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Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergence of surrealism and at key moments in its subsequent development as an art and literary movement. The book argues the strong and...

This publication celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cezanne that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, by gallerist, collector, author and founder of Ridinghouse, Karsten...

In her newest instructional book Jane Maday, queen of cuteness, teaches you how to draw cute animal friends with basic and timeless drawing techniques. After you've mastered pencil drawings from photo references, Jane will guide you through simple...

Anxious about the threat of Ottoman invasion and a religious schism that threatened Christianity from within, sixteenth-century northern Europeans increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and full of mutual contradictions. Examining the work of four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998587226Author Cecilia FrosininiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington...

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.; Given the success of the Mills & Boon romance, their portrayal of subjects like sex, love, marriage, class, motherhood and femineity are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578762227Author Elizabeth J St HilaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtPublisher Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtWeight(grams)...

Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Chagall, Picasso-some of the finest works by the greatest artists of the 20th century were collected by two Swiss art patrons, Rudolf Staechelin (1881 1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1849 1926). They were successful...

Spark Your Creativity with Calligraphy"I found Lettering from A to Z to be an open door, inviting me to play and create in entirely new ways." -Sherry Richert Belul, author of Say it Now and founder of Simply CelebrateWinner Indie Book Award for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795664Author Elizabeth A. PovinelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Memory as a dynamic process has been the underlying theme of Sabine Moritz s drawings and paintings since the early 1990s. In her work the Cologne-based artist has captured remembered images from her childhood in the GDR; drawn flower compositions; and...

"Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes" is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life...

A place for representation, self-presentation and communication, resistance and protest - this lavishly illustrated volume investigates the multi-layered significance of the street in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first century as an interface for...

'Timed out' is a pioneering study of modern and contemporary art in the aftermath of empire. It addresses the current 'global turn' in the study of art by way of the transnational Caribbean, offering an in-depth account of the Atlantic world in relation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932074Author David BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Resonating at the heart of Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953107353Author Michael AtavarFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Kiosk PublishingPublisher Kiosk PublishingDimensions(mm) 148mm * 115mm * 11mm

The first extended study of the renowned artists' collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group's emergence on three continents from 1962 to 1978, and its complexities, contradictions, and historical specificity. Its founder, George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685523Author Natasha HoareFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing of a range of cultural issues. How is our interpretation...

The state of emergency, thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben have argued, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises we do confront, which are often how governments legitimize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600619694Author Alan LathwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint IMPACT BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 278mm *...

Videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture. Acknowledging the increasing cultural impact of this rapidly changing industry on artistic and creative practices, Videogames and Art features in-depth essays that offer an unparalleled overview of the...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico "Malinche herself comes through. She is not an idea or a myth but a person. And she is...

Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private...

What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940184463Author Joshua KatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Vegan PublishersPublisher Vegan Publishers

This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art...

The Modern Art Collection (Sammlung Moderne Kunst) at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is one of the world's leading institutions for painting, sculpture, photography and new media. The spectrum ranges from the avant-garde movements of the early...

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486810058Author Edmund SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Edwin Mullins has had a long and distinguished career as both an arts journalist and a presenter of TV arts programmes. In Search of Art is a collection of vividly told recollections of both his extraordinary adventures, visiting famous artists, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626985094Author Kathleen DeignanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584237297Author Kiriakis IosifidisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life -...

Probably no artist was more prolific among 18th-century topographers than Grimm in recording the landscapes and historic buildings of Great Britain, and none played a more important role. Born near Bern in Switzerland, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm studied...

Lee Mullican (1919-98) was best known for his inimitable West Coast-inspired explorations in abstraction, infused with mysticism and the transcendent. First exhibited as part of the pivotal exhibition of the Dynaton Group, which Mullican co-founded with...

This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs...

Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the...