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Most of the subjects of Lucio Bubacco's (b. 1957) glass art are provocative and polarising; at the same time they are sensual and beguiling. In a kind of erotic 'trance dance' - Mephistophelian and frequently riotous - nightmarish fabulous creatures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943888146Author Luc DardenneFormat PaperbackImprint Featherproof BooksPublisher Featherproof BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 28mm

A good argument could be made that the Battle of Actium was the most significant military engagement in Roman history. On a bright September day, the naval forces of Octavian clashed with those of Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of western Greece. The...

"[...] what I consider to be one of the most important arts of the future: the art of translation. "-Edouard Glissant With The Poetry of Translation, Kunst Meran Merano Arte investigates the compelling phenomenon of translation. Over seventy works by...

In a series of hilarious parodies, Sylvain Coissard and Alexis Lemoine answer the nagging questions of art history: what caused The Scream? Why is Van Gogh's Yellow Bedroom so suspiciously tidy? Why is Cezanne wearing a bandage in his famous...

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be...

The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In recent years interest in modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803370118Author Patrick BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasDimensions(mm) 280mm * 215mm * 4mm

The grandfather of manga and anime, Osamu Tezuka created hundreds of unforgettable characters during his 40+ year career as an illustrator and animator. His influence on generations of artists has been immeasurable, and is still felt today across...

Dead zones are on the rise... Human activity has caused an increase in uninhabitable, oxygen-poor zones--also known as "dead zones"--in our waters. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, and it is a necessity for nearly all life...

The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brief was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839644Author MondoFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 323mm * 239mm * 20mm

An unprecedented exploration of Venetian maiolica set in a vibrant context of hybridity and exchange. Introduced by migrant potters ca.1500, the medium offers a unique point of entry into Venice's material world shaped by Mediterranean trade and local...

This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement’s cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845768Author Jonathan FridayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Anarchy in the Art Gallery is a humorous and thought provoking illustrated book: a re-imagined trip through Western art and cultural history, and one not limited by time or space. It mixes characters, places, events and situations to create fresh and...

A major figure in decorative arts during the inter-war periods Rene Buthaud (1886-1986) developed an interest in ceramics upon finishing his studies at the Ecole des beaux-arts de Paris and the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs, before being...

This guide displays the rich and varied collection of the Museum of Lisbon and its five sites. From prehistory to the end of the 20th century, the book reveals the various layers of one of Europe's oldest cities, highlighting structural themes in...

"Hallum's painting is charged with delight in colour, line, surface and composition, in powerfully unconventional ways." - Hettie JudahThis is the first monograph on the London-born, Devon-based artist Jacqui Hallum. The publication documents Hallum's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440346996Author Joyce WashorFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Among the most popular of Tom Wolfe's carving books is Tom Wolfe Carves Dragons. From the day it came off the presses Tom has received letters asking for a Wizard book to go with it. "What good is a dragon without a Wizard?" one reader asked. Well, here...

The artwork of over 50 contemporary mosaic artists reveals the diversity of materials used and forms created in this ever-growing field. From small pieces of glass, stone, pebbles, ceramics, found objects, and other materials known as tesserae, these...

Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. The first of these projects began in 2001, when Groves and...

Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize from the Renaissance Society of AmericaTitian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, the San Rocco Christ...

Bestselling author Christopher Hart offers up a booklet filled with easy-to-follow instructions on drawing cartoon animals.Book InformationISBN 9781640210028Author C HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Sixth & Spring BooksPublisher Sixth & Spring...

For hundreds of years the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow across the vast wilderness of Asia. This bizarre-looking, temperamental yet hardy creature here came into its own as the core goods vehicle, resolutely and reliably transporting to China -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486836041Author Christian StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town of Thun...

Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) emerged from the liquidation of Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. The new factory placed a very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production on Murano: while designs prior to the Second World War were...

How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can...

Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto Boccioni, Jacob Epstein, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709111Author Gloria FerreiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1429g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262014823Author Lynne CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 241mm * 37mm

The compulsion to dwell on history on how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made public has been at the heart of artists' engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605731Author Jane MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645987Author Sylvie FleuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend of political and religious ideas and...

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In...

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works--from the Parthenon to...

This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini's rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art...