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The Wilshere Collection offers a remarkable insight into one Englishman's enthusiasm for the early Christian church. A wealthy landowner travelling frequently to Italy, Charles Wilshere (1814-1906) saw it as his mission to acquaint the British with the...

Mark Brazier-Jones is a unique force in the world of design, whose wonderfully eccentric works literally defined the term 'Creative Salvage' in the mid-1980s. Today, his work is increasingly recognised as forging a new and more artistically compelling...

A groundbreaking look at art made in China during the Cultural Revolution Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took...

Walking, Finding, Sharing offers visitors of the world's largest art exhibition a novel approach to experiencing art. Inspired by travel guides and museum tours, this richly illustrated book invites children and families, comic lovers, and seasoned...

Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings - artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed parts - are studied in fresh, contemporary terms with a...

Permutation and portraiture: serial paintings of moons, stripes and the birds of Maine by Ann Craven Birds We Know is the catalog for an exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Ann Craven (born 1967). This large survey at the Center for Maine...

Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line stages a beyond-disciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing, for exploring those forms of thinking-feeling-knowing produced through collaborative...

Although oil remains an important binding medium in artists' paints, today's synthetic resins are being used with increasing frequency. This was true during much of the twentieth century, when artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jackson Pollock, and...

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to...

This is an exploration of Greek theatre as seen through its many depictions in classical art. "The Art of Ancient Greek Theater" addresses the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece. Theatrical...

Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450745Author Diane RadyckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

A companion to the upcoming exhibition of Reed s 1974 75 brushstroke paintings, this book features colour plates of works originally exhibited in 1975 at Susan Caldwell Gallery. Along with installation images and plates from that seminal exhibition,...

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295020Author Seracettin SahinFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 1910g

When the lights dim in a movie theatre and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a multisensory experience. Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993359897Author Steven Holway CousinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Quickmap LtdPublisher Quickmap LtdDimensions(mm) 245mm * 192mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248851Author Massimiliano GioniFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3320g

One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience...

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for...

Documenting an alternative history and social commentary by Bangkok's graffiti and street artists, this insightful and thought-provoking book offers fresh insight into Thai subcultures. Not given a platform elsewhere, street art and graffiti gives...

Models of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity. In the 1960s, artists began to engage conspicuously with legal ideas, rituals, and documents. The law-a primary institution subject to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934351079Author Li JianFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsPublisher Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsWeight(grams) 1656g

British artist Roger Hilton (1911-75) produced Night Letters during the final two years of his life. Confined to his bed, Hilton created upwards of 1,000 colorful gouaches and illustrated messages for his wife. With previously unseen works, this book...

In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected "elitist" media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.Applying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870707599Author Paola AntonelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 850g

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to...

Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME II, 16th Edition! A grand tour of the most celebrated works in Western Civilization, from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532372933Author Julie Levin CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393331004Author Jose Ortega y GassetFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

A sumptuous facsimile of a vertiginous artist's book from the founder of the mail-art movement Long out of print and unavailable to wider audiences, The Paper Snake is an essential work in Ray Johnson's oeuvre and the second title published by Dick...

The digital revolution fundamentally changed how cultural heritage is created, documented, analyzed, and preserved. The book focuses on this transformation's impact. How must museums and archives meet the challenges of digitally generated cultures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961902138Author Therapy ColoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Ysl Seminary PublisherPublisher Ysl Seminary PublisherWeight(grams)...

A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including...

Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969120415Author Terry R MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908432537Author Catherine LoeweFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Yorkshire Sculpture ParkPublisher Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Czech action art - a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience - emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little critical attention, however, as the Iron Curtain prevented its...

In this volume, the third in his classic series on art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from impressionism to abstract art. Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation,...