in the modern abstract...

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and doUlises Carrion (1941-1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second...

This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary art scene. Color plates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197679Author Glenn BarrFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 278g

How to Rule at Drawing features 50 bite-size tips and tricks to help you improve your art skills. This easy-to-follow, irresistibly illustrated book will get you in the habit of capturing not just what you see, but also what you feel. Whether you're a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566186Author Geoffrey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491525377Author Richard SluijsFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint Uitgeverij KommaPublisher Uitgeverij Komma

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048354Author Nancy J. TroyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1400gDimensions(mm) 319mm * 252mm * 21mm