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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450233Author Roxana MarcociFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1850g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262033961Author Kate EichhornFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085718Author Arthur MacGregorFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 890g

Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relacion de Michoacan...

Jewelry Stories highlights the Museum of Arts and Design's unique, world-class collection of studio and contemporary art jewellery from the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia, a medium that comprises one-third of its permanent collection. Artists working in...

Heinz R. Boehme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted under the...

Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare...

The brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was unprecedented in his own lifetime and has never been exceeded. The universality of his genius is extraordinary: he was a painter, sculptor, musician, architect, engineer, inventor, scientist, anatomist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262101172Author Caroline A. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm *...

Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now...

Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on women artists working in and with surrealism in the...

This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. The eight...

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative, technical, interpersonal, and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging...

Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864480481Author Jennifer RadbourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 470g

"Meppayil's is an artisanal practice executed in a contemporary South Asian context, in dialogue with Western modernism from the 1950s and '60s" -Frieze Indian artist Prabhavathi Meppayil (born 1965) makes wall-mounted panels and sculptural...

An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art, this book includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and household objects made by untrained-or minimally...

This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economics Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884479571Author Vinny FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Mercy SongPublisher Mercy SongWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 122mm * 20mm

This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engraving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240176Author Selene WendtFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 900g

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The...

Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and positioned at the forefront of contemporary art. From Mel Bochner's seminal exhibition Working Drawings and...

Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold! SoulCalibur: New Legends of Project Soul collects the artwork of the ultimate weapons-based fighting game - SoulCalibur V. Included are character designs, rough...

"Fascinating." -Vanity Fair "A delightful history." -Wall Street Journal In 1964, Chrysler gave the world a glimpse of the future. The automaker built a fleet of turbine cars-automobiles with jet engines-and lent them out to members of the public. The...

Showing the wide range of Carl Laubin's work, this book presents him as one of the finest architectural painters of all time. It follows the development of the architectural capriccio from the earlier incorporation of whimsical ideas in Laubin's...

Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating...

In 2008, the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries...

Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici was the head of the ruling political party at the apogee of the golden age of Quattrocento Florence. Born in 1449, his life was shaped by privilege and responsibility, and his deeds as a statesman were legendary even while...

Hans Hofmann, a representative of Abstract Expressionism and American Modernism during the 20th century with European roots, had a fundamental influence as a teacher on the development of modern art in America. His brightly coloured paintings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830850648Author Cameron J. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

A is for Anchor is a delightful illustrated alphabet inspired by classic images from traditional Western tattoo designs. Written and illustrated by renowned tattoo artist Paul Slifer, the book combines his love for classic tattoo art with his interest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095213Author Janneke WesselingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

The painter Carl Haag (1820-1915) gained acclaim for his colorful scenes of the Orient and true-to-life portraits, in which Nubian slaves, Arabian camel drivers or Egyptian snake charmers enliven the visual topography. After attending art school in...

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 1634-1705) was one of Italy's most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already appreciated and collected. He received many commissions, but certainly the most prestigious was that for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882526Author Tom McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g

This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century, which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin, and ground-breaking...

The incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne's work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially evoked a lack of understanding in art critics of the time,...

Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.Book InformationISBN...