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Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Winner of the 2023 Otto Grundler Book Prize from Western Michigan UniversityGuided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum...

Top selling author and hand lettering expert Amy Latta is back with her third book, aimed at spreading happy vibes and providing more than a few giggles. With witty quotes - such as "My idea of clean eating is having pizza while taking a bubble bath" -...

The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politicsAlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist,...

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that...

With an observant eye, walk through jungles, forests, barns, deserts, and other beautiful environments and see what you find! Hidden Animals Coloring Book is filled with 32 intricate line art designs of stunning, camouflaged animals in their own natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523614Author Amelia BarikinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This groundbreaking publication centers on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reassessment...

This is the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). It explains and contextualises more than a hundred key concepts, terms, influences and topics within his thought. An essential reference for students and scholars of...

This book focuses on the traditional (old school) style of tattooing and its ongoing impact on today's tattoo art. More than 300 stunning color photos are combined with tattoo artists' personal explanations of why they love to work in the traditional...

With the help of this unique book, all the fascinating properties of iron and other metals can be creatively explored. 52 color plates and 717 b/w photos and drawings present the ideas and examples visually. After a short history of ironwork, the author...

"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...

The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel-...

Published in two volumes, History of Italian Art provides a major history of Italian Art from antiquity to the present day. A distinguished group of cultural historians provide a comprehensive account of Italian "art" in the wider sense, examining not...

Words become images-writing, drawings, designs. For around twenty years Stefan Marx has been studying script. Lines of songs, sayings, sentences, and quotations, which he then translates in his own script, his graphic writing, into paintings or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911164906Author Jumana Emil AbboudFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

An inspirational and compassionate book challenging you to confront your uncertainties about speaking in front of people. You'll learn how to stand, where to look, what to do with your hands and how to acquire a beautifully, resonant voice. There is a...

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-colle, marbling, acrylic, enamel,...

Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in postwar contemporary art. This collection of seventy-four texts from the curator's vast body of written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892075560Author Francesca EsmayFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.Publisher Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.

Formed from members of Free Forces who had escaped from German occupation, 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was one of the most unusual units in WW2/. All members had to pass the Green Beret commando course at Achnacarry in Scotland and the book begins by...

The secrets and techniques of shoujo manga, the popular style of Japanese animation that is based on stories related to peer pressure, friendship, and romance, are revealed in a guide that includes information on the unique stylistic characteristics of...

For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their bank-they wear their wealth in their gold. But jewelry in Egypt is also more than mere assets, and its design and manufacture reveal a great array of styles and a high degree of skill and artistry. In this...

Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226015187Author Svetlana AlpersFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

A revelatory history of the first artist collective in the United States and its effort to reshape nineteenth-century art, culture, and politicsThe American Pre-Raphaelites founded a uniquely interdisciplinary movement composed of politically radical...

A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to todaySituated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793562589Author Roy OrbisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

The allusive paintings of Verne Dawson (b.1961) suggest an artist fascinated with storytelling. Seeking to contextualise Dawson's imagery, John Hutchinson's survey of the artist's work to date provides fascinating insight into a complex body of work...

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of such...

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his...

Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes - toy-like constructions in which playfulness and humour are anchored in profound melancholy. Slot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621481898Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 381g

Discovered in 1866 as two separate pieces and acquired by the British Museum in 1887, the sculpture known as the 'swimming reindeer' depicts a male and a female reindeer with their heads up and legs extended, and was created at least 13,000 years ago...

The Art of Ramona Quimby celebrates the artists behind Beverly Cleary's inimitable Ramona Quimby series.The adventures of her iconic heroine have been brought to life by five different artists: Louis Darling, Alan Tiegreen, Joanne Scribner, Tracy...

The first publication to focus on the Art Institute's outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative-art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II and...

Bridging art and innovation, this book invites readers into the processes of artists, curators, cultural producers and historians who are working within new contexts that run parallel to or against the phenomenon of 'maker culture'.The book is a...

Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as "unrepresentable". Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic...

Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day-from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political,...

Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive...

Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies Association Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often...