Non-Fiction

Artists of The Spanish Golden Age such as Murillo, Zurbaran and Velazquez were the key to instigating a truly passionate appreciation of Spanish art among the great collectors at the end of the Modern Age, as well as the public institutions or other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976820239Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher...

What if God is saving the best for last?Of all the books of the Bible, Revelation is the one that mystifies and unsettles people the most. From numerical signs to monsters, the book of apocalypse in the Bible can be difficult to wrap our minds around,...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres' text reveries on the intersections of the historical and the personal, gathered for the first time in this elegant clothbound volume Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-96) is one of the most significant artists to have emerged in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991471Author Vicky CarlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

The first full edition of the correspondence, between three artists Joanna Boyce, her brother George P. Boyce and Henry Wells, who she eventually married. It dates from the period 1845 to 1861, and covers artistic life in both Paris and London,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736507902Author Daisy (Ed.)Format PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Paper MonumentPublisher Paper MonumentWeight(grams) 639g

Wayne Thiebaud's famous, literally candy-colored still lifes of pies, cakes, gumball machines, and lipsticks reflect the promise and abundance of the American way of life - a society of plenty, where supply exceeds demand. The tactile impression created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908432360Author Clare LilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Yorkshire Sculpture ParkPublisher Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Unlike the work of his contemporaries Rubens and Caravaggio, who painted on a grand scale, seventeenth-century Flemish painter Jan Brueghel's tiny, detail-filled paintings took their place not in galleries but among touchable objects. This first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983248019Author Stephen BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Solar BooksPublisher Solar Books

When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follow convention or choose to stay in rural areas, art historians speak of their work as unchanging symbols of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915722Author Amy SheraldFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretary Generals of totalitarian states in the twentieth century have been highly conscious of the need to present a national image suited to the new political culture they sought to inculcate. In these regimes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732098664Author Sol LewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Do you want to learn how to draw manga characters from scratch? Then look no further! Aimed specifically at beginners, this book includes examples from the main genres of manga characters and will teach you how to draw different characters in distinct...

When the story of modern art is told, British artists are mentioned infrequently or not at all. In this book, distinguished art historians attempt to explain the marginal position of British modern art by examining the development of the London art...

This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred works in various media spanning antiquity to the present day-including Ming gold vessels, a 15th-century Buddhist temple ceiling,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783920034911Author Andreas KeilFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Edition DetailPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 616g

The Show that never Was Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat's extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works, this catalogue though focuses on eight paintings only: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047395Author Christine RossFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao's term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the...

We can't be good all the time, and no one knows it better than Anne Taintor. This generous collection of her most popular artwork includes more than 150 images in categories such as friendship (a real friend will help you hide the body), motherhood (WOW!...

Mickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger-than-life women stare back and down at the viewer, confronting them head on. Over the course of her prolific career, Thomas has created a body of work that...

Citysketch London provides instruction on sketching and doodling various parts of London's culture through more than 100 creative prompts and over 200 illustrations.About the AuthorJoanne Shurvell is an award-winning travel and arts writer. She is also...

Highlighting the strong bond between a collector and an art dealer, Shared Passion explores a remarkable collection of African art assembled in the twenty-first century This book documents and celebrates the patience and perseverance of, and the...

Clement Greenberg (1909-94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism - of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse - has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all...

The result of painstaking research by Lea Vergine, this volume explores the meaning of the "trash" phenomenon in contemporary art from the early 20th century (Boccioni, Carra, Depero, Picabia, Schwitters), through the Sixties and Seventies (Burri,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650017Author Professor Anthony JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks...

As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095107Author Pascal GielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 20mm

The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts...

The Miller Ceramic Art Collection features masterpieces highlighting the artistic ideals of numerous luminaries of mid-twentieth century to early twenty-first century American ceramic art. In addition, the collection includes important examples of...

"I did one of my most bizarre lectures up at the Rhode Island School of Design. It consisted of my trying to move a piano across a stage, and people kept coming up to ask if they could help, and I said, 'Certainly not! I mean the point is that I can't...

Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, 'If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings ... and there I am. There's nothing behind it.' This book penetrates the...

The next morning Alma showed up with his tin case of pencils and his sketchbooks. She showed him through to the sitting room. She had an idea that a sitting was a formal occasion and in preparation had gone around the room straightening cushions and...

Burne-Jones (1833-98), British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The books is a series of paintings about the Perseus myth Book includes essays and illustrations about the artist.Book...

In this innovative and lavishly illustrated study John Harvey examines the visual expression of religious and spiritual concepts in Nonconformist Wales. He discusses his subject within a broad cultural context which includes fine art, architecture,...

This is the first book to showcase the work of acclaimed ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy. Collectors and art enthusiasts will be delighted to gaze at these luminescent forms, lyrically accompanied by the poetry of Jennifer's sister, Wendy Mulhern. Dozens...