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Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was a Belgian ceramist and sculptor who was trained by Antoine de Vinck and English master potter Bernard Leach. He is one of the ceramists of the 1950s who transformed their craft into an art form. In his work, Pierre Culot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486799049Author Jeremy ElderFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 278mm...

Otto Dix (1891-1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time in depth the relationship between Dix's verist-realist portrait paintings and the rapidly...

A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864424236Author Catherine HugFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854881222Author Andrea TarsiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Whitechapel Art GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037587Author Martin GammonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 29mm

The cheering journal of merry philosophy, featuring Richard Coles on his new life by the sea, plus Virginia Ironside, Stewart Lee, Ukrainian fashion, Modern Toss and moreBook InformationISBN 9781739660833Author Tom HodgkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Gerhard Richter (born 1932) is predominantly known for his paintings and drawings, which strike a playful balance between photo-realism and abstraction, while at once delving into often controversial political commentary. His works have explored a...

In Brave Birds, cut-paper artist and writer Maude White presents an entirely new collection of sixty-five stunning cut-paper birds. As a source of inspiration, each bird is paired with an original message of kindness and strength associated with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711466Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 149mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304533Author Matthias Wagner KFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272400Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 50g

The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and 1930s: La Revolution surrealiste, edited by Andre Breton;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958291867Author Robert DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 3710g

Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) is one of the most original and influential figures in the history of modern art, and this book is the first historically substantiated critical account of his life and work. An innovative sculptor, photographer, and draftsman,...

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was collected almost by accident and has been correspondingly little studied and poorly published, though in...

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the 'Christian Oriental' fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.It starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545631Author Lindsay KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 15mm

Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship...

This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destruction...

Over the past decade Los Angeles painter Lesley Vance's (born 1977) practice has evolved from her acclaimed early still-life works into colorful, gestural abstract compositions. Employing the same virtuosic command of paint, these captivating works...

In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research ...

This revised edition of Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment is an indispensable guide to the business aspects of the entertainment industry, providing the information you need to break in and to succeed. Written in a clear and engaging...

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from...

New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the...

This first ever book on the Bay Area Beat artist reveals a unique drawing style that dovetails Cocteau with Japanese and Renaissance printmaking "Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," declared author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789559028055Author Titus BurckhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint The Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional StudiesPublisher The Sri Lanka Institute of...

Art historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term "value" in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art. How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value"? Henry M. Sayre...

Learn to Draw Comics is a new title in the successful Learn to Draw series of instructional step-by-step books for beginners. It covers the basic techniques of drawing comic strips and graphic stories in a lively and accessible way. Comic...

The role of disability and deafness in art Distressing Language is full of mistakes-errors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical...

In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over...

A collection of hand-painted tattoo flash by prolific artist "John Wesley Harden," a one-time member of the notorious Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Harden's hand-painted flash embodies tattoo imagery of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s that was popular among biker...

Master the fundamental concepts and techniques of motion media design so you can apply--and occasionally break--the rules to achieve your communication goals. This authoritative guide presents all of the design essentials in an engaging and inspiring way...

Juan Jose Lahuerta's Columns of Smoke series offers bold new readings of modernity and its key figures while redefining the connections between architecture, ornamentation, and the portrayal of both in print media. The third volume focuses on the Spanish...

How could something as insubstantial as a ghost be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint? In this original and wide-ranging study, Patrick R. Crowley uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image...

A beautiful clothbound volume situating Rembrandt among the Dutch Golden Age's most celebrated portraitists Having inspired fervent study for centuries, Rembrandt and his Dutch Golden Age contemporaries are admired especially for their portraiture,...

The End of the Salon examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution, when it...

This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the...

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate...