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The language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, ""A Little Middle of the Night"", is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246826Author Annamaria BavaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1780g

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage-those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China's past. Including...

Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the end of the modernist era in the 1970s. Drawing on art works, media coverage, reviews,...

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259404Author Nathalia BrodskaiaFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.'Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937112349Author PFFRFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag City

Museum Innovation encourages museums to critically reflect upon current practices and adopt new approaches to their civic responsibilities. Arguing that museums have a moral duty to perform, the book shows how social innovation can make them more...

In his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095244Author Christa-Maria Lerm HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088875Author Pascal GielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 28mm

Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather, the broader force...

The combination of the woodcut-a print method devised early in the fifteenth century-with Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention of printing with moveable type resulted in a powerful explosion of information and ideas. For the first time, it was...

With Ultimate Atlas, Theo Deutinger-architect, designer and author of the acclaimed Handbook of Tyranny- illustrates the basic data of Earth and its inhabitants to create a total portrait of the planet. How can we keep track of everything that happens on...

The modern artist strives to be independent of the public's taste--and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In The...

Imperial Colors focuses on the paired busts of Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211) and his wife, Empress Julia Domna in the Eskenazi Museum of Art, two of the finest known examples of later Roman portrait sculpture. This book presents innovative...

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content. Despite the importance and ingenuity...

Accompanying the first exhibition of outstanding British artist Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland, this catalogue focuses on his large-scale Action Paintings, complemented by a series of new, polychrome small-scale paintings. Despite their many...

Dressage is the ultimate achievement of oneness between horse and rider. Featuring a full arena diagram and step-by-step instructions for each exercise, this sturdy book is designed to allow the rider to hang it on a hook and refer to it from the saddle...

Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" is a treasure of British Literature which has already been brought to screen and now has its first ever comic book interpretation. His colourful characters, his inimitable madness and his love of nature shine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240523Author Jerry CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857233604Author Serenella CiclitiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1430g

Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867495610Author Georges PetitjeanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse Publishing

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment-everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples-to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal...

Today's war is for the survival of the planet. In Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, the weapon of choice is Dada. Today, everyone in the world is affected by the growing impact of climate change, pollution, plastics, and lack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303048Author Paula RegoFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Arthur Szyk (pronounced ShickA") created his Haggadah on the eve of the Nazi occupation of his native Poland. In 1937, he relocated to London, carrying with him the 48 densely illustrated panels that depicted Jewish heroes like Moses and David...

This volume celebrates Luigi Pericle, painter, but also thinker, literate, scholar of theosophy and esoteric doctrines, revealing his extraordinary history, made of profound research and great encounters. From well-known collector Peter G. Staechelin to...

As a response to the ubiquity of drawing in contemporary consciousness and a corresponding dearth of critical engagement with the medium, these collected essays provide original interpretations of artists' drawing today. Questions of process, politics,...

Found in our archives, the Black's Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819222985Author Peter PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture explains a wide range of terms used in the study of the history of Christian art and architecture including subjects, topics, themes, artists, works, movements, and buildings. This long-awaited new...

Barcelona is one of the world's most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudi, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world - among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527292048Author Michael PeckhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cadmium BooksPublisher Cadmium BooksWeight(grams) 140g

At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She goes on, as emerging auteur, to direct her own "musical...

A fresh look at the work of Frank Duveneck (1848-1919), one of the most celebrated American artists of the Gilded Age. Seeing the bold, confident handling with which Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) infuses life into his subjects can be breathtaking. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495060816Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 15Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practising psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both...