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Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities,...

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915463Author Charles GainesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

For the 15% of the population who usually are left out of stitching instruction manuals, this book is a wish-come-true. Sally Cowan, a left-handed professional dressmaker, writes sympathetically for left-handed sewers. Forty varieties of straight, back,...

Explore the art of Rodrigo Melo's Japanese-style tattoos through more than 150 lush studio photographs of bodysuits, rib pieces, back pieces, and sleeves featuring traditional themes and imagery. See peonies, koi, tigers, dragons, and characters from...

Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art HistoryBy the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by...

Master the art of linear perspective.If you're an animator, illustrator, comic book artist, game artist or anything in between, you need to be able to create images that accurately and realistically show space, dimension and form. Simplifying Perspective...

EISNER AWARD WINNER | Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics | 2019 One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender...

This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields...

Wallpaper's spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material's use in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773708430Author Deb WeiersFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most...

Go from Watercolor Beginner to Painting Pro with this Incredible, Comprehensive Guide Taking up watercolor painting can feel overwhelming or intimidating, but with Jovy Merryl's expert advice, easy-to-follow tutorials and beginner- friendly projects,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780230620599Author MS Don ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MacmillanPublisher Pan MacmillanWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 167mm * 19mm

Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as...

In The Lettering Workshops, you'll learn all about the art and practice of drawing letters using hands-on techniques in five workshops across 30 lessons! Whether you're a beginner or a professional graphic designer, you'll quickly learn how to develop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983810575Author Leonard RavenhillFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint RavenhillPublisher RavenhillWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Published on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial 2012, this book addresses the theme of the exhibition: notions of hospitality. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, as well as a metaphor that...

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex...

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006599439Author Chris DahlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Children's Literature) 2015 and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Children's Picture) 2015 and Children's Book Committee Award (Poetry)...

Whats in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from...

In the first decades of the 20th century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory. this text, edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a comprehensive...

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501895Author David StarkeyFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2710g

Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of one's home has provoked a truly astonishing outpouring of creativity, much of which was captured through drawings and prints. Comprising over 100...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930066369Author Eihei DogenFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Shasta Abbey PressPublisher Shasta Abbey PressWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine theAnalyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"; reflections on the representation of a black female iconAbout the AuthorDeborah Willis is a...

Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly...

Traditional trends and influences from the East have pervaded popular Western culture in the last few years, from food and holistic therapies to make-up and body art. No longer simply the preserve of Asian brides, these Eastern beauty techniques are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857249568Author Marilena PasqualiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1120g

Eva Fabregas. Devouring Lovers introduces the work of Barcelona-based artist Eva Fabregas on the occasion of her largest solo exhibition to date. Eva Fabregas takes over the historical hall of Hamburger Bahnhof with a monumental, site-specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156056724Author Edward GoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists...

The remains of ancient Mediterranean art and architecture that have survived over the centuries present the modern viewer with images of white, the color of the stone often used for sculpture. Antiquarian debates and recent scholarship, however, have...

The odore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting to...

Chile has long been a centre for radical propaganda painting. As early as 1940 leading Mexican and Chilean artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros, Fernando Marcos and Gregorio de la Fuente, were painting murals in Chile. Today, Latin American street...

Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which...

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...