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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951863Author Branden W. JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259343Author Klaus H. CarlFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and...

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such...

The best-selling study Bible in the King James Version-now updated, with added features. Trusted for 25 years, The King James Study Bible has dependable notes and annotations from scholars you can rely on, led by General Editor Edward Hindson. A clear...

In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings...

The Wallace Collection has one of the most important collections of French eighteenth-century gilt bronze in the world. The Wallace Collection has an internationally-renowned collection of French eighteenth-century art, but perhaps lesser known today...

Tall tales, local legends, and personal ruminations are transformed into folk figures by Frank Russell. Follow his detailed instructions with photographs and project plans to create nine delightful folk figures in wood. Accompanying the stories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692463338Author Mary TananaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Groovity PressPublisher Groovity PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239125Author Anna BeselinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1350g

In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while...

"The artist should not only paint what he sees before him," claimed Caspar David Friedrich, "but also what he sees in himself." He should have "a dialogue with Nature". Friedrich's words encapsulate two central elements of...

Published to document Gagosian Gallery's 2015 Balthus exhibition in Paris, this striking new book depicts the beautiful paintings, drawings, and photographs that were part of that career-spanning exhibition, the first of Balthus's work in Paris since the...

Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral is an in-depth investigation of Grosseteste's relationship to the medieval cathedral at Lincoln and the surrounding city. This book will contribute to the understanding of Gothic architecture in early...

Part personal history, part design philosophy, and part advocacy, this volume showcases the arresting work of Oliver Munday. Employing humor and menace in equal measure, Munday wields graphic design as a tool of empowerment, activism, and resistance...

A lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of some of the best-known and best-loved Impressionists. In the 1870s France was devastated by the Franco-Prussian war, and violent insurrection in Paris drove numerous Impressionist artists to...

Exploring prize textiles known as tiraz, whose meaning and materiality illuminate the interwoven communities of the medieval Islamic worldSocial Fabrics looks at tiraz-highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370740700Author Damian ElwesFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916023314Author Julian SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Paul StolperPublisher Paul StolperWeight(grams) 170g

In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by...

Friends and Crushes focuses on the flirtatious, romantic and dramatic characters that run throughout manga stories. From lessons on romantic poses to flirtatious and dreamy expressions to irresistible character types, this book covers everything readers...

Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt's Roughness examines...

A passionate, rigorous, and persuasive look at the helpful complexity of art during a time of profound cultural turmoil By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and love-as a resource amid the recent wave of...

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated...

Best known for his depictions of young dancers on the stage and in the studio, Degas was an accomplished draughtsman and portraitist of superb emotional depth. Much of his work eschewed bright colors and spontaneity for carefully studied interiors and...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the...

When Andrew Bick goes about his painting, then it is not only in the spirit of creativity, but also in a rich actualization of art history. Influenced above all by English Constructivism and System Art, Bick has found his own style. The starting point of...

Orlando Norie is considered to have been one of the foremost illustrators of the British army in the 19th century, with thousands of watercolors to his credit in public and private collections. His pictures are highly sought after and command high prices...

Caroline Broadhead (b. 1950) is a highly versatile artist who started in jewellery in the late 1970s. Since then she has extended her practice from "wearable objects" and textile works to dance collaborations and installations in historic buildings...

Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this period. This...

Stranger Things draws on the mythical series and films of the 80s, from The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Neverending Story and so many more, which were authentic icons for that generation. The series has the same breath of fresh air as...

Dieter Roth's unique and eclectic Tischmatten ("Table Mats") incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemeral materials. Roth placed these gray cardboard mats on tables in his apartment, studios, and houses, collecting what he referred to as...

"Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth". (Stephen De Staebler). Over the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347008Author Frank FeltensFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259138Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119225744Author Christiane PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g

Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art. Always one to throw sand in the gears of art-world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either in truly alternative spaces (like sticking up out...

This title helps you in mastering the art of drawing and painting with step-by-step projects and techniques shown in over 2450 photographs. This is a boxed set of fully illustrated practical guides to painting and drawing with watercolours, oils,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464531Author Elizabeth ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse