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During the mid-1980s, Riley introduced a new pictorial device, the rhomboid, to her then predominantly vertical stripes, developing her exploration of interplaying tones of green, yellow and orange. This allowed the artist to construct new visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197051Author The PizzFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 223g

This unique study examines Dante's Divine Comedy in relation to the evolution of consciousness, and explores Dante's connection to the Knights Templar, the Fedeli d'Amore, and other esoteric movements. By analysing the poetry of Dante and the other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857205403Author Francesca MariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 180g

This book showcases British decorative tiles from 1945 to 1975. 'Mid-century Modern' had its roots in the 1930s, with influences especially from California and Europe. Pioneers include the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the USA and, in Europe, the Milan...

ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and...

This volume examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. "Pieter de Hooch" also looks at the subject matter of the piece...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995868Author Octave UzanneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783897905023Author Angelika NollertFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ArnoldschePublisher Arnoldsche

Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media from the 10th to the 16th century - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how Greater Iranian artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020751Author Frank AshworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint ELSPPublisher ELSP

The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons In the first half of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp redefined what we consider art and what it means to be an artist. Many of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915661Author Glenn LigonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange - culturally, politically, and artistically - across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916275904Author Christine EyeneFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Beam EditionsPublisher Beam EditionsWeight(grams) 343gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 175mm *...

"Stunning insights into Renaissance aesthetic theory. . . a rigorous and critical assessment of key moments in the Western aesthetic tradition, speaks beyond the audience of philosophers and literary critics . . ." -Renaissance Quarterly"Stone challenges...

The most vital recent information on the relationship of visual perception to color expression in art is presented here in clear detail. Faber Birren, one of the best-known colorists of our time, prepares us for what he believes will be a new era of...

A comprehensive and inspiring guide small-scale fiber farming and wool crafting. Fiber crafts-such as knitting, weaving, and crocheting-continue to surge in popularity, with sites like Ravelry (a social media community for the wool obsessed) gaining...

Long overlooked, Zulu Basketry is the first comprehensive pictorial record of a craft form that has endured political change in education and empowered basket weavers with a sustainable means of making a living. Zulu Basketry focuses on contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857233680Author Amy ZionFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 510g

Over the course of seven decades, Twinka Thiebaud has collaborated with thirty artists working in photography, painting, and drawing. This catalogue explores her body of work as an artist's model alongside developments in photographic techniques and...

This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women...

Imbued with the collective memories of Romanian culture, Andra Ursuta's (born 1979) work uses her grim past to tackle our harsh present. This book includes an essay by Ali Subotnik on Ursuta's stark recreations of cultural turmoil.Book InformationISBN...

Cezanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. Cezanne was the first painter of the twentieth century who, through careful...

The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2012 Specific Object Publication of the Year Award 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780262018166Author Catherine MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998693101Author Michele Oka DonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint TRA PublishingPublisher TRA Publishing

Since its foundation in 1857, there have always been members of the Alpine Club who have carried sketch-books into the mountains, keeping a record of their endeavours and the peaks they had climbed. Descriptions of these artists form the principal part...

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048156Author Karin OhlenschlagerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siecle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo...

Few figures tower over twentieth-century art like Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. Their works were ground-breaking and incalculably influential, yet at the same time both artists were wildly popular in their lifetime and have only become more so in the...

Although much has been written on the aesthetic value of color, there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects, this volume demonstrates just how complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701775Author Robert StorrFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 2080g

In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegal's first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037643808Author Scott KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

After many requests for a book about clothing labels we decided to put one together featuring a wonderful gallery of labels for artists, textile manufacturers, graphic designers, and just plan old ordinary people to enjoy. This book includes a little bit...

Chinese Antiquities: An Introduction to the Art Market provides an essential guide to the growing market for Chinese antiquities, encompassing all sectors of the market, from Classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy to ceramics, jade, bronze and...

Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.What they say and do...

The dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very absence of these old women in certain settings also reveals both a discomfort with the aged and...