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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464180Author Michael LandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788434313552Author Gordon Matta-ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Ediciones PoligrafaPublisher Ediciones Poligrafa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175588Author Roaring Lion MediaPage Count 208Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995557703Author Elizabeth HerridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ianthe Press LimitedPublisher Ianthe Press Limited

Henri Rousseau was the first naive artist in the history of Western art to be recognized for his true worth. His paintings have now entered popular consciousness to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine how strongly they were resisted at the...

"A searching, sensitive, and engagingly witty meditation." -Lyndall Gordon "What a great pleasure this gorgeous little book has given me! It should be offered everywhere indeed, and at every museum shop on earth."-Honor Moore A fascinating...

Marcel Dzama (*1974 in Winnipeg) is known for his prolific drawings, which are characterized by their distinctive palette and subject matter. He has recently expanded his practice to encompass film and three-dimensional works, thus developing an...

A New Role for Museum Educators shows how learning happens in communities, how volunteers and professionals approach their work, the underlying principles and philosophies that guide the work of museum education, and how these practices are always...

The extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon The first half of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon's (1934-2005) career was devoted to posters, illustrations, and television animations that brought him international acclaim for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584234609Author Christian P AckerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 1090g

This luxuriously presented monograph documents the life, work, architecture and design achievements, plus the art, jewellery and fashion collections of leading Australian cultural advocate Gene Sherman. Here she shares intimate accounts of her journey in...

Dynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa...

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy;...

Performing and visual artist Ben Patterson (born 1934) was a founding member of Fluxus' participatory, do-it-yourself, anticommercialist avant-garde network. While many Fluxus artists, influenced by John Cage's precedent, employed conceptual techniques...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554790Author David LeffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 905g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Telstra NATSIAA 2019 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781741741407Author Cara PinchbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Art Gallery of New South...

Wide-ranging and timely, The Practice of Public Art brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators from the United Kingdom and United States to offer differing perspectives on the many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584237365Author Gingko PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Since the late 1980s, Jim Hodges' poetic reconsiderations of the material world have inspired a body of multimedia work in which the manmade and artificial are invested with emotion and authenticity. Co-published by the Dallas Museum of Art and the...

Animation doesn't come with instructions; Rowland B. Wilson demanded guidelines. Trade Secrets offers a never before published peek into the personal journals of Rowland B. Wilson (1930-2005), a legend in the world of Cartooning, Advertising,...

Jump start your creativity with Zentangle(r), the mindful and meditative drawing style that is taking the world by storm! This indispensible guide to tangled lettering will get you started in a relaxing, confidence-boosting, and totally addictive art...

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austrian avant-garde while also deepening our understanding of modernism. Her work covers an impressive range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857243962Author Marta GnypFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1000g

In this masterly, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelo's art to his life and to the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelo's own letters and poems. What emerges is both a...

How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped-and was shaped by-West Coast artistsThe 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period's youth culture, largely incubated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741851Author Paul ArdenneFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593690536Author ZeitgeistFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint ZeitgeistPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1g

Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In Touched Bodies, Mara...

Though born in England, John Kingerlee has lived on Ireland's Beara peninsula for much of his life, the wild landscapes finding passionate and all- encompassing expression in his paintings. This beautiful book celebrates his most recent work, with 51...

This beautifully crafted, thoughtfully-paced book will showcase selections from the renowned private collection of Margulies. The text will include essays and an interview by Michael Danoff. The book will feature full-color reproductions of the art as...

Sea, Sky, Land: Towards a Map of Everything brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures by world renowned artist Enrique Martinez Celaya, from 2005 to the present. Following his installation of Schneebett at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2004,...

This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and...

In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the twenty-four portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. In "Cezanne's Other: The Portraits...

A rare glimpse into the Australian heartland and the interactions of black and white Australians through the eyes of an artist. Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs in Australia’s outback to teach painting, he met an indigenous...

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monae, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American...

Michelangelo's Last Judgment was the most criticized and discussed painting of the sixteenth century. The subject of the Last Judgment has been a barometer of cultural mood throughout history. It can be interpreted, as Michelangelo did, as the moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981910841Author Kristian Vistrup MadsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010082Author Stephen WillatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

In the 1800s--long before the days of photojournalism and cable news--vibrant, contemporary depictions of news events, portraits of prominent political and social figures, and scenic views of the American wilderness were circulated throughout the growing...

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme. At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European...