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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995358Author Gary GrothFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887928317Author SendPointsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet...

"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very...

Carol Rama is one of the most exciting artistic rediscoveries of the 20th century. Her creative period spanned more than 70 years - tirelessly testing different materials, styles, and media. Among other things, the artist created a body of graphic works...

Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment Amid xenophobic challenges to America's core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with the works of...

In this little book for children, first made in 1793, William Blake charted the course of human life and experience in eighteen enigmatic emblems. Twenty-five years later, he revisited the book, adding three plates of explication and some captions. It...

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857236346Author Susan Mitchell CrawleyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1760g

"Meredith Monk is one of the most important composers alive. I remember hearing her Dolmen Music as a teenager. It most definitely provided me with one of my musical DNAs... As a person she is a fierce spirit, optimistic, spiritual, and soulful." -Bjoerk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683165Author Tsukioka YoshitoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 530g

A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums' collection Watercolor holds a special place in the history of American art. For generations...

This is the definitive book about brass objects. Large sections are devoted to andirons, candlesticks, fireplace accessories, kettles and tobacco boxes. There are useful dating charts for andirons and candlesticks. Each of these sections is more complete...

With over 230 brilliant color photographs, paint color charts, and precise patterns, Leah Wachter provides woodcarvers with illustrated directions necessary to create from basswood incredibly detailed small animals that are big on character. Her...

Jointly published by the Getty Research Institute and the New Museum. The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These influential, hard-to-obtain texts-many of which have never...

Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class? Tired of the same old material everyone recognizes? Want the flexibility to play any character in any scene? Book of Sides: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors...

From New York to Tokyo to Tel Aviv, this geek art anthology compiles the best of the international artists who celebrate the most famous pop culture characters and references in their playful and geeky art.About the AuthorThomas Olivri is the founder of...

R is now the most widely used statistical package/language in university statistics departments and many research organisations. Its great advantages are that for many years it has been the leading-edge statistical package/language and that it can be...

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of...

With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of...

Georgian Dublin is synonymous with a period of unprecedented expansion in the market for luxury goods. At a time when new commodities, novel technologies and fashionable imports seduced elite society, silver enjoyed an established association with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788882713713Author Stefania PandozyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Edizioni Musei VaticaniPublisher Edizioni Musei Vaticani

In her latest work, Aisha in Wonderland, artist Maimouna Guerresi invites viewers - through the languages of photography, video and installation - to enter an inner, hidden universe. An excuse to portray moods, feelings and existential thoughts on an...

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086450957Author Stu MeadFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DivusPublisher DivusWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 150mm * 15mm

In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the "LA Look" or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent...

Puja and Piety celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression and the devotional practice, or puja, in the three native religions of the Indian subcontinent. This...

Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and...

In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O'Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on formal analysis and iconographic study of their...

PasticheCultural Memory in Art, Film, LiteratureIngeborg HoestereyTraces the rise of the pastiche in the arts and popular culture.In the last two decades cultural theorists and artists have redefined a genre of artistic expression that for centuries was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789382211Author Mehita IqaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903320338Author Karla BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst

Everyone Dean knows seems to have a thing - something they like and are good at. His sister Kezia's thing is science. But what's Dean's? How many things will he have to try before he finds out? Reflect is a series of emotionally powerful fiction and...

A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences-westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus-and its historical...

The tale of the shepherd girl Radha and the Hindu god Krishna is probably the most famous love story in India. Written by Jayadeva at the end of the twelfth century, the Gitagovinda narrates the highs and lows of Radha and Krishna's relationship. As a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790973Author Nina Valerie KolowratnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783799505437Author Ulmer MuseumFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jan Thorbecke VerlagPublisher Jan Thorbecke VerlagWeight(grams) 594g

Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and...

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 10th Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to essential principles and applications in the context of engineering. In the Tenth Edition the book retains its characteristic rigor and systematic approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408369Author Andrei PopFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books