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This is the first book to examine the connections between diaspora - the movement, whether forced or voluntary, of a nation or group of people from one homeland to another - and its representations in visual culture. Two foundational articles by Stuart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492480197Author Mati KlarweinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint RmPublisher RmWeight(grams) 2087gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 302mm * 23mm

Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower in England's famous seaside resort, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early days of variety to the present...

Share, reminisce, laugh, and dream together with this guided couple's journal to foster an enduring relationship filled with love, support, and joy.Created from scientific research in neuroplasticity and how people build resiliency, Just Between Us is...

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation...

The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720502Author Woody VasulkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 840Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 3515gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 53mm

Buy This Book is an important contribution to the history and understanding of consumption and advertising. This book brings together an outstanding collection of writing on the study of advertising, consumer practices and the future directions of...

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative ways...

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the work of contemporary artists, and bring the...

Rudolf Steiner's architectural masterpiece, the double-domed building known as the first Goetheanum, featured decorated ceilings that were designed and partly painted by Steiner himself, utilizing vegetable colors and a new layering technique. Steiner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806304Author Roberto GemoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an...

Boundless Russia, humble yet full of hidden grandeur-such visions of "the motherland" became crucial markers of Russian national identity. This Meager Nature is the first full-length study to trace the cultural construction of Russia's landscape during...

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.About the AuthorMatt Wray, Annalee NewitzReviews"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and...

Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book ... worth having on any museum shelf', the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services in all types of museum, even the smallest, in...

Fifteen years of Joe Brainard's illustrated appropriation of classic comic strip character, Nancy From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of...

This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman,...

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and...

The late 19th century in France represents an extraordinary period of artistic achievement in the history of Western art. The successive artistic revolutions of Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism are here charted through more than 300...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations and on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music has...

Originally published in Dutch to accompany a 2014 exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), this important survey of a pivotal period in the life of Piet Mondrian is now available in English. Drawn to the Cubist work of...

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main themes in the book are an advanced understanding of discursivity and reasoning in arts-based research, the...

Water belongs to our most profound dreams: it evokes motherhood, cleanliness, purity, sensuality, and death. Naturally, this is true for every civilisation, but in Islam this series of ideas found its most profound meaning, turning water into one of the...

An exceptional talent, master of Expressionist art, co-founder of Die Brucke group. Where Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's work is concerned, superlatives are basic. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there has been little critical appraisal of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733099301Author Micaela MarteganiFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint More Art PressPublisher More Art PressWeight(grams) 726g

Throughout t he centuries, art has documented the atrocities of wars, participated in propaganda campaigns, and served as an advocate for peace and social justice around the world. The aim of this project is to explore how art can assist in creating...

Johann Gottfried Schadow's Princess group has gone down in the annals of art history. As the first statue of two female historical personalities it testifies to the innovation, enormous artistry and productivity of sculpture workshops in the 19th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526081Author Kirsi PeltomakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943330427Author Alex GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gingko PressPublisher Gingko Press

A comprehensive guide to everything colorful, A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design is a must-have for artists, quilters, students, and anyone fascinated by the languages of color and design. With over 200 pages filled with detailed explanations,...

Part of a series containing simple ideas for painting and drawing techniques that use cheap and readily available materials, this book looks at wax crayons. It examines the different techniques, including scraping through layers of wax crayon, warming or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887849421Author sendpointsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SendPoints Publishing Co., LtdPublisher SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd

Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are in churches and museums throughout Italy. This book follows Leonado da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others from place to place - Milan, Florence, the Vatican, Urbino and elsewhere - noting the great works...

A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on the West Coast to gain national acclaim. His artistic practice, forged in California,...

Between 1886 and 1942, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomology Division - pomology being the study of fruit growing - commissioned an illustrated register of fruits. These watercolour illustrations were invaluable to growers, who used them as...

The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for...

In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published. These include several photographs from 1936 that Walker Evans had made for Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851355Author Jonathan A. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

How did you get the concept for Part Object Part Sculpture? I remain fascinated by the tricky nature of Duchamp's readymades-objects transformed into art, but not quite. They always retain their original identity or function. This is why many people...